The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-16
OUR sHINGToN LETTER.
oorrespondenco Of TnE Rrconp.

| OpNdkcI Iltou, cOhCeTuluB bHe CohulIiOu
OF the country. At least things are be.
ginning to look that way. He IL
credited with being responsible for the
conservative tariff talk that Senator
| Voorhees, and other Democratic lead
ers have recently indulg ed in, and your
correspondent is told that he is using
| his Influence with the Democratic
members of the Ways and Means com
mitee to make the new bill conserva-
tive. SO much for rumors and indica-
tons. Now for a fact. Representative
| Wilson says the new bill will from be-
ginning to end be a tariff for revenue
only, which means that the duties will be
made such as to encourage and increase
importation so as to bring large rev.
enne to the Government. 1t would
be difficult to imagine more injurious
bill than one framed on those lines.
You cannot largely increase importa-
ton without largely reducing home
production of the same goods, which
would mean, of course, less work for
Americans. Foreign manufacturers
would ak nothing better than tariff
for revenue only.
If some of the Southern Senators do
not return to Washington with better
feelings towards the administration
than they carried away there will sure
ly be an open war before the regular
session of Congress grows very old
There is general complainant Dem
ooratic Senators and Representatives
privately of course) that the Admins
tration treats them with disrespect,
and many of them left Washington
with anger in their hearts because of
their failure to see Mr.. Cleveland
Saturday, although they remained
here day after Congress adjourned for
that express purpose. Many of them
did not hesitate to say that 1t was be-
cause he expected they would want to
see him that he, in company with Sec
rotary Gresham and body guard,
spent the day hunting squirrels.
Notwithstanding the general belief
that there will be few appropriations
made for rivers and harbors, if there
are any, at the regular session OF Con-
gress, portion ofthc House Committee
on Rivers and Harbors will this week
start on "tour of inspection" which
will include the system OF locks and
and dams on the Monongahela river,
the Government works on the Kentucky
river, and on the great Kanawaha, in
West Virginia. In view of the circum-
stances THE "tour of inspection" is to
say the least an unnecessary one.
Mr.. Cleveland got only what the Re-
publicans helped him to get from the
extra session of Congress. He failed to
get the nomination of his friend Horn
blower to the Supreme Court vacancy
confirmed, as we'll as those OF lot OF
small anti-snapper nominations to
federal positions in New York; also
that of Mr.. Preston to be Director Of
the Mint, and of two Collectors of In
ternal Revenue in North Carolina
Senator Hill is responsible for the fail
| ure of Hornblower and the other New
York men to get confirmed, silver mer
for that of the "tsrheels. Two col
ored men nominated to diplomatic pos
itions also failed. One OF them G
H. j. Taylor, who was nominated
| Minister to Bolivia-not being acted
upon, and the other--H. II. G. Astwoot
who was nominated Consel at Calais,
FraDce--belng formally rejected.
Col. J. Hampton Hoge, Virgins
Democrat of more or less prominence
who was early 10 the extra session
nominated and confirmed Consul a
Annoy, probably wishes that he hat
either been more prompt in starting fo
his post or had used more discrimina
ton in deciding between money tina
belonged to him and that which SHOULD
have been returned to others. AL
thou oh he was sworn in and began t
draw his salary as soon as he was con
firmed he showed no disposition t.
start for China until given rathe
sharp hint from the State Department
that 1t was high time he did so. Whel
he started for San Francisco to taxi
the steamer for China he negleote t
settle certain financial obligations, i'll
Guiding money which he had collecle'
for Baltimore collecting agency ane
q swell Washington tailor's bill. Thi
tailor, who knows thing or two, be
sides having "pull," concluded tina
he would teach the Colonel needed
lesson. SO he went to the State De
partment and carried several tales O
woe along with him and when Col
HoRe got to San Francisco he found
telegram from Secretary Gresham
ordering him to come to Washington t
meet the charges which had been flee
against him, and when he gets here b
may find the demand for his resigna
ton too strong to resist, notwithstand
ing the efforts of his Virginia friends {
straighten out financial matters befor
his arrival. The tailor may be bough