Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-05

by which the democrats in the House
sought to make it appear that the
Dingley tariff bill, which will this
a higher average rate of duties than
the Mckinley bill did. Said Mr..
Dipeley: Notwithstanding the fact
that in this bill in every schedule ex-
cept earthenware, sglass, tobacco, SUI
gars, and, think, silk to some ex-
tent, Notwithstanding that in every
sche dule except these the present
bill carries actual duty less than was
carried in the act of 1890, and not
Whilst anding the fact that in many of
the schedules it carries duties sub
stauti ally the same as those in the
pre- sent law, yet if you convert these
specific duties into ad valorem per-
cent ages, not taking into considera-
ton the changes Of value between
1890 and 1896, you appear to have an
increase of duties imposed, when, as
matter of fact, the actual duties i'm
posed are less"
No better refutation could be given
of the mischievous stories alleging
the physical breaking down of Presi-
dent Mckinley than that after a hard
days work at his desk he attended
the din ner given by the Gridiron
Club in honor of the President and
his Cabin net and for several hours en-
joyed h lin self as much as the young
est man present.
So ma ny complaints have reached
Washin g ton concerning the introduce
ton of lottery methods into the bust
ness Of obtaining patents, that Sena-
tor Han sbrough has introduced bill
making it misdemeanor for any
person or firm engaged in the bust
ness of so Letting patents to conduct a
premium or prize scheme by offering
inventors a prize as an inducement
for hem to enter an alleged competi-
ton of ideas. A similar bill will pro-
badly be introduced in the House,
thus giving both branches of Con-
gress an early opportunity to protect
the U. S. Government, which is prac-
tically a partner in the patent bust
ness, from the odium necessarily at
tached to lottery methods.
The democrats in the House are
now very sorry that they said a word
about trusts in their fight for the |
Dingley tariff bill. They got a fool !
idea in their heads that they could |
brighten toe republicans by yelling |
tstrusts" at them. They know better |
now. That line OF attack gave the !
an opportunity to call the |
atten ton, or rather to jog the memo |
ry of the public to the indisputable |
fact that the trusts have been more |
mum ero us and more grasping under
the democratic administration and |
tariff law than ever before, and that |
the democrats made their last cam |
paign solely in the interests of what |
Gen. Grosvenor SO aptly called tthe |
trust which controls monopoly of |
what God gave-the silver trust.'
the Sherman antitrust law, recently
upheld by decision of the U. S. Su-
pre- me Court, was before the House,
the leading democratic members vot-
ed against its being taken up for con-
sideration, although they did not dare
v ote against the bill itself when it
was put upon it's final passage They
found the trust argument veritable
boo m erang, and about the only ex
cuse they had to offer was that they
were not responsible for Grover
Cleveland
The Senate Committee on Appro-
priatio rs, although not controlled by
republican MS, has endorsed the action
of the House in passing those left
over ppropriation bills without
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 sever
al ge ntlemen who were applicants for
the same position they held under
the Harrison administration that he
would not appoint them, no matter
how. strongly backed they were, be-
cause he had made up his mind not to
make such appointments, except in
cases where there might be some ex-
traordinary circumstances justifying
q deviation from the rule. This is no It
because he has not high opinion of
the ex- officials, but because he thinks
others should now have an opportun-
lty to share in the party honors
The vacancies in the Senate Com
mittees are worrying the opposition
more than theY are the republicans