Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-08-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoNIro

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 in at
tempting to prevent the appropria-
ton for the Worlds Fair. The re-
publican Senators will keep Congress
in session all summer, if necessary to
compel these democrats to agree to
this appropriation, which only carries
out the pledged faith of the Govern
ment to the Columbian Exposition
and the nations of the world, which
have accented 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 fillibuster against
motion to recede from the appropria-
ton, if they find themselves unable
to control the House by q direct vote.
If they do, SO much the 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 repudiated an obligation hon
estly 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 committed
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 COM
mittee. was accused 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
X of L committee before answering
any of them. Oates told Devlin to go
to hill, called him d. liar, and had |
him hustled off the floor of the House,
where the accusation was made.
Canada knows by this time that
when the president threatened to re-
taliate for the unjust discrimination
against American vessels using Can
adam water ways, he was not making |
a ''bluff'', but was giving friendly
warning Congress has, practically |
without opposition in either House or
Senate, passed the bill authorizing 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 |
its bearings upon Canadian interests; |
but it is still in the power of Canada
to take such action as will prevent the
president exercising the authority
just conferred upon him.
The democrats are already trying to
"hedge" on the free trade plank of
their platform. This was made man
fest to all by the selection of William
F. Harrity of Pennsylvania to be
chairman of their National committee.
Harrity was prominent among the
supporters of the late Sam Randall,
the man who kept the democratic
party off the free traders are not al
lowed to sneak out of the issue they
made:
No hot acc.
has been the subject of more radical
and at the same time perfectly honest
differences of opinion than the anti
option bill which has passed the
House and now has the right ofway
in the Senate as the unfinished bust
ness" Those who favor it, and they
are unquestionably a majority of the
Senate, are emphatical in their state
ments that it will not injure any light
innate business, its only aim being to
put a stop to the f1uctuation in prices
caused by gambling in ''futures.n
These who opposed it are just as en-
phatic in their statements that it will
cripple the business of the country
and injure irreparably the very class
it is intended to benefit the produ-
GERS. 1t is difficult to predict to GER
tainty whether it will be voted upon |
at this session, as its opponents |
threaten to resort to obstructive tao
tics to prevent vote, and as soon as
the Worlds Fair appropriation is
made adjournment will almost GER
tainly follow. If a vote is reached |
the anti option bill will, in my opin-
ion, be passed.
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