The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-02
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Our Ovn Correspondent.


There is no longer any reasonable
doubt that the snip subsidy bill is dead
f1r this session at least. The chances
are that it will be laid aside when Con-
gress meets and that the army reor-
ganiss. .::co::, bill 20 taken up in It's place.
After that is out of the way, the war
tax reduction bill will be considered
and q merry fight is promised over it's
provisions. AS is we'll known, it re-
duces taxation by about S40,000,00O an
amount which Secretary Gage (with al
| $S0,0OO.000 surplus for lact year and a
promised 800, 1000, 600 for this year,, de-
clares is. too great. The brewers are
even yes not satisfied with the reduc-
GOn they were given by the House,
despite the fact that their production
increased by two million barrels last
year and that they were able to ray
$1,000.000 in dividends to their
English owners alone, to gay nothing
of their American ones. If, as Secre-
tary Gage urges, the Senate puts the
reduction back to $50, ,0OO, GOO instead Of
$40, O,00O, 600 as at present proposed, the
question will be whether beer or some
thing else will have to pay the addi-
tiOnal $10,O00,000. The question now
seems to be between beer and bank
checks, the stamp tax on which is so
vexatious to people living away from
the vicinity of banks. In view of the
necessity of disappointing some one, it
is beginning to be rumored that the
administration would not regret it if
the bill should fail of passage alto
gether.
The River and Harbor bill recently
reported to the House is without doubt
the most extravagant in the history of
the country. Even the members of the
committee realized that they. had ex-
ceeded Mi bounds and made an effort
to cut down tho total, largely, it is
said, in consequence of n rumor that
the President had been notified of the
proposed reckless expenditures and
has declared that he should veto any
bill above $4O,0OO,OOO or thereabouts.
Therefore the committee eliminated
from the bill Professionally agreed upon
some items, that had swelled the total
beyond all reason. When the bill was
reported, and it was possible for it's
provisions to be examined, it was
found that these reductions were prac-
tically fraudulent. That is to say,
they were attained by cutting out the
provisions for works already begun
with the idea that these could be pro-
vided for in the Sundry Civil bill
which will be reported later. Thus
there was no real reduction at all, but
merely change in the form Of appro-
priation. However, the chan.y 70 offers
chance to Mr.. Mckinley to pprove
the bill without recediDg from his
famous exhortation to Congress to be
economical.
Private advices from Great Britain
show that little interest is taken in the
question of the Hay Pauncc 5orte treaty
outside Of the newspaper offices and
that even these would probably not
have paid much attention to it had it
not been for Secretary Hays marked
opposition to its amendment, his asser-
ton that any effort to deviate from it's
lines would be an insult to Great Bril-
tain and the kilograms of the American
correspondents OF British papers, in
spired by Mr.. Hay, declaring that the
people of the United States were hotly
resentful to the acts of tho 'iingo'
Senate in offering such q grave slight
to Her Majesty, the Queen. If it had
not been for these things, an6 particu-
larly for Secretary Hays extraordinary
actions, Il is Tciiabiy said to be practi-
cally certain that Lord Salisbury would
have accepted the treaty without de-
lay. AS it is, the result is doubtful,
What the United States will do in case
of rejection is even more doubtful.
Notwithstanding. the position taken by
Secretaries Frelinghuysen and Blaine
-antagonistic to the treaty, the fact that
lt has since been considered as of full
force and effect and that it has mover
been formally abrogated, will compel
this government to take official action
in that direction. just what the
method for doing this shall be, remains
to be decided. Probably the treaty
will be abrogatad on the ground that
the stats of things which was the basis
of the treaty and one of 80 tacit con-
ditions no longer exists" which is laid
down by Wharton's International Law
as good cause for abrogation.
( The official admission that mo less
than $4,000" cases of leprosy are ON
record in the Philippine Islands will
be startling piece of information to
the people of the United States. 1t is
doubtless the most pitiable and loath-
some affliction that is visited upon the
human race, and still worse is the fact
that to date medical science has dis
covered no remedy either to alleviate
materially its accompanying distress or
to actually prevent it's spread. The