Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-05-20
An NOM ENTS


,ce ON finance as to the policy to be
| pursued in regard to the tariff bill.
Some al them, notably Senator Cor
man, are of the opinion that the demo-
| rats should prepare a substitute bill
| and introduce it, They suggest that
| this substitute should cmbody the dem
1cratic lea as To the tariff, giving
| uniformly lower rates than the rcpub-
| lican bill, either as prepared in the
house or as amended by the senate
committee on finance They contend
that the Wilson law is not "A clear en-
| bod imcnt of democratic tariff doctrine,
in that it not only does not produce
! sufficient revenue, but that it carries
many features which were insert
ed at the instance of republican
senators in order to secure its
passage through the senate. There
is, however, quite pronounced
opposition to this programme on the
part of many democratic senators, in
GLIDING several members of the com.
mittee ON finance They take the posi-.
ton that the safest course for the
party is Ia stand by the Wilson bill,
which, while it is not perfect, is still
democratic measure. The party,
they say, has taken the position
that no tariff legislation is neces-
sary. The campaign was fought on
another issue and they hold that tc
raise the tariff question on their own
motion would he inconsistent and I'M
wise. Those who hold to this idea are
willing that amendments should be of
fered covering all the schedules, and il
seems likely that this course will be
pursued. The amendments will pro-
vide rates practically on the line OF
the Wilson bill.
Hroker Elverton Il. Chapman, of New
York city. will surrender himself to
United States Marshal Wilson at three
o'clock next Monday afternoon. Posi-
tive assurance To this effect was given
District Attorney Davis Friday by
Chapman's counsel Chapman will
then lie escorted immediately to the
district Jail and begin to serve his SEN
tencc for 80 days for refusing to answer
the senate sugar trust Investigating
committees questions three years ago.
The comparative April statement of
the exports and imports of merchan-
disc, gold and silver of the United
States, issued by the bureau of Stats
tics. shows as follows:
Merchandise, domestic exports, S76..
l76, 90; increase as compared with
April, 1895, 81, 7T5, 900
Imports SOL, 305, 1871, of which near.
ly so per cent. was free of duty. AS
compared with April, 1896, there was
an increase in dutiabl imports of over
$40, 600, 900 and of over So, 900, 900 in
non-dutiable merchandise. For the
ten months the exports of domestic
merchandise exceeded those of the
same period in 1896 by over sl5l, 00O,-
O00 The imports of merchandise dur
ing the last ten months, however,
were over SOS, 900, coo less than for the
same period last year.
The amount of gold exported during
April was Sd, Geo. l9 and the imports
s6l9, 452. During the last ten months
the excess of gold imports over ex-
ports was S5s, 49,, 1906. The exports of
silver during April amounted to ST..
$50. sos and the imports S5S7, l2I. For
the last ten months the exports of sill
yer exceeded the imports by St2, 3d.
692.
WASHINGTON, May l5.-The meeting
of the cabinet Friday was devoted al
most entirely to the consideration of
the Cuban situation. The meeting oc-
Cured an hour earlier than usual ow-
ing to the Importance of the question,
to be discussed and the fat : >. the
president and the = a7f v,r. %
leave for PhiladelI . e,
cal inet discussion OF "a. exam -r. u
tion Friday was upon the -. =
bility of asking congress to pro-
vide immediate relief to the An,r-
leans who are, according to rH.
reports received from Consul G~aera.
Lee. penned up in the cities .rf .
actual danger of starvation. ad
no bearing upon the policy of H.. ad-
ministration toward Spain or = Gu
ban insurgents except Incidentally,
but dealt with the direct and immedi-
ate question of relieving destitute
Americans on the island. Secre-
tary Sherman laid before the
cabinet some of the most i'm
portant documents in the state
department about the situation and
before the meeting was over, Judge
Day, the assistant secretary OF state.
personally took to the white house
some additional papers, for which the
secretary had sent Every phase of
the matter was discussed, the advisa-
biiity OF asking congress for an appro-
priation, SPANS attitude, the methods
for distributing relief if it should be
decided to enter upon it, the necessity
or aavisability of having a warsh'a
accompany food supplies.
Mallory Elected u. ~ Senator From mr.
Ida.
TALLAHASSEE. Fla May 15.-Stepheu