The Arizona sentinel., 1897-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent )

1 sI
 figures by which the Democrats ir
 the House sought to make it ap-
 pear that the Dingley tariff bill
 which will this week be passed by
 the House, carried higher average
 rate of duties than the Mckinley
 bill did. Said MT. Dingley; 'Not-
 withstanding the fact that in this
 bill Tn every schedule except
 earthenware, glass, tobacco, sugars, l and, think, silk to some extent,
 notwithstanding that in every 1 schedule except these the present
 bill carries actual duty less than
 was carried in the Act of 1890, and notwithstanding the fact that in
 many of the schedules it carries duties substantially the same as
 those in the present (Democartic)
 law, yetiFyou convert t'Aese specific duties into advalorem percentages, not taking in'o consideration the changes of value between 1890 and
 1896, you appear to have an in- crease of duties imposed, when, as a matter of fact, the actual duties imposed are less"
 No better refutation could be given of the mischievous stories alleging the physical breaking down of President Mckinley than that after a hard days work at his desk he attended the dinner given by the Gridiron Club in honor of the President and his Cabinet and for several hours enjoyed himself as much as the youngest man present..
 So many complaints have reach ed Washington concerning the in- troduction of lottery methods into the business of obtaining patents, that Senator Hansbrough has in- troduced bill making it misde- meanor for any person or firm engaged in the business of soliciting patents to conduct a premium or prize scheme by offering inventors a prize as an induccment for them 10 enter an alleged competition Of ideas A similar bill vii, probably be introduced in the House, thus giving both branches of Congress an early opportunity to protect the U. s, Government, which is prac- ticaily partner in the patent busi ness, from the odium necessarily attached to lottery methods.
 The Democrats in the House are now very sorry that they said a word about truts in their fight upon the Dingley tariff bill. They got fool idea in their heads that they could frighten the Republicans by yelling trusts" at them. They know better now. That line of attrack gave the Republicans an opportunity to call the attention, or rather to jog the memory of the public to the indisputable fact that the trusts have been more numerous and more grasping under the Dem ocratic administration and tariff law than ever before, and that the Democrats made their last cam paign solely in the interests of what Gen. Grosvenor so apuy call- ed "the trust which controls a monopoly of what God gave-the silver trust" The fact is also re- called that when the Sherman anti trust law, recsntley upheld by a decision of the U. 5. Supreme Court, was before the House, the leading Democratic members voted ! against it's being taken up for con sideratiop, although they did not dare vote against the bill itself when it was put upon its final passage. They found the trust argument a veritable boomerang, l and about the only excuse they had to offer was that they were not responsible for Grover Cleveland
 The Senate Committee on Ap- propriations, although not controll ed by Republicans, has endorsed the acton of the House in passing those left over appropriation bills without change, by reporting the agricultural biIl to the Senate just at it passed the House, and will probably do likewise with the other bills.
 President Mckinley has told several gentlemen who were ap- plicants for the same position they hn1d nnder fha Harrison adminiS-