The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-07-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, july -. L

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1871
President Mckinley has had to
abandon attending the dedication Of
the Logan statue in Chicago, owing
to the delay in dispOsing of the tariff
bill. He did so very reluctantly, as
he was particularly anxious to lie
there, but of course duty came first.
| He did not wish to be away from
Washington when the tariff bill is
finally acted upon by Congress, as it
is certain to be this week, now that
| the conferees have reached an agree
ment, Notwithstanding the threat of
cOterie of Democratic and POpulist
senators to delay the acceptance of
the conference report by the Senate.
These threats were probably made
for effect before the agreement was
reached, as nothing can be gained by
delaying the acceptance OF the report
and even Democrats and Populists
are not likely to engage in butting
their heads against the rock wall of
public opinion when they can get
nothing by doing so.
The country is to be congratulated
that the House conferees had their
way about the important schedules
of the tariff bill; also the Republican
party, and the result is largely due to
the practical dnanimity OF the Re
| publican press in declaring the House
schedules to be preferable to those Of
the Senate. This was especially true
| of the sugar schedule, the most
| troublesome of them all To have
agreed to the Senate schedule would
have furnished the opponents of the
Republican party with a great deal
of campaign material without aiding
any American industry or adding to
| the revenues of the Government.
This fact was fully recognized by
! Speaker Reed and the Republican
members of the House, and too much
credit cannot be given them for TAX
ing the stand that the Senate sched-
ule would under no circumstances be
agreed to by the House. Quite num-
Der Of Republican senators also assist
ed in the good work by condemning
the Senate sugar schedule.
The tariff bill, as it now stands, is
not perfect-nothing of human con
struction is-but it is a good bill, and
will be endorsed by all who believe in
a protective tariff, and will add to the
believers in protection. 1t will enable
many thousand Americans to get the
| profitable employment theyhave been
without for four years, and will, at
! the same time, produce all the rev
enue needed to run the government.
! No one man deserves more credit for
this bill than Chairman Dingley,
| whose name the bill bears. Since last
| December he has worked early and
| late on the measure, and if the Ding
| ley tariff proves as popular as its sup
! pOrters expect, who knows but it's
author may not in the course of time
be as highly rewarded as was the
author of the Mckinley tariff. Here's
hoping that Dingley times may be as
prosperous as Mckinley times, and |
am sure that Mr.. Dingley would rather
see the country prosperous than to be
president.
There is little probability that this
Government will take any notice of
j pans supplementary protest
against the annexation of Hawaii,
not because of any particular desire
to snub Japan, but because Secretary
Shcmman's reply to Japan's first pro-
test covered the ground so fully that
no other answer is needed. The ac-
ton OF the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations in favorably reporting
the annexation treaty without dis
senting voice, was an additional no
tice to Japan, and all the rest of the
world, that annexation is going to be
accomplished regardless of the opin-
| lOllS VI NlolltH vi oIItI IGllOuS.
No official Of the administration nor
member Of either branch of Congress
takes seriously the English-made
rumor that Spain and Japan had
formed and alliance to make war on
the United States. Nobody in Wash
| ingtOn would be the slightest bit
worried even if it We're known that
such an alliance was an accomplished
fact, instead of being an English at
tempt to scare somebody as a means
of getting even" for the truthful
statement of the tricky conduct of the
English government, made in Secre-
tary Sherman's instructions to Am
bassador Hay, concerning the seal
fisheries negotiations. 1t was not in