The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-03-12
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.


Washington, D. c., March 9, 1908.
Senator Tillman made valiant
fight in the Senate last week to Sc
cure the adoption of resolution call
ing on the Secretary OF the Treas
ury for information regarding every
loan made by the New York banks
between June I and December 81.
1907. MIR. Tillman was opposed
by Senators Aldrich, Depew and
Hopkins, all of whom wanted it re-
ferred to the committee on Finance,
OF which Mr.. Aldrich is the chair
man, where it will be either per-
manently buried or emasculated so
that when it returns to the Senate
it viii fail wholly of its purpose,
an exposition of the extent to which
the New York banks were aiding
and abetting the stock gamblers.
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The week in the House was
characterized by a monumental
piece CT hypocrisy on the part of
the Republicans. Representative
Hefflin of Alabama offered an
amendment to a street car bill for
the District of Columbia, a "Jim
Crow" provision. Mos: of the
Democrats supported the amend
ment for the conduct of negroes on
the street cars of the District con-
stitutes perhaps the greatest nuis-
ance with which its residents have
to put up, but the motion afforded
an opportunity TO the Republicans
to assert OH the floor of the House
their undying love for the negroes,
an opportunity of which they were
not slow to avail themselves. 1t is
almost needless 10 say that the
amendment was defeated.
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Perhaps the most powerful speech
made in the House last week was
that Of Representative Hitchcock OF
Nebraska who made an eloquent
appeal to the Speaker and the other
Republican leaders to take the tariff
off of wood pulp in order that the
current robblng of the newspaper
publishers by the paper trust might
be stopped. He also referred to the
fact that such step would go
long way toward saving the rapidly
vanishing forests of the United
States. Speaker Cannon is, how
ever, violently opposed to this meas
ure and there is not the slightest
chance that any relief will be afford
ed to those who have to buy white
paper, by the members of this Con-
Sress.
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It is announced unofficially that
The Finance committee of the SEN
ate and the Ways and Means COM
mittee of the House will secure
authority to sit during the recess of
Congress and to take such steps as
may seem wise with view to re-
vising the tariff next winter. 1t is,
Of course, unlikely that this work
will be undertaken at the short ses-
sion but it will probably occur at
special session to be called by the
next President one year from now.
The President will also cooperate
with the leaders of his party in
Congress by appointing committee
of Treasury experts to investigate
and prepare report on such ad-
ministrative features of the law as
should, in their judgment. be
altered. Of course the sort of tariff
revision the Republicans will make
can be judged by every reader of
your paper. The Mckinley tariff
law furnishes some clew to the sort
of tariff tinkering they call "revi-
ion," when almost every schedule
was materially advanced. MIR. Aid
rich, as the head of the committee
on Finance, he who has been term
ed "the High Priest of Protection,
will be the final arbiter in all ques-
tions in dispute, and those who are
familiar with Mr.. Aldrich's record
can we'll appreciate that his maxim
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