Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONT

who is in Washington on official bust
ness, said of the Tillman
mix up in South Carolina: "The fight
| is between democrats, and [ have
nothing to do with it, but there is a
| strong sympathy for Senator McLaur-
ir among business men and manufac-
| turers of our section, who are demo-
Gratis. They believe that he repre-
sents their interests of the South. I
am willing to make this prediction,
however, both North and South Caro-
lima, will soon be in the republican
when that will take place. Other
Southern states are leaning that way,
too" Senator McLaurin is also in
Washington. He expresses absolute
confidence that a majority of the
South Carolina voters will endorse
his position.
Representative Mercer, of Nebraska,
hopes that Attorney General Knox
will not take advantage of the au-
thority he has to make contract for
the erection of the new building for
the Department of Justice, because
he considers the site, on Pennsylvania
avenue, entirely too small and the
appropriation available inadequate
for the erection of a suitable building.
He said on the subject: 81 believe that
all new Federal buildings in Washing
ton, should be large, imposing and
commodious, built for the future and
not for the present. Our forefathers
showed splendid judgment when they
planned the Capitol, White House
and Treasury. There's the Congress
ional library. It has been admired by
thousands. We ought to erect an
other building for the Supreme Court
and the Department of Justice, near
the library. The City Hall of Phila-
delphia has cost $21 900, 900 SO far, and
the State House at Albany, $40, 100000,
but neither is admired as much as the
Congressional Library, which cost a
little over Sc, 100000. The small
amount of money Apr opriated for
the new building of the Department
of Justice will not erect much of a
building. 1t certainly will not make
a showing on the small piece of ground
owned by the Department. l like to
see big buildings in spacious grounds.
The people are willing to pay for them
and that ought to be sufficient"
Secretary Long headed off a scheme
of some real estate spectators, who
have acquired the land that will be
needed for the esta adjustment of the
Naval Station, or Pearl Harbor, Ha
waii, and have been holding it at ex-
tortionate prices, by instructing the
commandant of the Naval Station at
Honolulu, to consult with the U. S.
District Attorney there, in regard to
proceedings to protect the interests
of the Government in securing the
needed land at Pearl Harbor. BY the
same steamer, at the request of Sec.
Long, orders from Attorney General
Knox went to the U. S. District At
before July 1, to condemn the land
needed for the Naval station. This
alertness will convince those specu-
lators that Uncle Sam is not always
an easy mark.
Discussion of Representative Bah
cocks idea Of removing the tariff |
from all products of the steel trust, !
has brought out some interesting
facts about the steel trade. It has |
been shown that big as the trust is, it
by no means controls the steel trade |
in this country, there being many es- |
adjustments, some of them employ
ing a large number of men, which |
have no connection with the trust.
1t seems to be generally admitted that
the removal of the tariff on steel pro-
ducts would not I'M ure the big trust to
any marked extent, but it is claimed
that it would necessitate an immedi-
ate reduction of wages in all steel es-
adjustments not in the trust. This
claim, which is being made by those
who ought to know whereof they
speak, is causing many who were at
first inclined to favor Mr.. Babcock's
idea, to entertain doubts of it's wisdom,
and if it be substantiated by unpreju-
diced investigation, which numbe of
members of the House are quietly
making, the bill for the repeal of the
tariff on steel products will not be
supported by a corporaPs guard of
in either branch of Con-
gress, at the coming session. Desir
able as many consider it to curb the
power of the big trusts, the republican
majority in Congress are not going to
be stamped into the support Of any
thing of that sort, without carefully