The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-22

(rrom our regular correspondent.l
WASHINGTON. ID. C., Aug. Is, 1890.
Senator Quay has girded his loins for a
fight, and whether it is for Pennsylvania
capitalists that he is doing it or because
he regards it as coed politics, it is evident
| that he intends to have his resolution shut
ting out the Federal election bill and set
ting a ~date-August 30-for a vote upon
the tariff bill, acted upon by the Senate.
| He is not disposed to Wait for the deliber-
| ate methods OF the committee on Rules, to
| which his resolution and the amendment
of Senator Hears to include the Federal
election bill, which was defeated by a
majority of one in the Republican caucus,
was referred, and Saturday afternoon he
attempted to get unanimous consent for
the introduction of the same resolution.
| He failed of course, but he gave notice
that he would brIug it up again this week.
This resolution has caused a split in the
Republican party in the Senate, aud II the
present state of feeling continues to exist
for any length of time the split will get
outside of the Senate. The charges and
threats which are now being passed be-
tween these gentlemen are not indicative
of harmonious settlement of the diili-
| Guilty. Those who favor the Election bill
are trying to secure the attendance at anoth-
er caucus of enough Senators to out vote the
Quay faction, and if they succeed they
will not stop there-they will attempt to
depose Mr.. Quay as a party leader.
Mr.. Quay stated this morning that the
adoption of his resolution was a certainty;
but it is not SO certain after all. Several
of the seventeen Senators who voted with
MIR. Quay in the caucus have heard from
their constituents in a manner that was
cot particularly pleasing to them and if
another caucus is held some of them will
be found voting against him. Besides,
the vote of the Democrats is not likely to
be anything like unanimous; the northern
Democratic Senators are dead opposed to
bringing the de bate upon the tariff bill to
a close until every item has been diseuss-
ed, and they say that il Mr.. Quay made "a
bargain Nth the southern Senators it is
not binding upon them, and at least one Of
the Southern Senators-Nest, of Missouri
is known to believe that the tariff bill Is
worse than the Federal Election bill. All
of these things make the result doubtful.
Speaker Reeds latest ex plot was to sit
down heavily upon a member of his own
palty-Baker, of New York-who intro
duced a resolution rejecting upon Repre-
sentative Mills for being absent. lie was
requested to withdraw his resolution and
refusing, the Speaker ignored him and rec
ognized another member. The personal
relations betty een the Speaker aud Mr..
Mills are strained, which makes Mr.. Reeds
act i'll SURPRISING the insulating resolu-
ton all the more creditable. Anybody
would protect the good name of his per
sonal friend; but the men who will protect
their enemies are rare.
The recent message of Mr.. Harrison on
the lottery question seems to have stirred
up the Republican leaders of the House,
and on Saturday they took up and the
House unanimously passed the bill closing
the mails to everything pertaining in any
way to lotteries, including newspapers
which print lottery ad advertisements. If the
Senate adoptsth Quay programme this bill
cannot be acted upon by the senate at this
session.
After two days discussion, which was at
times very acrimonious the senate late
Saturday afternoon passed the amended
River aud Harbor bill.
Senator Plumb has again jumped the
party traces. This time he has Offered an
amendment to give the producers of tin
plate in this country-there are none yet
a bounty Of cent for every pound pro-
duced, instead of raising the duty as the
Mckinley tariff bill proposes.
Mr.. Harrison's reciprocity message
seems to have struck a snag somew here;
but perhaps he fears to throw something
else into the Senatori al arena that would
add to the present ~Donnyorook Fair con
dition Of things.
superintendent Porter, OF the Census
bureau, says We have GA. DOC, 900 people,
but he cannot produce the official figures
for about a thousand districts for a few
days. The clerks in the census office have
of late been working night and day in or
der to complete the count. The next work
is to be euumerators accounts. WESTON.
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