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PROTECTION ! INDUSTRY ! ENTERPRISE PROSPERITY ! ! nisv on HICKORY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1897. SUKEEH 30 THE TARIFF BILL A LAW. VASSEO AND SIONED AND ADJOURNS - CURRENCY SAQE SENT IN. CONORESS MES- Th" House Promptly Pastes Joint Reso lution Authorizing the President to Ap point a Commission, but no Action is Taken by the Senate TarllT Con ference Report Adopted 40 to 30 The Bill Signed by the President at 4:00 P. n. Washington, July 24. The tariff .ouferenee report was discussed in the Senate to-day, from 10 in the morning until three in the afternoon, when it was ngreed to by a majority of 10. The closing scene was witnessed by a large assemblage, and the announce nient otthe result was greeted with a round of applause. Besides the sev nty senators whose votes were recor ded for or against the conference re port, there were twelve Senators paired and seven who, not beiug paired, refrained from voting. The bill was taken up in the Senate inst two months ago, and its actual eonsideration, apart from the time when it was in conference, occuried just sei'en weeks. The debate was opened on Tuesday, May 2o, with a speech by Mr. Aldrich, and was con tinued without interruption until Tuesday, July T, when the bill was passed by a vote of :SX tq 2s, exactly the sam4 majority by which the con ference report was agreed to to-day. It then went to conference, and the conference report came up before the Senate on Tuesday, July .20, and was debated until o'clock to day, when, bv unanimous consent, the vote wus taken. Afterward the House concurrent resolution for a final adjournment of Comrress af i o'clock to night was laid before the Senate and action upon it was fought off for several hours by Senator Morgan and other Senators, who wanted to secure action on the 1'acitic railroad resolution before final adjournment. The President's mes sage as to o monetary commission was made an instrument in fighting off the adjournment resolution. B lr finally Mr. .Morgan, realizing the impnssihili ty of forcing action on the Pacific Railroad resolution, withdrew his op position to the adjournmenr resoln tion. and even asked unanimous con sent tor its adoption. t,onscnt was given, and so at ! p. in.. t!i - final ad journment took place. As far as the House is concerned when it adjourned sine die at ! o'clock to night, the programme for the spe ial session of congress had been carried out to the fullest extent, a general tariff bill having been passed, and au thority haying been voted for the President to appoint a commission to investigate anil report upon the cur- engrossed copy of the bill, a cumber rencv and banking systems, The some looking document, and laid it latter was accomplished this last day of the session upon the receipt of the President's message recommending that this be done, and after a discus- sion of an hour and forty minutes. It was expeditiously done in order to get it out of the way before adjournment. ami not because the sclieme approved itself to the minds of a majority of the House. They knew, while voting. that that would be the end of the matter, as far as Congress was con cerned. There was much enthusiasm manifested by the Republicans over the several steps taken in the House leading to the final disposal of the Tariff bill. Speaker Reed announced his long delay ed committees, but the reading created; comparatively little interest. The Committee on Appro- ...'II . 1 : . l rr:aiions w in meei miring me recess and prepare for its work before Con gress eonvenes in December. .e i lesiueui iiooaii sigueu ine Tariff bill at :',:4o and it was immedi- aiei iat n to me nue iiouse iy Chairman Ding-lev, of the Wavs and Mean Committee for the President's signature. The' Preiden"t had ar ranged to come to the Capitol to sign the bill, but changed his mitul at the a-t moment. He signed the bill at 4 p. m. 1 reasury Department officials hold the bill went ilto effect at midnight last night, ami. unless they find evi dence to the contrary. Secretary Gage will so rule within the. ten days Al lowed for the liquidation of customs entries made today. Mr. Gage and his three assistant Secretaries Gen. paldiug. Mr. Howell and Mr. Van- derlip had a talk over the matter this afternoon and came to the conclusion that the bill went into effect at the beginning of the day of which it be came a law. The courts have gener ally failed to recognize fractions of a day in fettling tariff cases, but in the case of the Tariff law of 187 j the Fed eral Supre e Court held that it be came law from the moment the Presi dent approved it. Still, the burden of the opinions obtained by the Treas ury Department is that a law becomes operative at the beginning of the day on which it is approved. The question has a great pecuniary interest to importers who made entries today', and some of them will proba bly bring it into the courts tor settle ment. Secretarv Uage thinks that that will be the outcome. Custom Houses close at m on on Sat unlays, but instructions were issued to all customs