Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. JuIy ~. 1897

The expected has happened. The Re-
publicans Of the tariff conference committee
have agreed to cut ont the Senate sugar
schedule and insert the House schedule
with several changes of course in the inter-
est of the sugar trust The result is Just as
/ stated it would be. 1t is heralded as a
defeat of the sugar trust, and the agents OF
the trnst are doing their best to look disap-
pointed, while they are entirely satisfied, as
the amended Dingley schedule gives them
little more than they expected to get
although, of course, not everything they
wanted; they want the earth and the full
ness thereof Now that the farcical fight
in conference has been concluded, there is
very little doubt that the Conference report
will be accepted and the bill sent to Mr..
Mckinley during the present week. There
may be little delay in reaching vote on
the report in the Senate, as a number of
Senators wish to express their opinion OF
several bunco schemes which were worked
in the conference, notably the restoration OF
the So duty on white pine lumber, which
will put tax of something like $40,000,000
on the people for the benefit of the white
pine combine. and the replacing of cotton
ties and bagging on the dutiable list.
MIR. Terrence V. Powderly, the ex-labor
leader, has received his reward for making
Mckinley campaign speeches last year, by
having his nomination to the Commissioner
General of Immigration sent to the Senate.
Terrence was on the anxious bench for
quite awhile, and in fact he had very
close call, owing to the opposition of the
labor organizations to his appointment.
Why dosen't John Seerman resign p
asked one Ohio man of another, after he
had been listening to some of the current
talk about the manner in which the old
gentleman is sighted and Inundated by
Mr. Mckinley. That question has become
one of the conundrums of the day, and it
has been discussed more frequently since
the publication of the instructions given to
Ambassador Hiy, concerning the Seal
Fisheries egotiation. Although those in
structions were signed " Sherman" there
are few who believe that Secretary Sher-
man wrote them, and some who openly ex-
press a doubt as to whether he ever saw
them previous to their publication. There
is nothing Objectionable from an American
point of view in the facts upon which those
instructions are based, but the language is
not that which one who has been so long
connected with things diplomatic as Mr..
Sherman has been, by reason of his service
on the Senate Foreign Committee, would
be apt to use. One gentleman whose long
and close intercourse with Mr.. Sherman
has made him thoroughly familiar with
his style OF expressing himself said
will stake my existence that Sherman
neither wrote nor was given an opportunity
to edit those instructions; also that he
knew nothing of the intention TO have them
published" La view of this sort of talk. is
it any wonder that men are asking why
Sherman dosen't resign? Assistant Secre-
tary Day has had charge of all Cuban and
Spanish matters ever since he came to
Washington, and he is the man credited
with having written the Hay instructions
also the man slated to be Secretary of State
after the Ohio election, when it is believed
to be the intention to use pressure to force
Sherman out of the Cabinet. Mr.. Sherman
isn't the sort of man to have made warm
friends, but he has well-wishers who would
like to see him upset the Mckinley Hanna
Day arrangement by resigning now and
telling why. But official title is dear to
Mr.. Sherman.
What has the Carnegie Armor Plate
Trust done to the Senate While Democrats
are glad to see even one trust hit, they are
at a.loss to knowswhat it was that caused
the Senate to limit the cost of armor plate
to $500 ton and Senators to inform
members Of the House that it was useless
to add a cent to that limit, because the
Senate had fully determined that no more
should be paid. Republicans friendly to
the Carnegie trust made hard fight for an
increase in the House, but failed, and the
trust will have to make armor for that
price, or wait until Congress authorizes the
payment of more. Mr.. Carnegie should
apply to the sugar trust for pointers on how
to manage Congress. Jerry Simpson says
that Carnegie is being punished because of
his lack of liberality in contributing to
Hanna's corruption fund in the last cam
paign.