The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-08-11
WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON, August l.-Representa.
tive Oates Of Alabama, and his demo-
cratic associates on the House sub.
committee, which SO precipitatsly rushed
off TO Homestead. acting under House
resolution adopted months before, ex.
pecting to obtain evidence that would
crush the protective tariff, are now play
ing towards. Ali of the evidence taken
by the committee, having any bearing
whatever on the tariff, having been de.
cidedly favorable to protection, the
committee has decided not to make any
report until the next session of Congress,
on the professed ground of wishing to
continue the investigation during the re.
cess, 1t was known from the FIRST that
the committee proposed continuing its
investigation during the recess; but its
chairman, Mr.. Oates, announced with
great flourish of trumpets, when he ex.
pected to make big haul OF democratic
campaign material, that preliminary re.
port would be presented at once to the
House, and the only reason the pro-
gramme has been changed is that no
honest report can be made without di.
rectly or indirectly endorsing the protec.
tive tariff and condemning free trade.
Senator Proctor says he regards strikes
as an evidence of prosperity, because
they would not occur if there was not
great demand for labor. The same Sen.
ator says that wages of all kinds would
be redroed at least one half in this
country if the democratic national plat.
forms declaration for free trade is ever
carried out.
Representative Funston, of Kansas,
made telling hit in preparing the min
GRITTY report of the House committee on
agriculture, on the effect of the present
tariff law upon agriculture, when he
said that 'the fact that the democrats
in the House, having majority over the
republicans of 1853, are to adjourn with.
out having made any effort to repeal the
Mckinley tariff law should settle the
| question as to whether or not in the
opinion OF the majority Of the House,
the law is wrong and oppressive. That
the agriculturist is having hard time
no one will dispute, but we cannot, how.
ever, look back to any better times, nor
to so good. excepting, of course, war
times. The report also directs atten.
ton to the decrease in the cost of living
since the Mckinley law went into effect
and asserts that there is not one single
article on the list Of American goods that
is not cheaper to-day under protective
tariff, than it was under the free trade Of
1860.
Ex.Speaker Reed says the battle cry
OF the democrats this year is: "Ths
Prophet and the ballot box-bott
stuffed" This epigramatic summary o.
the opposition has already caught tn,
tom, and it will probably catch tn,
country during the rest Of the campaign
| The President is suffering, like ever,
one else in Washington, from the heat
Of the past week, which exceeded tina
of any other week since an official reoorc
of the weather has been kept As SEQ,
as Congress adjourns, the President viii
join Mrs. Harrison at Loon Lake, re.
naming there until about the irst o,
September, when he will take up his resi-
dence at his Cape May Point cottage
where his executive work will 20 on jus
the Same as if no was at the Whit,
House.