The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-08
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(From Onr Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. July 2, 1897.

(From Onr Regular Correspondent
T. WASHINGTON. July 2, 1897.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
have gone to Canton. Ohio, to spend
several days with the presidents
mother, but they will return to Wash
ington next Tuesday in order that
President Mckinley may be on hand
to use his influence to shorten the
time that the tariff bill remains in
conference. Before this letter is in
print it is expected that the senate
will have passed the tariff bill, and
Speaker Reed unsurpassed the opin-
ion that the bill will not be in confer
ence longer than week. As was ex-
pected, the clause stating that moth
ing in the tariff bill should be con-
strued as an abrogation of the Ha-
wall reciprocity treaty, was restored
without opposition; general reci-
procity clause was also added to the
bill. -,..
Speaker Reed has stated that he
expects to announce the house COM
mittee assignments just before con-
gress adjourns. >
Senator Gallington has favorably
reported from the senate pension
committee bill which provides that
upon the consideration of any appli-
cation for a pension under any law of
the United States the fact that the
applicant was accepted and mustered
into the military or naval service of
the United States shall be taken and
held as prima facie proof that such
applicant was of sound body and
mind at the time he was so accepted
and mustered.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth is
proving the truthfullness of my as
sertion when he was made commits
sioner Of patents that he was just
the man to run out the sharks and
reform the dishonorable practices of
the shyster patent attorneys which
have for several years been going
from bad to worse. Mr.. Butterworth
has recently disbarred from practices
before the United States patent Of
fee eight attorneys found guilty of
fraud, and has charged John Wedde-
burn & Co. with engaging in fraudu-
lent and deceptive methods and d.
recting them to show cause why they
should not also be disbarred from
practice.
In the debate that preceded the
defeat of Senator Tillman's tariff
amendment, placing a head tax of
$500 on every immigrant, by the over
whelming vote Of 48 tc 8, Mr.. Till
man ran against the buzz saw that is
always revolving in front of Senrtor
Chandler when that little gentleman
can entice some unsuspecting demo.
crat to get close enough to be scarf.
fed. Mr.. Tillman was made mon
key of and had to admit that it was
being done, and he made a desperate
effort to get himself out of reach OF
tbs teeth of the Chandler buzz saw
by thrusting the rotund figure of Mr..
cleveland in front of him, and to
cover his confusion by abusing Mr..
Cleveland and expressing regret for
having been fool enough to have
helped elect him president for the
second time. The senate had been
working hard and had earned the
amusement which this little episode
afforded.
Everybody who gets mail in any
quantity will join in wishing that the
new departure of the post-ofice de-
partment in requiring that mail mat
ter sent from third and fourth-class
post-offices shall be legibly post
marked will be successful. It is a
reform that will be especially appre-
ciated by business men, who are off,
en- put to much trouble because of il
legible postmarks upon letters in
which the writer's fail to give their
! post office.
Senators have all been supplied
with printed copies of Senator Hoar's
report in favor of seating ex-senator
Corbett in the existing vacancy from
Oregon, but the committee on priv
leges and elections has not acted up
on the report. and Judging from the
talk of senators there is little proba-
bility that it will before the regular
session.
The success of Senator Allison in
managing the tariff bill in a senate
with an anti-republican majority has
caused that gentleman's almost al
ways pleasant manners to be much
talked about, but there have been
times when his urbane manner has
caused men to make the mistake of
suppocing that because he believes
in doing things the easiest way he
would allow himself to be bulldozed
rather than have row. One of those
times came several years ago when a
senator, who was then a new men,
Der of that body, had a bill he was
anxious to get acted upon. He went
to Mr.. Allison, then, as now, chair
man of the committee on appropria-
tions, to try to persuade him to allow
the bill to come up Mr.. Allison
pleasantly heard him and as pleas
antly pointed out the difficulties in
the way Of taking up the bill. After
wards the man tried to get his bill
up and failed. This angered him
and he strobe over to where Senator
Allison was sitting and said to him:
"You acted in bad faith Mr.. Ali.
son rose to his feet in an instant and
looking him squarely in the eye said
quietly: "You lie, sir. The man
was SO surprised that he stood for a
moment gulping and then walked
away convinced that Allison's urban
.ity did not detract from his sand.
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