Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-16
Democrats Are Criticizing h
In a Savage Manner.
Floods Of 0ratory Expected McKir-
ley Adheres to His Plan.
A Structure that Whole World Praises Arch
itec.ure Of Library Building.

of July or the lst Of August. 1t is easy to
get congress together, but not SO easy to
get rid of it. Tho new tariff bill, which ev-
erybody is now studying, gives very good
satisfaction to the Republicans, but the
Democrats criticise it savagely. Within
week it is expected the debate on the bill
will begin. Although there are 100 Or
more.mcmbers of the house anxious to dis
tinguish themselves by participation in
this debate, Speaker Reed makes bold to
say that he intends to push the measure
through his end of congress iI-short order.
The tariff is the one subject which al
most every man in congress thinks himself
qualified to discuss. If the foodgates of
oratory were opened, there is no telling
where the end would come. Mr.. Reed
knows from long experience how to sup
press the ambitious orators Of his end of
the capitol, and the great majority of them
will have to be satisfied with "leave to
print" Under this beneficent rule acres
and acres of tariff speeches never delivered
will be printed in The Congressional Rec
ord and sent out to the patient constituents
throughout the country.
The Presidents Plan.
President Mckinley adheres rigidly to
his programme, which long ago accurate
ly announced in these dispatches. He still
hopes to get the tariff bill through both
houses of congress and upon the statute
books by the end of the fiscal year, June
80. Whether he will succeed or not re-
mains to be seen. The present plan, to
which Speaker Reed has agreed, is to put
the tariff bill through the house at an early
day and send it over to the senate. There
it is hoped the pressure of public opinion
will secure prompt action. "Turn the
light on the senate is to be the cry when
the new tax measure makes its appearance
in that body.
But the Republican leaders in the upper
branch know they have n very delicate
campaign before them. While there is ev.
cry assurance that the tariff bill will pass
the senate, the question of when depends
upon a great many things. The truth is
that it will be passed whenever the Dem
ocrats, silver Republicans and Popu.
lists are willing it should pass and not be-
fore. They hold the whip hand, and every
one knows it. At the present time their
policy is not to delay the measure beyond
a reasonable time. But whether or not
they continue in this frame of mind de.
ponds wholly upon circumstances. If the
Republican leaders treat them gently,
yield to them as far as they think proper
and do not attempt to take possession of
all the committees and all the patronage
of the senate, the opposition may stant!
aside and permit the bill to pass about
July /.
The Senate Rules.
This explanation of the situation will
show why the Republican leaders have de
cided to go slow in certain matters con
nected with reorganization of the senate.
They cannot afford to stir up the passions
of the other fellows. They know pacific
and gentle policy is the best for them in
the long run. For the same reason no seri.
GUS effort will be made to change the rules
of the senate SO as to permit debate to be
cut off by majority vote. There has been
talk of this change for many years. 1t has
been going on, in fact, for the last half
century and longer, but the rules have
stood all assaults and probably will fol-
many years to come. A serious attempt
on the part of the Republicans to change
the rules would result in such state OF
feeling in the senate as to place the tariff
bill in peril
Mr.. Hanna, the new senator from Ohio,
is playing modest part in the efforts OF
the Republican leaders to smooth the wav
for the tariff bill. Mr.. Hanna takes kindly
to the peculiar atmosphere of the senat
chamber. He says he has not been club.
man all his life for nothing. He is max.
ing no effort to pose as leader in the sen.
ate. He defers to the older men, to those
who have been recognized for many years
as the wheel horses of the senate, and in
II oh. L.
There was at one time an idea that the ma
tional chairman was going to jump in and
try to run the whole business I have
heard the old senators say that if he at.
tempted anything of the sort they would
give him the greatest throw down he ovel
had. But Mr.. Hanna, as predicted some
time ago, has done nothing of the sort.
He IS as modest as any new senator eve,
was and is rapidly winning real popularity
on that account.
Campaign Incident.
As national chairman Mr.. Hanna thinks
1t hard luck he cannot Immediately get a
new Republican senator from Kentucky
Probably the country will never know how
lard Mr.. Hanna worked to pluck Ken
lucky as a brand from the Democratic
burning last fall. He went so far as te
hire lot OF men to go up into the noun
tain region of the eastern end of the state
and travel about as book agents and ma
chine sellers and all that sort of thing
Some Of these men disappeared in the back
woods and We're not heard of for several
weeks. But they were whooping it up fol-
Mckinley all the time One of their ia
vorite devices was the giving of barbecues
with money furnished them by Mr. Hanna
When the vote from the mountain districts
rolled down, it was just large enough tc
save the state by scratch. Evidently the
humors of last years campaign have not
all been written up yet
While every one is becoming enthusiastic
over the new library of congress and de
claring it the grandest building in the
world with plethora Of adiectives and ex
CARNATIONS, there is in this city a modest
man of German origin, a man who never
knew what it was to make dress parade
or to advertise himself, who has the proud
consciousness of having been the architec,
OF that great building. His name is Pau
Pelz. His firm, Smithmcyer & Pelz, de
signed the library. Mr.. SmIhmeyer wa.
the business man of the firm, Mir. Pelz the
artist and craftsman. Together they plan
ned the structure which all the world i,