Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-04-13

tial revision is out of the onestion
When the tariff is revised at all it will
have to be as whole which probabl,
Is true, and he does not propose to have
anyone toying with the throttle while
be can make any sort of pretense "a,
being busy elsewhere.
| Meanwhile Mr.. Rainsy of Illinois,
TOOK occasion the other day to read the
stand pat Republicans lecture on that
very subject. He aroused a good deal
or amusement and some indignation
In the process. He said that A america
watches were being sold abroad so
cheap that they We're bought on the
other side. shipped back to the United
States to be sold second time. He
had number of watches in bis vari
GUS pockets to prove the assertion.
he also spoke of the Watch Trust.
This brought out protest from Mr.
Gardner, OF Massachus etts, who said
he was stakeholder In one of the
largest watch companies and he knew
OF no such thing a. a watch trust. Mr..
Rainey raised laugh BY saying Mr..
Gardner would probably have a chance
to explain his negative information
before the Committee on Ways and
Means. Mr.. Rsiney added that while
there was evidently no such thing as a
watch trust the number of employees
In the watch making factories had
greatly increased in tho past decade,
and there were now in tho country
only IL watch companies against TWEEN.
ty'seven In 1880. He said that there
were fifteen per cent. more men em-
ployed in the factories thar in 1880.
but that there were 800 per cent. more
wonderland 200 per cent. more chill.
dren. He said that this alone was a
state OF things worth enquiring into.
None the less there is not going to be
any tariff discussion at this session.
Mr.. Davidson's arrangements for hav.
ing tho Ways and Means Committee
cit during the summer to take testi
mony will probably satisfy the con
science Of the majority and quiet the
inquiries OF the constituents. And the
tariff will be allowed to drift till there
is Democratic House or till the House
can stavs OF the que stion no longer.
The rate situation is about as clear
as 1t has been in the past fortnight.
That 10 about as clear as the wake Of
cattle stampede on a dusty day MOI
one dares oppose the legislation, but
the railroads are determined to have
the rate bill Sd sped to suit their ends,
and those ends of course will be serv.
cd by any provision for a court review
that will enable them to take the I'M
lucky shipper into court and wear him
out In litigation. Some of the suppos-
IDLY opposition Senators have come out
10 strongly for the rate bill since the
Of review anne ndment |
seems assured, that one Is tempted to |
wonder whether after all that was not |
,he thing they were waiting for and
hat loophole being once assured, they
we're willing to OverWhelm the Hepburn
dill with all sorts of drastic provisions,
quite we'll from the start that
hey would never be apt to get in the
way OF the railroads.
The q uestion of fortifying the Pan.
una canal has come up again. The
General Staff got suddenly busy last
week and announced that they had q
cheme Of Notifications already to sub
nit to Congress. As TO the right of
his country to fortify the canal, there
an be very little question. The pro-
lbition In the Clayton Buiwer treaty
ga1nst Notifications was not mention.
in the Hay-Paunceforte treaty and
Is assumed by those interested that
ne silence gives consent. At the same
me tho War Department has been in
with the State De-
artment and it has been decided to
y the matter before Congress to get a
Hing on the point.a
The story OF why Belamy Storer was
called as Am bassador from Austris,
going the rounds 10 official circles
ID causing some quiet amusement
ON the fact that Mrs. Storer seems
have been at the bottom of it. Ac.
riding to reports, Mrs. Storer was in
rested in having Archbishop Ireland
opointed as second cardinal fol the
nlted States. The matter came to
Q point where q word from the PresI-
ut would have secured the appoint
,nt. but he, very naturally. declined
speak the word although Arch bishop
Gland is one Ut his good friends and
, President has said informally that
would DO glad OF anything good that
nld happen to him. None the less
s. Storer was affronted and took oc.
ZION to make trouble between Am
ssadOr StOrer and the AdminIstra.
n, so that MIR. Storer finally broke
diplomatic relations with the State
partment, which paid him the
gss on which be was enormously
,pOsed to live. The crisis became
acute about a month ago that the
ssident was forced to write to him
change his course or resign. He I
i9nsd, and now he and Mrs. Sterer I
free to live in Paris, which tney
thsy will do. :.
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