St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-09
DIsHEARrENED DEMOCRATS.

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Representatives Complain of the
Course Being Followed by De mo
| cratic Senators in the Tariff
| Matter.
WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-There is q
feeling of great anxiety and depression
| among the leaders of the Democratic
party in the house on account Of the
| course being followed by the Demo
cratic senators in the tariff matter.
They are almost disheartened by it.
Pine Democrats of the ways and means
/ committee put their souls into the fight
lin the house and feel that the battle is
still on and must be kept up to the last.
I They think that the senate bill should
be fought with the greatest persistency
and vigor, so that every defect
in it may be exposed, and
feel that any course other toward
it would be equivalent almost to a
confession OF judgment. They are sur
prised at the passive way in which the
Democratic senators appear to be con-
Quoting themselves. = Nearly all the
hard work in getting up facts and
figures has already been done by the
ways and means committee, and the
senators have but to possess themselves
OF the information now easy OF access.
Yet it is complained they have shown
no disposition to do so, and none of
them has undertaken vigorous cham
pionship of the party cause. All the
Democrats of the house want is that the
defects they think they see in the SEN
ate bill should be dragged out into
daylight and vigorously attacked
and denounced. They do not care
whether the bill passes the SEN
ate or not, and they do not want
to have to take it up in the house at all
this session. They declare that the
point possible against the measure. and
then when it reaches the house it will
be allowed to lie in the committee.
They say, however, that they can not
afford to let the bill 60 without criti-
cism, as it has practically so far, and
that if the senators
FAIL TO DO THEIR DUTY
the ways and means committee will be
obliged to take it up. After all the
work they have done, the prospect of
having to 60 all over it again has a
horror for them, but if some of the
senators don't take up the cause they
feel that they will have to do so. One
of the members of the committee said
to-day that he felt when he thought
of it that death would be welcome
as relief from the task. but if their
folks in the senate did not take Zip the
have to when it came to the house.
This was spoken with genuine feeling.
The feverish anxiety of politicians
about the capitol concerning the COM
position IF the house in the next con-
gress was illustrated yesterday in a
marked manner. During the afternoon
a report spread like wild fire that Gov.
Hill had issued certificate of election
to Mr.. Bacon, the Democratic candidate
in the Fifteenth New York district. The
basis OF the report is said to be tele-
gram received by some one from New
York to that effect. Apparently no eff
fort was made to verify the report, but |
it was accepted on both sides as true,
and the buzz Of speculation became al |
most roar. Republicans, chagrined |
and indignant, said that the attempt |
to overturn their majority had been |
given up in the South as that would |
make it too unpopular and the leaders |
were now depending upon executives
and courts of Northern states to carry |
out their plans. Democrats accepted, |
as a matter of course, this reported adj |
dltion to the ranks of their members |
elect and claimed that it would result |
in giving them majority of one in the |
next house. The fact that Mr.. Bacon |
had gone to New York probably oper-
ated to prevent close inquiry of the |
truth of the report at the time. This
it occurred to some one, after
the publication of the fact, that GER
tificate had been issued to Mr.. Stivers, |
the Republican candidate, to inyesti- |
gate the origin of yesterdays rumor. 1t
was finally traced, it was said, to a |
facetious assistant doorkeeper of the |
house from New York, who stated it by |
saying that New York had saved her
bacon"