Show PORTO RICAN MATTERS NOW MOMI 1 f 0 Tl The Tariff Bill Still the Political Storm Center r FRIENDS A UNEASY UNI SY SYA A l Stroll Shang I the is II the Iho Wheeler Status In III tile the Correspondence March Porto nI lit can tariff bill to be the ml ail sterna Korm center When Wilen the bill was sent to the Senate the storm went with It but there nr ar II a number ot of n tam ah h a aI r elut feeling the effects ot of the storm edges edgel to list get ger about th Copular branch of Con Cl Vho would have bave thought asked one on or of th members member of Congress Congre nn one little Island would have hae UtI ut such a d devil of a rumpus Why It s ms as If some BOrne people VP that the th inure ot of the republic hangs um im th Ih tote fate of this 16 15 per ent nt tariff m 11 Porto Rican products Nv that th the contest ont t h has been trans ft Pd to fb the S Senate there Ihu Is II lees un unea ea eun n ss a among th the friends of oC the btU bill billa a 8 t l 11 ultimate fate ral for no on one von en I af G tn its It defeat at but there I Is Isa a dl 11 among senators fie II t bl Ih the effet rr t that thai the enactment or of this bill WIll have upon their t ants t Th criers and that haw have barn r by n lien have hH p that th the sentiment of Ih the I Is now In favor faor of lute lut fm rf trade with Puerto Rico mea and that this s d does I not seem eem to b be d 1 a as further con Gemming the bill hili and the arguments made mad In favor of It teach reach the people IT IS LLY TUX It hat bas been ata stated ted before that the J Philippines an and their products are really behind the Puerto Rican bill there is IB II a phase ot of the matter not gen emU orally leaders and andIn In Im that thir was ari an uneasy t ii feeling f i g the workingmen While there was 18 very little fear ot of un an influx of Malay labor there wu wee a decIded im that In case free trade wIth the Islands should be adopted M as a 11 policy large manufacturing establish meats ments would e a erected In those Is Islands islands lands ud and with the cheap labor to be obtained competition wIth American made goods would shut u up American mills and deprive the American work legman of employment This Thill feature 4 r w tr but sit It wa Mao well understood iq have be beep a controlling factor In the decision reached upon the Puerto JUran Itlean bill STATES STAnS OF WHEELER WHEELEn General Jo Joseph h Wheeler arrived In San o just In time to reAt read the announcement that Oscar W IV Under Underwood Underwood wood hid been ap appointed a 11 member of oC the ways wal and means commIttee E Even en since the be beginning or of the present su seg slon alon or of Congress tb there ro has b been en n a va n caner cane on the Democratic sIde of the committee It being understood that the plate place was reserved for tor General Wheel Wheeler er If hI he should como come hack back and take tak his place In the House During DunnE the tho three months there have hae been rumors that General Wheeler seas U about to return and finally he started Just as he reached country S Speaker Hender Henderson son made the appointment ot of Mr Un Underwood Underwood derwood It t le Is a tery Iery good selection as the young Alabama representative Is one ot of the coming men In the house and le Is already regarded as aB one of the leaders of his party But Dut the interest interestIng Ing Implication In the Is that General Wheeler Is not regarded b by Speaker Henderson as a member of th the House GAINED Lee Ite Mantle ot of Montana served four years In the Senate lie W was B also ap 1111 appointed pointed b by the governor before that time and was refuted refused n a seat eat Had he been seated he would have had n a six years servIce but he would have fall ed of oC the Immortality whIch he Is II now to have As long lont a as there Is a United States there will be a discussion of the Mantle case calle Eyel Every time a legislature falls to el elect t a senator and the gOY gov governor emor appoints the antle Caso case wilt will be discussed It le III like a dozen other cases where the name of the than Is Isu u used d to designate the case ClIe although th the man has bas long been lost sight eight of That time decisIon In Inthe inthe the Mantle rue 11 was close and that It was generally known that the sliver question Was Us an Important factor In denying Montana a HIlt eat and that It not settle the matter at nit all are facts that arc arl always brought broucht out when these thee cases calles are being cited 1 L |