The Arizona sentinel., 1897-01-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent-)


 is to be Secretary of State in the
 coming administration. during the
 present week, as he will, by special
 invitation, have personal con-
 ference with President-elect Me
 Kinley at Canton, Mir. Sherman's
 personal incIinations are not to-
 wards the Cabinet, but he is pre-
 pared to do his duty as a good
 Republican and a patriotic citizen, and if It be the wish of President
 Mckinley and of the Ohio Repub-
 licans, who have given him such great political honors in the past
 that he should accept cabinet
 portfolio, he will not allow his
 personal inclinations to stand in
 the way. That he would make a good Secretary of State is as cer- tain as that he has made a good Senator and a good Secretary of the Treasury, and while his col leagues would miss his experience and wisdom in the Senate, the
 knowledge that President McKin- ley and the country would have the benefit of them would go far towards consoling them for the
 loss.
 Having heard what the parties direcly interested had to say about the new tariff bill, the Republicans of the House Ways and Means Committee will thls week begin the actual construction of the bill. The Democratic mem bers of the committee had the privilege of at tending the hearings, and some of them availed themselves of it, but the construction of the bill will only be participated in by the Re- publican members. Chairman Dingley has pointed out the diff ference in this task and the con- struction of the Mckinley bill in 1890, and 1t should not be lost sight of by those who are interested in seeing the arduous task successfully performed. In 1890 the Treasury had a surplus which was growing larger all the time, and the tariff bill was intended to protect Ameri- can products and manufactures, and at the same time, to reduce the receipts of the government. Now, again referring to Chairman Ding ley's words, the new tariff bill must protect American products and manufactures, and at the same time, add from $5O,0OO,0O0 to $75,- 100000 a year to the Government receipts, in order to provide for the deficit made by the insuficiency of revenue produced by the Dem ocratic tariff bill, which MT. Cleve- land denounced as an outrage and refused to sign, and which he now declares to be a good thing, not withstanding all the trouble it has brought to the country.
 The Loud bill depriving sample copies of newspapers and books of the right to be sent through the mall at pound rates was passed by the House, and has now gone to the Senate, where it's prospect of being acted upon is far from bright. It will be fought hard and time is geItlng scarce.
 The speech of Representative Johnson, of California, on the Pacific Railroad Funding bill. 1 which was today disposed of by the House, in which he made vicious personal attack upon Mir. w. R. Hearst, proprietor of the San Fran cisco Ecanai1aer and the New York | Journal, is much regretted by all | who heard it. Some of the lang lage of Mir. Johnson was so vulgar and indecent that it could not be printed in newspapers which go through the mail without a viola jon oflaw-such language as should never be heard in a gathering of gentlemen and which no provoca- ion can excuse. Disgusting people never brings them to your way of 
 It remained for Senator Mills 10 introduce humorous phase to the Cuban question. His resolution, lpon whish he made a speech today n his usual style he works harder han a blacksmith when he makes | speech-after rcc:ting that Cuba ought to be free and declaring that his country recognizes it's inde-