The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The Southern
democrats in the House, aided by Hol-
man and others Of his class, have under
taken contract entirely too great for
their strength and staying qualities in
attempting to prevent the appropriation
for the Worlds Fair. The republican
Senators will keep Congress in session
all Summer, if necessary to compel these
democrats to agree to this appropriation,
which only carries out tho pledged faith
of the Government to the Columbian Ex-
position and The nations OF the world,
which have accepted the official invita-
ton 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 fill
buster against motion to recede from
the position now occupied by the House
and agree to the appropriation, If they
find themselves unable to control the
House by direct vote. If they do, so
much the worse for the democratic party,
and 80 much more humiliating will be
their defeat, which is bound to come,
for the very simple reason that the re-
publican party has never repudisted an
obligation honestly incurred, and its rep
resentatives now in the Senate will not
allow this aid to be withheld from the
Exposition.
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
who is chairman of the subcommittee
which rushed off to Homestead in such
precipitate haste in search of evidence
to break down the popularity of the Nc.
Kinley Tariff law, and who was so pro.
foundly disappointed at the evidence
taken there by the committee, was &C.
cused by John Devlin, member of the
executive committee of the Knights of
Labor, of having shown extraordinary
favors to the Pinkertons when they were
before the committee, in allowing them
to read all of the questions submitted by
the Knights of Labor committee before
answering any of them. Oates told
Devlin to 90 to HI, called him q
d--liar and had him hustled off the
floor of the House, where accusat ion was
made.
Canada knows by this time that when
the President threatened to retaliate for
the unjust discrimination against Ameri-
can vessels using Canadian water ways,
he was not making "bluff," but was
giving friendly warning. Congress has,
practically without opposition in either
House or Senate, passed the bill author
izing the President to retaliate upon
Canadian vessels by levying toll or by
shutting them out OF st. Mary's Falls
Canal, as he may deem best. The new
law is a harsh one, or it may be made
such in it's bearings upon Canadian in
terests; but it is still in the power O.
Canada to take such action as will pre-
vent the President exercising the au
thority just conferred upon him.
The democrats are already trying t.
hedge" on the free trade plank OF thei
platform. This was made manifest I
all by the selection of William +. Harrit
of Pennsylvania, to be chairman of thei
national committee. Harrity was prem
nent among the supporters of the lat
Sam Randall, the man who kept th
|, democratic party off the free trade rock
for so many years Republican maj
a ayers smile at this acknowledgement c
weakness, and will see that the frt
traders are not allowed to sneak out
the issue they deliberately made.