Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Special Correspondence

uent Mchlntey, q when he declared
the Dilgley bill as it came from thu
conference eminently satisfactory as {
whole and added that he was proud t.
have the privilege of making it u Law
by afixing his signature he gave higf
praise 10 the measure, but no higher
than it deserves, nor than it will re.
ceive from the country at large after /
has been in operation long enough t
bring out all of its good points. Vic,
President Hobart, who is a successful
business man. said: There is already
a decided revival of business, which
will be helped along by the new tariff.
The bill has been carefully framed and
1t is going to produce good results, moi
only for all sorts of business, but for
all the men employed therein"
$1,000 O a day is a high price for the
country to have to pay for time wasted
by a few Democratic and Populist
Senators in senseless and useless kick.
ing against the inevitable. An inklipe
of this seems to have gotten through
the heads of the Senatorial kickers who
early in the week threatened to post.
pone indefinitely, by talking against
time, the taking of a vote in the Sen.
ate on a motion to approve the confer.
ence report on the tariff bill, and to
have caused them to haye cut theil
program short. There was no possibility
OF their succeeding in changing a line
in the bill, because nothing could be
voted upon separately unless the mo.
ton to approve the conference report
was first defeated, and they knew
from the first that they could not com
mand the votes to do that. The fill.
buster as far as 1t went was simply an
inexcusable waste of time for which
the people had to pay the price above
stated.
Y. r.. Mckinney, Of Minnesota, the
efficient Enrolling Clerk of the House,
is justly proud of his connection with
the TWO great Republican tariff laws OF
the present generation. He held the
same position when tho MeKinioy To ria
bill was passed Nd now he has had
the honor and plessure Of enrolling the
Dingley bill.
Those who know the subject thor,
oughly are of the opinion that the
price to which sugar trust stock has
been pushed will prove a very un.
profitable trap for some of the specu.
lators in that stock who have swallow
ed all the Democratic stories about the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill, which
was accepted by the Conference Com.
mittee, being more favorable to the
sugar trusts than the schedules which
were rejected, and they are predicting
a fall in the stock that may catch and
ruin some of the spectators. Whether
the stock rises or falls it Ia absolutely
certain that the sugar schedule adopted
is much less favorable to the trust
than either of those proposed in the
Senate.
ltis probable that those who have
been trying to persuade President Nc.
Kinley to take the initiative in propos.
ing some plan for the settlement of the
coal strike are more anxious to see the
President get into trouble than they are
to see the end of the strike. At n
rate that is the view taken of the mat.
ter by the President and his cabinet.
Nobody is more anxious to see the
strike ended than President Mckinley
10, and anything that he can properly
do to aid any properly formulated plan
to bring about a satisfactory settle
ment will be gladly done, but he has
no idea of making himself the arbitra-
tor between the strikers and the mine
operators. II both sides were to request
him to arbitrate no might do 30. but
outside requests for him to settle the
strike as though he welded the auto.
cratic power of the Gear of Russia,
will not be given serious attention.
According to trustworthy Informs
ton, it lie time for those who were cock
sure that nothing would come of send
ing that bimetallic commission to Eu-
rope to begin to hedge. One of the
things regarded as certain to come out
Of 1t is the holding of an international
financial conference, probably in the
fall OF next year. What will come out
OF that conference is, Of course, q mat.
tor Of conjecture, but the holding of a
conference will OF itself be a victory
for those who advocate and believe in
the eventual establishment of inter.
national bimetallism.
The Senate this week adopted with.
out discussion or division the resolu-
ton reported from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, authorizing the
President to demand the release of
three prisoners who were taken from
the schooner Competitor, Off the coast
OF Cuba. by the Spaniards some months
ago and imprisoned on the charge OF
fllibustering, and the restoring of the
schooner to her owner. The three men
in question are American citizens.
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