officers today to keep a suffi cient number of deputies on hand un til 4 o'clock, the regular hour of clo sing business. As the tariff bill was not signed until after the close ot bus iness, customs officers will not be noti fied that the new law has become ef fective until Monday morning. All dutiable goods received todav were as sessed at the rates prescribed in the Wilson Tariff act, but it the Treasury Department adheres to its opinion that the new law became operative at midnight on Friday, legal steps will be taken by the Oovernment to col lect the difference in the duties of the old and new schedules in cases where the Wilson law imposed a lower rate Refunds will be made where the Ding ley bill provides a lower duty. The signing of the tariff bill bv the President was marked by more cere mony than is customary on sueh orca sions. About the time the conference report was agreed to in the Senate all the Cabinet oflieers in town Secreta ry iage. Attorney Ueneral MeKenna Postmaster General Gary, and Secre tarv Wilson went to the white House with the intention of accompa nying the President to the. Capitol Mr. McKiuley had changed his mind about going there, however, and told his oflicial associates that he would sign the bill in his office. At 4 o'clock Representative Dingley. Chairman of the Committee ou Ways and Means, and the father of the bill as originally introduced, stepped briskley up the public stairway of the mansion. He was at eompanied by Representative linger of Iowa. Chairman of the House Committee on enrolled bills. who will send the oflicial copy of the measure to the State Department for llling. Secretary Porter escorted Mr Dintrlev and Mr. Hager to the Presi- Kent's office, where, in addition to the Cabinet officers named, Murat Hal- stead and Major Dicks of Ohio were present. Mr. Dingley produced the upon the President's desk. I Secretary Porter handed a dozen J pens to the President to select the one with which he would attach his signature. There was a hasty diving into inside pockets by nearly every body in the room and more pens were brought forth. Each had brought one in the hope that the President would use it in completing the work of the extraordinarv session. Hut Mr. Dingley interposed. He said his pen should be used and insisted upon it. So the President smilinglv took it and prepared to sign the bill. It is a gold tip pen with a mother-of-pearl handle, the sort used by women. A few seconds luter the Tariff bill had become a law. Then everybody ap plauded, shook hands all around, and congratulated the President and Chairman Dingley. Despite the enormous imHrtations of manufactured goods, the manu facturers of the countrv are showing an improved business condition. Re ports from various sections show an increase in the number of hands em ployed aud hours occupied. Rerts from Dun's Review covering the fail ures for the month of June show that the failures among the manufacturers were ouly 23 against 24 in June of last year, while the liabilities were only fi,3s"5,010 against $.2i..!i4 in June of last year, ami r2.1.V..4o in June, 1 The 4 "best and cheapest" motto ou job printing. i- our W ASHINUTON L KTT Kit. (Fron oar R milar Corrtodi- i Washington. July 2i. The Ding ley Tariff bill has received the signa ture of President McKinley and is now a law, ami the extra session of the Fifty-fifth Congress having accom plished what it was called together to do. has adjourned, and its uiemicrs have gone home to hear what their constituents have to say about their work. So far ant tie Republicans are concerned, their is norfear of the jho- ples verdict. They have done a re markable piece of work oue that many considered imjossible, because o a lack of a Republican majority in the Senate, when President McKinley first announced his determination to call an extra session to pass a tariff bill. Although there are some things in the Dingley tariff law that would le different if the Republicans had had a majority of their own in the Senate, the law is distinctly Republi can and consequently will protect American industry in all its branches and will, after the first six mouths of its existence, produce more money than will be needed to run the Gov ernment, thus enabling President Mc Kinley to resume the Republican ol icy of reducing the country's ttomled indebtednees. If it were possible to make a man like Senator Allen Ashamed of any thing Senator Foraker's prompt refu tation of the charge made by Allen that the McKinley vote in Ohio last November was increased by fraud, would h:ve had that effect. As it was Senator Foraker's vigorous prodding and demands for proof and specifica tion of one single fraudulent vote cast in the State of Ohio, at the Presiden tial election, drove Allen into a corner from which he was glad to escape by yielding to a motion to go into execu tiveses ion. Senator Foraker made Senator Allen blush when he remind ed him that he w.s the first man to slander his native "State (Allen born in Ohio) by such charges. The giving away of coupons or cer t ideates for premiums or prizes by the