News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. G.
March "a. 1884.

March "a, 1854.
Tomorrow the fate of two Democrat |
ic measures will be settled so far as
their fate can be by action of the
House. The first and most important
to Democrats, is the bonded whisky |
bill, on which vote is expected to be
taken. This bill from allappearances
will fail to pass. The other measure,
the Morrison tariff bill, will be consid-
cred by the Democratic caucus, and |
il may be confidently predicted, that
despite the efforts of Randall & Co.,
it will receive the endorsement of the
caucus and of sufficient number of
Representative TO secure its adoption
by the House. The fact IS apparent,
that in the present phase of the mat
ter, unless the party is whipped into
its support, there will be no party
left. The party in a majority Of the
States, through its conventions and by
its national platform is committed to
the anti-protection idea and the same
is in accord with all Democratic prec-
edent, and obliterating this measure
at this time, leaves the party without
a single plank for a platform other
than that "we want the offices held by
the other fellows"
That defeat awaits the party IN
November, seems to be accepted by
all who have carefully surveyed the
situation, while it appears equally
apparent, that in next few years
reduction of the present high tariff
will become a necessity. Theyoung-
er members of the Democratic party
drgue that it is better to be defeated
fighting for a principle that will
eventually prevail, and may bring
victory, than to be defeated as they
will be anyway, after cowardly back
down. They say that if the Republi-
can party succeeds in November, the
next Congress being Republican will
adopt tariff measure fully as sweep
ing as that of the Morrison bill, and
unless they steal march on this is
sue by its endorsement, in the future
contests they will still be left without
a platform, and only be left to follow
behind the Republican procession.
1t is hoped that so soon as the
House shall get rid of the whiskey
bill, and the caucus determines what
it will do with the Morrison bill, there
will be an effort 10 attend to the reg
ular appropriations and the measures
of national importance now pending.
The Blair educational bill is the I'M
finished business in the Senate. SEN
ator Blair is still hopeful that it will
pass An attempt to set it aside for
the consideration of the pleuro-pneu-
monia bill, and another to send it
back to the committee for revision,
which if successful, will be equiva-
lent to its defeat for the present ses-
sion, will probably be made.
The bill for the establishment of a
bureau Of animal industry, to prevent
the expectation of diseased cattle
and to provide means for the suppress
sion and extirpation of pleuro-pneu-
monia and other contagious diseases
among domestic animals, which has
passed the House and is now before
the Senate, is likely to have a hard
time getting through the latter body,
If indeed it succeeds in being passed
in any shape. The measure is being
strenuously opposed by the great live
stock interests. Some of the best le-
gal talent that could be procured has
been sent here to show why the bill
should not ripen into a law. Hon.
Emory Storrs appeared before the
Senate Committee on Friday and made
a mastery argument against the
measure.
The bankruptcy bill will be called
mp in the Senate at an early day.
There is no measure of greater impor-
lance to the commercial interests of
the country before Congress than this.
That law of the nature named in the
Oil should be enacted is generally con-
coded, but the precise shape that it
should take is the unsettled question.
Ihere are several little Presidential
oooIns about, heretofore but little men
tioned booms no larger than a mans
hand, and which seem to have no
more commercial value than q last
years birds nest, but they have IL
them possibilities which make the noe ;
SCISSORS of big white elephant booms !
turn pale at the very mention. The
position of the Republican party two
months before the meeting of the CON
vention respecting the man to be
p aced at the head of the ticket, is
very much the same as it was four
anu eight years ago at the same dis
lance from the nomination, and on