The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-20

Forty little men went to Salem on
Jan. 11th and put their necks into the
collars of two big bosses. Result
State taxes will be six mills next year
and seven mills the year following.
An agreement has finally been
reached between the wooden manufac-
turers and wool growers as to. what
rates of duty shall be demanded in the
formation of the wool schedules of the
new tariff bill. 1t is agreed that the
schedules shall be the same as those in
the Mckinley law.
When Senator, Httt WIS -gorvrHvr-ar7-
appointed a locomotive engineer as a
member of the New York state rail-
way commission. The other day Tom
PlatJ's governor appointed the super
intendent of line of which Platt is
president to succeed that locomotive
engineer. That is the difference be-
tween actual and pretended friendship
for the laboring man.
Only few days left of the present
session of congress, but there is still
enough time for all the approximation
bills to be passed, and when they are
added up it will be learned that their
aggregate is about equal to the appro-
priations of the famous billion dollar
congress. Is it any wonder the re-
ceipts of the government are less than
its expenditures?
The situation at Salem is desperate.
One man wants to be United States
senator, and wants it bad. Another
wants to be speaker of the house, and
he wants it bad. The 100000 other
citizens of the state did wart a session
of the legislature to pass few needed
laws and repeal d number of bad ones,
but because there were two ambitious
men al Salem they got "soup."
The steel-rail pool ltrust) has gone |
to pieces from its own weight. For |
years the pool has held the price up to
S2S ton, but recently dropped to S25.
Even at this price railroad builders
could not afford to purchase, and the
trust finally had to succumb. Since
the breaking up of the pool steel rails
have sold in Chicago at ST. And still
we are told that trusts are not for the
purpose of keeping up prices.
The forerunner of the prosperity sig
of electors voted for last No
yember has struck Harrisburg, PENN
,ylvania. The steel-rail pool coll
apsed, and as a result the Pennsyl-
Tania Steel Co. reduced the wages of
1000 employees 10 per cent. This, too,
N the face of the fact that the ways
Ind means committee of the house has
proposed an increate in the tariff on
'teel rails.
Notwithstanding the senate journal
If this session of the legislature will
% of no practical use to anybody with.
,ut the acts of the senate being ratified
,y the house, q committee of three has
,een appointed to examine and correct
t. The members of the committee
vill be entitled to 80 day for period
II about 20 days. and then the journal
will be printed, we presume, at an ex-
,ense of about $500. This is some of
he economy we heard of before the
irst day of last June.
There is, we trust, needless alarm
bout the social revolution to be
,rought about through the working
# the "Iron Brotherhood, which is
aid to have organized all over the
and with the intention of precipitat-
ng a revolution of the unemployed
gainst capital. True, the unemployed
ave hard lots, but revolution would
ot alleviate their sufferings or better
heir condition.
A telegram from Pittsburg to the
Jew York World says: "The dissolu-
ion of the Steel Trust and the break
NO of it's corner on the rail market
has let loose such boom as has not
een in trade circles for years. Not ,
My are railroads buying rails as they
ave not been doing, but the firms en- ,