Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-07-28

From our Regular Correspondent.


man living knows the intricacies
of the tariff question better than
President Mckinley, and when he
declared the Dingley bill as it came
from the conference eminently salts
factory as whole and added that
he was proud to have the privilege of
making it a law by affixing his sigma
ture he gave high praise to the meas
ure, out no higher than it deserves,
nor than it will receive from the cOun-
try ut large after it has been in oper-
alton long enough to bring out all Of
it's good points. Vice President
Hobart, who is a successful business
man, SAID: "There is already de,
cided revival Of business, which will
be helped along by the new tariff.
The bill has been carefully framed
and it is going to produce good re-
suits, not only for all sorts of bust
ness but for all the men employed
therein"
One hundred thousand dollars a
day is high price for the country to
have to pay for time wasted by a
few Democratic and Populist sena-
tors in senseless and useless kicking
against the inevitable. An linking
Of this seems to have gotten
through the head of the senatorial
kickers who early in the week threat
ened TO postpone indefinitely, by
talking against time, the taking of
vote IN che senate on II motion to
approve the conference report on the
tariff bill, and to have caused them
to have cut their program short.
There was no possibility OF their sue
ceeding in changing line in the bill,
because nothing could be voted upon
separately unless the motion to APP
prove the conference report
was first defeated, and they knew
from the first that they could not
command the votes to do that.
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 unpro-
fitable trap for some of the specula-
tors IN that stock who have swal-
lowed all the Democratic stories
about the sugar schedule of the tariff
bill, which was accepted by the con-
ference committee, being more favor
able to the sugar trust than the sched-
tiles which we're rejected, and they
are predicting a fall in the stock that
may catch and ruin some of the
spectators Whether livestock rises
or falls it is absolutely certain that
the sugar schedule adopted is much
less favorable to the trust than eth
er of those proposed in the senate.
1t is probable that those who have
been trying to persuade President
Nc Kinley to take the initiatlvein pro-
posing some plan for the settlement
OF the coal strike are more anxious
to see the president get in trouble
than they are to see the end of the
strike. At any rate tina is the view
of the matter taken by the president
and his cabinet. Nobody is more
anxious to see the strike ended than
President Mckinley is, and anything
that he can properly do to aid any
properly formulated plan to bring
about a satisfactory settlement will
gladly be done, but he has no idea of
making himself the arbitrator be-
tween the strikers and the mine oper-
ators. If both sides were to request
him to arbltrate he might do so,
but outside requests for him to settle
the strike, as though he welded the
autocratic power of the car of Rus
STA, will not be given serious atten-
ton
According to trustworthy informa-
ton, 1T is time for those who were
cocksure that nothing would come of
sending that bimetallic commission
to Europe to begin to hedge. One OF
the things regarded as certain to
come out of it is the holding of an
international financial conference,
probably in the fall of next year
What will come out of that confer
ence is, of course, a matter of con- ec-
ture, but the holding of conference
will Of Itself be a victory for those
who advocate and believe in the
eventual establishment of interna-
tlonal 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 fillibustering, and the
restoration of the schooner to he1
owner. The three men in question
are American citizens.