The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-29
NO. 2.
WFS5A Washington Letter. MceG
I'M From our regular Correspondent
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l HStJ lfrom our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1898,
protection for all or for none" "
That is the motto the republicans in
the House have inscribed upon the
banner under which they will make
the tariff fight. After careful consid-
Grafton they have come to the conclu-
sion that it would not be fair to the
interests of the thousands who will be
deprived of protection by the Cleve-
land tariff bill, should it ever become
a law. for them to 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 not, let their constituents take their
dose OF free trade along with the rest
of the country.
Mr.. Cleveland has not made a sim
gle new friend for his Hawaiian pol
icy, which has few enough old ones,
Heaven knows, by his tardy answer to
the demands of Senate and House for
the papers in the case. Notwithstand-
ing the great mystery with which the
administration has sought to surround
the whole business there is little in
either the special message or the ac-
companylng documents that was not
previously known, and absolutely
nothing that excuses the extraordi-
nary policy of the administration. If
blood be shed in Hawaii, and the lat
est news seems to indicate that it will
be, the American people will right
fully hold Grover Cleveland RESPONSE
BILE for it.
Democratic Representatives are al
ready going home in droves for the
Christmas holidays; they want to as
certain what their constituents think
of the Cleveland tariff bill.
'Uncle Joe" Cannon and other re-
publican members of the House COM
mittee on appropriations gave Com
missioner Lochren, of the Pension
Bureau, a very bad half hour when he
appeared before the committee to en-
deavor to explain the reason for the
deficiency appropriation of 100000,
which ne had asked for to pay special
Examiners. "Uncle Joe" tried hard
to get the Commissioner to give a
sensible reason for suspending mans
pension before its illegality was inves-
tigated, but he didn't succeed, for the
same reason that a sixteen year old
child doesn't believe in Santa Claus
there isn't any. Mr.. Cannon and
Representative Lacey, 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 a 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 be-
lleves such an investigation will es
tablish as incontrovertible facts,
among others: "that the government
has been placed in false and cruel
attitude by its accredited and autho-
rlzed agents and representatives that
the Pension Officer was deceived into
this false attitude by conspiracy
of such audacity and magnitude as to
stagger belief" Mr.. Taylor does not
say so in his memorial, but, if there
was a conspiracy such as he charges,
the chief conspirator was Grover
Cleveland. Mr.. Taylor says further
In his memorial that the charges upon
which Ohio pensioners were suspend
ed were ga part of that conspiracy"
and were made "without investiga-
ton or a desire to investigate" The
democrats of the House committee on
invalid pensions, of which Represen-
tative Martin, of Indiana, is chair
man, to which this memorial was re-
ferred, 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 those
not IN the secret were at loss to un-
derstand the action of the House
on Rules, in reporting con-
tinuing orders giving the right of way
to the bills for the admission to state
hood of the territories of Utah, Ari-
zona and New Mexico, but they are
no longer at loss to account for it.
These orders, which enabled the bills
in question to get through the House
IN such rush, were the result of a
bargain, having for his object the
gaining OF six votes for the Cleveland
tariff bill in the Senate. The COM
pact being, that the administration
was toput the bill through Congress
at once, and in return the democratic
bosses of the territories named pledg-
ed themselves to send Senators who
would vote for the Cleveland tariff
bill and all other measures supported
by the administration. The House
part of the bargain has been carried
out without any loss of time. It re-
mains to be seen what the Senate will
do. There are republican Senators
who favor the admission of all these
territories, if Oklahoma be also ad-
mitted, but it is not probable that
they will allow them to get in in time
to send Senators here to vote on the
tariff bill.
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