Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-07-31
WASHINGTON LETTER
THE PASSAGE OF THE
TARIFF BILL.
Senator Allen fleets a
Waterloo.
SENATOR FORAKER TLOQUENOE.
Affects Tobaoco-Muoh Excitement
The Way to Prosperity.
(From Our Regular Correspondent. }
WASHINGTON, July 20, 1897.
Hark hear the Dingley bell
OF old man hard times
Sweet music in its chimes.

dark near the O1ngley bell
OF old man hard times
IT'S ringing the knell;
Sweet music in its chimes
The Dingley tariff bill has received
the signatures of President MCKINLEY
and is now a law. and the extra SEES
sion of the fifty-tifth Congress, having
accomplished what it was called to-
getber to do, has adjourned, and its
members have gone home 60 hear what
their constituents have to say about
their work So far as the republicans
are concerned, there is no fear of the
peoples verdict. They have done a
remarkable piece of work-one that
many considered impossible, because
of the lack of a republican majority
IN the Senate, when President McKin-
ley first announced his determination
TO call an extra session to pass a tariff
bill Although there are some things
iAthe Dingley tariff law that would be
different if the republicans had had a
majority of their own in the Senate.
the law is distinctly republican and
consequently will protect American
industry in all its branches and will
after the first six months of it's exis.
tence, produce more money than will
be needed to run the government, thus
enabling President Mckinley to re-
sumo the republican policy OF reduc-
ing the country's bonded indebted =
ness.
DEPENDED OHIO.
II il were possible to make a man
like Senator Allen ashamed Of any
thing Senator Foraker's prompt refu-
tutation of the charge made by Allen,
that the Mckinley vote in Ohio last
November was increased by fraud
would have had that effect. AS it was
Senator Foraker's vigorous prOddine
and demands for proof and specifica-
ton Of one single fraudu lent vote cast
in the State OF Ohio, aC the Pree:den-
tial election, drove Allen into a corner
from which he was glad TO escape by
yielding TO a motion TO go into execu-
tive session Senator Foraker made
Senator Allen blush when he reminded
him that he was the first man to SLAM
der his ftative State (Allen was born in
Ohio) by such charges.
PROHIBITS PRIZES.
The giving away of coupons or certi-
ticatss for premiums or prizes by the
manufacturers of tobacco and cigar
cites will have to be stopped, as the
practice is prohibited by the Dingley
tariff law. Most people will regard
this as a step in the right direction.
The whole prize business is demoraliz-
ing.
Mr.. H. M. Dougherty, of the Ohio
Republican State Central Committee.
was in Washington to see the Dsnglev
tariff bill become a law and to confer
with the Ohio republicans in Congress
before adjournment. he says there
will be u not campaign in the State
fhIa INIT that ho I'D = n
tiOn of the republicans State ticket
and Senator Hanna's return to the
Senate, as assnred. He says the dem
oerats are merely bluffing when they
profess confidence of winning.
QUICK WORK.
The House made quick work of meet
ing the recommendation of President
Mckinley for currency commission.
The special message was read Just as
soon as Speaker Reed had signed the
DIngley tariff bill; the committee on
Rules reported a special rule giving
one hour for the discussion of Kepre-
sentative Stones bill authorizing the
President TO appoint a currency com
mission, which had been previously
Introduced, and at the close of the one
hours debate the bill was passed
The Senate took no action OH the bill
1t was not expected that it would.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
So general is the interest in the dis
barment proceedings against John
Wedderburn & Co., charged with
fraudulent practices, now being con-
Quoted by the U. s. Patent Office. that
nearly all of the leading legal AMI teen
nical journals of the country are rem
resented at the hearings. The Patent
Office claims to be able to prove frand
in number of cases.
THE COST OF DELAY.
Knowing that every day the tariff
Dill was delayed was costing the
country 100000 or more in du-
ties, the republicans allowed the
opposition to do most of the talking i'm
the debate which preceded the adop-
tion OF the conference report. Sena-
tor Burrows, who was a member of the
conference committee, made a short
speech defending the restoration of the
~ duty on white pine lumber, and re-
plying to aspersiOns cast upon him
and incidentally upon the State of
Michigan by Senator Pettigrew. He
said the lumber schedule was one of
the most meritOrious of the bill, which
would restore to the labor of the
country the uncounted millions of
which 1t had been robbed bV four
years OF free trade. The conference
report was adopted by majority of
ten, the same majority by which the
bill passed the Senate.