The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-07-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

The Dingley tariff bill has received
the signature of President Mckinley
and is now a law, and the extra session
of the Fifty-fifth Congress, having ac-
| complshed what it was called together
| to do, has adjourned, and its members
! have gone home to hear what their con-
! sti,uents have to say about their work.
SO far as the republicans are concerned,
| there is no fear of the peoples verdict.
They have done a remarkable piece OF
work-one that many considered i'm
possible, because of the lack of a repub-
Iican majority in the Senate, when Pies
ident Mckinley first announced his
intention of calling an extra session to
pass tariff bill Although there are
some things in the Dingley tariff bill
that would have been different if the
republicans had had majority of their
own in the Senate, the law is distinctly
republican and consequently will pro-
tect American industry i'll ali its
branches and will, after the first six
months Of its existence, produce more
money than will be needed to run the
government, thus enabling President
Mckinley to resume the republican
policy of reducing the country's bonded
Indebtedness.
1T 1t were possible to make man like
Senator Allen ashamed of anything,
Senator Foraker's prompt refutation of
the charge made by Allen, that the Nc
kinley vote in Ohio last November was
increased by fraud, would have had that
effect As it was, Senator Foraker's
vigorous prodding and demands for
proof and specification of one single
fraudulent vote cast in the State of
Allen into corner from which he was
glad to escape by yielding to a motion
to 90 into executive session. Senator
Foraker made Senator Allen blush when
he reminded him that he was the first
man 10 sander his native state Allen
was born IN Ohio by such charges.
The giving away of coupons or certifi-
Gates for premiums or prizes by the
manufacturers of tobacco and cigarettes
will have to be stopped, as the practice
is prohibited by the Dingley tariff law.
Most people will regard this as step
in the right direction. The whole prize
business is demoralizing.
Mr.. II. NJ. Dougherty, Of the Ohio
Republican State Central Committee.
was in Washington to see the Din2ley |
tariff bill become a law and to confer
with the Ohio Republicans in Congress |
before adjournment. He says there |
Will be hot campaign in the State |
this year, but that he regards the cleo
ton of the Republican state ticket AM |
Senator Hanna's return to the Senate, |
as assured. He says the Democrats are |
merely bluffing when they profess con-
fidence of winning.
The House made quick work of meet |
ing the recommendation Of President |
Mckinley for currency commission. |
The special message WAS read Just as |
soon as Speaker Reed had signed the |
Dingley tariff bill; the committee on |
uICo Sloi q Sl'ttldl oIC
hour for the discussion Of Representa-
tive Stones bill authorizing the Presi- |
dent to appoint a currency commission, |
which had been previously introd uced,
bate the bill Was passed. The Senate |
took no action on the bill. 1t was not
expected that it would.
So general is the interest in the dis
barment proceedings against JohnWed |
derburn 4 Co, charged with fraudulent
practices, now being conducted by the !
L. S. Patent Office, that nearly all of
the leading legal and technical journals
of the country are represented at the
hearings. The patent office claims to
be able to prove fraud IN a number of
cases.
knowing that every day the tariff
DILL was delayed was costing the country
800, 600 or more in duties, the Republic
cans allowed the opposition to do most
of tie talking in the debate which pre-
coded the adoption of the conference
report. Senator Burrows, who was a
member Of the conference committee,
made short speech defending the res
toration of the s. duty on white pine
lumber, and replying to aspersions cast
upon him and incidentally upon the
State of Michigan by Senator Pettigrew.
He said the lumber schedule ras one of
the most meritorious of the bill, which
would restore to the labor of the coun-
try the uncounted millions of which it
had been robbed by four years of free
trade. The conference report was
adopted by majority of ten, the same
majority by which the bill passed the
senate.