The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-10
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
From eur Regular Correspondent.J
WARRINGTON Jnlv 9

| The last days of the tariff debate
in the Senate were disagreeably
warm and it was apparent that the
Senators were quite as tired of it as
the public was. Still there were
some more or less interesting epi-
sodes between talk and votes upon
such absorbing topics as the duty
on bleaching powder. Among them
was the spirited colloquy between
Senators Tillman and Chandler.
started by the former in speech in
favor of his tariff amendment i'm
posing head tax of 500 upon all
immigrants. It was tit for tat be-
tween these very sharp-tongued gen.
tlemen for awhile, while bursts of
laughter from the other Senators in
Dictated that the wrangle was furn.
isbing amusement, if not wisdom,
for its hearers. When Mr.. Chandler
in mock alarm expressed his fear of
Mr.. Tillman that gentleman assured
him that without his pitchfork he
was entirely harmless. Mr.. Tillman
made some uncomplimentary allu-
sions to ex-President Cleveland for
his veto of the immigration bill.
! Another break in the dull monet
ony was the two-hour speech of
Senator Turpie in favor of his tariff
amendment to tax all inheritances
over IS, 600. Mr.. Turpie has one of
the most picturesque vocabularies
in the Senate and he drew on it heav-
lily in his speech. He told the re-
publicans that the tariff bill would
not furnish the money needed by
the government, and closed by de-
claring that there was no more right
in abandoning the free coinage of
silver than there would be in aban-
doning the free coinage of gold.
Senator Tillman's tariff amend
ment imposing a tax of 500 each
on immigrants and making it a
misdemeanor for any alien who
does not intend becoming a citizen
to enter the United States for the
purpose of engaging in any mechan-
ical trade or manual labor, until
silver is admitted to the minis for
coinage onsthe same conditions
with gold and at ratio of Is to /,
received just three votes, one from
populist, Butler; one from repub-
iican, Quay, one from a democrat,
Tillman. Forty-eight votes were
cast against it.
Secret Service officials of the
Treasury have discovered that the
new IS silver certificate has been
counterfeited by the photo itho-
graphic process. The only coun-
terfeit yet secured by the officials
is very bad one, not likely to de-
ceive anybody even fairly expert in
handling money. Much Of the
printing is blurred and indistinct,
and the green is lighter than that
On the genuine certificate. Hand
ers of these notes will lose nothing
BY observing them closely.
The crooked patent attorneys are
inding that their road has become
rocky one, and are beginning to
all by the wayside. Ever since he
became Commissioner of Patents,
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth has
'een gathering the evidence that
would enable him to protect the
Door inventors from the alluring
chemes of those who have been
conducting business little better
han highway robbery under the
protection of and at the expense of
he good name of the United States
government and of an honorable
profession. Commissioner Butter
worth has lately disbarred eight
'atent attorneys from practice be-
ore the United States Patent Office
Or dishonorable practices. and has
harged John Wedderburn & Co.,
+ Washington, D. c., with numer-
US fraudulent practices and or
cred them to show why they
hould net be disbarred.
If audacity will help her cause
ny the ex-Queen of Hawaii, who
as been in Washington for some =
1onths, can furnish it in unlimited
uantity. This week she was at the
apitol "carding" individual Sena-
ors out and making personal APP
calls to them to vote against the 3 5
ati6cation of the treaty for the an O.
exation of Hawaii. In view of all a,
ne circumstances there have been Of
w more audacious things publicly il
one in Washington than this lobby 81
'g of the dusky ex-queen against ~ :.
hi
It is doubtful whether there is a ii
ngle Senator who really believes to
lat the amendment to the tariff bill
repaired by a majority of the FL
ance com naittee and labeled "anti-
ust," will actually result in hurt
g single trust. The amendment -
nothing more nor less than sop
} public opinion, which thinks
lat Congress ought to be able to
zip the people against the trusts,
st as the antitrust laws now on
10 statute books were in their time.
here may in time be some effective