The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-09
ashingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent l

early as Wednesday and some that the
final vote will be taken Saturday. At
any rate, unless there is unexpected
delay, the bill will be passed in time
to add to the jolli6cation of the Fourth
of July celebration all over the coun-
try. This early disposal OF the bill
will be far from satisfactory to some
of the democratic Senators, but fear
of the wrath of their constituents has
! prevented them from resorting to any,
thing like flibustering tactics to delay
it further.
1t is impossible, at this time, to say
how long the tariff bill will remain in
conference, but Chairman Dingley,
who is thoroughly posted on the senti-
ment of both Senators and Represen-
tatives, and who will be at the head of
the House, of conferences, expresses
the opinion that an agreement will be
speedily reached on the bill.
Ex-senator Corbett's claim to- the
vacant Oregbst seat In the Senate will
aAot be acted upon until ssdhe regular
| session, but the committee on Privi-
leges and Elections has had printed
| for the convenience of Senators, the
elaborate report prepared by Senator
Hoar in favor of seating Mr.. Corbett
on the certificate of the Governor of
Oregon Mr.. Corbett is much disap-
pointed, as he exneetead nee the case to be
settled at tha.. present session, and
hoped to get the seat.
Mr. 4:,,EF,, Mack, the WWsll.knoGR'nH G'H \ !,
Ohio editor, who is now visiting Wash
ington, has been talRin'g in nterestfHgly'
of a subject on Ihich he is lthoroHgblz
posted-Ohio politics. He said ttsgFise:
talk atoat the republican party being
sorn with internecine, strife is arrant
nonsense. We are. .Shb teskshly united
and harmonious and initdtf1w will Win in Ohio
this year by a heavy majority. There
is no sort of doubt ,abotttoft, and away
down in their hearts rtssiTed 4 edotfS,t believe the
democrats think they have. any show
of success. There |qfSoaho democratic
party In ouF: state. anyway, for those
who usedto be democrats have gone
over to the Populists.'.'
Commissioner Bstterworth hasn't
lost any time in beginning.she needed
work of laiiSslilp raising tha stsslaidard of prac7o
tice before the U. S. Patent Office.
Eight attorneys have recently been
disbarred from practice before that Of;
| flee for not conducting their business
under honorable methods, and the
Washington firm of John Webber-
burn & Co. has beenEordered to show
cause why it should not be disbarred
for having made fraudulent decep-
tive and improper seasnehes, with ia,
tent to defraud and the resu1T bf' de
frauding clients, to their injurgmaapd
wrong doing, 10 the scandal and re-
proaoh. of the Patent ten. Office, and con-
trary to equity and good .morals," " and
for other good causes. e'@ts Il"
Certain gentlemen, notably Mr..
Claus Spreckels,c the. sGalifornia sugar
king, have been expressing more cob
fdence in the rejection of the treaty
for the annexation of Hawaii, to
which they violently opposed, than
there is anything in sight to justify.
But there is reason for their conf
dence, as will be fully apparent before
Congress meets next winter. 1t lies
in the manipulation of big corrup-
ton fund to create public sentiment
against the treaty with the hope that
enough Senators can be influenced to
prevent the necessary two-thirds vote
being obtained for ratification of the
treaty. And all of this corruption
fund will not come from American
sugar men. A considerable portion of
it will come from the secret fund of
European governments. There are at
least two European nations which are
more interested in the failure of the
treaty than Japan is. But being
smarter than the Japs, they have not
protested and will not protest against
the treaty, but will try to accomplish
its defeat by the use of money, just as
they have before tried, and sometimes
succeeded in influencing the course of
the United States. tt is really great
pity that this scheme could not be
headed off by the ratification of the
treaty by the Senate at this session,
but it is known that the opponents of
the treaty would no ALLOW vote to
be taken on the treaty at this session,
even if it were possible to keep a
quorum of the Senate in Washington
for any considerable time after the
tariff bill has been passed.
| The difference between being tariff
| expert and posing as one was made
! painfully. apparent when Senator
Jones, of Ark. tied himself all up in a
jungle of figures supplied to him by