The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11

| Dlntnn have QUICKLY run Lne1T career, iowa
finds her cattle steady, and her hogs Away.
marketRble, and the bacon, hama, ana packed
ment do not go TO waste"
Horses w.rs raised In Iowa with ~nArticu.
lar enterprise until the inevitable displncsment
S SoT. S' But c SoTs and Uni c Gait sp are the i~a finished he pTed.
uct of our great cornfieid and hay crop. Prices
hid up p T Then sU,Isr. ing s snoG zoe; b, The he. board Sori
tic, and all sold, Is the daily records Of Iowa
eight million head Of hogs, 70 our million and
a half Of .popuiation."
Nearly 90, 900. Once or twice only did It
What is the population of Dubuaus?'
Forty thousand or $4,000. Old Halena. In
Illinois, Ave miles from us, has 1000 or $1,000
y once WAS our snperi1r; % De ooS MGinss - The
a potent Railroad entire" WV
Has; Chicsso the chief ipfSsne. oyer Lowsr"
Southern counties. But one-third Of the popu-
!ither. at the breakfast table or right after
papers have probably aided to their compsss
DO no! the people generally travel less than
~ think 50. Travel and hotel rates arc felt
In the diminished Incomes OF our dav.. l know
fewer acauaintances, and 10 king around mo In
Washington ! feel com paratiyely like a stran-
s ger II Tome G s.s 'i Srriv CD ds%G9 S o Th : { lime ns"f Z.
iowsh'p. the friendship of the days we both re-
responsibilities and TO duties In which per-
sonality 10 nh accidept."
is IL not true that the steady living farmers
in Iowa have money to lendT'
quite true. The farmers who live the
farm career and are wise In their oeeupation:
among the, most prosperous tillers "f the soil
In history
"stehmboatine is not the great feature !.
long vas, but the ouantitv Of freight carried by
steamboat, passenger, too, 10 still large"
DO your people hone for manufactured"
The towns al, look TO manufactures mar;
lave received q due proportion Of them. sup
pnse that Dubuque has 1000 10 1000 persons
IN her factories OF CARRIAGES, wagons, furni'
t-re, SOAP, engines. machinery, and other
thinus.. The Importance of home market and
versatile employ mrnts was expressed by the
election and prevailed over the intAtuat.on Of
And you, mak!nG a tarir, must work c~losely?"
Precisely. The older. or You may say. the
pel rigorous occupation, like the hours ami
habits of the banker. the merchant, or the me-
G naaded By an The " Soiee o. OF the sG majority io Q G q, tho tho
election, every dnv and night and Sunday, too."
The emphas sis and md the strsnSsnspins eoun-
ssntstiveso Of the interest. in the btll2" m,
the third tariff In six or seven years. and l
have been on some tariff bill or other, or have
s sIne ! h nDSn b sas'n in e? ::co the ,e Ssis or Port 9ar .% Sf s5e
four years, Just half INV life. or course, men
will be seen Incidentally. They must % to the
what 10 vial, not iterate old things covered by
their copioue memorials. letters, and pam
phlets. We co not give hearings"
ia the new Cabinet member from Iowa an
ii is q very able man. born in Scotia. Iowa
has had several Cabinet members, OF whom
but one Is living. James Harlan. and he in his
day was a clear-hecded, capable man, and in
!tiirement with dignity and philosophy among
his Iowan fellow citizens. He is the father
Of Robert LineoIn,s wife; Robert Ltncoln pos.
the ambition for It.. He saw It's serious side
in his you.h1a murdered father and a str!cken
class of clients In Chicago, has been in the
cabinet and in the foreign seryiye, bat ~ MI!
not love politics sons James anne so +. Wilson 6 n, Of Iowa
Cabinet office of the highest class. Wilson was
on" every body predicted q fine career for. But
stomach and brain became n worry to him. and
he lost his zest for general affairs, and col
leeted a library for his town In Iowa, which
will always give him The esteem OF those good
people. and prove that he had the public disDo-
sition even when the health was gone"
did you notice the high compliment CAL
vim Brice paid you as the natural geniur of
the Appror. ~iations Comnitteei"
ing Cemo.rat oil things of the physical universe
and the facts OF trade and current finance who
ever sat With me in the Senate: He wac a
neishbor, and conyrere. The nearer he was
kno wn the more wholesome he was found to he,
and he was 50 sincere and unspiIoful that his
parting from US was pure manliness."
After leaving Senator Allison l encountered
Represep tAtive Charles H. Grosvenor OF Ohio,
in whose rooms at the Corcoran Hotel the
Tariff bill was shaped. Acros. the street at
the Hamilton .lotel lived Nelson DingIey, Jr.,
ago was Governor OF Maine. GrosVenor Is a
known for his long White beard, warm COM
pleIion, blue eyes, aid stirring vernaculAr.
When a disposition is abroad to cultivate
silence ald diBa ppearnnce, Gen. GrO0venor Is
jurt ready to ak.
Tel me how you made the Tariff bill1'
1t was all made up In tho top OF this hotel
by the Republican majority of the committee,
with Gov. Dinghy at the head. We began II
last December as soon as Congress was called,
Congress assembled in extra session. March
10. In that more than four months, l presume.
lad a clerk, Herbert Lord, from Maine, and
an expert. Mr.: Evans. who has been n long
s,Hs Of fe ali the in rSe s9% s1ssss wb was b rsD,e %nnn.
factures-Payne and Dalzell OF tho Middle
states: Dingley aud Russell Of New England
and Ohio, Indiana. Iowa, &c.
AFTER we took the bill up TO the House the
Democrats we're with us In committee Bailey
q Texas, McLaurin Of South Carolina. Gen;
was debated in the House and put upon The
vote. Several Democrata voted for II, twenty
one remained silent. Bailey or Texas 10 q gem
tlemAn in feeling, not born until the war, and
he and McLaurin wero both good item p-red and
unobstructive. McLaurin, reared IN upper South
Carolina, supported raw material protection
and went back u CalhOun's record on that Is
sue. when Calhoun gas 2 young national man.
Tho South Is now divided into mossbacks and
learners on the tariff. Foreign raw Materials
arc producing a friction In that section. Speak
or Heed behAved nicely on tho final vote. he
was not required to vote, but knowing how
hard the committee had worked, he asked the
clerk to call his name and voted aye"
They say tie Senate will take six weeks at
the bill now. What will the House do2''
Adjourn every three days until the bill is
ready from the Senate. As we put seventy
amend menfs On our own bill and the Mckin-
Icy. tariff suffered 800 amendments and tho
Wilson bill $50 amendments, | should say that
six weeks confederation by the Senate would
not be unfair"
Was It hard work making the tariff"
Close, regular work. We had "a full car
load OF memorials and petitions. The Govern
our elislons and additions. We had cyolo-
cedias of reference to advise us, for the infinite
articles of commerce run ahead Of q mans ed
p%cation. What Is bokite,, for instance? We
both learned and inquired. AL no Wy dlscov-
cred -things over our wide empire camo to be
represented. There 10 asphaltum. 1t 10 found
in California and Utah. The seat of some un-