Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-09-25
THE NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrOm our regular Correspondent. /

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. II, 1890.
Senator Carlisle thinks there Ia great
danger of a financial panic if the Re
publicans persist in allowing the
amendment to the tariff bill, which
provides for the removal ofall imported
goods from the government bonded
warehouses before October /, to stand
He says / "went to Senator Aldrich and
begged him to withdraw the amend
ment' but he refused. The amendment
was adopted because the Republicans
wish to punish the importers of the
country for their opposition to the tar.
if bill. We shall fight the amendment
in conference and try to avoid the crash
which threatens the money market u
Senator Vance was equally emphatic
in condemning the amendment. He
said: "I hardly see how crash can be
averted, and when it comes the coun-
try will have practical illustration OF
some of the iniquities of this tariff bill.
We shall endeaver to avert disastrous
results in the conference committee,
but fear that we shall not be allowed
to accomplish anything. The Republi.
cans seemed determined to be unjust,
even if it brings on a financial panic.
We can only protest.
The tariff bill is going through the
form of being considered by the House
committee will do nothing but recon-
mend Inconvenience in the Senate
amendments, leaving the fight to take
place in the conference committee.
The present intention is to gag the
House by the passage of a resolution in
troduced by Mckinley Saturday to pre-
vent consideration or voting upon any
fthe Senate amendment by the House
sitting as committee of the whole.
This action has been taken under Boss
Reeds orders-he knows that there are
q number of Republicans in the House
who would gladly vote with the Demo-
Gratis if they could get chance, on sew
eral of the Senate amendments.
The Louisiana delegation made a
strong protest before the Ways and
Means committee against the date
March 1, 189l--set for the sugar
schedule to go into effect. They showed
the committee that it meant ruin for
the sugar planters to be compelled to
sell their crop for the coming year in a
market brought down by free foreign
sugar, and asked either that the time
be extended to July /, or that the
change 60 into effect Immediately.
They got no satisfaction from the COM
mittee.
The Republicans are suspiciously
quiet about the proposed extra session,
garding 1t among them. They all want
the extra session, but lots of them want
Mr.. Harrison to assume the resp onsi-
bility by calling an extra session, while
he, and the members of his cabinet in
sist that Congress should take the re-
sponsibility by taking recess to No
vember 10. The object of them all is
the same-the passage of the obnoxious
force bill.
The apportionment bill which has
been introduced by Representative
Dunnell Is as partisan o measure as |
was ever before any Congress. 1t is in
tended to keep the Republican party in |
power for the next ten years. 1t was
prepared by Robert P. Porter, the nat
uralized Englishman at the head of the |
census bureau and its passage would be |
as gross an injustice!as the Republican |
party in all its history has ever perpe-
trated.
The facts about the Reed campaign |
are gradually leaking out. 1t is now
certain that protected manufacturers
had the "fat fried" out of them to the
extent of at least $100, 900 to 'elect Boss
Reed, who did so much for them in
railroading jug handled tariff bill
through the House. No wonder the
say that money was used
in Maine; and yet, Reed got smaller
vote than he did in 1876 or '8S.
The success of the democrats in pre-
venting the seating of two negro con-
testants in the House last week by
breaking quorum has caused many
Democrats to ask why the same tactics
were not adopted at the beginning Of
the session in order 70 have prevented
the adoption of Reeds Rules. Iam in
a position to answer that question. The
idea Of breaking quorum by absent
ing themselves from the House was
largely favored by the Democrats, and
would have undoubtedly been adopted
by them, but for the fact thet Mr.. Car
Isle than member of the House and
the recognized democratic leader, and
the late Samuel J. Randall, then on his
death bed, advised against it.
Congress was better employed on
than it has been for some time
past. In the Senate eulogies were de-
livered on the late s. J. Randall, and
In the House on Senator Beck.
There was a big row in the Republi-
can House caucus Saturday night.
Representative Payson led a revolt
against Reed and McKinley's gag reso-
Mtion, but the rebels humbly tucked
their tails between their legs and ac-
eepted the inevitable after Speaker
Reed got up and thundered his orders
for the Endorsement of the resolution.
Reed is greater than his party, and his
will is obeyed without question, or the
rebellious subject is reIegated to the