Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
WASHINGTON.
Speculations on the Senate Tariff Bill
Hayes Coming to the Front
Again Blaine Probably to Fig
ure in Washington Journ-
alism.

at his Georgia home, Senator Colquitt |
said that if Gen. Harrison was looking
for respectable Southern Republican
for his Cabinet he could not do better
than to select Hon. A. +. Buck, of
Atlanta.
The Republican Senators, true to
the traditions of their party, played
a confidence game in order to get a
date set for the final vote on the Sen
ate tariff bill. They held caucus
and decided against taking a Christ
mas recess. They then appointed a
committee to confer with the Demo-
Gratis, and instructed that committee
to offer to vote for the recess provid-
ed the Democrats would agree to set
a day for the final vote on the tariff
bill. The Democratic Senators, not
desiring to retard other necessary
legislation in the hopeless effort ofpre-
venting the passage of the tariff bill,
agreed to take the final vote on that
measure January 2lst. Then the Re-
publicans voted for a recess from last
Friday to Wednesday, January End.
Had the Democrats refused, the SEN
ate would have been only nominally
in session during the Holidays, as no
power on earth could have held
quorum of the Senate here during the
Holidays. However, the action of
the Democratic Senators is generally
commended here, because everybody
is heartily sick and tired of tariff talk,
and the Republicans of the Senate
were fully determined to pass the
bill before taking up anything else,
therefore the sooner it is over the bet
ter.
That large portion of the Republi-
can party known as the "workers"
and the "boys" are terribly alarmed
at the indications which now point to
another reign of the "goOdy-goody"
element in the White House. Ruth
erford B. Hayes has been dragged out
of the obscurity into which he had
naturally gone, and will, it is said, be
power with Harrison. Hayes, it is
well known, hates Blaine with an in
tensity as great as it is possible for
his small brain to hold, and has new
err forgiven him for abiding to him
during his occupancy of the White
House as "that man Hayes" there
fore, it is not at all surprising that
Hayes should be working actively
against Blaine. Plat, of New York,
is also obnoxious to Hayes. In fact
about nine-tenths of the Republican
party are in fair way to get left out
in the cold, and a scare of the biggest
sort has been developed among them
by the news frem indianapolis,
Whether there is any real cause for
this scare among the working repub.
licans, am not in position to say,
but l will say that if Harrison at
tempts TO make up his cabinet leav-
ing such men as Blaine and Plat out,
he will deliberately walk into the
worst hornets nest he ever saw, and
will make himself more unpopular
with his party, if such thing be
possible, than Hayes was when he
was President.
John Sherman made speech to a
negro club the other night, advising
them to acquire education and prop.
erty in order to obtain the respect OF
the world. John got his education
while young, and the most of his
property while Secretary ofthe Treas.
ury, so that now he is both educated
and rich, and yet there are many peo
pie who cannot respect John Sher.
man.
l understand that negotiations have
already been closed fer the purchase
Of the Washington Post by James G
Blaine, with proviso that they are
off if he goes into the Cabinet. Ir
other words, if Harrison leaves hin
out Blaine proposes to make thu
White House very warm place fol
somebody.
"Tittle Billy" Chandler has beer
presenting more petitions to the Sen
ate from alleged citizens of Soutl
Carolina, setting forth the fact tina
the petitioners were at last election
denied the right to vote. A curious
thing about three of these petition,
was that all of the signatures were il
the same hand writing. Perhaps
Little Billy" has established a pc
tition factory of his own.
What will be done with the Senate
tariff bill when it reaches the House