Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, april 10Th, 1897.
President Mckinley is not taking
sides either for or against any of the
proposed amendments to the Dingley
tariff bill. All he has asked of Sena
tors is that they will act upon the bill
as speedily as possible.
He believes that when the bill is
passed and the amendments adopted
by the Senate have been acted upon
by a conference committee, that the
bill will be as sgood a measure as it
possibly can be made under existing
circumstances.
The much talked about amend
ments to the Dingley tariff bill, which
Western Senators have asked for,
turn out to be very different from the
predictions made by those who have
hoping for breach in the republican
ranks in the Senate wide enough to
defeat the tariff bill. The amend
ments deal mostly with the wool
schedule, and are largely devoted to
so classifying wool that some of the
frauds known to have been perpetrat-
ed under the classification of the Nc
Kinley tariff, will be avoided. 1t is
also claimed by the Western Senators
that these amendments are intended
to equalize the protection given to the
wool manufacturer and the wool
grower.
The regular semi-weekly row
between. thejs followers of Re-
preventative; Bailey of Texas and
McMillin of Tenn, the rival would-be
democratic leaders,s has become
feature of the short meetings of the
House, which draws full galleries and
which has crowded. Jerry Simpsons
little Populist circus to the wall. In
this rivalry local paper, which poses
as Bryan's mouth piece, has sought
to convey the impression in its daily
diatribes against Bailey that Mcmillan
was the personal representative of
Mr.. Bryan. One of these editorials
was denounced on the floor of the
House as Gan Infamous and malicious
ie." The editorial in question said
in effect that the leadership of Mr..
Bailey was the leadership of Mr.. Reed.
Not wishing to keep the new Sena-
tors out of the privileges belonging to
members of the committees any long
er, the Republican Caucus Committee
charged with comforting with the
democratic committee on the subject,
reported to the caucus in favor of ac-
cepting the last democratic PROPOSE
sition for filling the committee vacan-
cies. This programme gives the re-
publicans all vacancies, including
chairmanships, that were made by
the retirement of republicans, and
gives one place on the Appropriation
Committee that was filed by a dem
ocrat to 4 republican while the Com
mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads
will get one acknowledgements This
arrangement is not altogether desir-
able but it is the best the republicans
can do until they get majority in the
Senate. 1t allows them to retain the
Craftsmanship of all the most i'm
portant committees, but on some of
these committees they will be in the
minority.
The opinion Of a gentleman, who
has recently spent a long period in
Japan, on the intentions of tnat coun
try towards Hawaii is interesting, in
view of recent rumors concerning the
sending of warships to Hawaii by ia
pan, and of the statement of the ia
panese minister to the =. S. that his
country has no improper designs on
Hawaii. This gentleman is Mr.. w. B.
Edminster, now in Washington, and
he says: ''It is my opinion, based up
on long intercourse with the Japan
csc, that it is their ultimate aim to
swoop down on Hawaii, capture the
island, and through force of arms set
up government Of their own. Tt is
the common talk in the streets of the
capital of Japan, that Japan is entitl-
ed to plant her flag in Hawaii for the
reason that the Japanese outnumber
any other nationality on the islands,"
1t will be remembered that Congress
has explicitly declared that the y. S.
would not countenance any interior
ence with the government of Hawaii
by any foreign government, and many
believe that it is that declaration
alone which has caused Japan to keep
her hands off Hawaii up to this time.
Judge Day of Canton, Ohio, who is
going to Cuba as a special U. s.. Con-
sui to cooperate with Consul General
Lee in making an investigation of the j
charges concerning the cause of the I
death of DIR. Ruiz, is in Washington
for the purpose of comforting with the