Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-08-05
WASHINGTON LETTER
From Our Regular Correspondent

bers) of the House are in a wran-
gle, owing to one of the latter
Watson, of Georgia, - having
charged in a campaign book he
has written that Democratic men,
bers have reeled around the floor
of the House, drunk, and made
maudlin speeches on public busi-
ness when they had to stop in the
middle of sentence and ask:
"Mr. Speaker, where am | att"
The charge made the Democrats
very mad, and they at once pass
ed q resolution for az immediate
investigation of the charge by
special committee, and it did not
ease their lacerated feelings at all
when Mr.. Watson produced the
following members of the House
before the committee, and they
unanimously sustained the charge:
Otis, White. Halverson, Davis,
Butler, Shell, Glover, Baker and
KEN. In addition to these Miss
Bessie Dwyer testified to seeing
one member drunk while making
speech on the floor. The COM
mittee has not reported, but Dem
ocrats already regret that the in
vestigation was started.
The Democrats are still fllibus-
tering against the Worlds Fair
appropriation in the House, and,
as last years Sundry civil appro-
priation had only been extended
to Saturday, the Government
Printing Office shut down Satur-
day night at II o'clock, and no
work can be done there until the
new bill becomes a law or e joint
resolution extending the old one
is passed and signed by the Presi-
dent. The Senate passed a reso-
luton Saturday extending the old
appropriation to August 4, but
! when it was attempted to get it
| through the House there was OBJ
lection. Republican Senators are
| firm as rocks IN insisting that no
adjournment shall take place un-
til the Sundry civil bill, with the
Wolld's Fair appropriation
amendment, shall pass the House,
| and it is expected that the fill
busters viii be knocked out with
| in the first half of this week.
| Representative Oates, of Ala
bama, and his Democratic asso-
| ciates on the House sub-commit-
tee, which SO precipitately rushed
off to Homestead, acting under a
House resolution adopted months
before, expecting to obtain evil
dence that would crush the pro-
tective tariff, are now playing cow
ards. All of the evidence taken
by the committee, having any
bearing whatever on the tariff.
having been decidedly favorable
to protection, the committee has
decided not to make any report
until the next session of Congress
on the professed ground of wish.
ing to continue the investigation
during the recess. 1t was known
| from the first that the committee
proposed continuing its investiga,
ton during the recess, but itt
chairman, Mr.. Oates, announced
with great flourish of trumpets
when he expected to make & big
| haul of Democratic campaign ma
tterial, that a preliminary repor
would be presented at once to the
House, and the only reason the
program has been changed is tha
no honest report can be made
| without directly or indirectly en-
dorslng the protective tariff ant
condemning free trade.
| Senator Proctor says he regardl
strikes ns an evidence OF prosper
Iity, because they would not occul
if there was not great demand
for labor. The same Senator say,
that wages of all kinds would b,
| reduced at least one-half in thil
country if the Democratic nationa
platforms declaration for fre,
itrade is ever carried out.
| Representative Funston, of Kan
sas, made telling hit in prepar
ling the minority report of tn,
House committee on agriculture
on the effect of the present tarif
law upon agriculture, when b,
said that ''the fact that the Demo
Gratis in the House, having a ma
Ijority over the Republicans O
l53, are to adjourn without havin,
made any effort to repeal the Nc
i Kinley tariff law should settle tn
question as to whether or not il
the opinion of the majority of tn
House, the law is wrong and op
pressive. That the agriculturis
is having hard time no one vii
dispute, but we cannot, however
look back to any better times, no
to SO good, excepting, of course
war times" The report also di
rects attention to the decrease i.
the cost of living since the Nc
| kinley law went into effect, ant
asserts that there Is not one sinel,
article on the list of American
goods that is not cheaper TO-DAY
lunder a protective tariff than i