Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., June IS, '97.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June IS, '87.
President Mckinley never did a more
popular thing than when he signed his
name to the treaty for the annexation
Of Hawaii as a territory of the U. s.
Eight out Of eleven members of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions are known to favor annexation.
so that a favorable report on the treaty
from that committee is certain, and as
hfty five out of the necessary sixty
votes to ratify the treaty are already as
good as pledged, the prospect for its
ratification is bright. However, should
the Democrats carry out the threats
tina are now being made by some of
them to delay a vote on the treaty in
the Senate, it will be an easy matter to
q Hawaii by a joint resolution of
the House and Senate. as was done
when Texas was admitted to the Union.
which will only require a majority vote.
While President Mckinley would pre-.
Ter that the matter be disposed of at
the present session, it is not absolutely
necessary that 1t should be. as the
treaty has given notice to the world of
the intention of the U. S. to annex the
Islands. Should Japan make a formal
protest, 1t will merely result in hurry.
ing up annexation.
Had Senator Pettigrew 3 so called
antitrust tariff amendment been of
such a nature that it would really have
operated against the trusts, it would
nave been adopted, instead of being
laid on the table by a vote of SO to 80.
Had the Democratic Senators voted
their real sentiments the vote in favor
OF laying on the table would have
been much larger, but with the excep.
ton of Senators Morgan aud Pettus, of
Alabama, who both spoke against the
amendment nd voted to lay it on the
table, they preferred to seem to be in
favor of the amendment, SO that thew
can use it's failure to be adopted as a
stump argument showing the Demo-
Gratis to be against trusts and the Re.
publicans to be for them. As a matter
nj cold, hard fact, the Pettigrew amend
ment would, If it were a law, create
more trusts and cause more havoc to
American producers and m~anufactur.
ers than any law that was ever on the
books. Under its provisions
any three men could at any time force
any line of manufactured articles or
products upon the free list by simply
forming a trust to deal in those goods.
The Republican Senators are Just as
anxious as anybody can be to curb the
Of the trusts, but they do not in.
lend to give them more power in legis-
alton supposed to be against them,
either through haste, ignorance or de.
'ign. ~
Jerry Simpson quit making a monkey
himself BY trying to play parlimeu-
AIRY tactics against Speaker Reed and
to Kansas, not because he was
ired of playing monkey-he would
ather be in the newspapers as a monkey
han not to be there at all-but because
here is a Populist plot being worked in
lis district to keep him from being re.
nominated for Congress. According to
Republican advices, it doesn't make
my difference who gets the Populist
omination In the big Seventh" Dis.
iict of Kansas, as the district intends
ending a Republican to the next House.
Mr.. Calhoun returned to Washington
week, bringing with him a detailed
'ritten report of his observations in
'uba, prepared to supplement the YER
al report he made to President Nc.
Finley when he first returned from
'uba. His mission was to investigate
nd report upon existing conditions,
it has been completed.
The checklist thing of the session ia
he attempt Of certain Democrats to
i've the Wilson tariff law the credit
the increased receipts of the Gov
ment from importations during the
three months, when everybody
nows that the increase is due solely to
advance importations that are be
IL made to escape the increased du-
In the Republican tariff. Unfortu-
ately, no practical way of preventing
lie profit being realized on these ad-
ance importations has been devised,
it seems certain that the House retro.
,tive clause will not do it. These in
'eased importations are bad for every.
except the men who make them. !,
is therefore surprising that Demo
ats can be found with so little judg-
ent as to think, or even pretend to
ink them creditable. .
The Senate having passed the most
portions of the tariff bill will 8
pidly dispose of the rest of the bill, n
1t is now meeting at II AM. and j
lifting in six solid hours of work !.
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