The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-11-04
SATURDAY,. NOVEMBER 4, 1893.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From onr Regular Correspondent. !
Washington, Oct. 80, 1873.


pens in politics. Just when ninety
nine percent of the men in Congress,
regardless to their personal preferences,
thought the obsequies of the Voorhees,
repeal bill we're fairly under way the
prophecies of DR.. Cleveland proved to
be true. Instead of being a corpse the
patient sprang up from the bier where
il had been tenderly laid and demon
strated to all the world that it was
vigorous enough to knock out all of
its opponents-there was u funeral,
bnt compromise was the corpse. Dr..
Cleveland was naturally pleased at
the change, but he was not altogether
satisfied; i'll the pocket of the patient
was a recommendation of old man
silver that DR.. Cleveland was some.
that averse to attaching his name to,
So he eent his associate physician, DIR.
Carlisle, to suggest to chief nurse
Voorhees, the ACCESSIBILITY of strangl-
ing the now convalescent patient and
putting in its place its twin brother
which was fathered by Representative
Wilson and which had already been
strongly endorsed by the House; but
the suggestion did not meet with favor,
either from chief nurse Vuorhees Oh
any considerable number Of his assist
ants. They decided that it would be
unjust to the patient they had nursed
through such II long seige of critical
illness, just because of a recommended
ton which after all will be no more
binding than the average n given by
a politician to office seekers. Only
nine Senators voted for the Wilson
bill when the proposition of substitute
ing the Voorhees, bill therefor was
decided by the Senate.
Reasons for the failure of COM
promise arc heard on all sides, but
none of them are quite 30 interesting
VI those given on the floor of the
Senate by Senators Wolcott, of Colo,
aud German, Of Maryland, because
they both occupied positions which
should have enabled them TO know.
| Mr.. Wolcott said il was the withdrawal
Of the support which was given the
outspoken silver men by those who
were apparently working for repeal;
by democrats who believed the silver
men were right, but who TO III tain
the administration we're willing to take
the other side, and by the republicans
vi the east and north, who wanted the
silver men to de feat repeal that the
party advantage might be derived by
the republicans from the spectacle of
the democratic majority being unable
70 legislate. This statement, which
was not contradicted, would have been
all the more interesting mad MI. VOL
colt told why this mixed support was
withdrawn. He contented himself
with saying that it was brought about
by party exigency and other causes.
Mr.. German started out by saying that
the repeal Of the purchasing clause OF
the Sherman law might not give the
relief expected and that it was not
such u bill as the democrats wanted
to pass, and that it was craftsmanship
on the part of the republicans which
prevented an agreement on a measure
which would give the relief the situa-
ton demanded. He then became
more specific and declared that Sena-
tor Sherman, as the leader Of the re-
publicans, and Of the majority Of those