Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-30
VA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 80.
THE REMARK of Senator Cockreli that


there are Hundreds and hundreds OF oils
IN the calendar of the House." which the
Senate has passed, but which the House has
90 far failed to consider, has, for its founda-
,iou, the fact that, by actual count IT the
House calendar OF July 2S:h, only $40
Senate bills had been favorably reported Dy
House committees Mr.. Cockrell mentioL-
q, The bill to refund direct taxes. l,s iaii
n,e of consideration by the House has got
ten ;ts patron, Mr.. Cas5well, OF WISCONSIN,
ipto tight fix for denomination, anu
nrnn,;sas to bring several other republican
members into trouble. The strong letter OF
MIR. ]. Randolph Tucker, of this State,
svsinst President Clevelsnd's veto message
Of ,b,s bill. has been extensively circulated
throughout the Northwest. IL 10 now q
ms,ter of surprise that republicans who were
so sr6en.ly in favor of passing that eiii
throueh democratic House should refuse
il consideration In q republican Hcuse. Mr.
Sneaker Reed led the friends OF the bill In
lie last Congress and Yves It's mcst ardent
snd argumeutn,ive advocate. la this Coz
press be has side tracked the bill, unhiiched
the engine and gono whlstlng down the
track. The republican Senate has thres
times passed this bill, with Substantially nc
oppositior, once over the democratic veto
by two-thirds vote. The republicans OF
the House In the last Congress-, without o
single exception, voted and passed the bill
Everv republican member OF the presen,
committee on rules wes the outspoken sd
yccate of the bill. But now not one OF them
will do it reverence enough to permit the
House to oonsider 1t. Is this bad or COCO
politics Is it to be supposed that great
rsrty can thus play fast aud loose upon the
same bill in successive Congresses without
being called to account If economy is the
dodge now sought to be played upon the
people, does any member suppose the PEG
pie can be fooled by republican politics
which Justify and sustain the democratic OPP
position, ard be the highest ooumeuC-
gtion of President Ceveand's veto? The
democrat Tucker and the republican Reed
both supported this bill-the former in bis
able letter, the latter throughout the long
deadlock They have parted company !;
Tacker still opposes Cleveland's Seto-Reed
now sustains the veto. Singular bedfeloWs,
Cleveland and Reed, but what will become
of the bed Between Cleveland and Reed
the direct tax bill is dead, dead 90 door
nail But who killed it Cleveland the
democrat, or Reed the republican The
Government receipts were on July Is, from
customs 81, las 572, and from internal reVe-
nue. $685., 259 total $l,7SS,S6 Secretary
Window was reported as saying the surplus
was 1000, 900, fractional currency S2S .0O0,-
600. and that the Silver bill had turned in
$50 0O0,0 total surplus Sl2S 900 600 Why
then has tina direct tax bill been killed, AND
who killed it, and for what reason has re
publican Speaker refused consideration to
republican measure ? Mr. Caswell, the al
dent friend of the bill, ever ready to do ali
10 his power to obtain consideration s likely
to become the frat victim OF Speaker Reeds
refusal However unjust it may be to hold
him responsible for the Speakers conduct,
yet politics never stops to consider Justice
Wisconsin needs her portion of the direct
taxes fer her soldier, and it comes not ano
her soldiers hold the patron of the bill re-
epousbie because they see no effort on the
fl )or to Srirg the matter up. They do not
know that Mr. Caswell is powerless 80 long
as Speaker Reed sits upon the bill. 1t is
but right that this defence of Mr.. Caswell
should go out to Wisconsin TO help him 10
his extremity. He is not responsible FOR the
defeat OF the direct tax bill-that lies at the
Speakers door. Let justice be done and
the error rest where it belongs.