Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-06-18
IN TRIBUL ALTON.
THE EXECUTIVE HEAD IN A PER-
Feet TURMOIL.

Dc"Ocfats tOte Tor FRO.
tectisn of Cotton-Siiyer Cam.
paign Fund all ssIn Your Eye,
Betty Martin',-A Pre>entiment,
IL Things DONE Change-Etc.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, June ii, 1897.
Mr.. Mckinley was not in the best
OF humor5 when he left Washington
for the Nashville exposition. Several
things had not gone TO suit him. The
newspapers printed the report of
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, on the
Ruiz investigation, before it was re-
celved BY the State Department., and
nobody could discover the leak. But
the principal cause of Mr.. McKinley's
bad humor was the verbal report made
by his friend and personal representa-
tive, Mr.. Calhoun, who found out too
much of what Mr.. Mckinley did not
want to know, and not enough TO
corroborate what he thought he al
ready knew. In short, MIR. Calhoun
reported things as he found them, re-
gardless of whether they pleased or
displeased anybody. Meanwhile the
Cuban question is ready to boil over
in Congress. Many Republicans in
the House who have been keeping
quiet in opposition to the wishes of
their constituents, in order to give
Mr.. Mckinley a chance to do some
thing, are growing FESTIVE and cannot
be held in much longer.
Notwithstanding the opposition of
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, and Vest,
OF Missouri, both OF whom denounced
it severely, six Democrats voted for
the amendment offered to the tariff
bill by Senator Bacon, of Georgia.
putting 20 per cent. ad ualorem duty
on raw cotton. The Republicans ali
voted for the amendment and it is
now part OF the bill. The six Demo.
Gratis who voted for the amendment
were Bacon and Clay of Georgia, Till
man and McLaurin, of South Carolina,
McEnery, of Louisiana, and Rawlins,
of Utah. Senator Bacon replied to
Democratic objections by saying that
it was recognized that the country
was to have q tariff bill and that he
intended to see that his State received
an equal share OF its benefits, as he
believed, in the words of the Bible,
that the man who does not care for
his own household is worse than an
infidel. There are reasons for the belief
that the Republicans are playing
bunco game on Senator Bacon and his
Democratic supporters, in order to ex-
bibit them as supporters OF protection,
and that when the tariff bill goes to
the President it will not contain O
duty on raw cotton.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, chair.
man OF the Democratic National Com
mittee, is naturally a little skeptical
about the stories printed from time to
time about the raising OF large sums
OF money to be used for the continued
propagation of free silver ideas. Speak
ing OF the latest story, that Colorado
had raised 500, 600. Senator Jones
said: al have not received a cent
from Colorado since the election, and
il any sum has been or is being raised
there in the interest of silver, I don't
know it. 1 should be very glad to be
assured that it is true"
Senator Mills, of Texas, is. not an
alarmist, but he can see nothing
but trouble ahead for class legislation.
He said: 1.-THE effect of this tariff
bill upon the people will be seen, not
in its high taxation, but in the way it
buttresses and fortities trusts of all
kinds. Some of these days this sort
OF legislation will have to cease or we
will see revolution. The people will
not stand it. Driven to the wall by
the combinations of money power,
they will find leader, and we shall
see another Coxey's army-but it will
be an army which will carry guns
and use Them"
Democratic Senators are practically
unanimous in declaring the useless
ness of Mr.. Mckinley asking Congress
to authorize him to appoint monetary
commission. because they have decided
that no such legielstion shall be voted
upon by the Senate at this session.
Mr.. j. Addison Porter, who would
not be filling his present position had
not its title been officially changed
from Private Secretary to The Presi-
dents Secretary, captured nice Juicy
slice of pie this week, before he took
Mr.. Mckinley and a special train load
OF officials and newspaper men to the
Nashville exposition. He got Henry
w. Hoyt, OF Pennsylvania, nominated
to be Assistant Attorney General, and
got the Pennsylvania Senators to
scquiesce. Hr. Hoyt was a class mate
of Mr.. Porters.
A majority of the Republican
Senatorial caucus realized that some.
thing had to be done to stop the wave
OF popular indignation on account OF
the sugar schedules notorious favor.
itism towards the sugar trust, so the
House schedule was substituted after
making several changes in the in
terest OF the trust, which still stands
to reap an enormous profit to which it
is in no way entitled, at the expense
OF the sugar consumers-that is of
everybody. The new schedule is better
than the one discarded, but it is still
very bad one; but there is little
probability of its being bettered before
the tariff bill becomes a law. The
trust has too strong q grip on the Re.
publican leaders. Dem.