Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-08-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IsPEoIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, July goth, 1897.

and is now a law, and the extra SEES
sion of the Fifty first Congress, hav-
ing accomplished what it was called
together to do, has adjourned, and
its members have gone home to hear
what their constituents have to say
about their work. So far as the re-
publicans are concerned, there is no
fear of the peoples verdict. They
have done a remarkable piece Of
work-one that many considered i'm
possible because Of the lack of re-
publican majority in the Senate, when
President Mckinley first announced
his determination to call an extra
session to pass a tariff bill. Although
there are some things in the Dingley
tariff law that would be different If
the republicans had had majority of
their own in the Senate, the law IS
distinctly republican and consequent
Iy will protect American industry in
all it's branches and will, after the
first six months of it's existence, pro-
duce more money than will be needed
to run the government, thus en-
abling President Mckinley to resume
the republican policy of reducing the
country's bonded Indebtedness.
If it were possible to make a man
like Senator Allen ashamed of any
thing Senator Foraker's prompt re-
futation of the charge made by Allen,
that the Mckinley vote in Ohio last
inar0ocn6 NV
would have had that effect. AS it was,
Senator Foraker's vigorous prodding
and demands for proof and specifica-
ton for one single fraudulent vote
cast in the State of Ohio, at the
Presidential election, drove Allen in
to corner from which he was glad
to escape by yielding to a motion to
go into executive session. Senator
Foraker made Senator Allen blush
when he reminded him that he was
the first man to SANDER his native
State Allen was born in Ohio by such
charges.
The giving away of coupons or GER
tifcates for premiums or prizes by
the manufacturers of tobacco and
cigarettes will have to be stopped, as
the practice is prohibited by the
Dingley tariff law. Most people will
regard this as a step in the right di-
rection. The whole prize business is
demoralizing.
Mr.. H. M. Dougherty, of the Ohio
Republican State Central Committee, |
was in Washington to see the Dingley |
tariff bill become a law, and to con-
fer with the Ohio republicans in Con-
gress before adjournment. He says
there will be hot campaign in the |
State this year, but that he regards
the election of the republican State |
ticket and Senator Hanna's return to |
the Senate, as assured. He says the |
democrats are merely blufing when |
they profess confidence OF winning.
The House made quick work of |
meeting the recommendation of |
President Mckinley for a currency
commission. The special message
was read just as soon as Speaker
Reed had signed the Dingley tariff
a special rule giving one hour for the
discussion of Representative Stones
bill authorizing the President to APP
point currency commission, which
had been previously introduced, and
at the close of the one hours debate
the bill was passed. The Senate took
no action on the bill. 1t was not ex-
pected that it would.
So general is the interest in the
disbarment proceedings against John
Wedderburn & Co., charged with
fr audulent practices, now being con-
Quoted by the U. S. Patent Office.
that nearly all of the leading legal
End technical journals of the country
are represented at the hearings. The
Patent office claims to be able to
prove fraud in a number of cases.
Knowing that every day the tariff
bill was delayed was costing the
country 100000 or more on duties.
the republicans allowed the opposi-
ton to do most of the talking in the
debate which preceded the adoption
OF the conference report. Senator
Burrows, who was member of the
conference committee, made a short
speech defendlngj the restoration of
the 81 duty on white pine lumber, and
replying to aspersions cast upon him
and incidentally upon the State of
Michigan by Senator Pettigrew. He
said the lumber schedule was one of
the most meritorious of the bill.
which would restore to the labor of