The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1897-12-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, d. G. Nov 10. 1897

WASHINGTON, ID. c. Nov 10, 1s9,
| People who looked with anxiet,
upon the coming together of Cong
rcss, and who entertained fears thu
the problems which that body mus
take up would prove difficult Of sol
uti"n, are likely to be happily disa.
ppelntcd Currency, Cuban question
Hawaii, public revenues, public ..ex.
penditures-these are the chief sub.
jects which Congress is expected tc
consider, and there were people il
the business world especially who
felt that by reason of the lack of q
Republican majority in the Senate q
solution of these problems would be
difficult to reach. While no definite
results have, Of course, been attained
in these important subjects in the
brief time which Congress has been
in session, there is good reason to be
lieve that the problems may be more
easily solved than had been antici-
pated, and in way which will not
only be satisfactory, but prexent any
disturbance to business conditions
VIII! !ch had been feared as a possible
if not probable, result.
Increase in tho Revenues.
The Treasury figures are beng
caaefully watched by those who are
interested as to the question of
whether or not the Dingley law is
going to produce sufficient revenue
to meet running expenses. Treasury
officials who are watching its opera
tions closely believe that its revenues
in the next fiscal year will equal and
probably exceed the expenditures.
Mr.. Dingley shows that the revenues
collected on the anticipatory impor-
tations during the four months prior
to the enactment of this law were
nearly 100000 all ofwhich would
have been collected under the present
law had the importations prior to its
enactment been only normal. He
predicts that the December receipts,
excluding those from the Pacific
railroads, will equal the De- embcr
expenditures and that long before the
fiscal year is ended the receipts un-
der the Dingley law will be suffici-
ent to meet all running expenses and
aud produce q surplus in the next
fissal year OF at lest ten million dol
lars. There is . general feeling at
at least that the new law should be
permitted to show what it can do un-
der normal conditions and that if at
any time it should be found advisable
TO increase the revenues, which, how
ever, is not probable, it would be ac-
complished without any general dis
turbance of the present law or read
justment Of it's rates.
The sensational suggestions Of Ex-
Minister Taylo that the people of
the Uuited States should rise and de-
mand instant action, irrespective of
it's prospective effect upon the country
and its relations with other parts of
the worldi do not seem to have met
with any response on the part Of the
people. Members of Congrers re-
port their constituents well satisfied
apparently with the developments
thus far and quite willing to trust
the administration, which has handl-
ed the matter with such success, both
in obtaining the release of all Amcri-
can citizens in Cuban prisons and see
ing its recommendations to Sraln
followed by propositions of an offer
of autonomy. While the Cuban mat
ter is not forgotten or overlooked by
members Of Congress. there is dis
position to permit the administration
to carry out its plans.
The Currency Problems.