The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-05-13
Washington Letter.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May II, 1897.

= Repub lican senators are, as rule,
more inclined to study the amended
Dingley tariff bill, which was report
ed to the senate by the finance COM
mittee last week, than to criticise it.
The bill contains a number of sur
prises, but they know that Senators
Aldrich, Allison and Plat, of Connec-
ticut, who compose the subcommittee
which drafted the amendments, had
good reasons for every amendment
they added, and that all three of
them are staunch prote ctionists.
The bill will be taken up for debate
on the 18th of this month, and by
that time the amendments will have
been thoroughly digested. The bill
was not accompanied by a report,
but both majority and minority will
make one later: Senator Allison
says the addition of a. cents barrel
in the tax on beer and the placing of
a duty of 10 cents a pound on tea,
both of which are only to be collect
ed up to Jan. l, 1900, were intended
to- supply revenue that will take the
place of what will be lost by reason
of advance importations.
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The senate has filled it's committee
vacancies, passed the free homestead
bill, and rejected the arbitration
treaty.
Hon. w. j. Deboe, the new repub-
lican senator from Kentucky, pre-
sented his credentials and was sworn
in this week. He received many
warm congratulations,
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Senator Foraker has no cause to
feel ashamed of his maiden speech,
although it was made on the spur of
the moment, in reply to some
Lremarks of Senator Cor
man charging that the sundry civil
appropriation bill, which failed to be-
come law at the last session, and
which was before the senate last
week, carried extravagant ,appropri
ations. AS an amendment proposed
by Senator Foraker had drawn this
scolding upon. the senate, Mr.. Foraker
promptly replied. He began by
calling attention to Senator Germans
having shouted "extravagance" at the
Indian appropriation bill, and to his
having failed then, and again in, this
instance, to specify one single item
that was extravaganza or unnecessary.
Then, warming up, Senator Foraker
said: $50 far as the tariff policy and
the tariff bill referred to by the sena-
tor are concerned. let me say that
they need no defence from me or
from any other senator on This side
of-the chamber. In view of the ex-
perience this country has had during
abe last four years the tariff policy of
the republican party is speaking for
itself more eloquently than any hui
man tongue can speak. So far, Mr..
President, as the pensioners of this
country are concerned, the senator
need not have the solicitude he mani
tests. They will be taken care Of.
They have never failed to be taken
care of under republican administra-
tons. For the next four years it is
the purpose of the legislation we pro-
S. shall have sufficient revenue to
make it unnecessary TO issue bonds
to meet the current obi cations; that
it shall have sufficient revenue to
pay pensions to the men who are en-
titled to them, and it will have that
revenue and those obligations will all
be discharged"
*:
Senator .Shoup, OF Idaho, says of
the amended Dingley tariff bill: II
believe the committee made an hon
est effort to treat all sections of the
country fairly and impartially. It is
a we'll recognized fact, however, that
no bill will meet the unqualified ap-
proval of all parties. The West, in,
my opinion, has received favorable
consideration. We did not receive
quite all we had hoped for on wool,
but, on the whole, I think the com
mittee did the best it could and
strained point to do it. We had
hard fight on the lead schedule and
were lucky to get what we did,"
Senator Wolcott has gone to New
York where he will be joined by his.
fellow commissioners, Ex- Vice Presi-
dent Stevenson and Gen. Paine, and
set sail for Europe, for the purpose
Of ascertaining by diplomatic negoti-
ations the attitude Of European ma
tons towards International bimetal-
ism. #.
~
Speaker Reed got the laugh on
those who were charging him with
bossing the house and refusing to-
appoint the committees so that gem
eral legislation might be taken up at
this session when the house by an
overwhelming vote defeated a resolu
ton instructing him to appoint the
committees, Remember what this
paper said about the policy Of the
houses Well, every republican il
The house voted q On INST that .rAsnlll.