The Opelousas courier., 1897-07-03
Washington Letter.
rom our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WAsHINGTON, June 81, 1897.
The sugar trust is playing IL shrude
tariff game to get what it wants while
pretending to the contrary, and il is
bound to win. The original Dinsiey su
gar cheduie, which gives the trusts an
Increase of four cents ou each hundred
pounds over what it now receives on
| ninety six degree sugar, il all the trust
| expected to get from the beginning.
| In the first Senate schedule, the in
crease was nine cents and ln the sched-
nle which was last week adopted by
the Senate, the increase was put at ten
cents IL hundred pounds. When the
| bill goes to conference, the house will
insist upon Its sugar schedule being
adopted, with tho chances in favor of
succeeding. Then it will be announced
with great flourish of teumpets by Re
pubiicahs that the sugar trust has been
Knocked out, while the members of the
trust Will chuckle over having got as
much as they expected to get, besides
having made lot of money by specu-
latlDg ID sugar stock while the scbed-
ules We're pending. That's the game
Ot course, the trust would gladly take
the ten cents hundred increase given
III the Senate schedule, or anything
between that and four cents OF the
House schedule that the House con fer
ence can be persuaded to give, but it
doeseh't really expect to get more than
four cents. which added to the thirty
seven cents 1t BOW gets, will give it
forty-one cents a hundred. AS it's
profits have been S25,O0OO90 with thirty
seven cents. 1t will be seen that it is
not playing for small stake even to get
tiIa nE tnnr rs
There Is some talk Of caucus of
Democratic Senators to adopt resolu-
ton to oppose the ratification of the
treaty tor the annexation Of Hawaii,
but so many Democratic Senators have
said that they would not be bound by
caucus, because they intend voting for
treaty, that the idea has been aban-
doned. There will be less Demo-
cratic opposition to the treaty when
the senators have had an opportunity to
learn the sentiment of their constitu-
ents.
Mr.. Wolf, President of an Iron
Shipping Company. at Portland, Ore
goD, who is now in Washinffton, says of |
the political situation in his section
"lf an election were held now for Pres |
ldent, the whole Pacific slope would |
vote for Bryan over any man the Re-
pnbilcans could name. 1t was a hard |
struggle to hold Oregon in line last |
gear, bpt to-day it would be imposs-
sible.
The Democrats won a tariff victory,
although it will probably only be tenn
pory, when Senator Vests's amendment
putting straw mating, plain jute fab
rIcs. burlaps and cotton baggiug on the
free list, Was adopted.
WAsH1NSToN, June 90, 1897.
Secretary Sherman doesn't know
what Mr.. Mckiuiey's Cuban policy is to
be. He sn informed a close personal
friend. 1t has leaked out since Gen.
Wooiford, the new minister to Spain,
has been in Washington, that he isn't
!n any particular hurry about getting to
Madrid, and that he has no idea that he
Will actually open negotiations with
Spain IN the Ruiz case, which is to be I
made the stepping stone to the intro
iuctlOu of the MckinIsy policy to-
wards Cuba, before the fall. He will
start late in july, but it is not
certain that lie will go either by the
most direct or the most speedy route.
Gar Reed has made out his list of
committee assignments, and unless some
II his kindergarten, otherwise known
IS the U. ). House Of representatives,
10 something to offend him between
low and then. he will announce them
lfter the House has adopted resolu- I
ion setting the date for the adjourn t
nent OF the session. t
The new Commissioner of Patents, Z Z
Hon. Benz. Butterworth, is playing the
lew broom or pitchfork which has been
ong needed. Within two weeks he has \
llabarred eight patent attorneys for
raudn'-nt practices, and has ordered b
|ohn w. Wedderburn g. Co. to answer o
Why they should not be disbarred, Z
harglng them with making fraudulent, F
|eceptiVe, improper and incomplete
earcheS, with intent to defr0ud, and
he result OF derfauding clients, to their =
Dlury and wrong doing, to the scan
ai and repToacli of the Patent Office
nd contrary to equity and good NOR
ls
1T is not generally Known" says the q
Philadelphia Record, ''that the United j
tates mints make money for other E
atons as well as for our own. The
nlnt i'll this city, which has just fin "
she'd making S500,0O0 in FIVE dollar n
old pieces for Costa Rica, has begun i
cork on 600 silver dollars for San O
Domingo. The designs on the coins
re Often ideas of the governments I
'hich send the orders, and are gotten up
, such a way as to make imitation as =
if1icult as possible for the cOunterfeiter.
he coin is shipped in bags to New York b.,
here it is carried to its destinatio..f
II the regular line steamers. The VI.
ort given by the mint as to the amonAt n
t precious metal used is never ques- ts
DDed by the foreigners" Il u