The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-06-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From orr Regular Correspondent.

From Gtr Regular Correspondents
Washington. June Il, 1887
The Territory Of Hawaii. How does
that sound? 1t is going to be tire nest
addition TO Uncle Sans family. 1t is
now known, although no official state
ment has been made, that a treaty for
the anne xation of Hawaii will be sent
TO the Senate in the near future, prob
ably before the close of the present SEES
session of Congress. There is very little,
if anv, doubt of the ratification of the
treaty, as the sentiment of the Senate,
regardless of party, is Overwhelmingly
in favor of the annexation OF Hawaii;
but owing to the difficulty of keeping :;
quorum of the Senate in Washington
after the tariff bill has been passed, the
treaty will hardly be acted upon until
the regular session Of Congress, even If
sent in at this session.
President Mckinley will return from
his trip to the Nashville exposition to-
morrow. and the White House, which
has been quite deserted by all but the
siyht-seers while he has been away will
again take on an air of business.
The attempt of some of the demo-
cratic Senators to explain that they are
not protectionIsts, although they have
voted for protection for the products of
their states, have been more or less lud-
ONLY one of them who has come out
squarely for protection, although a num-
Der of them have voted for it in parti
cular schedules. He SAID in reply to the
taunts of Senators Jones, of Ark. and
Vest: considering the vast interests
Louisiana has in rice and sugar; consid-
erin. the output of her saw mills, her
salt and sulphur mines, is there any
reason why the democratic party of my
state should not be committed TO pro-
ection? Not high protection, but such
protection as is consistent with revenue
necessities. This, also, | believe, is the
doctrine of the republican party. Call
it what you will, protection, revenue
duty with incidental protection, or any
thing else, large amounts must De raised,
and there is no reason why the indus
tries of The South should not lie pro-
tected."
The democrats took advantage ofthe
agreement of the republican Senators
to shorten the tariff debate az muct2 as
possible by not making speeches or tax
ing part in controversies, to make a
number Of statements concerning the
sugar schedule which has been adopted
by the Senate, that they must have
known were untrue. The only one of
their statements that any attention was
paid TO was that asserting that the new
sugar schedule would give the Ameri-
can sugar retiners more protection than
the schedule for which it was substi-
tuted, and that VAS only replied to in
directly bv Sersator Allison, who stated
that the new schedule would give the
American Sagsr refuers less protection
than the cue abandoned, and that it
would bc shown by indisputable evil
dence as soon as a statement now being
prepared by unprecedented experts could
he completed. Senator Allison's word
was enough for the Senate which adopt
ed the new schedule.
The object of the democratic Senators
in talking 10 delay progress on the tariff
bill is obvious. 1t is estimated that
every day the bill is delayed means
loss to the government of at least 500
i L DO =, lr,f.t
in that way, the better prepared will
be democratic stump speakers to charge
the new tariff with not producing
enough revenue during its first nine
months or year. OF course intelligent
people will know that advance importa-
tons under present duties vii! prevent
the new tariff showing what it cal do as
revenue producer for some time after
it goes into effect, but intelligent people
are seldom or never influenced by the
Enthusiastically statements which form
such a conspicuous feature of demo-
cratic stump oratory; it is the unintelli
gent and poorly informed class which is
lead astray by such talk.
1t has been denied that Organism
stood for reputation, but it cannot be
denied that bill introduced by Rep
resentative Bell, Of Colo, populist dis
ciple of Bryan, provides for partial re-
pudiation, pure and simple. His bill
provides for scaling the debt of the [.
:, which Is represented by the So. 3lj-
400 worth of bonds issued by the CIeye-
land administration in February 1895,
by directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury ito pay not less than onc-half Of
the interest and principal Of said bonds
in standard silver dollars" The odd
part of Mr.. Bells reputation scheme
is that he only specifies that it shall in
clude one of the Cleveland bond issues.
The bill will will not be heard from
again, but it shows the spirit of Bryan
ism and is therefore worth mention,
as 4 warning of what might be expected
should BRYAN ever Get on too.
Our Grandmothcrs' Cosmetic.