Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-07-09
PLAIN TALK IS GIVEN.
WHY MORE SPEED is NOT MADE
WITH THE TAR:.F.
Republican,. susjcc. to the wi.hc. Of
Democrats and Popu,isss - Sugar
Trust Charges Subjected to Sharp
scrutiny-Disappointcd popuiists.
No Unnecessary Delay.

scrutiny-Disappoint Populists.
No Unnecessary Delay.
Special Washington correspondence:
The pre- csress of cven:S in Washington
THIS week las been more rapid than
could Lave Lecn expected in view of
the fact that the Republicans are alb
sulEtcly subject to tie wishes of the
Democrats and Popllists as to the
progress made with me tariff. This is
due, of course, to the TACT that the Re-
pul'icaEs are i'll IL minority i'll that
body. People have grown extremely
anxious about legislation and have
been firing shots Mt their members of
Congress by the thousand. and these
\ little evidences of attention by the
dear public have ST: people saying
some plain things. SO the public is
liable to get some Information Which
! it. would otherwise 10. have cbtaincl.
| There las been some especially frank
talk in the Senate, aud some of the
people who arc seeking to make polit-
ical capital by throwing dust with ref
ereilce to the pr:!d;n@ tariff bill have
suddenly discovered ti.at there are two
sides to almost amy story. Two or
three Democratic leaders seem to have
reached the conclusion that they could
cEce more fool the people, and irnt
their mcst eony:n!sa. ~. ): 10y to do it
/ would lie to charge that the snsay
schedules OF the tariff bill as ag!:c.:
upon by the Republican caucus were
favorable to the slga: trust. So they
proceeded upon the stop thief" pian
to make all sorts of malicious charges
of this kind, taking advantage of The
fact that the Republicans i'll the Sell
ate have been refusing to discuss any
features of the bill nos absolutely nee
cssary to lie explained. simply for the
purpose of gaining time and getting
the bill through as.promptly as posi-
be. The gentlemen have found. how
ever, that there is limit to the en-
duiancc of the public who are being
| imposed upon with ;.iis sort of false
hood, and the newspapers of the courl-
try have suddenly revived the fact that
the very men who are now shouting
sugar trust with reference to the pend
ing tariff bill are the ones under whose
| guidance the 'pcrfidy AMI dishonor"
bill of 1894 was framed and its sugar
| schedule so shaped as to create the
greatest scandal that has been known
in political history i'll many years. At
tention is called to the fact that the
three men. Senators Vest. Jones and
Mills. whose mouthings about an in
crease in prices of sugar trust stock as
n result of the pending tariff bill have
been the feature OF The week, are the
very men who framed the sugar sched-
uics of the Wilson bill under which
sugar trust stocks advanced G6 per
cert. while the advance during tie cl,-
!, tire Consideration of t!;e present bill is
only & per cent. and this Il mere Incl
dent of the general advance which has
been strongly marked meantime in all
stocks. That the three men. whose
manipulations in the schedules OF the
\ Wilson bill caused an advance of &C
per cent. i'll the price of sugar stocks
should row be screaming like madlnen
because sugar stocks have increased 6
per cent. during tine consideration of
TIE present bill would be vnaccounta-
bic but for the fact that they are ap-
parently doing 1t to not only make
political capital against the Repubh-
cars. but Mt the same time concea! as
far as possible. their own record in
this very line.
Getting Rnck to House Scheduled.
An interesting feature of the weeks
Developments has been the tendency on
the part Of the Senate Republicans to
return to the schedules of the Dingley
bill. Nearly all the important sched-
stored as they have 'ecn reached one
by ono. until the only importan: one
now remaining is that relating to wco..
And there is every reason to believe
that when this is reached the House
rates on first and second class woOls
will be restored. The sugar schedule
has been brought down to within
mere trifle of the Hc.ise rates, and by
many it Is believed that the absolute
lines of the House I'LL in this regard
will be restored before the bill gets
upon the statute books.
On one other subject there has been
some plain talk and some which the
people ought generally to hear. That
is with reference to the length Of time
Congress has occupied upon the tariff
bill. The people generally have grown
very impatient over the apparent de-
lay in obtaining finof action upon the
pending tariff bill. This impatience is
being encouraged bv Democrats, Pop
ocrats, silverites and everybody else
who is opposed secretly. or openly, to
President Mckinney and the Republi-
can party. The fact is, however. that
no Congress since the first one ever
made the progress which this one has
made. especially in view of the cir
cumstances. There is every reason to
believe that the bill will l,e upon the