The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-12-23
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.

the House have inscribed upon the
banner under which they will make
the tariff fight. After careful consider
alton they have come to the conclusion
that it would not be fair TO the interests
of the thousands who will lie deprived
of protection by the Cleveland tariff
bill, should it ever become law, for
them 10 vote with the fifty or sixty
democratic Representatives who are
trying to get protection for certain
industries in their respective, districts
by amending the bill. They will work
to defeat, not to amend the bill; if the
dissatisfied democrats are patriotic
enough to vote with them against the
entire bill, we'll and good if rot, let
their constituents take their dose of
free trade along with the rest of the
country.
Mr.. Cleveland has not made single
new friend for his Hawaiian policy,
which has few enough old ones,
Heaven knows, By his tardy answer
to the demands of Senate and House
for the papers in tie case. Notwlth-
standing the great mystery with which
the administration has sought to
surround the whole business there is
little in either the SPECIAL message or
the accompanying documents that was
not previously known, and absolutely
nothing that excuses the extraordinary
policy OF the administration. If blood
be shed in Hawaii, and the latest news
seems 10 indicate that it will be, the
American people will nghtfully hold
Grover Cleveland responsible for it.
Democratic Representatives are
already going home in droves for the
Christmas holidays; they want to
ascertain what theig constituents think
of the Cleveland tariff bill.
"Uncte Joe" Cannon and other
republican members of the House
committee on appropriations gave
Commissioner Lochren, of tie Pension
Bureau, very bad half hour when he
appeared before the committee to
endeavor to explain the reason for the
deficiency appropriation of SSoo. ooo
which he had asked for to pay special
Examiners. "Uncle Joe" tried hard
TO get the Commissioner to give a
sensible reason for suspendlng a mans
pension before its Illegally was investi
gated, but he 0idn't succeed, Tor the
same reason that sixteen year old
child doesn't believe in Santa Claus
there isn't any. Mr.. Cannon and
Representative Lacy of Iowa, made
telling speeches against the admins
tration pension policy in the House
Saturday. A member from Georgia
appeared to be about the only friend
the policy had.
Speaking of pensions, William A.
Taylor, late democratic candidate for
Lieutenant Governor OF Ohio, has
presented memorial to Congress,
asking that the treatment of Ohio
pensioners by this administration be
investigated. Mr.. Taylor does not
mince words in saying what he believes
such an investigation will establish as
incontrovertible facts, among others,
chat the government has been placed
in a false and cruel attitude by Its
accredited and authorized agents and
representatives that the Pension
Office was deceived into this false
attitude by conspiracy of such auda
city and magnitude as 10 stagger
belief Mr.. Taylor does not say in
his memorial that the charges upon
which Ohio pensioners were suspended
were "a part OF that conspiracy" and
were made "without investigation or a
desire to Investigate" The democrats
of the House committee on invalid
pensions, OF which Representative Mar
tin, OF Indiana, is chairman, to which
this memorial was referred, made an
unsuccessful attempt to prevent its
being made public, but Mr.. Lacey of
Iowa made it part OF his pension
speech. -
The secret is out. For time .nose
not in the secret were ala loss to
understand the action the House
'cUmirtce on Rules, in reporting
continuing orders giving the right of
way to the bills for the admission to
statehood If the territories of Utah
Arizona and New Mexico, but they are
no longer at loss 20 account for it.
These orders, which enabled the bills
in question to get through the House
in such rush. were the result of
bargain, having for its object the gain
ing of six votes for the Cleveland tariff
bill in the Senate, the compact being
that the administration was to put the
bills through Congress at once, and in
return the democratic bosses of the
territories named pledged themselves
to send Senator'S who would vote for
the Cleveland tariff bill and all other
measures supported by the admins
tration The House part of the bar
gain has been carried out without any
loss of time, 1t remains TO be seen
what the Senate will do. There are
republican Senator'S who favor the
admission of all these territories, if
Oklahoma be also admitted, but 1t is
not probable that they will allow them
TO get in IN time to send Senator'S here
TO vote on the tariff bill.