Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-02
WASHINGTON LErrEs.
lFren our Regular Corrsspondsnt.)
WASHINGTON. July rs, '9S


The Southern Democrats in the
House, aided by Holman and others
Of his class, have undertaken con-
tract entirely too great for their
strength and staying qualities 10 At
tempting to prevent the appropriation
for the Worlds Fair. The Republi-
can Senators will keep Congress In
session all summer, it necessary to
compel these democrats to agree to
this appropriation, which only carries
out the pledged faith of the Govern
msnt to the Columbian Exposition
and the nations of the world, which
have accepted the official invitation
of the United States Government to
take part therein. The Democrats of
the House succeeded in temporarily
defeating the appropriation last week
and they are now threatening that
when the matter again comes up this
week, they will flibuster against mo-
tion to recede from the position now
occupied by the House and agree to
the appropriation, if they find them
selves unable to control the House
by a direct vote. If they do, so much
tho worse for the Democratic party,
and so much more humiliating will be
their defeat, which is bound to come,
for the very simple reason that the
Republican party has never repudi-
ated an obligation honestly incurred
and its Representatives now in the
Senate will not allow this aid to be
withheld from the exposition.
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
who is chairman of the sub committee
which rushed off to Homestead in
such precipitate haste in search Of
evidence to break down the populari-
ty of the Mckinley Tariff law, and
who was SO profoundly disappointed
at the evidence taken there by the
committee, was accused by John Dew
lin, a member of the Executive COM
mittee of the Knights of Labor, Of
having shown extraordinary favors to
the Pinkertons when they were be-
fore the committee, in allowing them
to read all of the questions submitted
by the X. of L. committee before an
swering any of them. Oates told
Devlin to go to hell, called him q
ID liar, and had him hustled of the
floor of the House, where the ACCUSE.
ton was made.
Canada knows by this time that
when the President threatened to re.
taliate for the unjust discrimination
against American vessels using Cana
dian water ways, he was not making
"bluff," but was giving a friendly
warning. Congress has, practically
without opposition in either House oI
Senate, passed the bill authorizing
the President to retaliate upon Cana
dian vessels by levying toll or BY
shutting them out of St. Marys Fall
Canal, as he may deem best. The
new law is harsh one, or it may b
made such in its bearings upon Ca
madam interests; but it is still in tn,
power of Canada to take such actor
, as will prevent the President exer
cising the authority just conferred
upon him.
The Democrats are already trying
to 'hedge" ON the free trade plank o
, their platform. This was made man
! ifest to all by the selection of William
F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, to b.
chairman of their National committee
Harrty was prominent among thu
supporters of the late Sam. Randall
, the man who kept the Democratic
party off the free trade rocks for 81