The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE FORCE BILL NOT ONLY POSTPONED
IT'S WHOLLY AND UTTERLY
KILLED.
Carlisle Has Downed Senatorial Usages
and Yields in the Senate Trench
dous Influence.


the shout given by the Republican
faction which has supported the force
bill. 1t will not be heard OF again this
session, but it will live again in the
next if the aforesaid faction can have
its way. When a Democratic leader
is asked his opinion it is emphatically
to the effect that the infamous meas
ure is not only dead but sensi ole-like
it is going to stay dead.
Under the Republican agreement
this bill is held in allegiance until next
session, and thus from present dam
ger has become future apparition.
But OF this ghost Democratic senator's
say that they are not afraid. The
next session will consist of but thir-
teen weeks of which at least two Will
be wasted in the Christmas recess.
Within this limited period thirteen
general appropriations, measures nee
essary for the operation of the govern
ment, must be considered and passed,
some CT which are not yet laws after a
long session of nine months.
The absolute necessity for the
passage of these measures al
ways bars out the opportunity
for much other legislation. Again, if
the Democratic senators would talk
from now until the 4th of March to
defeat the radical design to seize the
government, the people of the country
Notwithstanding, they certainly can
and will be able to take up every
moment of time between December
and March, should the infatuation of
Grandma Hoar for her baby make
such an avalanche of speech making
necessary. Your correspondent, from
all information searched out by him,
has always asserted, as is known, that
this outrageous legislation would
never be accomplished, and now it is
a happiness, as well as duty, to say
that it is now dead beyond resurrec-
ton,
There is wailing and gnashing of
teeth, artificial The latter among the
old and vindictive white heads who
have so long ruled the senate ard the
Republican party therein. Beyond
everything else they are shocked to
see Quay, IN their minds senatorial
upstart, jump into the leadership in
legislative affairs and dictate the
course of the senate in the most i'm
portant political and economic bust
ness. Then, too, Edmunds in revolt.
Holy horrors, they say, to find the st.
Jerome of the senate fighting caucus
resolves and giving aid and comfort
to the Democrats. 1t has been the
sarcasm of Republicans in congress
that the Democrats are without a
leader, but if this thing keeps up much
longer it may be said, at least in the
senate, that the Republicans are with
out a party.
During the last week Senator Plumb
has been trying to cut Oft senatorial
whisky, which is furnished to the
thirsty in the senate restaurant. The
discussion got 80 warm and bid so fair
to descend to the personal that Grand
ma Hoar saw the necessity for pub
fishing to the world the fact that in
this temperance matter at least the
senate could furnish character for
getful of the old Scotch maxim that
che who excuses accuses"
The truth is the senate has placed
OH public exhibition some of the most
conspicuous examples of inebriety
ever encountered in this country, the
last of which was that Virginia SEN
ator, now dead, who gave the Repub-
licans of the senate 80 much concern,
but delivered the vote that kept them
dominant in National legislation.
And, too, they were never bitterly
shocked at Riddleberger's appearance
until, by accessions to their ranks,
they could get along well enough
without his vote. To give another
Republican "frightful example" none
can possibly have forgotten the North
western senator upon whose befuddled
head Charles Sumner threatened to
call down the censure Of the senate.
1t cannot be denied, too, that Demo
Gratis of prominence have been the
victims of this blight. But enough
OF the past. I have called to the
attention of those senators who have
been engaged in the delightful occu-
patton of giving themselves a "char-
acter" few specters of the pact so
that their present virtue may not be
wantonly lost through too excessive
confidence. Senators still drink much
too much, both fer their own and the
public good, and 1t would not he
stretching it to say that almost every
senate committee room is barroom,
exclusive, of course, at which
senators and their friends tipple
and blush the thought, sometimes get
drunk. WHISKY, therefore, excluded
from the restaurant alone will not
effect any senatorial reformation, il
that is the object OF the promoters of
the resolution, for men prone to get
drunk are lust as ant to do so when