Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-09-27
WASHINGTON.

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Speaker Reed has been so badly beat
en- at his own game by the democrats
of the House that he offered through
his minions to agree that no more
democrats should be unseated at this
session if the democrats would stay
in their seats to make quorum. 1t
is unnecessary to say that the offer
was rejected-the democrats will
make no bargain with Reed. The
offer was not made until the Speaker
found out that he could not force the
democrats to stay in the House, not
even by locking them up, and Rep
resentative Kilgore had set an exams
pie by kicking open a locked door
that every democrat in the House
was prepared to follow If it became
necessary to do so to get out Of the
chamber. A number Of republican
Representatives are in hearty sympa-
thy with the democratic efforts to
prevent the unseating of two legally
elected democrats In favor of two
negro contestants: but they lack the
courage of their colleague, Mr.. Chea-
die of Indiana, who made strong
speech begging the members OF his
party not to attempt to commit this
outrage, simply because majority of
the elections committee had reported
in favor of the negroes. The negroes
will never be seated until the repub-
licans get a quorum.
The republican majority of the con-
ference committee have about
patched up an agreement on the tariff
bill, and it might have been reported
today, but it is presumable that the
republicans will hold it until they
can get a quorum Of republicans on
the floor of the House that may be
tomorrow or it may not be at all dur
ing this session. A prominent re-
publican member of the conference
committee, who was known to be
opposed to Blaine's Latin.American
reciprocity idea, was asked
WhV he voted for the reciD-
rocity amendment, son." he
replied, laughing, reciprocity is a
popular fad just now, and it is well
enough to have the name tackled onto
the tariff bill to help carry the un-
popular features of the bill" That
expresses in a nut shell the much
talked of amendment-it is only bun
combe.
Mr.. Harrison lacked the courage to
carry out his threat of vetoing the
River and Harbor bill. 1t is said
that certain Senator high up in the
councils Of the republican party in
formed him that if he vetoed that
bill a majority Of the republican SEN
ators had pledged themselves to
make war upon him personally dur
ing the remainder of his administra,
ton.
Senator Plumb gave the Treasury
department little raking over Fri.
day, because of its having entered
into limited partnership with LOT
of New YorkIspeculators, and Satur-
day Senator Cockrell reopened the
same wounds in few remarks objec>
ting to the consideration of Senator
Sherman's bill to reduce the amount
of bonds required of national banks
Mr.. Cockrell said that he proposed
when this bill was taken up, to offeI
an amendment requiring the with
drawal of all bond circulation and thu
substitution of Treasury notes-th,
best paper currency that any countr!
ever had. "That will take" he con
tinued, "the control of our finance
out of the hands of a combination
and monopoly. What has been seel
within the last few weeks has no
been creditable to the country. TIL
Secretary of the Treasury has bee
seen drawn on by spectators il
stocks and grain in New York,
pay out every dollar of cash surplu
in the Treasury in order to say
them and to save their imaginar
profits in speculation and gambling.
The bill shutting the lotteries an
newspapers which print lotter
advertisements out of the mails,
now a law. There are lots of rumol
about what the lottery people inten
doing to test the constitutionality {
the new law, but they all lack cor
firmation,