The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-23
Work In Both Houses of Con-
greSS Dragging Along.
Looks as II the Present Session viii
Be Extended 10 August.

ident Mckinney going provokingly slow In
the matter Of appointments 10 Office, things
are becoming quite monotonous. After a
time they will be much livelier. The tariff
bill will be up in the senate, and there
VIII be some sharp debating. In few
days Senator Morgan promises to call up
his resolution for the recognition of the
independence of Cuba, and this Is sure TO
stir up the animals Then there is a pros
pect that after bit Speaker Reed will
conclude to appoint the committees Of the
house and permit that body to go 20 work
20 some extent. though at very lesurely
pace Every one in Washington at all IA =
miliar with the situation Is making pre-
parations to stay here till August.
Trouble Over the Rates.
The senate finance committee is making
fair progress in its revision Of the Dineley
bill. While there are "A great many amend
mcnts am told they are not of great i'm.
portance. The difficulty in putting rates
mp or down have already explained in
this correspondence. There are too many
interests well represented here, too many
influential men fighting one another, 20
secure much OF a movement one way or
the other as To those things which enter
into the life of trade. The senate commit.
tee likes, however, to have IL said that it has
romodeled the bill. 1t likes the sound Of
"150 senate amendments, SO that writer's
for the press can dilate upon the manner
in which the upper branch has taken the
house bill and turned it inside out The
number of amendments counts for good
deal in the minds OF ordinary observers,
irrespective Of their actual importance.
The senate amendments will be very nu-
merous. Many of them, however, are mere
matters of language and others are trivial
There has been quite a competition for
places upon the finance committee of the
senate. Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Burrows of
the west and Mr.. Platt and Mr. Sewell of
the east have been ambitious for place up
on this important committee, without
doubt the most important and influential
In the senate. Quite good deal of feeling
has been worked up between the rivals.
especially Platt of New York and Hanna,
though 1t has all been good humored.
A Bold, Bad senator.
In this connection there Is q good story
on Senator Burrows, which no one enjoys
better than the senator from Michigan him
self. AT the recent Republican senatorial
caucus one Of Mr. Burrows friends, and
he has as many of them as any man l
know, suggested as reason why Mr.. Bur-
rows should go upon the finance committee
was that he had as "a member OF the lower
house served on the ways and means com.
mittee and helped frame the Mckinley
tariff bill.
"Well,'' said one bold, bad senator, "if
Mr.. Burrows has sat in the lower house
and served upon the ways and means com
mittce he ought by this time TO under
stand the constitutional provision which
requires revenue bills 10 originate in the
house of representatives.
This was twitting on facts for not long
ago Mr.. Burrows in an abscntmindcd mo
ment actually introduced tariff bill in
the senate. All the other senator's are jok-
ing Mr.. Burrows about his tariff bill.
Scarcely day passes that President Nc
Kinley does not have MS guest at luncheon
or dinner one or more of his old friends
from Canton. The Canton people who
come to Washington are very proud of
their townsmen, the president, and they
are also very proud that he does not forget
his old neighbors now that he has become
the chief magistrate. "That is the sort of
president To have" said one Of them TO
me. why, Major Mckinley is just the
same man he always was. He treats us
~
man, or even when he was our prosecuting
attorney. He is the greatest man you ever
saw TO remember all the old folks and all
the children, and all the relations at home,
and he always wants TO know how they
are getting on. You can't help liking a
man like that Around the White House |
the employees tell me every one idolizes
him He is so kind and cheery TO them
all. But wish the major wouldn't work |
so hard. 1t is beginning tn show on him. |
He Is not as strong as he was when he left |
Canton To take mp the cares of state, and |
when we come down here and run in To |
see him after not having laid eyes ON him |
for couple of months we notice the |
change. We tell him TO pull up too, and |
he promises to do it. But III wager he |
won't as long as there is man, woman
or child that wants to sec him."
Sons of the Rich Only.
IL Is getting TO be quite the fashion In
this country, just as IL Is abroad TO APP
point the young sons Of rich men To the
and assistant secrctaryships
of our legations and embassies abroad. I
asked one of our new foreign ministers
why this was so, and he paused 10 explain.
Well you see" said he 1.-The demands
upon 70 IllnlSlCT Ut tInDdsShuor uTt AkTN
great at the place of his official residence.
Americans are great travellers. Every day
there are n lot Of callers at the embassy or
Iegation They have "A pretty good opinion
~ themselves too They want TO be enter
iainCd They have read Of the big salaries
which we pay our foreign representatives,
and they think IL only fair they should be
asked out To dinner. They like To say
when they get home that they were enter
.aincd by ambassador So and So or Min
Ister such and such To entertain all these
people, or even those whose official or so.
cial rank entities them TO attention. is too
much Of n strain on tho minister so he
sontrives II he knows his business. to have
, secretary who can take a certain grade Of
ihesc Americans6tf his hands These ere
.he lower strata Of the dinner people. Then
here arc Americans travelling without
Sives-or other ladies--young fellows We
,urn these over TO the assistant secretary
H. is expected to show them the town. by
livi,ing up the task we manage to get
,lOng very well with H. But N takes mon.