Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-07-09
Washington News.

The Republican party Congress
has completed a record of which the |
Republican party of the country |
may well be proud That a party |
controlling both branches of Con- |
gress should be able to pass a tariff |
bill as quickly as has been accom-
plished this time is unprecedented,
and that it should be able to do so
when it controls but one branch of |
Congress is a record of which every
member of the party from the Presi- |
dent down to the humblest member |
may feel proud Taking into con
sideration the bitterness of the cam |
paign of last fall nobody would |
have predicted or thought it possible |
that the party succeeding in that
campaign, but failing to obtain con-
troll of both branches of Congress, |
could frame and pass tariff bill so
throughly protective and so thor
oughly satisfactory TO the adherents
in so short time. No such thing
has ever happened i'll the history of
the country Indeed it has seldom
if ever happened that party hav-
ing control Of but one branch Of
Congress has passed radical tariff
measure even in three or four times
the number of weeks which has
been occupied in the passage Of this
bill
STILL PUSHING FOR FINAL COMPILE
TIoN.
The conference between the House
and Senate will, it is believed, be an
unusually brief one. The fact that
the senate restored to the bill most
of the House rates on important
features warrants the belief that the
time occupied in conference will be
brief, and that the bill may reach
the President by the end of the COM
ing week, and become law by the
middle of July.
ABOUT THOSE TARIFF PROTESTS.
There are some smiles among the
statesmen over the protests against
our tariff measure which foreign ma
tions are making The general feel
ing is that these protests are, first,
piece of impertinence, since it is no.
body's business but our own what
kind of tariff we make and, sec
ond, of no consequence in the bear
ing on our commercial rotations
with those countries. Most of the
nations from which have come
grumblings as to our tariff sell us
vastly I,,nra than thnu hlu from rs.
and while it is all right for them to
get as low a tariff on their articles as
possible, there is no likelihood that
they are going to disturb their mark
cts in this country by any retalia-
tory legislation which would injure
their sales to us more than it affects
ours to them The fifteen countries
from which hints of dissatisfaction
with our tariff have come have sold
us in the past decade $4, SAB, 943, 523
worth of goods, and bought from us
only 50, 059, 220, 7S2 worth
HOUSE TARIFF RATES RESTORED.
The important features and char
aoteristics of the House tariff bill
have been restored by the Senate,
and the bill as it goes back TO the
House finally will differ very little
in those features in which the pub
lice have felt a great interest, when
compared with the bill as originally
passed by the House. 1t is believed
that the conference committee will
in many cases restore absolutely the
House rates.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE sCREAIERs.
The violent effort to cast asper-
sions on the bill and the Republican
party with reference to the sugar
schedule have met WITH an ignomi-
NOUS failure. The bill as it stands
is generally satisfactory and cannot
be successfully charged with favori-
tism toward the sugar trust, and
should the conference restore abso-
lutely the House rates, as many be-
lieve it will yet do, the bill will be
looked upon as the most thoroughly
satisfactory and complete in this and
other features of any tariff measure
which has passed Congress in many
years.
WILL THERE BE A. CURRENCY CoSIMIs
SION.
The question as TO whether Con-
gress will or will not Immediately
take up the currency revision is now
looked upon with much interest.
There are two sides to this question
and both sides are being carefully
examined by those who are to deter
mine what the course of events is to
be in this particular. By many it is
believed that, the special work of
the special session in the passage of
tariff bill having been so promptly
and happily completed, the business
element of the country would prefer
an opportunity to dust itself to the
new conditions in regard TO the tar
lift before being brought face te face
with the currency problem. Those
who hold to this view believe that it
would be better to defer any action
on the currency question until the
regular meeting of Congress in De-
cember and give the country a
rest. " Whether this plan is deter
mined upon or whether a currency
commission shall be urged upon
Congress at once is not fully deter
mined, but the public may rest as
sured there is no disposition on the
part of the administration to delay
or tritie with the currency question
any more than it has with the tariff