San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-31
D|N1EYS TARIFF BILL.
Democrats Now Are Sorry
They Spoke.
THEIR LITTLE TRUST RACKET
CAME BACK LIKE A
BOOMERANG.
President Mckinley In Good Health.
Old Pie Hunters Get 1t Where
Sally Wore Her Beads
Senate Committee
Vacancies.

Washington, ID. T., March 3l.-(Spe-
ciaI)-Chairman Dingley made short
work of the juggling of percentage fig
ures by which the Democrats in the
House sought to make it appear that
the Dingley tariff bill carried high
er average rate of duties than the Nc
Kinley bill did. Said Mr.. Dingley:
Notwithstanding the fact that in this
bill in every schedule except earthen-
ware, glass, tobacco, sugars, and, L
think, silk to. some extent, nOtwith-
standing that in every schedule ex-
cept these the present bill carries
actual duty less than was carried in
the act of 1890, and Notwithstanding
the fact that in many of the sched-
ules it carries duties substantially the
same as those in the present Demo
cratic law, yet if you convert these
specific duties into ad valorem percen-
tages, not taking into consideration
the changes of value between 1890
and 1896, you appear to have an in
crease of duties imposed, when, as a
matter of fact, the actual duties i'm
posed are less"
No better reputation could be given
of the mischievous stories alleging the
physical breaking down of President
Mckinley than that after a hard days
work at his desk he attended the din
ner given by the Gridiron club in hon
or Of the president and his cabinet
and for several hours enjoyed himself
as much as the youngest man present.
So many complaints have reached
Washington concerning the introduc-
ton of lottery methods into the bust
ness of obtaining patents, that Sena-
tor Hansbrough has introduced bill
making 1t a misdemeanor for any per-
son or firm engaged in the business
of soliciting patents to conduct pre-
MUM or prize scheme by offering in
ventors a prize as an inducement for
them to enter an alleged competition
of ideas. A similar bill will probably
be introduced in the House, thus Civ
ing both branches of Congress an ear
ly opportunity to protect the United
States government. which is practical
ly n partner in the patent business,
from the Odium necessarily attached
to lottery methods.
The Democrats in the House are now
very sorry that they said word about
trusts in their fight upon the Dingley
tariff bill. They got a fool idea in their
heads that they could frighten the Re-
publicans by yelling trusts" at them.
They know better now. That line of
attack gave the Republicans an OPP
portunity to call the attention, or rath-
err to jog the memory of the public
TO the indiSputable fact that the trust
have been more numerous and more
grasping under the Democratic admin
istratiOn and tariff law than ever be-
fore, and that the Democrats made
their last campaign solely in the inter-
ests of what Gen. Grosvenor so APPLY
called ''the trust which controls a
monopoly of what God gaye-the sill
yer trust" The fact is also recalled
that when the Sherman antitrust
law, recently upheld by a decision of
the United States Supreme court, wars
before the House, the leading Demo-
cratic members voted against its be-
ing taken up for consideration, all
though they did not dare vote against
the bill itself when it was put upon
its final passage They found the
trust argument n veritable boomer
ang, and about the only excuse they
had to offer was that they were not
responsible for Grover Cleveland.
The Senate committee on appropria-
tons, although not controlled by Re
publicans, has endorsed the action Of
the House in passing those left over
appropriation bills without change,
by reporting the agricultural bill to
the Senate just as it passed the
House. and will probably do likewise
with the other bills.
President Mckinley has told sew
eral gentlemen who were applicants
for the same position they held I'M
der the Harrison administration that
he would not appoint them, no matter
how strongly backed they were. be-
cause he had pade up his mind not
to make such appointments, except in
cases where there might be some ex-
traordinary circumstances iustifying
deviation from the rule. This is not
because he has not a high opinion of
the ex-officials. but because he thinks
others now have an opportunity to
share in the party honOrs.
The vacancies in the Senate commit
tees are worrying the opposition more
than they are the Republicans. al
though the latter are perfectly willing
that they should be filed. but so long