manufacturers of tobacco and ciga rettes will have to be stopped, as the practice is prohibited by the Dingley tariff law. Most people will regard this as a step in the right direction. The whole prize business is demorali- Mr. H. M. Dougherty, of the Ohio Republican State Central 'Committee, was in Washington to see the Dingley tariff bill become a law and to confer with the Ohio Republican's in Con- gress before adjournment, lie says there will be a hot campaign in that State this year, but that he regards the election of the Republican State ticket and Senator Hanna's return to the Senate, as assured. He says that the Democrats are merely bluffing when they profess confidence of win ning. The House made quick work of meeting the recommendation of Presi dent McKinlev for a currency commis sion. The special message was read just as oon as Speaker Reed had signed the Dingley tariff bill: the com mittee on Rules reported asjecial rule giving oue hour for the discussion of Representative Stone's bill authori zing the President to appoiut a cur rency commission, which had been previously introduced, and at the close of the one hour's debate the bill was jKissed. The Senate took no ac tion on the bill. It was not expected that it would. So general is the interest in the dis barment proccdings against John Wedderburn & (Jo., charged with fraudulent practices, now leing con ducted bv the P. S. Patent Office, that nearlv all of the leading legal and teennical journals of the country an represented at the hearings. The Patent Office claims to ! able to prove fraud in a numter of caes. Knowing that evry day the tariff bill was delayed was eting the coun try spio.ooo or more in dutie. liie Republicans allowetl ttie op(ositicau to do mot of the talk ing in theilelate which preeeeded the adoption of the conference report. Senator Hurrows, who was a member of the conference committee, made a short sjeech tie- fending the restoration of the $2 duty on white pine lumber, and replving to aspersions cast ujou him and incideu tally upon the State of Michigan by Senator Pettigrew He said the lum ' lwr schedule won one of the most mer itorious of the bill, which would re- tore to the labor of the country the j uncounted millions of which it ha been robltl by four year of free trade. The conference report was adopted by a majority of ten, the ma jority by which the bill passed the Senate. BOATS rOW ALASKA LOADS. LEAVE WITtl livery Vrstvl r1 nrt ! rfigert The Accvuimudatisn. San Fit a ncisi'u. July 2:1 The de sire of the gold struck throng to mich the diggings of the Klondvke district resemble for all the world the craze of westerners to reach California in the "days of old and the land of gold. There is little or no method In the longing of the uiaww to reach the El dorado in the great unknown tcrrito ry of the northwest. People who have had no ext,erietiee in mining nor have undergone any of the hardships incident to such as will follow a trip to the Yukon country arr clamoring for passage uud strain ing every nerve to secure the funds necessary to make the trip. Many are making sacrifices in onler vo visit the land that promises so much. Every steamship oftite in the city is literally overrun with eople set-king information concerning the Klondvke country. Those who have the money do not hesitate to pay for pis.-age, and trusting to good luck in many in stances to give them food on which to stibsi-t during the coming winter The Excelsior, which le.tvs on Wed nesday next, has a big passenger list. but big bonuses are leing offered e cry day for berths on the vessel. The steamer I'mat ill t l f t thi mo. n ing for the north with 2'M passengers and a full cargo of provisions. Slit goe to I'on lownseiKl, wnere sh t - m t t conuects with the City of Topvka. sailing di red to Juneau. The owners of the L'uiatill have, applied to the iniMK-ctor of hulls and boilers for ermisiori to carry oil the passengers the veel will hold. The Topeka, which is scheduled to eave Seattle early next week, basal ready more iwtsseugers than is permit ted bv law. The same is true of the GeorirH W Elder, which is scheduled to leave. July :0. The ieoplc at Seat tie are legging the steamship officers to piovide them with transportation. The steamer Cleveland, chartered as an extra vessel, by the Northwestern Trailing Company, sailed last uighc for Seattle, where she will discharge tart of her cargo and take on supplies and twissengers for Alaska. About half of her passenger list are from this city lxoked for Alaska, ami she will be full to the limit, leaving Seattle for the north It is probable that she will carry .V) iassenger. More eople are anxious to go to Alaska and the Yukon country than can possibly be accommodated at the present time. It is lM'liev-tl ,y manv the vessels now fitting at San Francis co and destined for D.iwon Citv bv wav of St. Michaels will never reach the former place. 