The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-10-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, October l1th. Is!

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, October 11th. 1897.
Unless his present plans are changed
President Mckinley will 60 to Ohio just
| before the election and remain there to
cast his vote lie doesn't regard his
vote as necessary to the success of the
republican ticket, state and legislative
but he behaves that casting his vote is
a patriotic duty that should never be
left undone by any man when it can
possibly be done. He has preached this
from tue stump all over Ohio in the
many campaigns in which be has parti-
cipated, and he wishes to show his Ohio
friends that he continues to both preach
and practice it. Whether the President
will make speech before the election
in Ohio is not yet fully determined. He
is somewhat inclined to think that it
would not be strictly in accordance with
proprietv for him to make a partisan
speech in a state campaign, but attempts
to persuade him to address at least one
meeting. at Cincinnati, are still being
made. and they may succeed.
Secretary Wilson, who is widely
known as an effective campaigner, be-
cause of his straightforward appeals to
the common, everyday, horsesense of
his hearers, has gone to Ohio to take
the stump for few days for the repub-
licans. Secretary Wilson has no scrup-
=, I',l, t,1
ing the stump for his party; the issue in
Ohio has been made to involve the pol
icy of TIE national administration, and
he thinks it all right for members of the
administration to take part in the pub
lie discussions.
Events of the last few days in Spain
have convinced even the most sensa
tionally inclined scribble~s that great
many people have allowed their lmagi
nations TO run away with their judy
ment in discussing the attitude of Presi-
dent Mckinley towards both Spain and
Cuba. The President has every reason
to feel gratified at the visible result of
his Cuban policy-the recall of Gen.
Weyler by the new Spanish ministry
and to expect a still greater result
peace in Cuba.
a great many who regarded the send
ing of a commission to Europe to treat
with the governments over there on
the feasibility of the adoption of inter
national bimetalism as chimerical, when
it was first proposed by Senator VOL
colt, are now convinced that the COM
mission has really been of some service.
1t has, for one thing, made the govern
ment of Great Britain for the first time
give serious consideration to the subject
of international bimetallism, instead of
CURLY dlsmissing it, as 1t bad always
previously done. OF course this doesn't
make it certain that Great Britain Will
eventually agree to international bimet-
allism, but it is a longer step in that di
rection than it seemed possible while
ago TO make Great Britain take, and the
credit is certainly due to the efforts of
Senator Wolcott's commission Ar
engagements have just been perfected
for series of conferences between the
commission and Ambassador IIav with
the British Chancellor of the Exchequer
and other officials, for the purpose of
fully discussing the matter in all its
bearings.
Secretary Gage will appeal from the
decision of the Board of Appraisers,
that the Dingley tariff did not become
operative until the minute that it was
signed by the President. to the Courts.
and the question will be passed upon
by the |. 5. Supreme court at an early
day, as there Is a provision OF law under
which customs cases are advanced on
the docket OF the Supreme Court Sec
rotary Gage had previously decided that
the tariff law was retroactive, and his
decision will be followed by collectors
OF customs until 1t is reversed bv the
courts. If the courts uphold the decis-
ion of the Board of Appraisers, the gov
eminent Will have to refund about $500
coo to importers whose importations
were entered at the custom houses on
Saturday, July 9th, before the signing
of the tariff act by the President. Sec
rotary Gage holds that the bill became
law on the day that it was signed by
the President, and that all goods entered
on that day were liable to the new du-
ties. The bill was signed in the after
noon, after the close of the business day
at the custom houses, and the decision
of the Board of Appraisers would, if up
held, make all goods entered that day
subject only to the old duties. Treasury
officials are confident that Secretary
Cages decision was right and that it
Will be upheld by the Supreme Court.