Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Interesting Notes From the
Nations Capital.
Disgraceful Affairs In the Census
Bureau.
A Most Reprehensible Condition OF Al
fairs in That Oface-OpinioDs -
to the Coming Prcsiden-
tial Contest.

tial Contest.
Special Correspondence to the HERALD.l
WASHINGTON, June 12.-The esteemed
protection organ, the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, should be disciplined. In q
moment Of free-will it gives away the
whole protection programme, runs
counter to the protection purpose and
declares for free coal.
At first the Globe Democrat appeared
perfectly sound on the tariff. When the
senate finance committee declared that
the subject Of all others they preferred
to put before the people should, never
theless, not be disturbed in its slum-
bers in Chairman Morrill's bosom, the
Globe Democrat responded, Amen.
Here is its language:
''It is understood that the senate f.
nance committee has virtually decided
to postpone action on all the tariff bills
received from the house. The people
will endorse this conclusion as one of
practical sense and sound regard for the
business interests of the country; there
has been enough of tariff agitation for
the present"
Likely, however, the tariff shoe began
to hurt the st. Louis corn. The western
bituminous coal properties, it was in
formed, were to be united in great
trust, and the consumer, already ex-
hausted, was to be treated to another
blood-letting. Now mark the innocence
Of the Globe-D Democrat. Resort must
be at once had to congressional legisla-
tion and free coal must be the remedy.
Here ia the way the Globe-D Democrat
puts it:
fortunately these bituminous coal
kings can be assaulted at the custom
house. There is duty on this product,
although none is levied on the anthra-
cite variety. This will afford the people
an avenue for direct and effective at
tack on the schemers if they carry out
their conspiracy. The duty on bitumi-
nous coal is rs cents ton, which should
be Immediately abolished if the trust is
formed. There must be no temporizing
or parleying in this matter. The mo-
ment the combine is established q
bill should be introduced in congress to
admit bituminous coal free into the
country"
Here is a specimen Of pure and un-
diluted simplicity for q tariff organ.
As if the Mckinley act was not the re-
suit OF the most corrupt and far-reach-
ing combine that ever bought its way
through congr ess.
call halt, otherwise it may stray into
the Republican camp.
P The protective tariff is the mother OF
kwsvo 20 stoo1f than nf -
brood. Strike at the mother and the
progeny she feeds expires. Is our distin-
guished protection contemporary willing
to strike the first blow? Or will it hes
itate under orders from headquarters
The testimony taken by the house
committee investigating the census bu-
reau shows state of affairs disgraceful
in the extreme. Apart from the facts
disclosed that appointments in the
field were made of disreputable persons
for partisan purposes, resulting in the
practical acknowledgements of committees
in congress and the electoral college, the
testimony concerning the Washington
Office over which Mr.. Porter presided in
person, shows such lax state of disci-
pline and morals as to preclude the pos
sibility of excuse.
The work of counting was done, as the
testimony discloses, by women, who
were instructed to work the counting
machine to their fullest capacity, with
out regard to accuracy, to which no at
tention was paid. Clerks were carried
on the rolls who did little, and in some
cases, no service. Disreputahle persons
were appointed, who should have been
rather candidates for the house of
mercy or the projected reform school,
and, in open day, chiefs of divisions so
conducted themselves with these paid
employees of the government as to dis
grace themselves and annoy ladies who
were compelled for the sake Of their
bread and butter to be silent. Money
was regularly paid by at least one clerk
| to arelative Of an official having the
appointing power-paid regularly each
mOnth-and tie person who received
the percentage of this clerks earnings
,was not rebuked.
Az T., the property Of the bureau pur-
chased with the peoples money, it
seems large amounts of it were de-
stroyed, while work that had been per-
formed was in many cases 30 worthless
that the resulting papers had to be
destroyed. As has already been shown
| by quotations from eminent authorities
| conversant with the facts, the work Of
Mr.. Porter's census bureau is practic-
ally worthless and the present invests
| CATION shows that it could scarcely have
been intended as anything else.
The Republican party is undergoing
| its quadrennial throe Of love for the ne
| gro race. Every four years the candi-
dates beg for votes for convention dele
gates and then for votes in the northern
states, in three Of which the negro vote
holds the alleged balance of power. Az
| soon as the votes afecast it will be good
by Sambo for four years more.
! No wonder work Stacked in the vari-
ous government departments last week.
when all the chiefs were off to Minneap-
oils to renominate the man who uses his
patronage whore it "will do the most
good.''
Representative William l.. Wilson ol
West Virginia thought the Republican
nomination would solidify the south,
President Harrison" said he, chat
been . determined advocate of federal
control Of elections; and that will hole
the southern states in line against him. Z
+ Representative Durburow of Illinois
thought Harrison the strongest the Re.
publicans could name. 1--WE shall beat
him. however, and that more thoroughly
than is generally believed. Any goot
man yes, Mr.. Cleveland or any salts
factory man-can carry Illinois an(
Wisconsin, and Iowa, too, and get aloni
without New York If, as / don't believ'