Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-23
DON'T COMPLAIN.
Tho New Administration Is Doing
Its Fun Duty.
Substance OF n Frank Talk with
senator Burrows-Other Ia
tcrcstinE Washington
Gossip.

This has been week OF rapid devel-
opments and gratifying progress in
legislative and administrative work in
Washington. Experienced legislators,
who have been members OF congress n
| long tine, and have had opportunity to
both observe aud study the history of
legislation, do not aStrv with popular
impression that slow progress is be-
ing made with the pending tariff bill
On the contrary. they are unanimous
in the opinion that 50 rapid progress
has never been made under such adverse
circumstances as attend the present bill.
and that indeed seldom. IL ever has a
tariff bill moved forward with the speed
which this one has developed.
1T is not surprising that the people
of the United States" said senator
Burrows, talking of this subject, ARE
anxious TO see the tariff bill passed. and
are urging congress To make whatever
/ speed is possible. They have suffered
90 much from the effects OF low tariff
i'm the past few years that Impotence
with any unnecessary delay would be
entirely justihuble. But If they were To
consider the situation. rs we find II
here, they certainly would not think
that progress il slow, or that there has
been any unnecessary delay"
"Do you mean that the situation here
is such ms To make the progress upon the
/ tariff bill unusually slow. or that con
gress is actually making the usual speed
I i'm the consideration of the tariff bill"'
Conditions are entirely unusual. II
/ has very seldom happened that congress
has seriously attempted go pass "a gcuer-
/ al tariff measure when ITS two branches
/ have not been iu accord, and there have
/ bccuvcry fcwifauN cases when IL has sue
I Cecdcd In doing so with the party in
/ power i'm the white house only CONTROL
/ ing one branch of congress. Everybody
/ knows that the republican party is not
/ i'm control Of the senate. and cannot
/ hope TO bc before March. 1890. The sem
/ ato has now 50 members, so that IS is
required as "A majority. and as the re
/ publican party has but - members, il is
| perfectly clear that II does not aud can
not control the senate politically. In
/ view of this fact, II cannot bc expected
/ that the purty can conduct legislation
/ in that body MS il would bc able To do UNI
/ der other circumstances am not crit
/ icisiug the speed which is being made.
nor would anybody hc justified think
| in doing so. even If the republicans
actually controlled both branches OF
congress"
You thinl, the rate OF speed which is
being made i'm the bill, then, is at least
up to the avcragc?"
"Much more than that. The present
/ generation of congressman of either
IL - A
/ hill framed. considered and passed i'm
/ anything like the brief space of time
/ which has been or is likely 10 bc occu-
/ pied ou this one. Every year of growth
/ of the country. growth of imports,
/ growth OF manufactures and growth of
/ the various interests involved adds ia
/ the complications I'm the framing OF q
/ new tariff law. Yet this one has been
/ framed. passed by the house and half of
/ il passed over iu the senate i'm phcnum-
/ cuaIly brief space of time. and there is
/ good reason TO believe that il will bc
] passed by the senate before the end OF
/ the MONTH"
$50 that IL is probable that the first
/ four months OF The new administration
/ will witness the completion and final
/ enactment OF the tariff law promised
in the platform framed at St. Louis?'
eyes. And what is more. il Will bc
The quickest vorl, which the Unite,
. States has ever known since Washing
ton. iu this line. 80 congress since tn,
frs one ever framed and passed
tariN bin within the first -four months
OF H. cNiefcucc as congress. and Pres
ideut Mckinley will bc the first cvecu
tive since Washington given am oppor
tunity 10 attach his signature to gen
eral tariff measure within four or ever
five months of his Inauguration as prcsi
dent"
Then the progress being made by
congress ON this bill instead Of being a
proper subject for criticism because Of
slowncss. is Just the rcvcrse?"
yves The speed made i'm framing and
completing tho bin. as have already in.
dicatcd, is much greater than usual
even when "a single party controls both
branches Of congress and when il is
/ .oueidrrcd that this is not the case
. with the present congress. the progress
which is now being made is q matter
/ for general congrutulation rather than
/ criticism"
"DO you expect 90 see an Immediate
. revival OF prosperity, business activity
and OF manufactures Immediately after
the enactment Of the new law?"
II expect that business men. manu-
/ f1cturcrs and others whose interests
/ are directly or indirectly affected by the
tariff will have an Intelligent basis upon
which 90 take mp business threads
again. n BIS not 20 be expected. OF
/ course. that people who have q years
supply OF foreign goods in stock will
Immediately give large orders 20 man
/ ufacturcrs OF that the manufacturers
themselves viii be able 10 resume busi.
. ness with the number OF men or the
rates Of wages which will bee practicable
/ after the enormous supply Of goods ira
/ the country has been absorbed. Set il
+ is reasonable 90 expect that the effect
will be felt iu measurable degree and
that if the people recognize the coudi-
tious and enter cordially and cheer
fully upon the work Of getting back "a
the prosperity which we had under pro.
lection. the desired result viii come
But b. should be remembered that re-
| coyery from four years Of bad lcgisla-
ton. four years Of business depression
and four years Of enormous importa-
tious Of foreign goods under low tarn