Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-29
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between the friends of the bill extending
the bonded period on whisky in warehouse
and the friends of the tariff bill last night
failed to fix any day for the consideration
Of the whisky bill and the prospects now
are that there will be no action on the bill
before February ), the date at which nearly
a million Of gallons must come out of
bond. Mr. Butler said that ne still be-
Heves the bin viii pass before the end Of
the session. and the Kentucky members
say It is gaining strength every day, but
there is It,le probability of the passage of
the bill, before the tariff bill is out of the
way.
VIII IT PASS?
There IS great deal of speculation
every day II The cloak rooms of the senate
as to whether a tariff bill vii lbe passed this
session. One day the opinion OF senators
seem. to be one way and the next day the
other To-day quite a number Of sena-
tors said the prospects Of the bill were not
at all promising. The reduction made on
bar iron has led some Of the Republicans
to feel less hopeful than they did, and one
prominent Republican senator said: ''The
action Of the senate il putting lumber on
the free list angered two of
those on this side of the chamber,
and several more are out
OF their seats because of the reduction in
bar iron. As we proceed there will GER
taiuly oe other reductions, when we get
through With the different schedules Sthere
VIII be SO much dissatisfaction that l
should not be surprised if an attempt
We're made in q quiet way to kill the bill.
Tie representation Of the interests that
have been cut down viii be here in force,
and they VIII bring an immense pressure
to bear against the bill. Two forces will
be at work, one, the dissatisfied interests,
to klu the bill, and the other,
public and pressure, demanding a reduction
of the tariff, and which of these
two forces will prevail I do
not know, Of course, but my Judgment now
Is that no tariff bill will get through this
session.
SENATOR PENDLETON.
Taking a birds-eye view Of statesman
ship from the gallery of the senate cham
Der, with d reflective tendency toward
presidential possibilities,the observer nat
urally turned the telescope first on Senator
Pandletou, of Ohio, not because he looms
up in advance of other senators, but be-
cause he IS an Ohio man, and because he
has done something lately that has attract
ed attention. Pendleton is a man of i'm
pressive appearance and is one of the most
gorgeous entertainers il Washington. In
the views Of those entertained this is one
of the greatest qualifications for the posi-
ton of chief executive. But it is not the
only stock in trade of Mr.. Pendleton, for
he is q skillful politician and has the fac
ulty of hanging on through thick and
thin. He has not been without mistakes,
having been marked with the iron of presi-
Dental ambition twenty years or more
ago. He IS still in the lists. How many
and great nave been the honors heaped on
Mr.. Pendieton by the Democracy of Ohio,
the nomination for the vice presidency in
1854, and the solid support of the
Democratic delegation from Ohio in
1868 for INC nomination for president
would seem to exhaust the demand for
one man, but Pendleton is still standing
about in the track of the presidential
lightning,
JOHN SHERMAN.
John Sherman, the other Ohio senator,
still cuts very conspicuous figure in
the Legislative branch Of the government,
but as g candidate for president he only
reminds the beholders of some grand old
ancient ruin. Sherman grows better look
ing with age, and the food of years has
melted much of the ice which for so long
surrounded him. But still he is a soured
man, q man with a bitter recollection of
being taken in and done for
by those who should have
been his steadfast friends in 1880.
He was the victim of treachery in Ohio.
and the wrong will never be righted. He
is lucky to have refuge in the senate
and instead of feeding the fires of higher
ambition which doubtless still rage within
him, he would do well to look out for re-
turn to that body. The accomplishment
which gave Sherman his presidential
strength is now an old story, and he hasn't
even as good chance for occupying the
White house as David Davis, who sit slike
mountain in the chair of the presiding
officer of the senate. Davis looks
more like an obese curiosity than
man fit for the walks of craftsmanship
and the wonder is how man so gross in
body can prod his brain to activity. Davis
goes out of the senate without having
satisfied the hope which led him from a
life position on the supreme bench to the
field of active politics, but he has never
absolutely left the fence, and may come
into prominence again in the crash of
parties and the wreck Of politicians.
THOMAS F. BAYARD
has come to De regarded as one of those
men who never leave the presidential
race course, but the first obstruction
in his path is the fact that the state of
Delaware is not large enough home base
for so much of man. Even the powerful
influence of the Belmonts and the backing
of banks is not force great enough, even
when added to Bayard's own intellectual
strength and character as a senator, to lift
the head man in a melon patch like Della