Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-09-11

w ASHlNGTON, sept. ., lo5U.
The Republicans have for some time
felt QEy to be load upon their backs,
which they must carry through the next
campaign. Now the prevailing opinion
among the majority in the house is that
it is good opportunity to get rid of him
and relieve the party of embarrassment.
They feel that he has already done them
irreparable damage. Those who have
felt that there was an object in making
a fight to get control of the next House
feel now that there is no chance of sue
cess; they are discouraged and ready to
let the congressional campaign run as it
may: All talk of refusing to pass the
tariff bill if the election bill is killed by
the Senate, or of retaliating upon Quay
by striking off duty from protected
Pennsylvania products, will come to
nothing. All notions of that sort are ex-
ploded and abandoned as bad policy.
They are determined merely to make
Quay feel the weight of their condem-
nation by giving him no recognition in
party council. Meanwhile the Southern
Republicans in the House are doing all
they can to correct the course of the
Senate. ambassadors from the lower
house are haunting the cloak rooms and
committee rooms of the Senate.
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Mrs. Harrison is shocked. Hernephew
has gone into the theatrical business,
and she has consequently closed the
door against all that branch of the family
and stopped all communication there
with. This goes to show that in Mrs.
Harrison's order of responsibilities jour
nalism stands away above play acting
A well known newspaper correspondent
is married to Mrs. Harrson's niece. I'm
til recently both he and his wife were
not only welcome visitors at the
White House, but were favorites with
Mrs. Harrison, who used to drive around
and call on them quite frequently. Now,
however, all is changed. Mrs. Harrison
learned some time ago that the young
journalist had purchased an interest in
new farce-comedy and was actively en-
gagged in preparing it for the stage. His
wife when questioned about it, did not
deny that her husband had gone into the
venture, whereupon Mrs. Harrison said
it would be necessary to put stop at
once to all social relations between the
two families; play actors and their as
sociates could not be allowed to mingle
with the family of the President of the
United States. So the niece and nephew
and the Harrisons are out. Baby Grand
Niece and Baby Mckee are not to toddle
about the White House together any
more.
w.
The Democratic Senators are much
better equipped for the discussion of the
tariff this time than they were when the
substitute for the Mills bill was under
consideration at the last Congress. Last
Congress the Republicans were armed
in detail for the fight, and often their
arguments went unanswered, not because
they were unanswerable, but because
there was no one on the other side pre-
pared to make reply. Beck, who was
by far the best informed among the
Democrats on the tariff question, was in
very poor health. Vest and Vance took
upon themselves the burden of the dis
cussion on the Democratic side, and even
they were often compelled to deal in
glittering generalities for want of more
particular information. Altogether the