The Elbert County tribune., 1899-06-22
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
AND DEPARTMENT NEWS.

na,,arass for the officers and men who
..'.r,i,dnated in the battle OF Manila
hax. rhe Burcau OF Navigation VIII
see to the distribution OF the meuais'
those for the officers and men OF the
OLYMPIA and Raleigh being given 10
them In this country. while those TOT
the men on the ships still at Manila
will be forwarded. The meunis are
handsome products of the Jeweiers
art. one face showing pas-rehei VI
Admiral Dewey. while the reverse
shows the idealized head of the Amcri-
can sailor.
The feature OF Saturdays session OF the
Industrial commission was the testi-
mony of L. NJ. Lockwood. an independ-
ent oil producer of Pennsylvania. He
denounced the Standard OIL Company
and railroad officials as higlwaymen-
He quoted A. j. Cnssatt. the new pres
ident of the Pennsylvania railroad, as
testifying before the Interstate Rail
way Commission to the effect that
while the open rate to the public was
S1.9O per barrel. the rate to the Stand
ard Company was 80 cents Further
Investigation. said Mr.. Lockwood. hau
developed the fact that the railroad
companies actually received only 10
cents. This condition of affairs had
resulted for q time. according to the
witness, In giving the Standard Com
pany profit of 400 per cent. while the
independent refineries were being driy-
en- rapidly into bankruptcy. Mr.. Lock
wood was free In the use or epithets,
characterizing both the oil company
and railroad officials as highwaymen
and brigands. He said that men who
had carefully analysed the testimony
taken before the Hepburn committee
estimated that In 1856 months time the
five trunk lines of Pennsylvania had
paid the Standard Company $11,OOOOOo
In rebates The railroad companies
had, he said. completely ignored the or
der Of the interstate commission TO
stop their discrimination in favor OF
the Standard Company. resorting then
to the system of false billing.
Henry O. Havemeyer. president Of
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany. was examined by the Industrial
commission the other day, In connec-
tion with Its investigation OF trusts.
His testimony related almost wholly
to the sugar Industry. and he opened
with a vigorous attack upon the Gus
toms tariff, which he declared was the
mother OF all trusts" becoming such
by providing ''inordinate protection to
of his testimony he said: Il repeat
that NIL this agitation against trusts is
against merely the business machinery
employed to take from the public what
the government in its tariff laws says
1t Is proper and suitable they should
have. 1t is the government. through
its tariff laws. which plumbers the peo-
pie, and the trusts. etc. are merely
the machinery for doing 1t. Tariff
laws should not afford protection ex-
ceeding ten per cent. to any industry.
so that. irrespective of the form of do
ing business. individual or corporation,
the people. that is, the consumer,
would be protected. As the tariff laws
are and have been, 1t Is the consumer.
that is. the great mass of people. that
has terribly suffered. to the great ad-
vantage of the few of the business
community. The sugar company un-
doubtedly tries its utmost to enlarge
its business. but does 1t in way which
it considers the only proper one. that
Is. by making the price so low as to
defy competition. 1t is my opinion th
corporations are under no obligation
whatever to any of the states for their
existence. Quite the reverse. The
states are under obligations to them.
If the plant of the Industries consoli-
dated was capable of being nut on
wheels and moved from state to state.
you would find active bidding for them
1t is not an unusual thing for certain
localities to guarantee free taxation
for twenty years. free water, and, In
some instances, give the land to corpor-
ations to have them organize under
their statutes and locate in their
states
OF the next speaker of the House.
newspaper correspondent writes as fol-
lows: In many respects Henderson Is
the opposite of Reed. He has soft
heart, which Reed has not. He will
cry like n baby at the funeral of n
friend. or when some poor old soldier
tells him story OF sorrow and dis
tress, and he has even been known to
wipe his eyes at the theater over the
imaginary wrongs of the heroine. Mr.
Reed never shed tear. Furthermore
Henderson likes to do wing things. He
loves TO make people happy while Reed
likes TO make them unhappy. There is
no uglier tongue in Congress than Dn-
vid Il. Henderson's whsn n controversy
excites the passions. but in ordinary
life and with ordinary men ii would be
very difficult for him to hurt any
body's feelings There is no stronger
speaker on the floor of the House of
Representatives, either in dispassiou-
ate discussion or in n rough -and-t -tum.
BILE debate. than Henderson. He has
n powerful voice, an emphatic manner.
fluent tongue and ready wit. He
talks as IL he meant what he said, and
he usually says what he means. The
members of the House know that. and
therefore his words have weight. Hen
derson Is also n master of parliament.
| n IN w xvbfs.l, IL.
office of speaker. In the committee
room he Is n hard worker. and although
his name Is not attached to any great
legislation during the last ten years.
no bill of Importance has been con.
sidered without consulting him. For
several years lie has been chairman of
the Judiciary committee. the third
] committee In Importance In the House.
1 and 1t Is n tribute TO his ability and
wisdom as n lawyer that his colleagues
have brought In very few minority re.
ports. Socially Henderson is IA good
fellow. He has n hearty manner nm
pretentious and unnssumng, tells n
good story and sings song. and be-
fore Ben Butterworth died the two
could always be found together at all
gatherings where fun and good fellow.
ship were to furnish the order of exer.
cises. But with all his frolics and his
freedom. Henderson has never lost his
dignity nor Impaired the self-respect In
which he is held by his asssocIates in
Congress and the public generally.
Arthur Chamberlain, n kinsman of
inc colonial secretary and also chair.
man or the great Birmingham firm of
hynochs. has been speaking In defense
OF the "dum-dum" bullet. He laws
stress on the demonstrated impossibil.
NV OF stOpnlng IL rlIsh of pathnn. .,.i.i,