The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-04-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON March 90 Is

Washington. March %, 1897.
Chairman Dinglev made short work
of the juggling of percentage figures by
which the democrats of the House
sought to make it appear that the Ding
lev tariff bill, which will this week be
passed by the House. carried a higher
average rate Of duties than the Mckinley
bill did. Said Mr.. Dinglev: "Notwith-
standing the fact that in this bill in
every schedule except earthenware,
glass, tobacco, sugars, and, | think, silk
TO some extent, notwithstanding that in
every schedule except these the present
bill carries actual duty less than was
carried in the Act of 1890, and notwith-
! standing the fact that in many of the
schedules it carries duties substantially
the same as those in the present (dem-
ocraticl law, yet if you convert these
specific duties into al valorem percent
ages, not taking into consideration the
changes of value between 1890 and 1896,
you appear tc have an increase of duties
indeed, when, as matter of fact, the
actual duties imposed are less"
No better refutation could be given of
the mischievous stories alleging the
physical breaking down of President
Mckinley than that after hard days
work he attended the dinner given by
the Gridiron Club in honor of the Pres
ident and his Cabinet and for several
hours enjoyed himself as much as the
youngest man present.
SO many complaints have reached
Washington concerning the introduce
ton of lottery methods into the bust
ness of obtaining patents, that Senator
Hansbrough has introduced bill max
ing it misdemeanor for any person or
firm engaged in the business of solicit
ing patents to conduct a premium or
prize scheme by offering inventors a
prize as an inducemept for them to enter
an alleged competition of ideas. A SIM
liar bill will probably be introduced in
the House, thus giving both branches
Of Congress an early opportunity to
protect the I. s. Government, which is
practically a partner in the patent bust
ness, from the odium necessarily at
tached to lottery methods.
The democrats in the House are now
very sorry that they said a word about
trusts in their fight upon the Dingley
tariff bill. They got a fool idea in their
heads that they could frighten the re-
publicans by yelling trusts" at them.
They know better now. That line of
attack gave the republicans an oppor-
tunity to call the attention. or rather to
Jog the memory of the public to the in
disputable fact that the trusts have been
more numerous and more grasplng
under the democratic administration
and tariff law than ever before, and that
the democrats made their last campaign
solely in the interests of what Gen.
Grosvenor SO aptly called "the trust
which controls a monopoly of what God
gave-the silver trust" The fact is also
recalled that when the Sherman anti
trust law, recently upheld by a decision
of the L. S. Supreme Court, was before
the House, the leading d democratic mem
bers voted against its being taken mp
for consideration, although they did not
dare vote against the bill itself when it
was put upon its final passage. They
found the trust argument yeritable
boomerang, and about the only excuse
they had to offer was that they were
not responsible for Grover Cleveland.
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