The Mena weekly star., 1897-06-30
MANY PROTESTS.
Foreign Countries Grumbling About
 the New Tariff Bill.
SPEAKER REEDS ATTITUDE.
The Opinion Expressed That the House Duties Win Be Restored--New Pen- sion Fraud-Tarin Btl Not
 Revenue Producer.


 WASHINGTON, June 20. 9.-Will tbe pro- tests, so-called, of foreign nations against the tariff which the United States is about to establish be seri- ously considered by congress in the final shaping of the tariff bill, or, if not considered, will the enactment of the tariff law be followed by any ad- verse results in our commercial or other relations with those countries? This is question which members of congress are asking each other seriously just now, and are also asking government officials whose records are relied upon to show the history of former occasions of this sort and their result. Among the countries which are reported as offer ing objections, either officially, unofi- cially or in public prints, in reference to our new tariff, are Japan, China, Austria Hungary, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Neither lands, Switzerland, Argentine, Mexico, Canada and possibly Brazil. Less than half this number have filed formal protests at the state department but there have been sundry grumblings and fnutteriugs among the others, either in their legislative bodies, in the individual utterances of their rep resentatives here and elsewhere, or in the public press.
 Speaker Reeds Attitude.
 WASHINGTON, June 29.-To some of his friends, Speaker Reed has expressed the opinion that great deal of time is being wasted over the tariff bill in the senate, inasmuch as the house duties will nearly all be restored when the bill reaches the house. This re- mark of the speaker is taken to indi- cate that he is of the opinion that the house and not the senate now has the whip handle. The reason for this belief on his part is thought to be the impression, which now pre- vails generally, that the demo- cratic senators who obtained what they asked for in the bill cannot consistently oppose it, and with them absent the republican majority in the senate will be safe from dictation on the part of the silverites This being the situation, the house can insist on it's rates, and the senate cannot say that the house must take it's bill or no bill can be passed The house will, of course. have to make some concessions in conference, but Speaker Reeds friends infer from his remarks that he is clearly of the opinion that the bill, which will become law, will be much closer to the house bill than to the bill which the senate committee re- ported.
 New Pension Fraud Unearthed. | WASHINGTON. June 29.--Pension Com missioner Evans has unearthed new kind of fraud. Pensioners die or dis appear without any notice reaching the bureau. The checks and vouchers are sent on to the district office, quar- ter after quarter, and accumulate | there. This goes on three years. If, at the end of that period, no informa- tion is received and no call is made for the back checks, the pension is stopped. Recently there have been four cases | in which the checks and vouch- CTS accumulated for nearly three years and were then called for. A 1 special agent was sent to New York to make an investigation. He found that the address to which the vouchers l were sent was disreputable house. The back pension in four cases was ob- tained by fraud. Last night the com missioner was informed that the man who handled the check and got the money is Martin Cunningham. It is impossible that Martin could have learned that these pensions were ac- cumulating unless informed by some one in the pension office.
 1 Tarin Bill Not Revenue Producer. | WASHINGTON, June 29. 9.-Experts who have been giving the tariff bill careful study since the senate has made so many additions by the acceptance of house rates and the increase in its own schedules say that even in this shape the bill will not yield sufficient reve- nue to meet the ordinary expenses of the government.
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