The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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W dSiiIuotOl, JAN. -. ICt.
Mr.. Cleveland may or may not send .
the special message to Congress on
Cuban affairs, which report says he has /
prepared during the recess, but his /
action in ordering the cruiser Nesuyius |
and the dispatch boat Dolphin to pro- |
coed to Florida waters and join the L. S. |
vessels already there in preventing fill /
clustering, is notification to Congress |
that the administration has not i'll tie |
slightest changed its attitude toward |
Cuba. Conservative men in the Senate !
will endeavOr to privately argue with |
those Senators who are regarded as
the Cameron resolution, in order to
have them not speak at all, or at any
rate If they do speak, not to use lang
uage calculated to excite the country.
There Is no question that the conserva-
tive men in both branches of Congress,
regardless Of their personal opinion
about what should ultimately be done
by this government, believe that as long
as the matter has been allowed to stand
up to this time, it will be wise to leave
it Enacted upon until the change of ad-
ministration. And it is the opinion of
your correspondent that whatever the
Senate may do, the House will take this
view Of the matter and will do nothing.
The fact most strongly brought out by
the first week of the tariff hearings be-
fore the House Ways and Means Com
mittee is that, taken as a whole, the
men who have appeared before the
committee haye taken common sense
view of the tariff, and have asked for
nothing that could not be granted with
out violating the announced intention
of the committee to make 4 moderate
tariff blll-just enough protection to
give our own manufacturers, producers,
and working men the first call on the
American market, admittedly the best
III the world. Needless to say that
Chairman Dingley and his republican
colleagues on the Committee are pleased
with the hearings as far as they have
gone. 1t would have been a waste of
time for anybody to have asked unreas-
enable things, but it is none the less
pleasing that they have not done so.
The House reassembles with pro-
gram marked out for a week s work,
outside ofthe al preparation bills, which
are being steadily pushed ahead by the
committees. Thursday the Pacific Rail
road funding bill will be taken up, and
after four days discussion it will be
voted upon. The general impression is
that it Will pass, although its opponents
will make a strong fight against it, and
are claiming that they can defeat it.
While Republicans in Congress have |
nothing hut good wishes to express
toward the trip Senator Wolcott has |
undertaken for the purpose of ascer-
tanning what is thought in Europe of |
the proposed effort to bring about inter
national bimetallism, which this Cong
ress viii authorize, and which will be |,
made early in the administration of |
President Mckinley. they do not wish |
the statement to go uncontradicted that |
Senator Wolcott went upon this erraHd |
at the request of the Republican caucus
committee Of which he is chairman, or
of President-elect Mckinley. This con-
tradiction can best be given in Senator
WOlcOtt's own words: 81 am going
solely at the request Of the BIN tallic
League to examine into the general !
sentiment on the subject throughout
the world, and report to the League.
| 90 informally and unofliciallv, and |
deprecate any publication which init
mates anything else. The League de-
sires to know before the extra session
of Congress is called, exactly what the
is. | expect to be able to re-
turn and make my report within two
| cannot say what my course
will be abroad, except that | will first
consult with the Bimetalllc League of
Great Britain.'
The Republican Senator's are Just
human enough not to do anything to
prevent the silver Democrats carrying
out their threat of hanging up the nom
nations of gold democrats sent to the
senate DV Mr. Cleveland, except IN
cases where failure to confirm might
make future trouble, as for instance,
Secretary Francis. 1t might make dis
agreeable and costly legal complications
tor years If the Senate failed to act upon
his nomination to he Secretary of the
interior, and the Republican Senators
Will see that his nomination is acted
upon; but in the other cases, every
left Enacted upon means
another appointment placed at the dis
posal of President Mckinley. Repub-
llcan Senators would not have origin
ated such a method of increasing the
party patronage, but they are not called
upon to interfere now that the silver
democrats have done so.