The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-01-12
DAYS BIG FEE.


| ti,tions in Paris. James BaSSett Moore,
secretary of the peace commission VIII
receive $4,000 for his services III faris'
Senators Davis. Frye and Gray. uhder
The law, cannot draw two salaries, ana
they will have only their expenses Iaiu
| in addition to their senatorial salaries.
| This information was received by the
politicians generally like flood of light
from dark cabinet. 1t explained why
Secretary Day and Assistant Secretary
of State Moore resigned their perma-
nent positions to take up duties certain
TO last not more than three months.
There was 10 reason why Mr.. Day, as
Secretary of State. and Mr.. Moore as
Assistant Secretary of State. could not
have acted as peace commissioners. MI
| Day had talked Of resigning from the
cabinet because of his poverty ana the
| necessity he experienced of earning
more than $4,000 year. His friends
conceived the idea of his temporarily
stepDiny out of the United States ser
vice for the purpose of making COM
| Portable sum, after which he could
easily afford to return to the Govern
ment at the slender compensation 1t
gives its employees. The sum of SlOo.-
600 each for Messrs. Day and Reid is
the minimum figure 1t is payable with
out reference to Congress. out OF the
national defense fund of S3O.OW0OO.
The actual expenses of the entire COM
mission. outside of these fees. will be Il
bagatelle when compared with a quar-
ter of a millicn, which three distinguish
ed gentlemen will receive. The com
mission will have consumed ninety-si
DAYS at the expense Of the Government.
The aggregate personal expenses of the
five commissioners. at SD day each,
will be 1850. The expenses of the
attaches will equal this sum. rs they
are all carried on their respective pay
rolls, and each is given 50 day for his
personal use. Had Day and Moore re-
tained their State Department offices
while serving on the peace commission.
they would have been debarred. like
Senators Davis. Frye and Gray, from
any extra official compensation for
their services. But now, owing to their
financial acumen, they can take the
initiative for compensation al libitum.
and Whitelaw Reid will be an incl
dental beneficiary of the Presidents
generosity to his Ohio friend, and the
latters assistant. 1t is not the prelimi-
nary resignation of Messrs. Day and
Moore with view to coming in for
handsome fees as peace commissioners
that arouses the admiration of the po-
lItical "grafters.' 1t is not generally
known that Mr. Branrigan, disbursing
agent for the State Department. went TO
Paris with the commission, endowed
with Monte Cristo powers to draw on
the S50,0OO,OOO fund. He is now on his
way back. No one at the State Depart
ment could even estimate the sum Mr..
Brannigan has expended. for, in addi-
ton to the personal expenses of the
commissioners and the attaches, Mr..
Brannigan paid for the official enter
tainment that the commissioners and
attaches collectively and as individuals
furnished to officialdom in Paris. 1t is
y
the families of the commissioners will
appear as charge against the national
defense fund.
! epublican. Converted to Free TraIe.
When tariff reform met its Waterloo
in 1896 there were not wanting keen
political meteOrologists who predicted
that free trade would yet be enacted
in America by the Republican party, as
it was in England by the prOtectionist
Tories. Events are rapidly justifying
this forecast. The extension of our
boundaries TO take in a good part of the
world. and the success of American
manufacturers in competing with Eu-
ropean manufacturers on their own
of the Republican masses in protection,
and. what is more important. they have
convinced many of the capitalists who
make up the Republican campaign
funds that there is more money TO he
made on a fair field than within a tariff
fence. Read this extract from a faith
full Republican organ, the Commercial
Advertiser, and transfer it in magma
ton, If you can, to the Presidential
campaign of 1892:
Time is coming when we shall copy the
present navigation laws of Great Britain.
as we shall copy her present tariff laws.
AS We are now using both tariff and navi-
CATION copied from those of the British
before changed conditions caused them to
be discarded for the present. British laws
concerning trade were not changed from
sentiment. but for practical gain. That
which illumined her medieval darkness
was enlightened self-interest. We are as
keen to see this as the British, and when
it shines on us in the same way we shall
change our policy. We begin to see it
as to the tariff and are becoming ready
to discard protection as superfluous. Great
Britain discarded it because the interests
it helped were less important than that
it hurt. 1t is not hurtful to us in any but
the few cases where it increases cost of
raw material of manufactures. since we
do not import food; but it is rapidly be
coming useless.
After the election of 1896 the country
was jubilantly informed that the tariff
question had been settled. 1t looks as
If it had been. indeed. When the pro-
tectiOnist party is converted to free
trade, what is left to fight for:
Ways and Means.
The Ways and Means Committee has
met with pronounced success. The peo-
pie regard the movement as democrat
ic, in that it gives the people an oppor-
tunity to run their own politics. Here
tofore, a few who in the end We're ben
Gifted by class legislation, have put w
the money to pay the expenses of party
campaigns. and there is no doubt but
that it resulted in politicians being
placed under obligation to such class
4 fr il..l ..nt