The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-07

| Iney missed their haven, and the waves h anger threw them on the sands,
 And wrecked their ships and dug their
 graves
 And covered them with watery hands. And now their spirits sometime show Themselves ra tle .-sa. .El gov
 WASHINGTON L-52E3EE The Bosses Are Not I1nucel5
 Satisfied.
 | From Our Regular Cores spondent.
 WASHINGTON, July 30, 1897.
 Neither Boss Hanna nor Mr. McKin- ley are entirely satisfied with the work of the extra session of congress just closed The tariff bill pleased them all right, it more than repaid their cam paign obligations to the trusts, not to mention the $32,OOO,O made by the sugar trust and its friends while the bill was pending. But their efforts to repay their campaign obligations to the bank | ing interests were failure. MT. McKin- leyj in his special message sent to con- gress a few hours before adjournment, asking for authority to appoint a cur rency commission, quoted the Indiana polls Bankers convention as though it had been the assembled financial wis dow of the world, but that didn't bring the legislation asked for. The house railroaded through in sixty minutes a bill granting Mir Mckinley the author ity asked for, although nearly every prominent republican iii that body is really opposed to currency Commis- sion, but the senate was not so accomo- dating, and there is nothing Tn sight to indicate that tt will be more obliging next winter.
 Senator Morgan handled the confer ence committee without gloves, in a speech made just before the vote was taken on the conference report on the tariff bill, for it's abandonment of the tax on bonds and transfers of stock-a tax that was approved by the Finance committee and by republican caucus, closing with this explicit language, which no republican attempted to deny. f'I charge that the abandonment oC- cured under command of the sugar trust '
 before ,ua Uho republicans do any shouting over the result of the coIloquy between Senators Allen and Foraker concerning the charge of the former that the republican vote of that state was fraudulently increased for MT. Me Kinley, they should arrange for Mir. Foraker, or somebody else, to accept the challenge with which Mir. Allen closed the little spat-'I will meet the senator any time and will undertake to convince any unprejudiced man that there was fraud in Ohio."
 Senator Teller's arraignment of the republican tariff bill, now the law of the land, was one of the bitterest pills the republicans have had to swallow in a long time. Mir. Teller, who is pro- tectionist, characterized this bill as vii cious, unfair, extravagant and unsatis' factory; and as having been framed en- tirelv in the interest of trusts and syn dicates. Mir. Teller also took oc asion to criticize i'll the strongest language the gold standard policy of forcing profes- sors out of educational institutions be- cause of their belief in the free coinage of silver. He denounced the forced res ignation of President Andrews, of Brown university. as one of the most shame ful acts of abasement" the world has seen, and said in ringing tones "Thank God that President Andrews was big enough to refuse to be stifed."
 Senator Hurley, of Tennessee: cast hIs first vote for the Tillman resolution to investigate sugar scandal charges, which was defeated, and his second against the conference report on the trust-made tariff bill, which was adopted.
 The hearings to determ ne whether John Wedderburn & Go. shall be dis barred from practice before the United States patent office are now on. The patent office claims to have proof to sus- tain the numerous charges of franf # has brought against Wedderburn & Co.,, and is giving the accented full opportu- nity to controvert it's proof.
 A pertinent question often accom- nlishes more than argument. One de- stroved the scheme to authorize Ozar Reeds pets who have been made char men of committees to give their faVor- ties sinecure positions during the con- oroseional recess. When Representative Grosvenor tried to push resolution through authorizing that waste Of pub l;c money, he was asked, if the house could get along while congress was in sossion without these clerks, why they should be considered necessary during recess. The laugh which followed killed the scheme.
 Secretary Sherman's departure before the adjournment of congress for Long Island summer resort was regarded as additional proof that he has very little to do with the official business of the Department of State. In fact, it is hinted by some that MT. Sherman in- tended to emphasize that very thing by