The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-03-19

Whole World Is Praising-The Archi-
tect of the Library Building.
WASHINGTON. March To- Special /
Congress is now in session again and will
probably remain with us until the middle
of July OF the 1st Of August. 1t is easy
TO get congress together but not so easy to
get rid of it, The new tariff bill, which
everybody is now studying, gives very good
satisfaction to the Republicans but the
Democrats criticise ii savagely. Within
week it is expected the debate on the bill
will begin, Although there are 100 or
more members of the house anxious to dis
tinguish themselves by participation in
this debate, Speaker Reed makes bold to
say that he intends to push the measure
through his end of congress in short order
The tariff is the one subject which al
most every man in congress thinks himself
qualified to discuss. II the floodgates Of
oratory were opened. there is no telling
where the end would come. Mr. Reed
knows from long experience how TO sup
press the ambitious orators of his end of
the capitol, and the great majority of them
will have TO be satisfied with "leave to
print" Under this beneficent rule acres
ard acres of tariff speeches never delivered
ord and sent out to the patient constituents
throughout the country.
The Presidents Plan.
President Mckinley adhercs RICHLY to
his programme, which | long ago accu-
Iately announced in these dispatches. He
still hopes to got the tariff bill through
both houses OF congress and upon the
statute books by the crd cf tho fiscal year,
.
remains to be seen. The present plan, to
which Speaker Reed has agreed, is to put
the tariff bill through the house at an early
day and send it over TO the senate. There,
it is hoped, the pressure of public opinion
will secure prompt action. "Turn the light
on the senate' is TO be the Cry when the
new tax measure makes its appearance in
that body.
But the Republican leaders in the upper
branch know they have very delicate
campaign before them. While there is ev-
cry assurance that the tariff bill will pass
the senate, the question of when depends
upon great many things. The truth is
that it will be passed whenever the Demo-
Gratis, silver Republicans and Populists are
willing IL should PASS, and not before.
They hold the whip hand, and every one
knows it. AT the present time their policy
is not to delay the measure beyond q rea-
sonable time But whether or not they
continue in this frame of mind depends
wholly upon circumstances. If the Repub-
lican leaders treat them gently, yield to
them as far rs they think proper and do
not attempt to take possession of all the
committees and all the patronage of the
senate, tho opposition may stand aside and
permit the bill to PASS about July l.
The Senate Rules.
This explanation of the situation will
show why the Republican leaders have de-
cilod 30 go slow in certain matters connect
Cd with reorganization of the senate.
They cannot afford to stir up the passions
Of tie other fellows. They know pacific
and sCrtlo policy is the best for them in
the lCrf run. For the same reason no Sc
rious Cilort will be made to change the
rules of the senate so as to permit debate
to be cut eff by II majority vote. There
has been talk of this change for many
years. 1t has heen ling on, in fact, for
the 1T h y I'D !urG"r, but TIE
rule ave e.C,. u -"i:liS, afG probably
will Tor many years to come. a s>iious at
tempt on the part Of the Republicans to
change the rules would result in such a
state of feeling in the senate as to place
the tariff bill in peril.
Mr.. Hanna, the new senator from Ohio,
is playing a modest part in the efforts of
the Republican leaders to smooth the way
for the tariff bill. Mr.. Hanna takes kindly
to the peculiar atmosphere of the senate
chamber. He says he has not been club
man all his life for nothing. He Is max
ing no effort to pose as leader in the sem
ate. He defers to the older men, to those
who have been recognized for many years
as tho wheel horses of the senate, and in
doing so he shows his tact and sense.
There was at one time an idea that the ma
tional chairman was going to jump in and
try to run the whole business. 1 have
heard the old senators say that II he at
tempted anything of the sort they would
give him the greatest throw down he ever
had. But Mr.. Hanna, as predicted some
time ago, has done nothing of the sort. lie
is as modest as any new senator cy,: was
and is rapidly winning real popularity on
that account.
Campaign Incident.
AS national chairman Mr. Hanna thinks
IL hard luck he cannot Immediately get q
new Republican senator from Kentucky.
Probably the country will never know how
hard Mr.. Hanna worked to pluck Ken
lucky as brand from the democratic
burning last fall. He went so far as to
hire lot of men to go up into the noun
tain region of the eastern end of the state
and travel about as book agents and ma
chine sellers, and all that sort of thing.
Some of these men disappeared in the
backwoods and were not heard of for sew
eral weeks. But they were whooping it
up for Mckinley all the time. One of their
e.. IL no erixr IF I'm rbo
cues with money furnished them by Mr.
Hanna. When the vote from the mountain
districts rolled down, it was just large
enough to save tho state bya scratch xvi
IDENTIFY the humors of last years campaign
have not ali been written up yet.
While every one is becoming enthusiastic
ovcr the now library of congress and de-