Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-07-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom our regular correspondent:

features. While it could scarcely be
expected that the Senate would reject
the amendments which it's own COM
mittee had proposed and go absolute
ly back to the House schedule, there
is a strong disposition among Senators
to allow the conference committee to
restore absolutely the House schedules
on first and second class woods, sugar,
pottery, farm products generally and
many other articles in which the
amendments made by the Senate COM
mittee have proven unpopular. The
bill as framed by the House commit
tee and passed by that body was es-
pecially acceptable to the agricultural
interests, and especially acceptable to
Republicans generally in the fact that
it precluded the possibility of suspi-
cion OF successful charge that it was
framed in the interests of or to the
advantage of trusts of any kind.
Whether the Senate amendments are
more favorable to the trusts or not.
the mere fact that many persons be-
leve them to be so is likely to lead
the conference committee to restore
absolutely the House rates, and there
is every reason to believe that the
Senate will promptly accept them.
DISCUSSING THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty
continues to be the subject of much
attention and discussion, and the
more it is discussed the more sat
isfactory it becomes and the greater
the prospect of it's ratification.
While it is scarcely expected that
it will be taken up for final ac-
tion at this session, there is every
reason to believe that it will be con-
firmed at no distant day and that the
American flag, which was pulled down
in Hawaii by an ex-Confederate at the
direction of Grover Cleveland, will be
hoisted permanently under the direc-
tion of that Union soldier, William
Mckinley.
ITS BEARING ON THE CUBAN QUESTION.
The fact that President Mckinley
has so promptly and successfully car
ried out this important feature of the
foreign policy outlined by the St.
Louis platform has given additional
confidence in his wisdom and pros
pective success in shaping satisfac-
tory policy with reference to Cuba
The demand for instant action on
this subject, which was so strenuous
month ago, seems to have entirely
disappeared, and there is a DISPOSE
tion to permit the President to formu-
late and carry out his policy. which,
it is believed, will be just one and
satisfactory to the friends of Cuba.
THE TARIFF BILL BEING PUSHED.
The protest of the people against
Democratic delay of the tariff bill has
been so loud and clear that even the
members of that party could not re-
sist it. The progress upon the bill
this week has been rapid, so rapid
that there is reason to expect that it
will pass the Senate by the end of the
month.
Not only is the progress made by the
bill extremely satisfactory so far as
relates to the Senate, but the pros
poets are that the time occupied in
conference will be unusually brief.
Ordinarily tariff bill is in conference
several weeks, sometimes months. But
there is reason to believe that the
time occupied by the conference COM
mittee will be as brief, comparatively,
as has been the time occupied with
the other features of the bill. The
fact that the Senate has restored the
House rates in a large number of cases
and has nearly reached the House fig
ures on the most important of the
changes made by the finance commit
tee reduces very much of the time
that the bill is likely to occupy in
reaching complete agreement. and
there is still reason to hope that the
bill may become a law by July 4th.
FOREIGN PROTESTS NOT REGARDED.
The closing days of the tariff con-
sideration are punctuated with one or
two further mild protests from for
eign countries with reference to the
bill. There have been possible half
dozen of these in various forms. some
of them coming formally through the
foreign representatives here and be-