Show 1W1AE AftD COitDAUE Among tho measures reported from the ways and means committee of the House iu Congress is a bill introduced by Representative Repre-sentative BrtrAX of Nebraska to removo bindertwine from the tariff schedule and place it on tho free list When at the last session tho Senate struck off the duty on this article so extensively used in the harvest har-vest field it was pointed out as an evidence of the consideration the Republicans felt for the farmers But tho Houso ignoring I this consideration put twine back though reducing the amount of tho tariff It is not so great a tax as it was and is as noth ing compared with other impositions favorable favor-able to tho big cordage trust but still it amounts to 1000000 or moro per annum and is a punishment to that amount in I cash placed on the growers of grain for being I be-ing engaged in a business which sells in a free market and buys In a protected market mar-ket Since the nojournment of tho Congress I that adopted the now tariff the corduge trust has bought up all the rope and twine making establishments obtained control of all tho patents and fixed it so that no machinery suitable to the manufacture of these can bo made As THE HERALD readers read-ers know the prison board of the Minnesota Minne-sota penitentiary lately tried to purchase machinery of that kind in thc cast but foiled though they were permitted to buy somo old machines that had been thrown aside for improved new onou I What needs to be done with Mr BRTANS bill which IE excellent so far as it goes Is ito i-to amend it to include ell kinds of cordage ropes cables and string of every sort In which hemp flax manila jute and other weeds are component parts At the loot session the remonstrances of western Republicans against the binding twine tax were very feeble considering c iI the interest their constituents had in the question Many of those Republicans were left at home to ruminate over their recre ancy in matters of this nature The course of those remaining will be carefully observed to see if they havo learned anything any-thing from the lessons of the past |