San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Tariff All Right-other Gossip
About Japan and Johnny Bull.

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About Japan and Johnny Bull.
Washington, d. c., July 22.-(Spe-
ciaD-The country is to be congratu-
lated that the House conferees had
their way about the important sched-
ules of the tariff bill; also the Repub-
lican party, and the, result is largely
due to the practical unanimity of the
Republican press in declaring the
House schedules to be preferable to
those of the Senate. This was espec-
tally true of the sugar schedule, the,
most troublesome Of them all.
The tariff bill, as it now stands, is
not perfect-nothing of human con-
struction is-but it is good bill, and
will be endorsed by all who believe in
protective tariff, and will add to the
believers in protection. 1t will enable
many thousands of Americans to get
profitable employment they have been
without for four years, and will, at the
same time, produce all the revenue
needed to run the government. No one
deserves more credit for this bill than
Chairman Dingley, whose name the
bill bears. Since last December, he
has worked early and late on the
measure, and If the Dingley tariff
proves as popular as it's sup
porters expect, who knows but it's au-
I thor may not in the course of time be
as highly rewarded as was the author
,;e q
that Dingley times may be as pros
porous as Mckinley times, and L am
sure that Mr.. Dingley would rather see
the country prosperous than to be
| president.
There is little probability that this
government will take any notice of ia
| pans supplementary protest against
the annexation of Hawaii, not because
of any particular desire to snub Japan
but becaues Secretary Sherman's reply
| to Japan's first protest covered the
| ground so fully that no other answer is
needed. The action of the Senate COM
mittee on foreign relations in favor
| ably reporting the annexation treaty
| without a dissenting voice, was addi-
| tional notice to Japan, and all the rest
of the world, that annexation is going
to be accomplished regardless of the
| opinions or wishes of other nations.
No ofstsial of the administration nor
member of either branch of Congress
| takes seriously the English-made ru-
NOR that Spain and Japan had formed
an alliance to make war upon the Unit
ed States. Nobody in Washington
would be the slightest bit worried even
if it were known that such an alliance
was an accomplished fact instead of
being an English attempt to scare
| somebody, as a means of getting
even" for the truthful statement of
the tricky conduct of the English gov
renment, made in Secretary Sher-
mans instructions to Ambassador Hay
| concerning the seal fisheries negotia-
| tons. 1t was not intended that these
| instructions should be made public at
this time, but they were obtained by
wide-awake newspaper man and
printed. The publication has made the
| English editors very mad at the United
| States, and their old occupation of
abusing us, which was suspended
while the arbitration treaty was pend
ing, has been resumed; but it is worthy
| of notice that no attempt has been
made to controvert the truthfulness of
Secretary Shermans arraignment of
Lord Salisbury.