The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-03-15
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Mar 9th. 1883.

"Anything to delay the bill. is the
ecret motto that seems to have been
adopted by the republican members of
the Ways and Means committee of the
House in their dealings with the now
perfected bill to reduce the war tariff,
under which the industries of the
country are staggering. The whole
committee has held two meetings this
week, at both of hich the republican
m >mbers plainly showed that hey in
tended to delay the report of the bill
20 the House as long as possible Ii is
we'll for the country to know who is
responsible for this delay.
Already the republican aspirants for
the Presidential nomination are black
guarding each other. The Grant Blaine
fight of 1875 bids fair to be repeated in
their national convention, only this
time it will be Sherman snd-some-
body else.
senator Beck will make q speech In
the Senate on Tuesday next, in which
he says that he will prove the charges
which SenatorSherman tried to squlrm
out of the other day, and besides he
gives notice to the Ohio Presidential
aspirant, that he will read extracts
from speeches of Senators Allison and
Ingalls,, denouncing the demonetiza
tlon of silver in terms compared with
which his own language was mild
| Poor old John. And this Ia only the
beginning.
The new Chinese treaty is complete
and will shortly be signed by Seoreta-
~ Bayard for the United States, ana
Oy the Chinese Minister for the Em-
peror of China. The treaty contains
| rigid provisions against the importa-
! tion of Chinese laborers into this cOun .
| Try. only those Cinnamon having
property valued at 81 900 or more,
shall have the privilege Of returning
to this Iuntry shoald they visitChins,
The Republican memDsrs of the
| House are much divided on the tariff
question. and unless the republican
mittee shall bring forward bill re
ducing the revenue to as great an ex
tent az the Mills bill, it Is extremely
likely that many of them will vnte
with the democrats for that measure.
Their constituents demand that they
shall vote for reduction of the reve.
nues of The Government, aud they
dare not refuse. even If fthey wanted tp.
Mr.. Th, mas, republican represent.
atlve from Illinois, has introduced q
bill In the House to which all good
| citizens can say amen. 1t provides
that any person or firm who shall use
the picture Of any female, living or
dead, who 10 or was the wife, daughter
mother or sister of any citizen OF the
| United States, as an sdsers isement,
without the written consent OF the
person whose likeness IL to be so used,
shall be guilty of high misdemeanor
and liable to q fine not less than $500
nor more than $5 900. and to be im
prisoned until the d e is paid.
John Sherman Is trying very hard
| to str8ighten out his very crooked rec
ord as public man. He tried to make
1t appear that hisNashville speech aud
his Springfield. H., speech were con
sistent, but failed most sjgnally. On
Tuesday he tried to answer the charge
of Senator, Beck, made recently, that
be was guilty of having secretly con.
| nived at the characterization of silver.
| Again he made q failure. No use, J ohm
you cannot make water ruu up hill
nor can q record with as many twists
| in 1t as yours has, ever be straig ghtened
John Sherman thinks he Is to he pom
mated Tor President this year. and ev-
cry democrat juius him In hoping be
| may be, for no easier man to beat could
De put up by the republicans.
eeuator Ingalls, made q political
speech In the SenateTussdsy, in which
Senatorial dignity" was trampled
under foot to a greater extent than
was ever known before. Truly the
Presidential bee is dangerous thing
TO be buzzing around the average
mans head In this case 1t caused
tho gentleman from Kansas to lose
that valuable portion of his anatomy
entirely. senator Blackburn made q
dignified reply to the stump speech of
Ingalls,, in which be completely de-
molished the little argument there
was in the Kansas mans impsssioued
remarks.
"A rumor from New York. started
probably by the republicsns, say there
Is strohg anti Cleveland feeling
among democratic members Of Con-
gress. Your correspondent has dill.
gently searched for this feeling, bus
failed to find it. Every democrat qQes.
toned was enthusiastic for the renom.
iuation of Cleveland, snd they all ex-
pressed q belief that he would be
nominated by scclamstion and tris
umphantly elected.