Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-07-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[FrOm our regular correspondent
nWAsHINaToN, ,July 9th, 188S

Representative Mills, ofTexas. is the
happiest man in the House, and he has
a good right TO be. He has maintained
from the time his tariff bill was first
presented to the House that it would
pass. He was laughed at by some,
sympa thizeN with by some, Land be-
lieved by none. And now it is con-
ceded by all, friend and foe alike, that
tffebilbwillSbe passed by the House in
short time. He has seen his bill en-
dorsed by most gof the State eonven-
ventions and by the great natidnal con-
vention of his party. Is not all this
enough to make man happy? s I;
The President has vetoed another
batch of private pension bills, and ac-
companying one of the vetoes was a let
ter of some length, which must have
brought bushes of shame to the faces
of more than one member of the House
and Senate pension committees. He
fully explained his position in re-
gard to this class of legislation, and
proved conclusively to the mind of any
unprejudiced reader, that he is not UNI
friendly to the soldier or his widow
The great number of vetoes have been
caused by the careless manner in which
these bills have been passed by Con-
gress. ' .''. ''.'.' s'
The Republicans are not dwelling in
unity. Representative Cannon, of Illi-
nois, and Kelley, sometimes called
"Pig iron," of Pennsylvania, have been
at daggers' points, and over what? The
tariff. Cannon believes in free sugar,
and bounty for the American manu-
facturer; Kelley believes in high pro-
tective tariff, and wants to know why
such an idea is not just as applicable to
the sugar planter of Louisiana as to the
eastern manufacturer. Kelley wanted
to read Cannon out of the Republican
party for daring to have an idea outside
of protection. The Democrats of the
House, who are, with half a dozen ex-
ceptions, completely united in favor of
revenue reform, enjoyed the wordy duel
between the Republicans.
The House is working very hard to
finish up the business before it; the
Senate is taking things in its usual
leisurely way. Last week it was in
session only two days. ~r as
Now that the Republicans of the
Senate are confronted with the neces-
sity of getting up a tariff bill which
shall represent the opinions of the Re-
publican party, in order to offer it as
substitute for the Mills bill when that
measure gets to the Senate, they are in.
a quandary as to what to do; every
Senator has a different idea as to what
is best. They are realizing the old
adage that sit is easier to criticise than
to GREATER s@S T. aS&ts T. 40 - Il.
The report that Postmaster-Ge General
Dickinson had written letter protest.
ing against the railway mail employees
being placed under the provisions of
the civil service law, was entirely with
out foundation. 4
"a The House has passed the Holman
substitute for the Senate railroad land
forfeiture bill. The Senate bill forfeited
5, 81, 1896 acres. Aslight difference.
Among the thousands of Democrats.
who attended the Baltimore conven-
ton of Democratic clubs, and after
wards came through Washington, was
Hon: John Wirlans, Mayor of James
vile, Wisconsin, and who IS under
stood to be the Democratic nominee for
ofthat State this year. In
reply to questions as to the prospect. Of.
Democratic success in : Wisconsin, Mr..
said: "We shall make q very
strong effort to carry the State this fall
for Cleveland, Thurman and tariff re-
form. The effort is alreadyunder way.
Our Democratic clubs are strongly
and numerous. We shall
push them in every direction, and
shall make the first strong and united
effort to carry the State since the Til
den and Hendricks campaign. The
have been growing weaker
there for years, and their present atti-
tude on the tariff is the last straw. Our
people, irrespective of party, are tired
of being mercilesslv taxed for the bene-
fit of privileged class of manufactur-
ers."
John Sherman is still growing about
the alleged purchase by Alger of fifty
Of the formers Southern delegates to
the Chicago convention. 1t viii. prob
ably take Sherman long while to re-
cover from the loss of his money and
If Alger bought any
Southern Sherman delegates, it is ex-
Lremely probable that he was the sec
Dnd purchaser.
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