The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-07-08
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF WASHINGTON
Interesting Letter From Our Special
Correspondent.
SOME DIFFERENCES OF OPINION
Assertion Attributed to Major Lacey
Is Questioned by others-Rev-
nues Of Government show
HealthfuI Condition.
(By Cyrus F'oss stoddard.)


resentatives who have been home dur
ing the past few weeks, or Iowans
who have visited the Capitol since the
senate began it's deliberations over
the tariff bill, any who agree with the
assertion attributed to Major Lacey
during his recent visit to Washing
ton, to the effect that the people in
Iowa generally are not in accord with
the attitude taken by Senators DOLL
yer and Cummins in regard to the
various tariff schedules.
Senator Dolliver, by means of his
most convincing arguments, exhibit
ing remarkable familiarity with the
wooden and cotton schedules, has
pointed out conclusively the dark
and mysterious methods of the ii.
nance committee. Senator Cummins
has done likewise as to other sched-
ules, and both senators, though de.
feated at every turn by Senator Al
drich and his remarkable group OF
satellites, have given the people OF
Iowa, and of the whole country, a
position of the underlying fallacies
which constitute the senate amend
ments and with which the average
layman is absolutely unfamiliar.
When the bill will be reported
back to the House cannot even yet be
stated with any definIteness; nor can
the method of procedure at that time
be given. II the plan adopted when
the Dingley bill was returned to the
House from the Senate on July 3,
1897, is followed with the present
bill, Mr.. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
will, Immediately upon its being re-
ported to the House by the Secretary
of the Senate, present resolution
adopted by the Rules Committee,
providing that the measure at once
be sent to conference and that no
instructions be given the House con-
ferees as to their action in disposing
of the contested amendment. This
plan will obviate protracted debate
in the House and undoubtedly will In
sure an early report of the bill as
HUdlly dBTSeu upOH.
In this connection 1t is interesting
to note that the debate on the Ding
ley bill was begun In the house on
March %, 1897, with Mr.. Sherman
now vice-president, as chairman OF
the committee of the whole, and was
passed on March 51st. Debate in the
senate began on May 6tn and contln.
ued up to July 18th, when the measure
was passed by a vote of 80 to %, 70
senators not voting. Immediately the
sixteen conferees of the House and
Senate took the bill in hand and 1t
was reported back to the House on
July 10th, 1897. and finally signed by
President Mckinley on July oath
when congress adjourned.
The present bill, ~ way of com
parison, was reported to the House
on March 18th and passed on April
9th. Senators began TO discuss 1t on
April 10Th and are still at 1t. Only
two months were spent by the sen.
ate on the Dingley bill, to which the
Finance Committee had offered 600
amendments, while over ten weeks
have been consumed In thrashing out
the 800 senate amendments to the
Payne bill. However, there is still a
lighting chance that President raft
will be able to spend few hours OF
July at his summer home at Beverly,
Mass.
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Original pensions of S12 each have
been granted to Mrs. Frances M. Noe,
Givin; Mrs. Margareta G Bnzza~d,
Malcolm, and Mrs. Ann e. Carter, El,
don. Samuel =. Hancock, Blakes-
burg, and Sidney M. Brown, Ottumwa,
have had their pensions increased
to $24 per month, and tae pension OF
Albert Cooper, Oskaloosa has been
increased to SIS per mou.b.
Every noon there Is issued fro.n
the Treasury Department a statement
o. the receipts am expenditures o.:
the United States Ire 'su.y for the
past twenty-four hours, for the cur
NJ llohth anu JOl ~ h2Sdi ytdl
ending June 30th. Taking twenty
days In My and June, we find that
each twenty-four nours the govern.
ment has expended about $3.167 ,0Oo.
The war department costs Uncle Sam
on an average of Si1S,Gt0 a day
towards the increase rnd mainte-
nrnce of cur navy $354,E0U is re-
CURED from sunrise 10 sunrise, AMI
the intliaos demaiI. & heir shageI
of the 1a.ly outlay. $500 per day
OF the oial amorar tie govern
ment pays its pensioners at the rate
of $573,000 every twenty. four hours
Against this outlay OF S2,167, 900,
the Treasury, during the period TAX
en-, was in receipt of about $226O, 900
per day, making net average in
crease of receipts over expenditures
of $4,000. II Is this fact that has
served steadily to decrease the de-
felt during the closing days OF THIS
fiscal year, so that. instead of being
sos, $3.50, AGES in the whole, as was
the case on May 26th Uncle Sam Is
only behind about s93,47O, 904.32. In