The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-06-24

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(From Orr Regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON. June Is, 1897
President NICK inley never did 4
more popular thing than when he
signed his name to the treaty for the
Of Hawaii as territory
Of the U. S. Eight out Of eleven
of the senate committee on
foreign relations are known TO favor
SO that favorable report
on. the treaty from that committee is
certain, and as fifty-fve out Of the
necessary sixty to ratify the treaty
are already as good as pledged, the
prospect for its ratification is bright.
However. should the democrats carry
out the threats that are now being
made by some Of them to. delay a.
vote on the treaty y in q the senate, it
will be an easy matter to annex Haw-
ali by joint resolution Of: the house
and senate, as was done when Texas
was admitted to the Union, which
will only require ma ority vote.
While President Mckinley would
prefer that the matter de disposed of
at the present session, it is not alb
solutely necessary that it should be,
as the treaty has given notice to the
world of the intention of the y. S. to
annex the islands. Should Japan
make formal protest, it will merely
result in hurrying up annexation.
Had Senator Pettigrew's so called
antitrust tariff amendment been of
such nature that it would really
have operated against the trusts, it
would have been adopted, instead of
being laid on the table by vote of
IS to 81. Had the democratic sena-
tors voted their real sentiments the
vote in favor of LAYING on the table
would have been much larger, but
with the exception Of Senators Nor
gan and Pettus, of Ala, who both
spoke against the amendment and
voted to lay it on table, they prefer
red to seem to be in favor of the
amendment, so that they can use its
failure to be adopted as stump aru-
ment showing the democrats to be
against trusts and the republican to
be for them. AS matter of cold
hard fact, the Pettigrew amendment
would, if it were a law, create more
trusts and cause more havoc to
American producers and manufact-
urers than any law that was ever on
the statute books. Under it's pro-
visions any tire. men could at any
time force any line of manufactured
articles or products upon the free list
by simply forming a trust to deal in
those goods. The republican sena-
tors are Just as anxious as anybody
can be to curb the power Of trusts,
but they do not intend to give them
more power in Legislation supposed
{ to be against them, either. through
haste, ignorance or design.
Jerry Simpson quit making mon
key of himself by trying to play par
liamentary tactics against Speaker
Reed and hurried to Kansas, not be-
cause he was tired of playing mon
key-he would rather be in the news
paper as a,monkey than not to be
there at all, but because there is a
populist plot being worked in his dis
trict to keep him from being renom-
mated for congress-. According to
republican advices, it. doesn't make
any difference who gets the populist
nomination in the ''big seventh" dis
trict of Kansas, as the district intends
sending a republican to the next
house. -f.r. ~,
Mr.. Calhoun returned to Washing
ton this week, bringing with him a
detailed written report Of his obser-
vations in Cuba, prepared to supple
ment the verbal report he made to
President Mckinley when he first re-
turned from Cuba. Mr.. Calhoun has
not made and will not make any re-
commentator as to Cuba. His mis-
sion was to investigate and report up
on existing conditions, and it has
now been completed. .z.' 7..z%7. I'll:
The checklist thing of the session
is the attempt of certain democrats to
give the Wilson tariff law the credit
for the increased receipts of the gov
eminent from importations during
the past three months, when every
body knows that the increase is due
solely to the advance importations
that are being made to escape the in.
creased duties in the republican tar
if. Unfortunately, no practical way
Of preventing the profit being real
lied of. these advance imp ortations
has been devised, as it seems certain
that the house retroactive clause will
not do it. These increased importa-
tons are bad for everybody except
the men who make them. It is
therefore surprising that democrats
can be found with so little Judgment
as to think, or even pretend to think,
them creditable. z5.s
The senate having passed the most
disputed portions of the tariff bill
will rapidly dispose Of the rest Of the
bill, as it is now meeting at IL a. m.
and putting in SIX solid hours OF
work daily
There is Nothing So Good
There is nothing just as good as DR.
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