Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Mr. Caswell, of Wiseousin, who has been a Congressman for the last ten yea-s, and is counted one of the leaders on the Republican side, does not believe that there will be any modifications of the tariff thin session. “The whole question will drag along here in the House until next August, and nothing will be done. One proposition after another will be brought out and retired. Randall is j ust Btrong enough on his side of the House to confuse and thwart all the attempts of the administration members to get a general tariff bill to a vote. At the last minute there will be a spasmodic movement to pass a short

bill ana send it over to the Senate. Probably not a dozen articles would be affacted by such a bill —sugar would go on the free list, salt, lumber, hemp and the tobbacc tax would be removed, but I don’t believe that this House would dare to send such a bill to the Senate, and I think that the attempt in that direction will fail. It was by sending' a short tariff bill to the Senate in 1888 that the House put itself into the power of the Senate and a general bill came back which we were finally obliged to pasß As long as the Benate cannot originate tariff legislation, and the Democratic majority in the‘House is divided on this question, it is reasonable to exoect that no tariff bill will pass this year.” The New York correspondent of the London referring to Mr. Samuel J, Randall and his connection with the American tariff, describes the Pennsylvania statesman as an “ignorant and illiterate man, the pride of whose life in

his supposed resemblance to the great Napoleon.” * The President sent to the Senate, Thursday, thmomination of Edward 8. Bragg, of Wisconsin, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico.