Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(FrOm- Our Special Correspondent,
WASHINGTON, D. G., July Q, 97.

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The President and Mrs. Mckinley
went to Canton, Ohio, to spend several
days with the Presidents mother, but
they will return to Washington next
Thursday, in order that Mr.. Mckinley
may be on hand to use his influence to
shorten the time that the tariff bill re.
mains in conference. Before this let.
ter is In print it Is expected that the
Senate will have passed the tariff bill,
and Speaker Reed has expressed the
opinion that the bill will not be in con-
ference longer than q week. As was
expected the clause stating that moth
ing In the tariff bill should be construed
as an abrogation OF the Hawaii reel.
procity treaty was restored without op.
sition; a general reciprocity clause was
also added to the bill.
Speaker Reed has stated that he ex.
poets TO announce the House Commit
tee assignments just before Congress
adiourns.
Senator Gallinger has favorably re
ported from the Senate Pension Com.
mittee a bill which provides that upon
the consideration of any application
for a pension under any law of the
United States the fact that the appli.
cant was accepted and mustered into
the military or naval service of the U.
s. shall be taken and held as prima
facie proof that such applicant was of
sound body and mind at the time he
was 30 accepted and mustered.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth is prov
ing the truthfulness Of my assertion
when he was made Commissioner of
Patents, that he was just the man to
run out the sharks and reform the dis.
honorable practices of the shyster
patent attorneys which have for sew.
eral years been going from bad to worse.
Mr.. Butterworth has recently disbarred
from practice before the U. S. Patent
Office eight attorneys found guilty of
fraud, and has charged John Wedder.
burn & Co. with engaging in frsudu.
lent and deceptive methods and direct
ed them to show cause why they should
not also be disbarred from practice.
In the debate that preceded the de-.
feat OF Senator Tillman's tariff amend.
ment, placing a head tax of $10O on
every immigrant by the helming
vote of AZ to 3, Mr.. Tillman ran against
the buzz saw that is always revolving
In front Of Senator Chandler when
that little gentleman can entice some
u%nsuspecting Democrat to get close
enough to be sacrificed. Mr.. Tillman
was made a monkey of and had to &C.
knowledge that he knew that it was
being done, and he made a desperate
effort to get himself out of reach of the
teeth of the Chandler buzz saw by
thrusting the rotund figure of Grover
Cleveland in front of him, and to cover
his confusion by abusing Mr.. Cleveland
and expressing regret for having been
fool enough to have helped elect him
It's Of their resstth the second time. The
as apportioned J, working hard and
~~-s@.a.t -L;eh this
rict ,sfded.
trict who gets mail in any
quantity will join in wishing that the
new departure of the p~ostofice depart.
ment in requiring that mail matter
sent from third and fourth class post
offices shall be legibly postmarked will
be successful. 1t is a reform that will
be especially appreciated by business
men, who are often put to much trouble
because of illeglble postmarks upon
letters in which the writers fail to give
their postofice.
Senators have all been supplied with
printed copies Of Senator Hoar's re.
port in seating ex Senator Corbett in
the existing vacancy from Oregon, but
the committee on Privileges and Elec.
tons has not acted upon the report,
and judging from the talk of Senators
there is little probability that it will
before the regular session.
The Success of Senator Allison in
managing the tariff bill in a Senate
with an anti Republican majority has
caused that gentleman 5 almost always
pleasant manners to be much talked
about, but there have been times when
his urbane n has caused men to
make the mistake of supposing that be.
cause ne believes in doing things the
easiest way he would allow himself to
be bulldozed rather than have a row.
One of those times came several years !
ago when a Senator, who was then q
new member of that body, had u bill
he wac anxious to get acted upon. He
went to Mr.. Allison, then as now Chair.