Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-08-04
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democracy, and compelled majority
of the House to uphold the National
honor by voting for the Worlds Fair
appropriation. Let no one forget
that had IL not been for the persisten-
cy of the republican Senate in de-
handing that the House pass that APP
preparation, and the votes of the solid
republican membership of that body
aided by progressive, anti-Holman
democrats the exposition in which the
President had by direction of Con-
gress invited the nations of the world
to participate would have been Grip
pied, If not entirely ruined, by the
democratic refusal to render it nation
al financial aid. Everyone OF the 107
votes in the House against the Worlds
Fair appropriation was cast by dem
ocrat, or by an assistant democrat,
third party MAINLAND the flllibuster-
ers all belong to the same crowd.
The same spirit which prompted the
votes and the fiillibustering against
the Worlds Fair appropriation con-
trolled the House when IL struck out
the Senate amendment to the Sundry
Civil bill, providing for the purchase
of site for new Government print
ing Office.
Decent democrats were so ashamed
of the cowardly attack upon Commits
sioner Raum contained in the Enloe
resolution asking ;or Gen. Raum's dis
missal from Office on evidence that
had been fully controverted, that they
refused to aid in bringing it to vote
in the House, and the miserable fizzle
has ended.
Chairman Carter. of the National
committee had an extended confer
ence with the President this week. re-
lating to the general conduct of the
campaign.
Senator Aldrich. of Rhode Island,
delivered one of his calm. conservative
and convincing speeches this week,
on the report of the committee which
has been engaged in investigating the
effect of the tariff on the cost of living
and wages in this country and Great
Britain. He began by stating that
the lines were more sharply drawn
in the present campaign than ever be-
fore, the republicans favoring contin-
uance Of the protective tariff, and the
democrats denouncing protection as
fraud and as being unconstitutional.
He gave notice that the friends of
protection proposed waging an ag-
gressive warfare upon the revolution
airy doctrine which, although long Sc.
cretly cherished by democratic leaders,
are now for the first time openly avow-
ed. He then recited the democratic
Observation-Disclosures would have
better expressed the idea-made dur
ing the last Congressional campaign,
charging that the Mckinley tariff law
would result in greatly increasing the
cost of living in this country. This
charge has been completely refuted by
the non-partisan investigation of the
Senate committee, of which Mr.. Al
drich was chairman, and Senator Car
Isle and Harris the democratic mem
bers, which show that since 1890 there
has been steady decline in the cost
of living in the United States and an
increase in Great Britain, and that In
no time in our history has the earn
ings of the American people been so
great, measured by their power to pur-
chase the comforts and necessaries of
life, as they are to-day.
Senator Vest made a weak attempt
to reply, using the Homestead labor
troubles as an argument against pro-
lection, and asserting that the value
of farming lands had deterioated under
protection, which assertion brought
instant denials, as to their own States,
from a number of republican Sena-
tors. including Paddock, of Nebraska
Davis, of Minnesota, and Pettigrew,
of North Dakota.
If Senator Palmer, of Illinois, isn't
careful he will get himself drummed
not OF the democratic party. He so far
forgot the policy of that party, the
other day, as to say. on the floor of
the Senate, that he did not believe
the republican party was responsible
for such events as the Homestead
tragedy.
The unanimous vote by which the
Senate confirmed the nomination of
Mr.. George Shiras, Jr., to be associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, was
proof positive that the Washington
sensation mongers had been engaged
in some big lying concerning the dis
position of that nomination, which
was never for a moment in doubt.
Senator Chandler, thinks the new
law, authorizing the President to re-
taliate upon the owners of Canadian
vessels for determinations against
American vessels, should be supple
mented by another providing for retail
iation upon the Grand Trunk Railroad
for discriminating against American
shippers, and he has introduced res