St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-08

The British house of lords in some re-
srects holds 4 similar relation to parlia-
ment that the senate in this country
does to the house. The house of lords
NAV legally refuse its Endorsement to
measures adopted by the more popular
body. 1t does this at times, when pub
lie sentiment is not specially stirred in
the matter. Bat it does not dare to
stand in the way of any important meas
ure that the country demands. 1t is
forced to keep the other branch and the
people in friendly humor. or it would be
shOrn of lis venerable prerogatiyes, if
not entirely eliminated. 1t is in COM
position and construction farther away
from the people than the senate, but
1t rarely attempts TO stand In the
way of any popular demand. The
tariff monopoliSts have their strong
hold in the senate. At the COM
ing session they viii have fourteen
majority, including the senators from
Wyoming and Idaho. This is the larg
est they have had since the var period.
Their control of the senate has been
uninterrupted since the war, except the
two years when the opposition had
nominal majority of one or two by the
aid OF Judge DAVIS. 1t has been their
good fortune to secure the senators
from all the six new states. But for
these the senate would have majority
against the Republicans when the Dem
Ocratic house comes in. There are in
dications. however, that this abnormal
nf "a sic will
be permanent. In the territorial condi-
ton the tendency is TO keep right with
the party in power. In Montana,
the DakOtas, and perhaps in 9TH
ers, the currents operative in the
Older states are being felt. The
theory of the parties who pro-
cured the passage of the MCKINLEY
tariff, that they had a Gibraltar in the
senate for al least decade. was pausi-
bic. Only political cyclone could dis
turb their possession. But the cyclone
has got started before they had noticed
that the elements were foreboding
storm. The Indications now are that
nearly half the majority of the Repub-
licans will be missing next year. Only
derision met any in timation that states
like Wisconsin, Kansas, South Dakota,
Illinois and New hampshire could be
shaken out of the deep Republican
grooves, yet it is believed frem present
reports that they will all send tariff re-
formers to the senate. That body is
not SO far way from the popular touch
that it can ignore its beart beats.
1t will not dare to stand in the
path of the measures that come bearing
the stamp of the national purpose.
That body sought to make the McKIN-
LEY bill less objectionable in many
features, and there need be little
apprehension that a well adjusted
tariff reform measure. to take the place
of the odious connection the country has
So emphatically repudiated. will not
find enough votes on the Republican
side tn enable the Democrats to pass it.
Even If HARRISON should have the nerve
to interpoSe his veto, it would but deray
the measure for year or so. and add to
the burdens his party will have to carry
Ill the campaign of 1892. The country
is on the track of tariff reduction, rather
than revision by the friends of protec-
ton, and parties in the way will find
the better example in the course that
fastened from the rails as the locomo-
tive approached.