Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-26
Is Expected to Be Ready for
the Coming Extra Session.
The Sugar Trust People Count on
Being Sure Of the Senate.


tariff bill rs IL had hoped to do. Blu
there IL no warrant for the statement re
Gently made in the newspapers that IL viii
be Juno before the bill is ready to repor
| to the house The chairman of the com
| mittee, Governor Dingley, told me totia,
| he expected 10 have the bill ready by TIN
middle Of March. certainly not later thar
| the goth of that month. About that TIM
| the new congress will meet II Presiden
Mckinley carries out his present pro
grammc The wool and sugar schedules
remain to he fixed by the Republican mem
bcrs of the committee, and these duties arr
| always the subject Of great deal of pres
sure. SO far as the ways and means com
mittee is concerned, she wool schedule !,
much more troublesome than any other
as the sugar pcople do not worry them
selves about the duty till the bill gets ovel
to the senate
The shrewd Sugar Trust.
II Is safe to say that while the Repub
| lican members Of the ways and means com
mittee are fixing up the sugar schedule
they will not hear u single word from the
Sugar trust or the other refincrs They
will be let severely alone by the represent
atives of the Havemeyer concern. But rs
soon as the tariff bill gets through the
house and is ready for consideration by the
senate the trust people will be on hand.
IL Is an axiom with them never to waste
time on the house, but to make sure Of the
senate. The house Is a more difficult body
to handle than the senate 1t IL almost
Impossible 10 arrive at anything like an
understanding with the house, while with
the senate tho representatives Of the trust
can know almost exactly where they stand
How important "a matter the sugar duty Is
10 the trust may be understood from the
fact that their great profits of about So
600, 900 year are made up by the differ
ence between the tariff on raw sugar and
that on refined sugar. This amounts I'M
der the present law tn one eighth of a cent
Il pound, and that little eighth of cent
piles up to the vast sum of SO. 900, 900 in
q single year, operations of the trust
There is small chance that the protection
enjoyed by the trust In this eighth OF u
cent n pound will he reduced in the new
tariff bill. More likely than anything else
is that il will be left just as 1t is. The
sugar growers in this country demand pro-
lection from the beet sugars OF Germany,
on which an export bounty is paid by the
cent. and both the cane sugar producers of
Louisiana and the beet sugar growers Of
the west viii not be satisfied unless they
are projected.
Republican Plans.
The Republicans now feel sure that they
will he able ~ reorganize the senate when
they get ready to do so, but their present
programme is TO let the organization stand
just rs it is till next winter except rs to
the finance committee. They will not
have "a clear majority Of the senate after
the itn of March, and. while they do not
expect any difficulty in the passage of their
tariff Lii, they might not be able to reor-
ganizc the committees II they were to set
out to do so. They fear also that an at
tempt ct reorganization might embarrass
the tariff bill by rousing party prejudice
or producing personal disappointment in
the Encouragement of committees The
Republicans will probably have A votes
in the senate after March 4. or one short
Of a majority with the vote of the vice
president. Bat it ia said on good author
ity that three orfour Of the silver senators
from the far west who were formerly Re-
publicans will vote for the tariff bill, and
that one or two Democrats will follow
their example. Some of the independents,
like pettigrew and Kyle of South Dakota.
are still unknown quantities, and SO arc
one or two of the Populsts
An official of the navy department whose
duties bring him much in contact with
the naval attaches Of the various foreign
embassies and legations here tells me the
Japanese naval attache is the brightest
man in the corps. The duties of naval
attache, you know, are to keep his govern
ment informed as to the PROCESS of the
United States navy, the newest inventions
and processes in nrmor plate. construction,
projcctles powder, etc. Well, the little
Japis the keencst and quickest man in the
lot. He is absolutely without imagination,
but in thoroughness of detail in practical
ability and business sense he is said to
rank away above all the Europeans. The
japanese are very ambitious for naval
strength and are watching every invention
that gives promise of helping them on
their way to mastery of the Pacific, which
is obviously their goal
Personal Matters.
Mrs. Cleveland is noted among her
friends as very observing woman, Very
little goes on in the White House. even Mt
the crowded receptions, unknown to her
At the last reception a young lady from
out OF town was in the line passing through
the red and blue parlors, and as she came
up to Mrs. Cleveland and shook hands
with her the lady of the White House, with
that rare smile Of hers, exclaimed: "If l
am not mistaken, your twin sister passed
through here about ten minutes Ago
You are mistaken, Mrs. Cleveland. > re-
piled the young lady, "for have no sis
ter" well, she was your double, them,
retorted Mrs. Cleveland After that tho |
young lady and her friends kept their ewes
open for the double, and sure enough. half |
md hour later, they found her leaning m
on the arm of q handsome naval officer in
the east room. The two young ladies were |
SO nearly alike as to cause their friends |
great establishment. The wonder is that |
Mrs. Cleveland should have noticed the re-. |
semblance of two persons in line that re-
quired three hours to pass.
President Cleveland has a plain. blunt
way Of greeting the people he knows when
they pass through the line at the White
House. At the last card reception well
known army officer shook the presidents
hand when his turn came, after nearly an
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