The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-06-18

| From our Regular Correspondent.
| WASHINGTON, June lion yes, thc Rcpub
| lican Senators are harmonious, so harmoniou:
that il has been necessary during he past week
| to hold no less than four caucuscS, nj every
one OF which there was redhot talk againt a!
| lowing the trusts TO dictate their wishes as tC
| the schedule of the tariff bill! in which they are
| interested, and about other things which are
being cTammed down the throuts of Republ.
| can Senators against their own wishes and
against the wishes Of their constituents. StilI
they vote as Il unit on che floor OF the Senate
1t cIme out at one of these caucuscs that Mr.
Mckinley has II treaty for the annexation OF
HAWAII, ready to send to the Senate, as soon as
the tariff is out of the way. The statement was
made to stop the fight that was being made Ion
the abrogurion of the reciprocity treaty win
Hawaii.
The report of the committee on contingent
expenses, against Senator Tillaun's resolution
for an Investigation of the charges that Sera-
tors had been specializing in sugar stock since
the tariff bill had been under consideration, at
traetcd very little attention, because it vas
known that it would be against the resolution
ever since the Republican cauclis decided an
investigation to be iuadvisab.c. The report
argues against an Investigation because Other
Investigations have been barren Of results,
which Is about equivalent To saying that ono
or two criminals having failed to be convicted,
il is useless to bring any more to trial. S=na-
tor Tillman has been dropping hints of seusa-
tionai information in his possession on this sub
ject, and there is IA rumOr that he will make
some charges in public speech that will Rake
an investigation absolutely necessary.
The minority OF the Senate Committee on
Finance will have Il vote on the tariff amend
ment prepared by them, which provides for an
internal revenue tax for L period of five years
of per cent on all estates exceeding the value
OF $4,000, excepting those bcqueathed to re-
ligious, charitable, educational, or like insitu-
tons. 1t would be difficult TO find an cs sicr
way to add Il considerable amount to the reve-
nues of the country or one that would be less
felt by the people, but there are no cuts in it
for any trusts, SO the trust-bound majority of
the Senate will most likely vote it down.
Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the
Selfshness and grab game nature of "Protcc-
ton as seen by the average Republican Sena-
tor, than the attempt of Senator Quay to get
good thing for two or three big concerns which
are interested in Cuban and Nova Scotia iron
ore, by Offering an amendent to the tariff bill,
exempting from the duty of forty cents u ton,
all iron ore imported by manufacturers for
their own use These friends of Mr.. Quay are
about all the manufacturers in the country
who import iron ore for their own use.
What small figure consistency cuts with the
most prominent Republican Senator's, Was
shown during the debate which preceded the
adoption, by the aid of two PopulistS-Jones
aud Stewart, of Nevada, one DCmocrat-Mc-
Emery, of Louisiana, and 30 Republicans of the
so-called compromise" sugar schedule, which
is said to be even more beneficial to the sugar
trust than was the schedule prepared by the
Republicans of the Finance Committee. Sena-
tor Gallery, who, although himself Il sugar
planter, voted and spoke against the sugar
which he declared to be entirely in
the interests Of the sugar trust, and quoted the
attacks made upon the sugar schedule, which he
declared to be entirely in the interests of the
sugar trust, and quoted the attacks made upon
the sugar schedule of the Wilson bill bya num-
Der Of the Republican supporters of the pres
ent sugar schedule. These men attacked the
Wilson schedule solely because they charged it
gave the sugar trust too much, and now they
have the atTrontery to jam through Il schedule
that viii give the sugar trust three times US
much as il secured under tine Wilson schedule,
or rather the schedule of the Wilson bill, which
was prepared in the Senate AID was more favor
able to the trust than the original Wilson
schedule. The sharp rise in the stock OF the
sugar trust shows Just what the Wall street
Spectators thought of the compromise"
Senators Cannon, Mantle and Pettigrcw ana
ex-senator Dubois, have Teen appointed Il
commission, nv the Eyppufiyr Committee of tIn
Silver Republican party and charged wrh the
duty Of visiting japan and China and possibly
India, for the purpose of Investigating the sill
yer question in those countries. They will 70
us soon Us Congress adiourns.