The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
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WASHINGTON, July Is, 1897.

w ASHlNG1ONJ July loi 1901
The expected has happened. The
Republicans of the Tariff Conference
Committee have agreed to cut out the
Senate sugar schedule and insert the
House schedule with several changes
of course, in the interest of the sugar
trust. The result is just as l stated it
would be. 1t is heralded as defeat Of
the sugar trust, and the agents of the
trust are doing their best to look disap-
pointed, while they are entirely salts
fed, as the amended Dingley schedule
gives them little more than they ex-
pected to get, although, of course, not
everything they wanted; they want
the earth and the fullness thereof.
Now, that the farcial fight in the con-
ference has been concluded, there is
very little doubt that the conference
report will be accepted and the bill
sent to Mr.. Mckinley during the pres
ent week. There may be little de-
lay in reaching vote on the report in
the Senate, as a number of Senators
wish to express their opinion of several
bunco schemes which were worked in
the conference, notably the restoration
of the 81 duty on white pine lumber,
which will put tax of something like
$40,000,00 on the people for the bene-
At of tho oh tfa nina hinn ond tho
replacing of cotton ties and bagging on
the dutiable list.
Mr.. Terrence V. Powderly. the ex-
labor leader, has received his reward
for making Mckinley campaign
speeches last year, by having his nom-
ination to be Commissioner-General of
Immigration sent to the Senate. Ter
renee was on the anxious bench for
quite while, in fact he had very
close call, owing tn the opposition OF
the labor organizations to his appoint
ment.
"Why does not John Sherman re-
signm asked one Ohio man of another,
after he had been listening to some OF
the current talk about the manner in
which the old gentleman is sighted
and Inundated by MIR. Mckinley.
That question has became one of the
conundrums of the day and it has
been discussed more frequently since
the publication of the instructions
given to Ambassador Hay, concerning
the Seal Fisheries negotiation. Al
though those instructions were signed
SHERMAN" there are few who believe
that Secretary Sherman wrote them,
and some who openly express a doubt
as to whether he ever even saw them
previous to their publication. There
is nothing Objectionable from an Amer
| lean point of view in the facts upon
which those instructions are based, but
| the language is not that which one
has been so long connected with
things diplomatic as Mr.. Sherman
has been by reason of his service on
the Senate Foreign Committee, would
he apt to use. One gentleman whose
long and close intercourse with Mr..
Sherman has made him thoroughly
familiar with his style of expressing
himself said: II will stake my exis.
tence that Sherman neither wrote MOI
was given an opportunity to edit those
instructions; also that he knew moth.
ing of the intention to have them pub
lished." In view of this sort of talk,
is 1t any wonder that men are asking
why Sherman does not resign? Assis.
tant Secretary Day has had charge OF
all Cuban and Spanish matters ever
since he came to Washington, and he
is the man credited with having writ.
ten the Hay instructions; also the
man slated to be Secretary of State af.
ter the Ohio election, when it is be.
lieved the intention TO use pressure to
force Sherman out of the cabinet
MIR. Sherman is not the sort of a man
to have made warm friends, but he
has well-wishers who would like t.
see him upset the Neutrality-suspicious..
Day arrangement by resigning now
and telling why. But official title is
dear to Mr.. Sherman.
What has the Carnegie Armor Plate
Trust done to the Senate? While Dem.
Ocrats are glad to see even one trust
hit, they are at a loss to know what il
was that caused the Senate to limit
the cost of armor plate to $500 ton
and Senators to inform members OF
the House that it was useless to add a
cent to that limit, because the Senate
had fully determined that no more
should be paid. Republicans friendly
to the Carnegie trust made a hard
fight for an increase in the House, but
failed, and the trust will have to make
armor for that price, or wait until
Congress authorizes the payment OF
more. Mr.. Carnegie should apply to
the sugar trust for pointers on how to
manage Congress. Jerry Simpson says
that Carnegie is being punished be-
cause of his lack of liberality in con-
tributing to Hanna's corruption fund
in the last campaign.