The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-07-15
wAsHINGrOH LETTER.
WAsHmeros, july 10. 1897.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHmaros, july 10. 1897.
| Special Correspondence.
The tariff bill having passed the
danger point in the Senate. were the
Republicans are without . majority,
there is good reason to believe that
it will receive the signature Of the
President by the end of another
week.
That the tariff bill was especially
satisfactory to the people when it
left the House is beyond question,
and as its discussion in tho Senate
bought it nearer to the form In
which it was passed by the House the
responses from the country now in
dictate that it is meeting with proper
approval.
WOOL AND SUGAR.
The sugar and wool schedules will
be the most important questions be-
fore the conferees, though both of
these have been brought so nearly in
line with the House bill that there
will be little difficulty, probably, in
reaching an agreement. Whether
that agreement affects the House or
the Senate schedule or strikes COM
promise between them, the country
will be satisfied, because of the fact
that these features Of the Senate have
been brought so nearly in line with
the House schedules.
TRUSTS AND DEMOCRATS HARD HIT.
The most bitterly disappointed
men in Congress over this bill are
those who hoped to make capital out
of the cry of ''trusts," and especially
sugar trust. The bin, even az it
passed the Senate, destroys this op-
portunity, and is accepted by the
people as an evidence that however
much the sugar trust may have con-
trolled the Democratic party in fran
ing the Wilson law, it does not
and cannot control the Republican
party in it's legislative duties.
STOCK sPECULATORs TO BE TAXED.
The provision in the tariff bill for q
stamp tax upon speculations in stocks
and bonds and upon speculations in
stocks and bonds is generally COM
mended. This amendment, which
has been adopted and made part of
the bill, places a stamp tax upon all
bonds and stocks aside from those of
building associations and other or
CARNATIONS of this character, and
also places a tax upon each transac-
ton in those bonds. This will COM
pei the stock Spectators of the great
cities to contribute from IL to Is
million dollars a year to the support
of the Government and will thus in
sure that the new bill will meet run
ming expenses Of the Government
after the enormous supply Of foreign
goods now in hand shall have been
absorbed.
TIE WILSON Law CAUSED THE COAL STRIKE
The coal miners strike has brought
to the public attention some facts as
TO the effect of the Wilson tariff law
upon this industry. The Wilson law,
It will be remembered, reduced the
rates of duty on coal IS cents per ton
It having been IS cents per ton, under
The Mckinley law and reduced to 40
cents per ton under the Wilson law.
President Ratchford of the
United Mine Works Association
states that the wages of miners have
been reduced about IS cents per ton
since 1893, the very year in which
The free-trsde Congress met and be-
gan framing the Wilson act, which
reduced duties IS cents per ton. |
The moment the Wilson law passed,
coal from the Nova Scotia mines be- |
gan invading the markets on the At
lantic coast, especially New England,
and drove out of those markets the
West Virginia coal, which had al |
ways found an outlet at fair prices.
This West Virginia coal was thus
to seek q market in the |