The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-06-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular sspond~us.l

President Mex ,nley will digest the Of.
fetal report of Consul General Lee and
the report of special commissioner Cal.
h GUN before his return to Washington
fro m the Nashville exposition, and will
then finally decide upon his policy to
war de Cuba. 1t is not expected, how.
ever, that any public announcement
of that policy will be made until new
minister has been sent to Spain. Ex
Governor Cox, of Ohio, has been asked
to take position and he will decide by
the time the President returns to Wash
ington.
The democrats cannot hide their
chagrin and disappointment at the har'
monious action of the rep ,blican Sen.
a tors on the tariff bill. It has entirely
u pset all democratic calculations. They
had expected that the republicans would
be divided and that they could take ad.
vantage of the division to secure changes
in the bill and to prolong the debate
infinitely. Instad OF that they find the
republicans presenting solid front. and
refusing to be taunted into unnecessary
de bate. Unless the democrats change
thoir tactics and resort to open obstruc'
ton to delay the bill it will probably
pass the Senate before the first of July,
and, judging from the spirit shown by
the Senators in steadily drifting towards
the schedules of the House bill, not more
than ten days will be required to reach
an agreement in conference on the Sen.
ate amendments to the bill, Unfortu.
nately it is in the power of the demo.
Gratis, if they dare to face the public
opinion and do it, to change this pleas.
ing outlook, but as things now look it is
not an exaggerated prediction to say that
the tariff bill may become law in a
month from this time
Senator Bacon, of Ga has the honor
of having offered the first amendment to
the tariff bill that has been adopted
without the endorsement of the repub.
can steering committee, and the first
strictly protective amendment to be
fathered by democrat and and voted
for by as many as six democrats. Some
of the steering committee schedules
have received the votes of one or two
democrats, but when Senator Bacon's
amendment putting duty of 20 per cent
sd valorum on raw cotton was voted up
on it was supported by the following
democrats: Bacon and Clay, of Ga. ;
Tillman and McLaurin, Of s. @; Nc
Emery, of La and Rawlins Utah, and
by all the republicans present, and was
passed by q vote of AZ to 10. This action
on the part of these democrats nearly
caused Senators Jones, of Ark and Vest
OF NO., who are jointly leading the dem
ocrats, to throw q fit or two right on the
floor Of the Senate. There are ssvera
other democratic Senators who would
vote for protection if they had the nerve
to follow their inclinations.
Senators German, Jones and othel
democrats are crossing q bridge before
they get to it, by declaring that the dem
ocrats will not allow legislation author
izing the appointment of currency
commission to investigate and report
to Congress their conclusions as to how
our present currency system might b'
improved, to be passed by Congress a
this session.
| The new sugar schedule of the tarif
bill, which with two changes is the orig
inal Dingley schedule, is far more salts
factory than was the one constructed b!
the Senate Finance committee, and i
will be still more satisfactory if thos'
two changes are struck out when tn
bill goes to conference.
President McKinley's last act befor'
departing for Nashville was to send
batch of important diplomatic nomina
tions to the Senate. Among them wer'
those of Henry L. Wilson, brother o
Senator Wilson, OF the State of Wash
in gton, to be Minister to Chill; William
; F. Powell, a colored man of N. J to b.
Minister to Haiti John G. A. Leishman
of Pa to be Minister to Switzerland, AM
Jonh F. Convey, of the State of Wash
ington, to be Consul General at Kanaga
wa, apan. Among other nomination
! sent in at the same time were those o
: Rob't s. Pearson, of s. Dakota, to b
Deputy Auditor for the Interior Depart
ment. Daniel A. Grosyepor, of Md ,
|, brother of Representative Grosvenor, Q
Ohio, to be Deputy Auditor for the Wa
, Department, and May Mosby Campbell
daughter of Col. John S.Mosby, to b
postmaster. at Warrenton, Va.
The Post Office Department has bee
breaking records this week in the MAJ
ter of appointing fourth class postmai
, ters, and the work will continue unde