Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-08-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[written and cOmplIed for the HlRALD.

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Written and compiled for the HTRALD.l
WASHINGTON, August 1.-rhe demo-
Gratis and the assistant democrats (third
party members) of the House are in a
wrangle, owing to.cne of the latter-Wat-
son. of Georgia,-hayiDg charged IN a
campaign book he has written that demo
cratic members have reeled around the
floor of the House, drunk, and made
maudlin speeches on public business when
they had to stop in the middle of a sent
ence and ask; "Mr. Speaker where am
at" The charge made the democrats very
mad, and they at once passed a resolu-
ton for an immediate investigation of the
charge by a special committee. and it did
not ease their lacerated feelings at all
when Mr.. Watson produced the following
members of the House before tho COM
mittee, and they unanimously sustained
the charge Otis, White, IIalyerson,
Davis, Butler, Shell, Glover, Baker and
KEN. In addition to these Miss Bessie
Dwyer testified to seeing one member
drunk while making a speech on the floor
The committee has not reported, but
democrats already regret that the inYesti-
cation was started.
The democrats are still filibuste1ing
against the Worlds Fair appropriation in
the House, and, as last years Sundry
civil appropriation had only been ex-
tended to Saturday, the Government
Printing Office shut down Saturday night
at - o'clock, and no work can be done
there until the new bill becomes law or
a Joint resolution extending the old one
is passed and signed by the President
the Senate passed resolution Saturday
extending the old Appropriation to August
A, but when it was attempted to get 1t
through the House there was objection
Republican Senators are firm as rocks In
insisting that no adjournment shall take
place until the Sundry civil bill, with the
Worlds Fair appropriation amendment
shall pass the House, and it is expected
that the filibusterers will be knocked out
within the first halt of this week.
Representative Oates, Of Alabama,
and his democratic associates on the
House subcommittee which SO precipi-
lately rushed off to Honest ead, acting
under a House resolution adopted months
before, expecting to obtain evidence that
would crush the protective tariff, are now
playing towards. All of the evidence
taken by the committee, having any bear
ing whatever on the tariff, having been
decidedly 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
recess. 1t was known from the first that
the committee proposed continuing its
investigation during the recess; but its
chairman, Mr.. Oates, announced with a
Dected to make a big haul of democratic
campaign material, that preliminary
report would be presented at once to the
House, and the only reason the programme
has been changed is that no honest report
can be made without directly or indirect
ly endorsing the protective tariff and con-
demning free trade.
Senator Proctor says no regards strikes
as an evidence of prosperity, because they
would not occur if there was not great
demand for labor. The same Senator saws
that wages of all kinds would be reduce d
at least one half in this country if the
democratic national platforms declaration
for free trade is ever carried out.
Representative Funston, of Kansas,
made telling hit In preparing the MINOR
ity 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 oyer 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 rot in the
opinion of the majority of the House, the
law is wrong and oppressive. That the
agrculturist is having hard time no one
will dispute, but we cannot, however,
look back to any better times, nor to so
good, excepting, of course, war times
The report also directs attention 10 the
decrease IN the cost of living since the
Mckinley law went into effect, and as
serts 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 1850,
Ex-Speaker Reed says the battle cry of
the democrats this year is "The Prophet
and the ballot bOx-both stuffed" This
epgramatic summary of the opposition
has already caught the town, and it will
probably catch the country during the
rest of the campaign.
The President is suffering, like every |
one else in Washington, from the heat OF
the past week, which exceeded that of
any other week since an official rec ord of
the weather has been kept. AS soon as
Congress adjourns the President will join
Mrs. Harrison at Loon Lake, remaining |
there until about the lot of September,
when he will take up his residence at bis
Cape May Point cottage, where his ex-
ecutive work will go on Just the same as
f he was at the White House.