Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
Inertia on Great Issues, Concern
on Secondary Questions.
How Sugar Night Be Used to Force the
Latin Americans to Raise Their
Tariff Blockade.
How the Admins tratiUn Forces Its silver Pol
Icy on the People, But on the
Tariff is Indifferent
CALLED IN DEMOCRATIC AID.


Joined hands with the Republicans in the
house to-day to defeat the free coinage
of silver. Every Texas vote was cast
the right way. A golden opportunity
was lost not only for party
advantage, but for the high
est interests of the country
at large. Had the Democrats acted
solidly the administration would have
been in the most awkard predicamept.
1t is conceded that the president would
have vetoed the bill as it passed the SEN
ate. To have done this meant
to bring down almost sure de-
feat on his party in the next
presidential election. This argument
was used for all 1t was worth by such
leaders as German of Maryland, who
pleaded with tho anti-silver Democrats
to change their votes, but
ALL IN VAIN.
BY the result in the house to-day
Harrison is relieved of what
promised to be the gravest embar-
rassment that could confront an
administration. 1t is a reflection that
he is thus lifted out of the nine-hole by
Democratic ali. As matters now stand
islation will be enacted. The
conference committee will doubtless
agree on the purchase, say of four
and half million of bullion monthly,
and the issue probably of half that
amount of silver certificates. This will
be no great change from the present
order and it is not likely that the senate
will accede to any such proposition. On
the radical difference of policy between
the two houses it will be surprising
If ANYTHING is DONE.
The passage of the general election bill
was foreshadowed in the house on the
conclusion of the silver question when a
resolution was adopted fixing on
July 3 for the final vote on
the bill. The resolution carried
however, By only seven majority aud
would have been beaten had not so
many Democrats been away from their
seats. There is much ceusure heard of
those Democrats who are away from
Washington just now. 1t seems that
they think their fences of more import
auce than the defeat of infamous legis-
islation like the Lodge election bill.
How their constituents may view it
when they understand the necessity of
every Democrat being at his place in
ton.
Col. Peter Smith left for Texas to-
night via Chicago. He is hopeful of the
early passage of the Fort Worth public
building bill in the senate.
Mr.. Arch Grinnan of Tyler is here.
TOO MUCH FOR WALL STREET.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-The friends
of the president are sroutly main
tanning Secretary Blaine's position is
not SO far in advance OF the presidents
in criticising the Mckinley tariff bill, but
they are evidently merely endeavoring to
head off the impression which has been
steadily gaining ground that breach
was iminent on this subject between the
executive and his chief advisor. Their
method of argument shows this. They
not only assert, first the president and
secretary occupy practically the same
ground, but, second Blaine has criticised
nothing in the bill except the sugar
himself is quite as pronounced as either
of them in his discomfort with
this feature, but has been
overburdened and out voted by
Burrows and
THE WICKED DEMOCRATS
on the ways and means committee. The |
beauty of the whole situation is that no |
member of the ways and |
means committee pretends to differ per-
sonally with Blaine's views on the sugar |
question, namely: That TO make sugar |
free by statute is practically to give |
away the greatest inducement with which |
of the Matin Americans into
of their tariff blockade
against our products. But, the secre-
tary, appeared before the committee |
whils the Mckinley bill was still in en-
bryo and made his argument, and no.
body paid any special heed 10 it. The
answer made on every hand |
was, "Oh, we save trified with
this sugar business long enough. |
Our people won Z stand any more of it
now. We have got to do something |
right away, and reciprocity will have to
wait.
Thoroughly resolved as those GENTLE
men showed themselves then, it is not
that they received the news of
outburst before the senate COM
mittee on appropriations
WITH THE UTMOST CoMPosURE.
1t has not apparently stirred the pur-
for the sensational features of the report
of the incident it has fallen absolutely
fat. 1t may safely be said, therefore,
in view of the presidents apathy towards
every phase of the subject except tho
rumor of his breach with Blaine, that
there will be no interference on the part
of the administration with the tariff pro-
gramme of the party leaders in con-
gres5.
1t may strike outside observers as odd
that when the tariff so far overshadows
silver coinage in general popular import
ance, the administration should STRAIN
svery nerve to force its policy oown the
throats of the unwilling lawmakers, but
should not turn its hand over TO restrain
It's party from mIsstep, which once
taken may never be retracted till an
other war or similar crisis compels the
of stiff taxes all along the
line. But its course in this instance is
really quite in keeping with the method
i has pursued almost uniformly In deal
ng with great public questions, devoting
mis- attention to secondary considerations,
over which loud noise is raised, and
eaving TO pure chance those weightier
matters concerning which the peoples
,oncern Is too deep TO find vent IN empty
,lsmor.