'I lie river legtng to fn-ee alnut Sept tuber P'th and it i not iNsihlc tor esi icavmg San Franc sco after August to reach Daw son City for at least five or six days after the extreme cold has -et in. Skattlk, July -j." greater crowd ever assembled on the wharves of Seattle than that which witnessed the departure of the steamer City of Mexico fnm Dyen thi morning. n tile Mexico were 2.J pAse!iger who left to s-k th-ir fortune- in th Klondyke. In addition t- her tseng-r the Mexico carried l. tons of freight, consisting almft eiitirely of outfit of the gold seekers. She ha on lard forty eight horses to te used in lack ing the supplies over the Chiikat pass from Dvea to Iake Linderutn. 5aictHlig to Kao. It mav f worth something to know that the very bt me!icirie f..r rector mg tlie tirei out nervou syi-ia to a healthy vigor is F.lectric iiitter. Thi medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving torie to the nerve centn- in the stomach, gently stimulate the I.fver and Kidney, and aids these organs in throwing oil impurities in the blood. Electric Hitter improve the appetite, aids digestion, and is pronounced by those who hare triei it as the tery !et bloo! purifier and nerve tonic. Trv it. Sold for or o .r bot tle'at Shuford Dnig Co. 2 sTARvrta nr thoi 5anos. Tk Last nit tll m 9iaft tUiy I-onix. Jnly 14. The Chronicle print details fnuu a corretondmt at Sagua Culm of what it denerittm as th unAkahW cruelly ( Gen. Wey lr's attempts to repr the reroUTtion. It aaya: .... a . . Ueu. Wryler igTHr-a tht eatte m district. whrr Culm Lihrr is an ac complished fact. It U true that he hold a few town there, at great cost, but they arv in reality twveige 1. 'The wet of Cut is a howhng wn..te. though It wu once the bet portion of the Island. Thf insurgents roam at pleasure, dodging the henry columns. The acitlco are till dying of starvation, yellow fevr, or small pox. The Hition of the uufortuuate t heartrending. "It seems impossible to tlitl a redeem ing feature in the barbarous order which couipN the pacific, under pain of death, to abandon their home to the torches of the soldiers and seek protection in the SfutnUh, towns. This protection, so rnlled, pmvided nervations of any waste laud near the cities, where the twicittcos could build lalatian nidenc", a they liked, with palm leave. The thought ful can that provided crude material for their shelter, after burning their home, took no trouble to provide ftMMl "It is this act of the compulsory starvation of thousand that nil add atiot h-r blot to the bl ndy escutcheon of Spain, and it i already disgusting many of the lending oih -er in th colony, who are not si w now in con demning the fituou Klicy of the Captain General " The scenes that are daily witnessed in the filthy, reeking settlements of reconceutrados are so utterly revolting that the Spanish soldiers, hardened a they are by rough treatment and scenes of blood, are often touched by the misery of the people aud give their sorry ration of bread to stoj the mournful wuil of the childrea for food. Yet there is no hoje for them, no chance of t he famine being auagl Smallpox i r;fe among the poor wretches, while yellow fever dances ghastly attendance. "The condition of theSpanish troop Is nearly as pitiful. Poor, ragged Sauih boy are enduring hardship d plodding .wearily along in nearly soleles ho- and torn harsh lineu suits, till they fall exhausted and !erih by the roadside for lack of ambulance and medical store. "lastly, the insurgents, driven to desperation by aggression. their home destroyed. thir women wronged, hare perhaps, a tetter time than the Spanish soldier; but when captured there is little left tor them, neither mercy nor quarter, (ten. Weyler has shown every day prisoner executed for 'the crime of rebellion.' He fore the filial scene. I hear.on the authority of eyewitnesses, that inquisitorial tor tures are restored to if the victim Is susected of wit h-holding informa tion. "The execution take place with due ceremony. The soldier look on it as a regular arade. The tutnd play a lively Sftanish quickstep. The doomed man. pinion-d strongly, are placed kneeling against a wall. The priest io attendance thmw the veil of religion oyer the oflicial murder. ouje die bravely, shouting 'Cuba Libre.' Other die gladly, sickened with life by confinement and ill treat ment, others have to tr supjrted to the place of execution. "The recruits are usually plac-d in the parade in order to acctitom them ti the sight of hlool. Th officer. word rairsl. crie Tiru!' fHre'i and the bUde tall. Then. 'Alto' taieu vti" tllalt' Who go- there' hout the sentinel, as if in irony, as the ghastly bunien i allow el to i." 'o tariff law which l.a gone upon the statute jok within the memory of the present generation ha leen as 1 rordially approve! and endorsed eretj tiy metnter of the rty oppi to it a ! the case with I his otw. i Dr growth of the proteeti e tariff senti ment in all irts f the country, couple.1 with the fact that the new law detnys the ad vantage given to the trust under the Wilson law, mike it an eiecially fpular ineaure,whil the advantages whft h it give to th fanners, at well a the manoafctarerf add to it general -crept ability.
Hickory Democrat (Hickory, N.C.)
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