Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-03
HOUSE RATES RULE.
Hawaiian Treaty Cuban Affairs
Foreign Protests.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., JUNE 40.

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The tariff bill, when it reaches the
President, will probably contain the
House rates Of nearly all the import
ant features. While it could scarcely
be expected that the Senate would re-
ject the amendments which its own
committee had proposed and go abso-
1utely back to the House schedule,
there is a strong disposition among
Senators to allow the conference com
mittee to restore absolutely the House
schedules on first and second class
woods, sugar, pottery, farm products
generally and many other articles in
which the amendments made by the
Senate committee have proven un-
popular. The bill as framed by the
House committee and passed by that
body was especially acceptable to the
agricultural interests, and especially
acceptable to Republicans generally
in the fact that it precluded the pos
sibility OF suspicion or successful
charge that it was framed in the in
terests of or to the advantage Of trusts
of any kind. Whether the Senate
amendments are more favorable to
the trusts or not, the mere fact that
many persons believe them to be so is
likely to lead the conference committee
to restore absolutely the House rates,
and there is every reason to believe
that TIE Senate will promptly accept
them.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty
continues to be the subject of much
attention and discussion, and the
more it is discussed the more satisfac-
tory it becomes and the greater the
prospect of its ratification While il
is scarcely expected that it will be
taken up for final action at this ses-
sion, there is ever reason to believe
that it will be confirmed at no dis
tant day and that the American flag,
which was pulled down in Hawaii by
an Confederate at the direction Of
Grover Cleveland, will be hoisted
permanently under the direction of
that Unionssoldier, William McKin-
ley.
The fact that President Mckinley
has SO promptly and successfully car
ried out this important feature Of the
foreign policy outlined by the st.
Louis platform has given additional
confidence in his wisdom and pros
pective success in shaping al satisfac-
tory policy with reference to Cuba.
The demand for instant action on this
subject, which was so strenuous a
month ago, seems to have entirely
disappeared, and there is DISPOSE
ton to permit the President to formu-
late and carry out his policy, which,
it is believed, will be just one and
satisfactory to the friends OF Cuba.
The closing days of the tariff con-
sideration are punctuated with one or
two further mild protests from foreign
countries with reference to the bill.
There have been possibly half dozen
Of these in the various forms, pme Of
them coming formally through the
foreign representatives here are being
filed at the State Department, and
others merely in the way of scolds in
legislative bodies or newspapers OF
foreign countries. These do not create
the slightest furry among the states
men who are engaged in framing the
tariff measure. Nearly all OF the
countries which have made protests
of this sort have themselves protec-
tive tariffs, many Of them very high,
and against none of these have the
United States ever made any COM
plant or protest. While they have
protested vigorously against discrimi-
nation made with reference to pro-
ducts Of the United States alone and
not applied also to similar products
of other nations, they have made no
complaint ofthe general tariff systems
or the high protective rates which
other countries levy upon articles
which we may hapen toloffer for sale,
and it is not likely thatllthese pro-
tests from other countries twill have
any weight with the trainers of this
bill.
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