Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-07-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
President Gould Not Attend Dedi-
cation of Logan's Statue,

The House Has Its way on the Sugar
seheduIe-A Good TariT nj The
Protest of the Japs WIN Not Cut
Much Ice - The spanish-Japan Ant
ance.
President Mckinley has lad to
abandon attending the dedication of
the Logan statue in Chicago, owing
TO the delay in disposing of the
tariff bill He did so very reluc-
family, as he was particularly anxi-
GUS to be there, but, of course duty
came first. He did not wish to be
away from Washington when the
tariff bill is finally acted upon by
Congress, as it is certain to be this
week, now that the conferees have
reached an agreemeet, notwith-
standing the threat of coterie of
Democratic and Populist Senators to
delay the acceptance of the confer
ence report by the Senate. These
threats were probably made for eff
feet before the agreement was
reached, as nothing can be gained
by delaying the acceptance of the
report and even Democrats and
Populists are not likely to engage in
butting their heads against the rock
wall of public opinion when they
can get nothing by doing so.
The country is to be congratula-
ted that the House conferees had
their way about the important
schedules of the tariff bill also the
Republican party, and the result is
largely due to the practical unanimity
of the Republican pl ess in declaring
the House schedules to be preferable
to those of the Senate. This was
especially true of the sugar sche-
dule, the most troublesome of them
all TO have agreed to the Senate
schedule would have furnished the
opponents of the Republican party
with great deal of campaign ma
terial without aiding any American
industry or adding to the revenues
of the Government. This fact was
fully recognized by Speaker Reed
and the Republican members of the
House, and too much credit cannot
be given them for taking the stand
that the Senate schedule would, un-
der no circumstances be agreed to
by the House. Quite number of
Republican Senators also assisted in
the good work by condemning the
Senatesugar schedule
The tariff bill, as it now stands, is
not perfect nothing of human con-
struction is, but it is good bill, and
will be endorsed by all who believe
in a protective tariff, and will add
to the believers in protection. 1t
will enable many thousand Ameri-
cans to get the profitable employ
nlent they have been without for
four years, and will, at the same
time, produce all the revenue needed
to run the government. No one
man deserves more credit for this
bill than Chairman Dingley, whose
name the bill bears. Since last
December, he has worked early and
late on the measure, and if the Ding
ley tariff proves as popular as its
supporters expect, who knows but
its author may not in the course of
time be as highly rewarded as was
the author of the Mckinley tariff.
Here's hoping that Dingley times
may be as prosperous as Mckinley
times, and am sure that Mr. Ding
ley would rather see the country
prosperous than to be President.
There is little probability that
this government viii take any
notice of Japan's supplementary
protest against the annexation of
Hawaii, not because of any parti-
cular desire to snub Japan, but be-
cause Secretary Sherman's reply to
Japan's first protest covered the
ground so fully that no other answer
is needed. The action of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations in
favorably reporting the annexation
treaty without a dissenting voice,
was additional notice to Japan, and
all the rest of the world, that an
nexation is going to be accomplished
regardless of the opinions or wishes
Of other nations.
No official of the administration
nor member of either branch of
Congress takes seriously the Eng
lish-made rumor that Spain and
Japan had formed an alliance to
make waY upon the United States.
Nobody in Washington would be
the slightest bit worried even if it
were known that such an alliance
was am accomplished factTfnstead Of
being an English attempt to scare
somebody, as a means Of g getting
even" for the truthful statement of