The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The TARIFF REvIsIoN-ExCITING EPl-
sODE an THE HOUSE TABOR's
BRIDE

THE TARIFF HENISION-EACIAlNG XII
soDE an THE HOUSE TABoR's a
BRIDE.
WASHINGTON, ID. G. Mch. 3, 1882.
To the Editor Of The Morristown Gazette
Within four days offinal adjourn
ment of Congress, the distracted
question of tariff revision was refer.
red to a committee of conference,
thus imposing upon ten members
Give from each house) a duty that
the whole body has failed to perform.
But before entering upon considera-
ton of the tariff, the committee had
to determine the constitutional ques-
ton raised In the House, viz: wheth-
er the Senate, by originating the
tariff bill, has infringed the prero-
gative of the House. Should the
committee reach an agreement on
this question, there is still no assur
ance that it would be accepted by
the two houses. The conflict of OPP
inion as to what tariff legislation
ought to be has not been allayed.
If the result of the conference shall
be Objectionable to the low-tariff
men in Congress they viii oppose II,
and if it shall disappoint the protec-
tionists they will fight it, Thus the
outcome is deeply involved in doubt,
and depends upon the ability of the
conference committee to harmonic
the conflicting elements, first in its
own body, and then in the two
houses.
The most exciting episode of the
session occurred in the House last
night. The galleries were crowded,
as they have been for week, by
the family of members and their
friends, and by a large number of
transient visitors. The River and
arbor bill was under discussion.
Mr.. Van Voorhis, of New York, had
opposed the bill very bitterly, and,
moving to strike out the item for
the improvement of the Sacramento
river, said that if the chairman of
the Committee of Commerce, Mr..
Page, had not been from California
no such item would have been put
in it. at is so outrageous, SO dam
nable," continued Mr.. Van Voorhis,
that nobody but gambler and a
cut-throat would think of lacking
such an item to this bill" Imme-
diately there ensued such scene as
reminded one of the memorable at
tack of John Young Brown, of Ken
lucky, upon the present Governor
of Massachusetts,. There was an
excited and uproarous denunciatiOn
of the language used, a dozen mem
bers endeavoring, in the interest of
peace and good order, to pour kerO-
sene on the troubled waters. Mr..
Van VoorhIs, who is neither an
Adonis or a DemOsthenes, made an
abject apology, both to the House
and to Mr.. Page, but some mem
bers moved an expulsion, and Mr..
Herbert, of Alabama, would not be
placated until Mr.. Van Voorhis had
been reprimanded by the Speaker.
Mr.. Herbert, however, failed to car
~ his motion, much to the regret
Of the galleries, who were anxious
for scene with Mr.. Keifer in the
role of reprimander. At this point,
the diplomatic Kasson arose, and
with a voice much weakened and
cracked since he plead the cause of
the fraudulent President and was
paid by a mission to Vienna, argued
that there was no precedent for rep
remanding a member who had
withdrawn his offensive words and
made double apology both to the
House and to the offended represen-
tative.
The marriage of the recently di-
vorced vulgar man and ephemeral
Republican Senator from the rotten
borough of Colorado, occurred at
Wizards Hotel last night, and was
attended by the President. The
woman who was made the wife OF
the millionaire is physical beauty,
with face and form of almost ideal
outline. She is of medium height,
we'll rounded figure, twenty two
years old. The President paid par
ticular attention to the bride, and
Just before he left expressed wish
for a rose from her bouquet, which
she quickly chose and handed him.