Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-01-05
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.
1t is probably as certain as anything in the
future can be that tariff bill will pass the
House this session. There will be a 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 re-
treats. The majority of the Democrats will
start out to get as much tariff reduction and
as little protection as they can. But they
are prepared to retreat sooner than take a de-
feat When ever they find they can not get
what they would like they will compromise,
low this plan throughout, compromising as to
every detail until they have secured bill
that can pass the House While starting out
with the avowal of antagonism to protection
as principle and maintaining that position
to the last, they will go so far in their CON
cessions probably as to accept bill for
which Mr.. Randall and his followers can vote
without doing violence to their protection
theories. Yet it is expected to get bill that
will make a considerable reduction in the
revenue. The proposition going into the
committee will be for pretty stiffbacked tar
if reform without any recognition of protec
ton principles. Its management, it is I'M
derstood will be directed by Mr.. Carlisle as
much as if he were the chairman of the
Ways and Means committee. The commit
tee go into their work with their course al
ready marked out for them. Mr.. Gay will
go on the committee to represent Mr.. Randall,
unless the Speaker changes his mind, and the
two factions of the party will probably come
to an understanding of what is to be done
before hey get into the House. The bill will
be taken up item by item and an agreement
or compromise reached at each step. Proba
bly, no one reduction will be made just as at
first proposed, but each item will probably
remain in the bill in modified form. A
great effort will be made to consider the mat
ter impassonately and not to insist upon any
thing that would cause serious disagreement.
The Blair educational bill is almost certain
to pass tn. ough both branches of Congress
and be sent to the President. 1t was defeat
ed in the last Congress through being smooth
cred in the committee and buried in the cal
endar. This plan will hardly succeed again.
1t is almost sure to pass. Ii is about as GER
tain of being vetoed by the President. The
President has intimated as much quite broad
ly, and some who ought to know his views on
the subject 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 mine of the members
were born in the State of Pennsylvania, 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 their eyes to the blue glass of Ken
lucky. Virginia comes next with twenty -one
of the sons of her soil sitting as lawmakers |
at the Capitol. There are nineteen natives |
of North Carolina in Congress, while the old |
commonwealth of Massachusetts claims ma
ternity over sixteen. The District of Column |
ba 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 Congressional Record. Con-
necticut has one less, and New Jersey and
Delaware each have four. There are thirteen
Congressman who sing my Maryland" and
fourteen 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 Michi-
ganders and sixteen Georgia crackers. The
natives of Missouri number ten. Those born
in Louisiana are half that number. There
are six men in Congress born in the State of
Illinois, while Wisconsin's pride spreads over
two. Indiana has the unlucky number of
thirteen. Both her Senators were born in
in Ohio. Five members of the present Con-
gress 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.