Middletown transcript., 1897-01-16

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|EH ing administers
N-sAzSSN present week, al
he will. by special invitation, have .
personal conference with Pr sident.
elect Mckinley at Canton. Mr.. Sher-
mans personal inclinations are not to-
wards the cabinet, but he is prepared
to do his duty as a good Republican
and patriotic citizen, and il it be the
wish of President Mckinley and of the
| Ohio Republicans, who have given him
such great political honors in the past
that he should accept cabinet port
folio, he will not allow his personal in
clinations to stand in the way. That
he would make good Secretary of
State is as certain as that he has made
a good Senator and good Secretary of
the Treasury, and while his colleagues
would miss his experience and wisdom
in the Senate, the knowledge that
President Mckinley and the country
would have the benefit of them would
go far towards consoling them for the
Gloss.
Having heard what the parties di-
rectly interested had to say about the
new tariff bill, the Republicans of the
House Ways and Means Committee
will this week begin the actual con.
struction of the bill. The Democratic
members of the committee had the
privilege of attending the hearings, and
some of them availed themselves of it,
but the construction of the bill will
only be participated in by the Republi-
can members. Chairman Dingley has
pointed out the difference in this task
and the construction Of the Mckinley
bill in 1890, and it should not be lost
sight of by those who are interested in.
the arduous task successfully performed.
In 1890 the Treasury had surplus
which was growing larger all the time,
and the tariff bill was intended to pro-
tect American products and maDufac-
lures, and at the same time,. to reduce
the receipts of the government, Now,
again referring to Chairman Dingley's
words, the new tariff bill must protect
American products and manufactures,
and at the same time, add from $50,-
000, 900 to S75. 100000 a year to the
government receipts, in order to pro-
vide for the deficit made by the INSULT
cheney, of revenue produced by the
Democratic tariff bill, which Mr..
Cleveland denounced as an outrage and
refused to sign, and which he now de-
clares to be good thing;notwithstand-
ing all the trouble it has brought to
the country.
The Loud bill depriVing sample cop
les of newspapers and books of the
right to be sent through the mail at
pound rates was passed by the House,
and has now gone to the Senate, where
its prospect of being acted upon is far
from bright. 1t will be fought hard
and time is getting scarce.
The speech of Representative John
son, of California, on the Pacific Rail-
road Funding Bill, which was to-day
disposed of by the House, in which he
made vicious personal attack upon
Mr.. w. r. Hearst, proprietor of the
San Francisco Examiner and the New
York Journal, is much regretted by all
who heard it. Some of the language
of Mr.. johnson was SO vulgar and in
decent that it could not be printed in
newspapers which go through the mail
without violation of the law-such
language as should never be heard 10
a gathering of gentlemen and which no
provocation can excuse. Disgusting
people nevsr brings them to your way
Of thinking.
Itremained for Sena tor Mills to in
troduce humorous phase to the Gu
ban question. His resolution, upon
which be made speech to-day in his |
usual style-he works harder than a |
blacksmith when he makes speech
after reciting that Cuba ought to be
free and declaring that this Country |
recognizes its Independence. and that |
the President must act In harmony |
with Congress, provides for the ap-
pointment of a U. s. Minister to Cuba
and appropriates $4,000 to pay his SAL
ary and expenses. The idea of ap-
pointing minister to country which |
as yet has neither government, accord
ing toshe common American concep-
tion of government, nor capitolis
regarded as about the choicest tidbit |
of humor turned up at the present ses-
sion of Congress, Salthough Mr.. Mills |
doesn't pose as funny man.
Representative and Sena tor-elect
Money. of Miss, Is back from his foal
trip to Csba. but If he found out any,
thing that the newspapers have not
already acquainted the psople Of the
United States with he has not told it.
He has suddenly adopted an owl-like
style. He looks mysterious and drops
mysterious hints about what he might
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