New-York tribune., 1888-04-12
WON BY THE FILIBUSTERS.
THEY SECURE A BRIEF TRIUMPH.
THE PRESIDENT CRACKS HIS WHIP OVER
RECALCITRANTS.

THE PRESIDENT CRACKS HIS WHIP OVER
RECALCITRANTs.
CONSIDERATION OF THE DIRECT TAX BILL TO BE-
POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 15-END OF THE
LONG DEADLOCK IN SIGHT-soME STUPID
TALsEHooDS ABOUT STATE AGENTS
l. - EXPosED-MyTHICAL LoBBIES
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. D ~
lBY TELEGRAPH THE rRIBUyEI "
WASHINGTON, April ia Democratic caucu
adjourned at midnight after agreeing support
motion for adjournment in the House tomorrow,
aud postponing further consideration OF tho Dis
trict Tax bill until December 15, with the UNDER
standing that at that time 1t shall be debated for
three days and a vote taken at the end of that
period
At q late hour this afternoon, after having been
in continuous session for thirty-one hours. the
II ouse took another recess until 11:45 tomorrow
morning in order to give the Democrats an oppor-
tunty to hold caucus the subject Of the Direct
Tax bill The result OF the caucus will determines
whether the deadlock which has now entered
upon its egnth day, shall continue not
resolution was submitted TO tho caucus
pledging its supporters to s1jOurnment of the
House tomorrow. 1t led to spicy and ani-
mated debate. On the outside it was reported that
the Democratic statesmen had a sort of monkey
and parrot time all to themselves lt Is under'
stood that those W no venured TO JOIN in the House
the fortunes of the majority because they thought
IL was right have been threatened by those usually
looked npon as the mouthDieccs Of the President
with the latters dlspleasure. The tDreats ara
believed TO have produced the desired effect
upon the recalcitrant members. Sufficient num-
Der in favor of the resolution before the oau~
Gus once secured, adjournment OF the House to-
morrow will follow as matter of course. With it
will end The legislative day of April A, which has
lasted nearly eight full calendar days and with II,
too. VIII fall the Direct Tax bi-for the present at
least.
SORRY PLIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN BRIGADIERS.
Nothing indicates more clearly the sorry plight
to which the Southern Brigadiers in their efforts
to subdue the majority have been reduced, than
the stupid lies told in free trade organs regarding
the doings Of an alleged lobby" in connection
with the passage of the Direct Tax bill For tho
last few days dispatches sent to The New-Yorls
Herald" by a particularly clever chap who could
probably tell camel from clothes line at
single glance, if he were pushed very hard. have
rung with narrowing accounts of the insidious
tactics of this lobby, IN whose interest it is as
| serted by inference, sxtysiX Senators and nearly
three times that number of corrupt Representa-
tives arc working night and day to the exclusion
| of all other business. " The Times" this morning
re-echoes the same tale, informing its readers,
among other things, what rewards the dinerenD
! State agents-another name for lobbyiSts-woud
! reap in the bill became law Thus 1t shows
! that the agent of the State of New-fOrk woud
secure s553, 1872, he having been promised, Tho
Tines says, twenty-five per cent OF the amounn
| collected.
This will be news to General Farnsworth, tha
State agent, and must be particularly gratifying
TO the fr, dent whose intimate friend the General
is and has been for number OIL years IN fact,
he Is commonly supposed to be Am q member OF tho
| chief. The President cannot fail to feel proud
of the friendship of man who can " scoop in"
fat fees for lobbying in this manner-over half z
million at - time.
THE MYTHICAL AGENT FROM ILLINOIS.
The public is also informed by the same authors
ty that the State of Illinois has agreed to pay its
agent 20 per cent, or $685. Of the amount ap-
proprated under the bill Who that lucky man
| is, is not stated The astute correspondent seems
to have forgotten IL ever he knew, that the Legis
lature of Illinois refused not long ago to sanction
the appointment of an agent in Washington. But
that does not matter as long as the Aforesaid
correspondent continues to heat his imagination
! with the thought that the Direct Tax bill Is
cleverly devised scheme TO defeat the revision of
the tariff.
Ohio's State agent is put down by The Tines
as looking for S391, 772, only trife less than
! lucky General Farnsworth hopes TO get. This
amount is 25 per cent of the due to Ohio.
Unfortunately, dispatch received by Judge f. b.
Taylor this afternoon, and which he sought to read
on the floor of the House, dispels this nice piece
of fiction. The dispatch reads:
To Hon. f. B. TAYLOR wasSin9ton wSin9S%' on0 ADrl L.
T0days Enquirer say, shs. 1.-The 1 S SsgYork Herald.
Sas per Ss fs
6aa ana ho@ @ pesss sS IA a @ ss passed 4 SS Sa;
will no doubt pass # Within few few days aghorzins III.
%Haoyer nay be f:.unded to all costs, com
vided or can be allowed
have alsS It stated in the papers tha. Ohio.
us to have this direct refunded enable 70
Suanedy % false 90 Our revenues are ample every
for the direct tax money, We want it simply because
the h 90 hr owes 70 S ana oud repa
It. 'N''''' J. B. FoRAKER Governor.
NO COMMISSIONS TO BE PAID IN MICHIGAN.
The Herald asserted yesterday that the agent
Of the State of Michigan would collect 40 per cena
of the amount due to his State, or 81 o,6ooa
Here is dispatch which Congressman Allen, OF
Michigan attempted to read in the House, when
one Of the ilibusters, who choke off all Discus
sion, objected:
viii viii Be- ss baid s1i'o LII inc S'A'' f's''pc 9TqE
That Michigan has State Agent was news to
Senator Palmer. He had never heard OF bis eN-
stence before; neither had Senate, Stockbridge,
or indeed any other member of the Michigan dele
cation. The same might be said OF another state
Agent existing in the imagination only Of " Tho
Herald correspondent the State Agent for Maine:
heard of any such person before. The Massachu-
setts State Agent was To receive 20 per cent on
s700a94, or 81 $4,000. Governor Long to-day
the collection of this debt in Washington. Smi.
lar statements were made in regard TO number
of States which were said TO have employed
agents for this purpose, by persons competent "a
speak on the subject.
OF course there are States which have agents
in Washington-New-Yo Pennsylvania, ONO
and Virginia, for instance-but they are generally
paid salary. and rarely. if ever, q commission.
Upon whose authority these agents were to coiieco
these royal commissions has not been stated.
Nothing less, certainly, than an act OF the State
Legislature could legalize such contracts and exS
cept In the case Of South Carolina, no snch con>
tract is known to have passed any Legislature.
SILLY FALsEHooD EASILY REFUTED
Another statement made by the organs OF the
ilibusters dcnounces the majority Of the Judiciary
Committee as practically working in the interest
of the lobby" in having struck out Of the bill
as IL passed the Senate the provision which for
bade the payment of any money appropriated un,
der the bill to agents and middlemen. AS q mat-
ter OF fact the provision has not been struck out
of the bill at an IL still remains there, subject