The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-04-04
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From or Onn Correspondent.

Il tariff intend to carry through their
programme by brutal force il necessary
According to the latest decision, the
civil government and tariff features
will be rc-combncd in single bill.
which will be amended SO as to provide
that the cereal products Of the North
| West-frOm States whose Senators are
avOwcdly in favor of free trade-shall
be put upon the free list. The 10 per
cent. protection to trust goods entering
the United States is to continue for the
present. When the Porto Rican legis-
lature has devised some means of rails
ing revenue to takc the place of tariff
dues, free tra0C is to cnsue. This is
the misera bic makcshift to which the
g. D. p. has come in Its efforts to sub
| serve the interests of Mr. Henry Ok
nard. Tho most important feature of
the proposition is that it will have to
go back to the House to be again voted
upon, and there is certain to be merry
time when it does. The bill pussed the
body by majority of only eleven votes
in the first place, and it is reasonably
certain that more than eleven Repub-
licans will manage to be absent and
impaired when q new vote is taken, SO
as to let the Democrats defeat the bill.
In other words, the Senate is going to
leave the House to take care Of itself.
The Senators will urge that they mod
ified the bill in the direction of free
trade but that the wicked House re-
fused to agree with them.
Senator Hanna and Representative
Payne have denounced in violent lam
guage the assertion printed in the
Star of this city that a Republican
member OF the House had stated to one
Of its reporters that tho tariff bill was
adopted as the result of deal between
the trusts and the Republican party.
the former agreeing to furnish an i'm
mense campaign fund in return. The
Star, which is Il Republican paper, clean
and sensational, has replied as fol-
lows:
"The interview was had, rs reported
in the Star Friday, with Republican
member of the House who supported
the Porto Ricap tariff bill with his
vote. 1t was written a very short time
after the conversation between the
Representatives anu the Star reporter
'clOsed. This fact can be supported by
the oath of the man who wrote the in
terview, who is perfectly willing to
make oath tOit." SOmethingmore than
den1als will be necessary to silence this
assertion.
Evidence bearing on the tariff the
mother of trusts" assertion is furnished
by the figures i'll regard to lead, which
Is InSthe hands of one OF the nl-.Ht ra
pacious trusts in the country Lead
is SOLD in London for $500 q hundred
pounds and in New York for S4.7O.
The ditierence in price represents the
trust is able to cxtort some $4,000, ,O3O a
year from the American consumers.
Lead enters into the composition of
every house that is built and into that
OF thousands of other articles. 1t will
be seen therefore that the tariff fosters
tho trust and cnablesit to put its hands
into the pockets of every man in the
full advantage of its opportunities.
How far some of the Republican i'm
periQlists are willing to go in the way
of violation of national honor was
shown yesterday when Senator Lodge,
OF Massachusetts, wrote to Chairman
Knox of the House Committee of Ter
ritories stating that if he had been
present when the Hawaiian bill passed
tho Senate hc would not lave consent
ed to the adoption or the clause for q
delegate in Congress Ormaking Hawaii
eligible for Statehood. He urged Mr.
Knox to lay the matter before the
House Committee OIL Territories, and,
il. possible, to strike out those two pro-
visions. There was some discussion in
the committee over the letter but
finally, in view of the feeling in the
country in regard to Porto Rico, it was
decided that it would not be we'll to
stir up any further trouble by bctray-
ing Hawaii and the clauses were per
mitted to remain unchanged.
Court will be able after all to decide
whether or not Porto Rico is q part of
the United States without the necessi-
-ty of the passing of any tariff law by
Congress. A petition for ccrtiOrari and
habeas corpus has been filed in the
Supreme Court i'll behalf of Ramon
BaeZ; who was convicted Of violating
the election Jaws of Porto Rico. He
was convicted by u provisional court,
established by tho military authorities
after the close OF the Spanish war His
attorney takes the position that the
provisional court was without jurisdic-
tiOn to try and convict the prisoner,
saying: "He was held to answer for mn
infamous crime and was convicted
thereof, and ls now restrained of his
liberty and confined athard labor with
out n sprescntment or indictment of u
grand jury previously returned against
hlm-this not being u case arising in
the land or naval forces or in the mill
tin in actual service either liz time Of
war. or public danger. Tho ordinary
civil courts of-thc territory where he
wasa resident were open and exercis-
ing their ordinary inrisdictinn, ac;5. !
therein re should have been tried, if at |
alI." II the Constitution extends to
P,-s<S !IsiicG, 11iirz wis entitled to jury
trial; if it does not, he is entitled to |
just what the President and Congress
may choose to grant him and nothing
more.
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