News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-01-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent

FROM WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. D. c.,
Jan. 2, 1888.
1t is probably as certain as anything
in the future can be that tariff bill
will pass the House this session.
There will be fight. 1t will begin
almost as soon as the holiday recess
is over. The ''plan of campaign"
adopted at Oak View will be carried
out. 1t consists of series of sharp
battles and retreats. The majority of
the Democrats will start out to get as
much tariff reduction and as little pro-
lection as they can. But they are pre-
-4ssred to retreat sooner than take a
defeat. Whenever thee find they can
not get what they would like they will
compromise, taking the best they can
get. They will follow this plan
throughout, compromising as to every
detail until they have secured a bill
that can pass the House. While start
ing out with the avowal of antago-
nism to protection as principle and
maintaining that position 10 the last,
they will go so far in their concessions
probably as to accept bill for which
Mr.. Randall and his followers can
vote without doing violence to their
protection theories. Yet it is expec-
ted to get bill that will make con-
siderable reduction in the revenue.
The proposition going into the COM
mittee will be for pretty stif-backed
tariffreform without any recognition of
protection principles. Its manage
ment, it is understood, will be direct
ed by Mr.. Carlisle as much as if he
were the chairman of the ways and
means committee. The committee 60
into their work with their course al
ready marked out for them. Mr.. Gay
will go on the committe to represent
Mr.. Randall, unless the Speaker
changes his mind, and the two fac
tons of the party will probably come
to an understanding of what is to be
done before they get into the House.
The bill will be taken up item by item
and an agreement or compromise
reached at each step. Probably no
one reduction will be made just as at
first proposed, but each item will prob
ably remain in the bill in modified
form. A great effort will be made to
consider the matter impassionately
and not to insist upon anything that
would cause a serious disagreement
The Blair educational bill is almost
certain to pass through both branches
of Congress and be sent 10 the Presi-.
dent. 1t was defeated in the fast Con-
gress through being smothered in the
committee and buried in the calendar.
This plan will hardly succeed again.
It is almost sure to pass. 1t is about
as certain of being vetoed by the Pres
ident. The President has intimated
as much quite broadly, and some who
ought to know his views on the SUBJ
ject declare that the bill cannot get
his signature.
In the present Congress New York
takes the lead in the greatest number
of native statesmen. In New York
were born fifty-one of the men now
serving in Congress. The great State
of Texas has one native Texan at the
Capitol. Thirty-nine of the members
were born in the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, and have nursed the principles of
protection from her breast. Thirty
eight, only one less, first saw the light
in the Buckeye State, and twenty
three first opened 10 the blue grass of
Kentucky. Virginia comes next with
twenty-one of the sons of her soil sit
ting as lawmakers at the Capitol.
There are nineteen natives of North
Carolina in Congress, while the old
commonwealth of Massachusetts now
claims maternity over sixteen. The
District of Columbia has one man In
the House Arkansas has two; Iowa
and Florida one each Maine nine
New Hampshire six, and Vermont
nine. Little Rhode Island has five
SONS who can talk into the Congress
sional Record. Connecticut has one
less, and New Jersey and Delaware
each have four. There are thirteen
Congressman who sing "My Mary
land" and fourteen who were born
under the shade of the Palmetto tree.
Mississippi points with pride to six
sons in Congress and West Virginia
goes her one better. There are ten
A1ichiganders and six Georgia crack
ers. The natives of Missouri num-
Der ten. Those born in Louisiana
are half that number. There are six
men in Congress born in the State Of
Illinois, while the pride Of Wisconsin
spreads over two. Indiana has the
unlucky number of thirteen. Both
her Senators were born in Ohio. Five
members of the present Congress were
born in England, eight in ireland,
seven in Scotland, two in Germany,
two in Bavaria, one in Sweden, two
in Norway and three in Canada.
LENox.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, who