The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, d. O., July %, 1892.
The Democratic leaders are just begin.
ming to realize what bad break was
made by their party in the House in de-
feating the Worlds Fair appropriation
they are hearing from the country on
the subject, and the messages they re-
ceive are anything but satisfactory. Mr..
Cleveland impressed itupon those Demo.
cratic Congressman who went to New
York to hear him and Adlai notified OF
their denominations thatitwouldbe suicidal
for the Democratic majority in the House
to persist in it's opposition to this appro-
priation in the face of the general public
sentiment in favor of Government aid
for the exposition.
The credit for this bright bit of Demo-
cratic craftsmanship is due to cheese.
parers-in.chief, Holman and Sayers, Of
Texas, and the matter is still to certain
extent in their hands, as they are the
Democratic conferees on the part of the
House on the bill, but in spite OF the
pressure that is being brought to bear
on them they are still stubborn, and If
they can hold the votes by which they
defeated the appropriation in the House
they will bring about dead lock that
may extend the session indefinitely, as
the Republican Senate will insist that
this appropriation be made before ad.
journment.
The majority against this appropriation
was only 10, and it is almost certain that
when Holman reports back to the House
the inability of the conference commit
tee to agree because of the insistence of
the Senate conferees upon this appro.
priation that motion to recede from its
position against the appropriation can
/ be carried through the House by a small
majority. 1t is greatly to the credit OF
the Republicans in the House that every
one of the 122 votes cast against this ap.
preparation came from Democrats-most
of them from the South.
No one has been able to find the slight
est fault with the Presidents nomination
OF the Mr.. George Shiras, Jr., Of Penn
sylvania, to fill the vacancy in the
Supreme Court he comes from the dis.
trict entitled to the appointment, is just
so years old, has never held any public
Office or engaged in any other business
than the practice OF law, and is in every
respect full qualified to adorn the bench
of the greatest court in the world, as our
Supreme Court has been justly called.
Hon. Thomas H. Carter, of Montana,
who has been Commissioner of the Gen.
eral Land Office, has rendered his res
| ignation OF that position to the Presi.
dent, in order that he may devote his
whole time to his new duties as chair
man OF the Republican National commit
tee. Those who know him beet predict
that he will make areputdtion second te
that Of no man who ever held the
position, even ii he is the youngest
chairman the party has ever had.
Commissioner Raum wishes it dis
tinctly understood that ne has no idea
of resigning on account of the Demo
cratic attacks made upon him, and the
President is not nor has he at any time
been even considering the question o.
Gen. Raum's removal. The minority
report made by the Republicans of the
committee which has for months beer
investigating the Pension Office is {
vindication of Gen. Raum's manage
ment, and strong condemnation of the
Democratic conspiracy against his per
sonal character, which has been 30 plair
to every unprejudiced person.
The Senate committee which was in
structed last March to investigate and
report the effect of tariff laws upon the
imports and exports, the growth, de
velopement, production, and prices ol
agricultural and manufactur ed articles a
home and abroad, and upon wages
domestic and foreign, has submitted {
partial report covering the cost of living
in the United States and in Great Britain
together with the percentage of wages
in both countries, the time covered be
ing from June: 1889 to September, 1891
The cost of living to family in ordinary
circumstances was forty. four one-hun
dredths of per cent. less at the last date
than at the first, and the decline in thu
cost Of living in May, 1892, as compared
with June, July and August, 1889 WA
"a per cent. The cost of living in Grea
Britain increased during the same periot
1.9 per cent and wages in this country
average ~ per cent. greater than ii
Great Britain.