The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-07-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

ASllINGTON, -. u, July lJln
Mr.. EDIToE:-The expected has hap
pened. The republicans of the tariff con-
ference committee have agreed to cut out
the Senate sugar schedule and insert the
House schedule with several changes of
course, in the interest of the sugar trust.
The result is just as | stated it would be.
1t is heralded as a defeat of the sugar
trust, and the agents of the trust are doing
their best to look disappointed, while they
are entirely satisfied, the amended
Dingley schedule gives them a little more
than they expected to get, although of
course, not everything they wanted; they
want the earth and the fullness thereof
Now that the farcical fl CHIT in conference
has been concluded, there is very little
doubt that the Conference report will be
accepted and the bill sent to Mr.. Mckin-
ley during the present week. There may
be a little delay in reaching vote on the
report in the Senate, as a number of Sena-
tors wish to express their opinion of sew
eral bunco schemes which were worked in
the conference, notably the restoration If
the So duty On white pine lumber, which
will put tax of something like $4,000
600 on the people for the benefit of thu
white pine combine, and the replacing of
cotton ties and bagging on the dutiable
list
Mr. Terrence V. Pow derby, the ex-labor
leader, has received his reward for making
Mckinley campaign speeches last year,
by having his nomination to be Commits
sioner General of immigration sent to the
Senate. Terrence was on the anxious
bench for quite while, and in fact he had
very close call, owing to the opposition
of the labor organizations to his appoint
ment
"Why doesn't John Sherman resign"
had been listening to some of the current
talk about the manner in which the old
gentleman is sighted and Inundated by
Mr.. Mckinley. That question has become
one of the conundrums of the day and it
has been discussed more frequently since
| the publication of The instructions given
to Ambassador Hay, concerning the Seal
Fisheries negotiation. Although those
instructions were signed SHERMAN, there
are few who believe that Secretary Sher
man wrote them, and some who openl'
express doubt as to whether he ever even
| saw them previous to their publication.
There is nothing Objectionable from an
American point of view in the facts upon
which those instructions are based, but the
language is not that which one who has
been SO long connected with things diplo-
matte as Mr. Sherman has been, by reason
of his service on the Senate Forei On Com
mittec, would be apt to use. One gentle
| man whose long and close intercourse with
Mr. Sherman has made him thoroughly
familiar with his style of expressing him
self said: II will stake my existence that
| Sherman neither wrote nor was given an
opportunity to edit those Instructions
| also that he knew nothing of the Intention
to have them published" In view of this
| sort of talk, is it any wonder that men are
| asking why Sherman doesn't resign? AS
sistanl Secretary Day has had charge OF
all Cuban and Spanish matters every since
he came to Washington, and he is the man
| credited with having written the Hay in
structions; also the man slated to be Sec
| rotary of State after the Ohio election
when it is believed to be the intention to
use pressure to force Sherman out of the
| Cabinet. Mr.. Sherman isn't the sort OF
man to have made warm friends, but he
has well-wishers who would like to see
him upset the Mckinley Hanna-Day ar.
rangement by resigning now and telling
| why. But official title is dear to Mr.. Sher
man.
| What has the Carnegie Armor Plate
Trust done to the Senates While demo
Gratis are glad to sec even one trust hit
| they are at a loss to know what it was that
caused the Senate to limit the cost of ar
NOR plate to $500 a ton and Senators tC
inform members of the House that it was
useless to add cent to that limit, because
the Senate had fully determined that nc
more should be paid. Republicans friend
| " to the Carnegie trust made hard tigh,
| for an increase in the House, but failed
and the trust will have to make armor fol
that price, or wait until Congress author
ICES the payment of more. Mr. Carnegie
should apply to the sugar trust for point
ers on how to manage Congress. Jerry
Simpson says that Carnegie is being pun
| ish;d because of his lack of liberality il
contributing to Hanna's corruption tunl
| in the last campaign
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