Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom our regular Corrcspondept.I

WASHINGTON, ID. O., Aug. 20, 1880.
Boss Quay is again in supreme COM
mand Of the majority of the Senate.
He was lenient towards Senators Hoar.
Spooner and the rest of his opponents
letting them down easy by allowing
them to report new resolution in
place of theone offered by him. But 1t
amounts to precisely the same thing as
If his resolution had been adopted. The
tariff bill Is to be voted upon during
the first week or ten days of September,
and as a special sop to the radical ele-
ment the most of the Republican Sena-
tors have signed an agreement to vote
for the consideration of the Force bill
in December next. This does not mean
that all of the republican
Senators will vote for that atrocious
measure; for a number of them have
stated that while they were willing to
vote to have the bill considered they
proposed voting against it. The radi-
cal element hopes to gain four votes for
it from the new Senators from Idaho
and Wyoming.
Senator German was asked what the
Democrats Psspssed doing in regard to
the tariff bill. He said: mo agree
ment has been reached as to the close Of
debate upon the tariff bill. When there
has been sufficient, If not thorough
and satisfactory discussion of the bill,
the democrats will agree, in accordance
with the custom of the Senate, to take
vote upon it. The question has al.
ready been under consideration, but no
conclusion has been reached. The prop
osition for a closure must come from
the republicans. None has yet been
received. When it comes we shall de-
eide whether it is satisfactory, If not we
Senator German intimated that in two
weeks more the democrats, having
shown the most striking inconsistent
cies of the bill, would be perfectly willing
to have the republicans pass it., and let
the voters of the country, at the Con-
gressional elections, decide which party
was in the right.
Senator Carlisle presented an argu-
mentwhich no epublicanSenator could
answer when he showed by price lists
and actual bills of sale that certain
American manufacturers, who are
given an increase of duty upon pro-
ducts similar to those manufactured by
them upon their plea that they are nec-
essary to prevent their being driven
out of business by foreign competitors,
are selling their manufactures in for
eign countries much cheaper-in some
cases 33 and so per cent less-than they
sell the same articles in the United
States. Mr.. Carlisle said he thought,
and the consumers will undoubtedly
think with him that if these manufac-
turers could afford under the present
tariff to send their goods to foreign
countries to compete with foreign man
ufacturers of the same articles, and sell
them for less than they did at home,
that it would be manifestly unjust to
the home buyers to raise the duty in
order to allow these manufacturers
to make their American customers pay
a still higher price. No republican at
tempted to make specific answer to
Mr.. Carlisle's argument-it can't be an
swered. Protection" is the humbug
of the age.
If, in the face of the acknowledge
ment of the Commissioner of Pensions
that he borrowed $4,000 on notes en-
dorsed by George E. Lemon, the king
of the Washington pension attornies,
the republicans of the committee inves-
tigating Representative Cooper's charg-
es against Raum decide to white-wash
that official they will prove themselves
to be possessed of an unusual amount
of "gall" even for Reeds henchmen.
When this charge was first made, and
before investigation was odered, Mr..
Raum and his friends repeatedly stated
kLok hoI ondnrcn1 h Il.
notes. Finding that Cooper had abso-
lutte proof of the transaction he now
boldly admits it, and yet attempts to
deny that he has favored Lemon by ad-
vancing his business in the Pension of
fee. Lemon did not endorse those
notes for nothing, and If he had not
taken himself off to Europe to escape
testifying Mr.. Cooper would have made
that fact even clearer than it is now.
The committee which has taken q re-
cess to the first of September, has, by
its rulings (voted against by the demo-
cratic members) made it almost impos-
sible for Mr.. Cooper to prove the other
charges, but what is admitted should
be enough to make a vacancy in the
head of the Pension Office.
Speaker Reed could stand the pres
sure no longer, and on Saturday he
agreed that Thursday and Saturday of
this week should be devoted to the con-
sideration of measures reported from
the committee on Labor, and the House
so ordered. He heard from some of
the labor organizations in his district.
The late Senator Beck was eulogized
in the Senate on Saturday. Senators
Carlisle, Blackburn, Vest, Ingalls, and
Allison paid glowing tributes to the
memory of the deceased statesman.
The bill for government inspection of
meats for export, which makes little
czars of the President and the Secre-
tary of agriculture, has gone to the
President for his approval.
Brigham's Break.