The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Ffom our requIcr Corre8poadent.}
WASHINGTON, JuLY9. 1897

titan the so-caIted aEfi-tfnSt amend
s}eit to the tariff tili. prepared By the
republicans af the Senate Finance
Committee. 1t was pot their frst'inten-
ton to report any amendment Oh this
subject. bnt they became satisfied that
IT they did not there was danger that
the Pettigrew antitrust amendment.
wlilci, was recently tabled by a little
parliamentary juggling. might be
brought to Il direct vote anil be adopt
ed. Then they got their heads to-
getlier and coneocted the sham that
Will be Just rs injurious to the trusts
rs the Sherman anti trust law has
been, and they actually expect the
VOTES IT the country To accept their
w"ik as an earnest and real attempt
10 enib the power Of trusts, instead Of
seeing 1t for WHAT it really is an
attempt to bamiloozle the voters who
don't Know amy better than to look to
republicans for legislation adverse to
trusts.
Senator Tnrnle gave tie republican
tariff bill a taking fore and aft in IA
speech i'll favor Of the amendn u
supported by the minority of the FL
haifee Committee. to tax Inheritance
over 5000. 2 per cent for the next five
years. He told the republicans that
they had made the measure prohlbifor
ry and that besides. no bill had ever
been presented that made so large
and ~unprovoled s%puliation of the
worlds commerce.. He said there was
"eonpoInd felony" i'll nearly every
schedule of it.. and that the bill made
IT Il penal ottense to carry on trade
with the people Of Sonth and Central
America, while one-third of it WAS n
declaration of war against France,
Germany, and the continent of Eu-
rome. He added that the rates in the
bill were akin to bribery and rapine
dictated by q Syndicate of bauditti.n
He closed by referring to the silver
question aud expressing the opinion
chat the abandonment Of the free cni-
mage Of silver by this government was
a step IN excess of the rigttfal author
ity Of those who had ordered it done.
Skin games can no longer be played
with impunify nprm the cr4dnIons hr
INSCRIPTIONS men engaged III the
business OF soliciting patents. Com
missioner Bntterworth declares that
nothing but straightforward honorable
business methods are 10 be allowed ia
the practice before the Patent office
while he is at IFS head, and that the
paient sharks must 90. and to show
that he means business he has within
a short peliod disbarred eight attor-
negs from practice before the u. s..
Patent Office for crooked business,
and has cited John Wedderburn & |
Co, who are officially charged with
specific instances Of frand and decep- |
ton III their dealings with inventors, J
10 show cause why they should not
lso be debarred.
The republicans of the District of
who contributed money and
lime to elect Mckinley are inclined to !
ay enss words every time they glance
over the list of seven juicy diplomatic
which have been given to resi-.
dents of the districts. With the excer-
ton of John Hay, who il more If 4 lit
rary nan than Il politician and more
of a club and society man than OF
b1ther and Louis A. Dent, WHO was the
ate Mr.. Blaine's secretary tor a long
lime, the average republican had
never heard Of these favored indivi-
1uals until their names went to the
1t is probable that the other
live gentlemen were credited to the
District of Columbia for the conve-
nienee of their Congressional hackers,
but that doesn't make it please the
.ocal pie hunters any better.
Representative Dockery. of Mo-.
Who has just returned from a visit to
lis home says: ''Tiere is but little
in the business circles of
Missouri at this time. Affairs are in
OF an expectaDt attitude.
waiting the appearancen of the belated
prosperity promised by the republi-
,an party, which seems TO have been
'idetrack9d somewhere along the line
# its journey. Money is idle and
i~stless. because the opportunity for
investment is uninviting.
Jndei existing conditions Missouri
would probably double the majority
he gave Bryan. The next House, in
ny opinion, will be overwhelmingly
democratic. and the republicans will
lso lose control OF the Senate"
1t looks to a mar up a tree as
John Russell Young, the news
'aper man, who il tile new Librarian
f Congress, has dropped into a S., 600
year sinecure, AS A. r. Spofford,
vho has been Librarian for a number
f years is made his first assistant and
I'll probably continue to do all the
ard work. 1t is given n that Mr..
pofford was made assistant instead of
Librarian, at his W request, but. of :
curse, nobody has to believe such an
story inst because it has
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