Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR |
Washington, June 18th, 1897.
The territory of Hawaii. How does
that sound? It is going to be the next
addition to Uncle Sans family. 1t is
now known, although no official
statement has been made, that d trea-
ty for the annexation of Hawaii will
be sent to the Senate in the near flu
ture, probably before the close of the
present session of Congress. There
is very little, if any, doubt of the ra-
LITIGATION of that treaty, as the senti-
ment of the Senate, regardless to par
ty is overwhelmingly in favor of the
annexation of Hawaii; but owing to
the difficulty of keeping quorum of
the Senate in Washington after the
tariff bill has been passed, the treaty
will hardly be acted upon until the re-
gular session of Congress, even if
sent in at this session.
President Mckinley will return
from his trip to the Nashville exposi-
ton tomorrow, and the White House,
which has been quite deserted by all
but the sight seerers while he has
been away, will again take on an air
of business.
The attempts of some of the dem
ocratic Senators to explain that they
a re not protectionists, although they
have voted for protection for the pro-
ducts of their states, have been mole
or less ludicrous. Senator McEnery
of La, is the only one of them who
has come out squarely for protection,
although number of them have vot-
ed for it in particular schedules. He
Jones of Ark, and Vest, "Consider
ing the vast interests Louisiana has
in rice and sugar; considering the
output of her saw mills, her salt and
sulphur mines, is there any reason
why the democratic party of my
state should not be committed to pro-
lection? Not high protection, but
such protection as is consistent with
revenue necessities. This, also, I be-
lieve, is the doctrine of the republican
party. Call it what you will, protec
ton. revenue duty with incidental
protection, or anything else, large
amounts must be raised, and there is
no reason why the industries of the
South should not be protected"
The democrats took advantage of
the agreement of the republican Sen
ators to shorten the tariff debate as
much as possible by not making
speeches or taking part in controver
sizes, to make number of statements
concerning the sugar schedule which
has been adopted by the Senate, that
they must have known were untrue.
The only one of their statements that
any attention was paid to was that
asserting that the new sugar schedule
would give the American sugar refin-
ers less protection than the one
abandoned, and that it would be
shown by indisputable evidence as
soon as a statement now being pre-
pared by experts could be completed.
Senator Allison's word was enough
for the Senate which adopted the
new schedule.
The object of the democratic Sena-
tors in talking to delay progress on
the tariff bill is obvious. 1t is estim-
ated that every day the bill is delay
ed means loss to the government of
at least 100000 in duties, and the
more that is lost in that way, the bet
ter prepared will be democratic stump
speakers to charge the new tariff
showing what it can do as a revenue
producer for sometime after it goes
into effect, but intelligent people are
seldom or never Influenced by the
untrustworthy statements which form
such CONSPICUOUS feature of demo-
cratic stump oratory; it is the unin-
telligent and poorly informed class
which is led astray by such talk.
1t has been denied that Organism
stood for reputation, but it cannot
be denied that a bill introduced by
Representative Bell of Col, populist
deciple of Bryan, provides for partial
reputation, pure and simple. His
bill provides for scaling the debt of
the U. s., which is represented by the
$62, 315, 400 worth of bonds issued by
the Cleveland administration in Feb
ruary 1895, by directing the Secretary
of the Treasury ''to pay not less than
one-half of the interest and principal
of said bonds in silver dollars" The
odd part of Mr.. Bells reputation
scheme is that he only specifies that
it shall include one of the Cleveland
bond issues. The bill will not be
heard from again hnt 1t shows the