The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-02-04
TREATY IN SENATE.
TWO IMPORTANT DECISIONS OF
THE SUPREME COURT.


Morning.-Cuba' Friends Refuse to
be Gagged. - New EngIanders
"cuss" Each Other.-AlIen's Posi-
tion on the Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The SEN
ate has ratified the trade mark treaty
with Japan.
This afternoon the Senate went
into executive session so that Senator
Sherman may report the arbitration
treaty formally, with the amend
ments suggested by the committee.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Unit
ed States Supreme court decided two
important eases today. In one the
Western Union Telegraph Co.appeal-
ed from the Ohio revised law, taxing
its property in the State. In the
other was the Indiana law, which
imposes a penalty of fifty per cent.
on unpaid taxes. Both laws are up
held
CAPITOL NEWS AND NOTES.
WASHINGTON, Feb If there
is anything in the old superstition,
McKinley's ears must have been
burning ever since it was announced
that he had chosen Lyman j. Gage,
0f Chicago, man who voted for
Cleveland, signed the petition upon
which Governor Altgeld pardoned
the Chicago anarchists, and who has
for years been known as almost
free trader in his tariff views, for his
Secretary of the Treasury. 1t is a
great effort for the Republicans in
Congress to keep from expressing
publicly the disgust they feel for
this break of McKinley's, but in
view of the official pie that McKin-
ley will soon begin to distribute,
they are making the effort.
After all that has been said and
done about the intention of the Re
publicans of the House Ways and
Means Committee to give US new
and thoroughly conservative tariff
bill, they are proceeding to give US
the same Mckinley bill, having al
ready adopted several entire Nc
Kinley schedules.
The arbitration treaty has been
amended and favorably reported to
the Senate, although every silver
man on the committee voted against
it,
Although it is the policy of the
Republican leaders in both House
and Senate to keep the Cuban ques-
tion in the background, there are
some men who refuse to be gagged.
One of these is Representative Har-
dY, of Indiana, who got the floor to
speak on the Agricultural appropr;-
alton bill, and proc eGed to make
red hot five minute speech for Cuba,
which he would have continued had
not his request for unanimous con-
sent for an extension Of time been
refused. He made a direct attack
upon the administration, ard those
Senators and representatives. who, he
said, were dining with the Spanish
minister too often to be able to hear
the appeals of the people struggli g
for liberty.
It was brought out durlng debate
in the House which resulted in the
rejection of the Conference report on
the bill to confer the rights and fran
chises Of the Atlantic and Pacific
railroads upon the purchasers under
the mortgage foreclosure, that at
least two of the New England repub-
licans in the House do not entertain
exalted opinions of each other.
They are MIR. Powers, of Vermont,
who as Chairman of the Pacific Rail-
roads Committee, had charge of the
report, and Mr.. Barrett, of Mass,
who opposed the report as a stock
jobbing scheme. Mr.. Powers started
by poking fun at the dudish dress of
Mr.. Barrett and wound up by slur-
ring at the whole Mass. delegation,
and charging that Boston was the
place where railroads were wrecked.
This aroused the ire of Mr. Barrett,
who said: 81 am young man. |
came here with no reputation beyond
service in the legislature of my state,
but the gentleman from Vermont
came here after long term of SER
vice on the Supreme Court of his
state. What was the record of that
Court? Ask any one of the share.
holders of the Central Railroad of
Vermont. who were robbed by the
| decree of that Court, and then let
the gentleman talk to me Of Mass.
| wrecking railroads" Attempts were
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