The Lamar register., 1890-05-24
wAsHrSGroS, d. c. May 22ua.

men HeTale anu fslcfate the same
old statistics and alleged facts. until
one is ready to eNciaiIn. rs TLad.
Stevens did when BROOKS, of New
York, got off his accustomed break
fast table talk sbuwing the iruposi.
tions of the tariff: Il always did
like that speech and tins was all
the notice the Great CnmmonCr de-
signed to take of it, But tLere is
such repetition of facts AID figures IN
these tariff speeches. barely diS.uis-
ed in wordy mask, that it is tire
some, and no one can blarn. the
meinbers themselves nor the public
for letting the orators speak to EN-
PITY benches and to their constituents.
Several times however, during the.
week was the debate enlivened by
the injection of sensational episodes,
in which Mills, of Texas, took part.
even though lie cannot be called the
hero. Once an Oho man, General
Grosvener, Rot af.st hisn and thor
oughly skinned lnm before he let
go, and new member from Massa-
chusetts, named Walker, didn't let
hlm fall easy when be dropped him.
The Texan Is a man of more appar.
ent valor than discretion. He is of
an excitable Temperament, and rushes
into debate rs a wild bull rushes
at red rag, and when there is
skilled antagonist On the other side,
with much the same result.
The real sensation came, though.
when Ben Batterwo=th kicked over
the traces, aud at once gave his po-
iitical associates food for thought
and his political enemies capital for
the campaign. General But:erw
Is one of the able republicans of the
house, indeed some think the ablest.
but he has given another eyldeucc
of the fact that even great men can
make mistakes. Said a leading re-
publican 10 Your correspondent:
HButterworth's error is not giving
due appreciation TO the fact that in
a bill composed of so many different
items and affecting so many differ.
ent interests, no one man nor any.
one community can be satisfied with
its composition when keenly dis.
sected, bat must Judge of it entirely
as compromise between varied and
diverse, not to say antagouistlc in
terests. Another thing, the bill il
framed for the protection of GER
tain line of industries, the great ms
lority of which are carried on by
people of small means, scattered all
over the country, and the fact that a
few men or corporations, of extraor-
binary shrewdness and business ca
pacity, take advantage of the pro-
lection afforded by law and the op-
portunities afforded by the market,
to amass great wealth. is no argu-
ment against the system, be it wise
or unwise.n
While ths tariff has played to
empty benches" as the theatrical peo-
pie would say, there han been in the
senate ''siar" performance, which,
for n day at least drew crowded
houses. The attraction was Senator
Jones Of Nevada, and his play was
SILVER" This man has been a sur
prise, even to his friends. He is an
Englishman by birth, but came TO
this country with his parents when
scarcely a year old, so be is an
American by instinct, trimming and
education. Indeed he is a most thor
ough type of the real American,
sturdy, self reliant, determined. HIS
scholastic education was rounded up
after few years attendance at the
public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, so
that he owes little to instructor, no
matter how great his obligations to
books, for be is constant and sue
cessful reader, digging the treasures
out of literature as be dug gold out
of the mines. A Californian Immi-
grant of the early days he served in
beth branches of the state legisla-
fure. and then driftod into Nevada.