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Vol. 56

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Published Every Saturday

July 10, 1897

Y the close of its session on Independence Day (July 5) the Senate had disposed of practically all the remaining schedules of the Tariff Bill. A duty on hides of 20 per cent. ad valorem, with no rebate on exported leather, was finally inserted into the bill by a vote of 37 to 20. All the New England Senators supported this tax on the leather manufactures out of loyalty to party or the protective principle, and all the Populists, together with Senators Teller, of Colorado, and Rawlins, of Utah, supported it in order to give the West its "share" of the private revenues produced by protective taxes. The only defeats suffered by the Republican Finance Committee were on cotton bagging, cotton ties, and white pine. The first two articles were placed on the free list, while the duty on white pine was made $1 per thousand feet instead of $2 as proposed. The proposition to restore white pine to the free list was defeated by only one vote, as several Republicans, including Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, voted with the Democrats and Populists against this protective tax on raw materials. The provision finally agreed upon regarding foreign goods brought in by American tourists allows each tourist to bring in duty-free $100 worth. On imported goods above this amount tourists must pay the same rates of duty as other people. The most important addition made to the Tariff Bill was a provision taxing all sales of stocks, bonds, and other securities of private corporations five cents on each $100 of (par) value. Senator Lodge, who proposed this tax, maintained that it would yield $15,000,000 per year. To what extent it would check speculative sales is uncertain, and therefore the productiveness of the tax cannot be confidently estimated. The Democrats opposed practically no objec

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tion to this tax. The tax on tea and the increased tax on beer have been formally abandoned. An amendment reducing by 20 per cent. the tariff on goods from countries adopting the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 was defeated by a vote of 26 to 31. Senator Carter, of Montana, was the only "regular" Republican who supported it.

It is difficult to conceive any justification for the appointment of John Russell Young as Librarian of the Congressional Library. Who is John Russell Young? Born 1841; common-school education; proof-reader at sixteen; successively reporter, editorial writer, managing editor, foreign correspondent, and for a short time a Vice-President of the Reading Railroad under President McLeod's calamitous administration. This is the record of a somewhat brilliant and fairly successful bohemian. He has never proved himself possessed of that broad culture, that knowledge of books, that special tact in dealing with men, that expert knowledge of library management, or that versatile genius in administration which sometimes serves in lieu of special preparation for such a post. There is a peculiar infelicity in his appointment, even as a political reward for services rendered, in the fact that his latest service to his party consisted in his residing during the late Presidential campaign at Canton, and writing of Mr. McKinley in newspaper letters. If Mr. Gladstone had appointed Labouchère to take charge of the British Museum Library, the appointment would not be far from parallel. The Congressional Library is to be one of the greatest in the world. It has been provided with a building which is probably the best library building in the world, and is so because the spoilsmen had no

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