Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-04
DEBATE mas BEEN DIGNIFIED.
unusunlIy Few Hard words EN-
chnnnch ONcr Ihis lAriM NH.


passing of a tariff measure through congress
is one thing. its technical construction is
decidedly horse Of another color" Within
the next two weeks It seems safe to predict
that the Dingley bill will become A law
And 1t is safe to further predict that when
the Dingley bill becomes law 1t will be in
more senses than one the house bill rather
than the coat of many COlors which now
seems tit'est that the senate bill should be
called, here have been many changes from
specifics to al valorems and compensatory
| duties have been insisted upon in multi
| tude OF cases, for no other reason than that
| the senate must have something to trade
upon with the house confetees. The re-
| publicans, except where IL was essentially
necessary have refrained from making any
| lengthy speeches, and have ContentCd them
| selves with explanatory remarks on the
| various changes made in the senate bill.
| The democrats and populists, on the other
| hand, have persstontly insisted upon going
| before the country with their ideas of what
| is right and just in a revenue-ra sing meas
ute, and while they have not seriously oh
| structed the passage of the bill, the Ameri-
can people would have no doubt been better
| satisfied had they allowed the vote upon the
measure to be taken weeks ago. Old EN-
| poyes of the senate who have watched the
| evolution of tariff bills these many years,
| say that in all their experience they have
never seen so dignifed Il cons Iteration given
Il measure lBneu 10 raise revenue. rev
hard words have been exchanged; mild
! sarcasm has been substituted for vitureration
and scathing denunciation of the measure has
given way to calm and dspasSionate Criti-
cism of the bill from it's antagonists.
LEATHER SHOE STRING INDUSTRY.
On the question OF tariff making, Mr..
| Tawney of Minnesota told The Bee repre-
sentative some very interesting things He
says we use in this country $50 900 gross
| pairs of leather shoe strings and that while
| we export in large quantities American
manufactured shoes, we import nearly 400,
| 600 gross pairs OF leather shoe strings, leav-
| ing to the manufacturers of the United
| States some $4,000 gross pairs of shoe
strings. He says it has been the hardest
| matter to get any of the members of the COM
mittee interested in what he believes would
| prove a great Industry namely, the manu-
faCture of shoe strings, and told pathetic
story of how in 1898 one manufacturer in
! New Jersey employed GOO men in the making
| of shoe strings alone, while in 1897 he only
| employed 100 men, due to the fact that
strings were put on the free list in the
Wilson bill. This industry, however, is
| taken care OF in the Dingley bill. SO, too,
| upon the manufacture of peat mCes. prod
| uct found in Wisconsin and Michigan, and
| used for bedding. There are two three
! Chicago firms engaged in the manufacture
| of bedding out of this peat moss, while
| Canada is allowed under the Wilson bill to
send into this country peat moss in large
quantities, thereby deprving the farmers
| of selling their straw for bedding purposes.
| This article is taken care of in the Dingley
bill. And so example after example might
| go on to show how the infant industries if
| wisely diversified, mean the employment of
| hundreds Of thousands of men who now
| working not at all, or upon half pay. Mr..
TawnCy is of the opinion that to the small
| factories that employ from twenty-five to
100 men the economist must look for ad
VanCement along commercial lines
| Judge Samuel Maxwell Of the Fremont dis
| trict is an indefatigable worker. He is
either addressing envelopes and sending oui
government documents to his constituents
while on the floor of the house, or else he
| is engaged in drafting bills to correct the
| laws of the United States as to peadingC
| and practicer in equity cases. The judge
| has introduced a bill placing postoicos at
| the disposal of the people by vote instead
| of by appointment as now, the offices. how
| ever, to be under the control of the pest
| master general Maxwell thinks much of
| this bill, and every now and then he tells
| the correspondent of The Bee that the bill
| is gaining friends and making votes because
| of the enormous pressure that is being
| brought to bear upon republican dispens:rs
| of Offices for these said pOstofiices. The
| Judge is a figure upon the floor of the house
| and is now pointed out by the guides as
| the patriarch of the lower house of con-
gress, and the one man in the popuist party
who continues to wear his whiskers any
| thing like the late Mr. PETER
| WILL APPOINT COMMITTEES.
| There is every reason to believe that
| Speaker Reed will appoint the committees
| of the house of representatives before ad-
| tournament of the present extraordinary ses-
| sion of the Fifty fifth congress. Quiet con-
| fcrenCes have been going on recently at
| the speakers home at the ShoTeham, to
| which have been hidden the leaders on the
| republican side of the house and several
| senator's to discuss the proprety of jusr
| when to make these committee appoint
| ments. 1t is expected that the tariff bill
! will be in conference from five to fifteen
| days, and it has been thought wise to make
| the committee appointments during the con
| sderation of the bill in conference Reed
| is learning the pressure of the country, he
| is feeling the temper of the people, and to
| a friend of Tho Bee he said that in all
probability the committees would be ap-
| pointed before adjournment
| Pension Commissioner Evans has reor
gani2ed his office and systemati2ed its work
that he hopes to be able to drop betweeo
| 100 and 200 employees within a short time.
| Of course the democrats charge that this
| is merely move to get demo-
Gratis out of Office, and later fill the
places with republicans. 1t is an inter
| estng fact that every machine democrat
| firmly believes that this is the object of
| Evans action, and that It can be done in
| spite of the civil service commissioners
| Yet in spite of this belief of the democrats
| when the republicans are in power, and Of
! the republicans when the democratic are in
| power every machine politician of both
| parties demands the repeal of the civil
| service law. If their charges were true
| there would be no occasion to repeal or
modify the civil service law in order to