The age-herald., 1902-05-06
Washington Day by Day


 Washington, May 5. - Especially - The Cuban reciprocity measure stands where 1t stood the day 1t passed the House. The Dingleyites profess to believe that the Senate will amend the bill by striking out the clause repeating the dinerentlal tariff on refined sugar and by substitut- ing 25 per cent for the 20 per cent reduc- tion on Cuban raw sugar. and sending the measure in that shape back to the House. where it will be endorsed by the '1nsurgenti Republican members.
 But there is an apparently well-founded faith that the Dingleyites lack at least half dozen Republican votes for the carrying out of any such scheme In the Senate and there Is no sign whatever that the ainsurgent' Republicans in the House will yield. On the contrary, the latter are more embittered than ever, be- cause of the 25 per cent proposition. It seems to be the intention of the Republi- cans to make the issue a party question in the Senate but 1t is understood that number of their Senators are of mind and fixed purpose to rebel against the party lash.
 Meanwhile the Democratic Senators stand as one man in favor of the House bill, and If they are determined in that attitude the bill cannot possibly pass ir the form the Republicans desire.
 Seen in these conditions, 1t Is clear that there is no reason for anticipating the passage of any Cuban reciprocity law by the present Congress. We are now well into May, and the Senate calendar bris ties with controversian measures. It is too easy for the private owner of the House of Representatives, Mir. D. B Henderson of Iowa, to compel that body to do whatever pleases him, but nobody is owner or master of the Senate. One soli- tary Senator may prolong indefinitely the consideration of any bill. Happily for the American people, the Senate is above the clamor of the hour and above all the power of bossism.
 Standing out clearly from all this long and vexatious controversy is the plain condition that revision of the tariff "by it's friends is bu. a troubled dream of a 1 few sincere Republicans, who agree with McKinley's view as expressed in his last public speech that tariff revision is i'm | perative.
 When the Grand Army of the Republic demands lower pension expenditures when the steel trust asks for repeal oi the duties which enrich it, when brewers demand free trade in beer and organized labor petitions for the unrestricted i'm migration of Chinese, then and not til then will the robbcr barons of Dingleyisn ! universally consent to tariff revision oI the removal of any tariff iniquity!
 The tremendous influences, moral and financial, and including the opinion oi l almost all the American people and the openly expressed will of the leaders oi t.e party in the demand for Cuban re- cprocity are defeated as a sparrow might be beaten in battle with eagle Why? Dingleyism! Yet intelligent Repub- licans talk about Republican revision of the tariff of Dingley.
 In the experience of many a man his efforts to serve a friend or various friends have entailed the curse of grieving. IT his excess of kindness, his generousness of heart, he has sown dragons teeth ir the fair fields of lives he loved, and his chief sorrowing has come of unselfish en. deavors to serve others.
 This is especially true of the friendly efforts of men who are in official life and those who make newspapers. It is | the most natural thing in the world that m en of official power should labor in af. lection to promote the interests of those | who have served them. As for newspaper men, they appear to work for the goot of others through love of the doing of 1t | Perhaps 1t Is the influence of the uniqu, trade, miscalled profession, of newspaper making; a trade called by milksops ant l certain college teachers the profession | of journalism and by others ''the fra ternity." This occupation is no nearer tt a profession than is the work of the cob 1 bier, and no more like a fraternity thai
 
 other mans feelings, but he frequcntl, made fierce attacks upon the House il the advocacy CT denUnciaiion of meas ures. Ore of the bitterest. hottest anc most urr rarliamertary speeches eve made in the House of Representative was Cummings oration on "The Repea