Middletown transcript., 1897-10-16
Washington
Letter

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ek = M ent plans are
ElT ASE NH changed, Presi-
RR S1&l dent Mckinley
B ~ lfa will go to Ohio
EN~ULZ/FM just before the
AN S4I M election and re-
E-ZW main there to cast
- his vote. He
doesn't regard his vote as necessary to
the success of the Republican ticket,
state and legislative, but he believes
that casting his vote is patriotic duty
that should never be left undone by any
man when it can possibly be done. He
has preached this from the stump all
over Ohio in many campaigns in which
he has participated, and he wishes to
show his Ohio friends that he continues
to both preach and practice it. Wheth-
or the President will make speech
before the election in Ohio is not yet
fully determined. He is somewhat in
clined to think that it would not be
strictly in accordance with propriety
for him to make partisan speech in a
state campaign, but attempts to per-
suade him to address at least one meet
ing, at Cincinnati, are still being made,
and they may succeed.
Secretary Wilson, who is widely
known as an effective campaigner, be-
cause of his straight forward appeals
to the common, everyday, horse-sense
of his hearers, has gone to Ohio to take
the stump for few days for the Repub-
llicans. Secretary Wilson has no scrup-
es about member Of the Cabinet TAX
ing the stump for his party; the issue
in Ohio has been made to involve the
policy of the national administration.
and he thinks it all right for members
of the administration to take part in
the public discussions.
Events of the last few days in Spain
have convinced even the most sensa-
tionally inclined scribblers that great
many people have allowed their imag-
nations to run away with their judg-
ment in discussing the attitude of Presi-
dent Mckinley towards both Spain and
Cuba. The President has every reason
to feel gratifed at the visible result of
his Cuban policy-the recall of Gen.
WeyIer by the new Spanish ministry
and to expect still greater result
peace in Cuba.
A great many who regarded the send
ing of commission to Europe to treat
with the governments over there on the
feasibility of the adoption of internat-
ional bimetallism as chimerical, when
it was Grst proposed by Senator VOL
colt, are now convinced that the Com
mission has really been of some service.
1t has, for one thiag, made the govern
ment of Great Britain for the first time
give serious consideration to the sub
ject of international bimetallism, in
stead of curtly dismissing it, as it had
always previously done. Ofcourse this
doesn't make it certain thatG Great Britain
will eventually agree to international
bimetallism, but it is longer step in
that direction than it seemed possible
awhile ago to make Great Britain take,
and the credit is certainly due to the
efforts of Senator Wolcott's Commits
sion. Arrangements have just been
perfected for a series Of conferences
between the Commission and Ambas-
sador Hay 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 q. S. Supreme court at an early |
day, as there is provision Of law un-
der which customs cases are advanced |
OIL the docket of the supreme Court.
Secretary Gage had previously decided
that the tariff law was retroactive, and
his decision will be followed by collec-
tors of customs until it is reversed by
the Courts. If the courts uphold the
decision of the Board of Appraisers,
the Government will have to refund
about $500, 600 to importers who i'm
portations were entered at the custom
houses on Saturday. July Oath, before
the signing of the tariff act by the
President. Secretary 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 duties. The bill was
signed in the afternoon. after the close
Of the business day at the custom
houses, and the decision of the Board
Of Appraisers would, If upheld, make
ali 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.
500 Reward 500.
The readers of this paper will be pleased