The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-15
NO. 81.
Washington Letter.
From our regular CORRESPONDENT

| 4N'oi"liu UOubliGSS IGelS tina
his ia riff bill needs bolsterinc up. and
that accounts for the space he deyotes
10 1t III ms message to Congress. 1t is
| no tor the democratic members Of
Congress that he intends his arou-
rhents i'll favor of the tariff mOnstrosi-
" which he has compelled the demo-
Gratis OF the House Ways and Means
| committee to father, but for the bust
ness interests of the country which
nave Kept the telegraph wires hot with
protests against the proposed outrage
ever since it was made public a week
ago He doesn't mind she opposition
from democratic Congressman: he
knows by experience that few an.
polntments judiciously placed will
silence the most OF that. 1t is the
aroused public sentiment of the conn
try that he fears.
democratic Senators and Represen-
tatlVes who have been among their
constituency since the close of the ey-
ira session bring no consolation 70 the
administration; on the contrary, they
bring news of the most doleful nature.
At a private conference of the admin
lstratlOn democrats held last night if
was generally admitted that the next
House of Representatives would
almost certainly he republican. In
stead OF that knowledge making them
more conservative, lis it would wiser
men, 1T has made them more deter
mined than ever to force the whole
administration program through Con-
gress, regardless of consequences.
Republican leaders TIA Ike little or no
stock in the idea that discontented
democrats will aid them to modify the
Cleveland tariff hill. They have heard
democratic Senators and Representa-
tlves talk one way and vote another
too often to place any reliance upon
them.
They intend, however, that the de-
bate on the bill shall make plain to
the country the full extent of the
damage such a law will infict 1rpon
every man in the United States. OWING.
to the House Rules and that the
House comittee on Rules is completely
under Mr.. Clevelands thumb, it is GER
cam that the bill will be railrOaded
through the House with but a SEM
blance OF general debate, but Mr.
cleveland does not control the Senate
which has rules, that will not he ex-
changed to aid in hurrving this bill
through, under which full debate NAV
be had. If democratic Senators choose
they may with the aid of the solid re-
puolican vote, which they can easily
get, II they ask for tit will not he
rendered to them-remove some of
the rulnous sections of the bill: but
lew republicans are counting upon
heir doing anything so sensible.
1C Is not yet certain when the Cleve-
land tariff bill will be reported to the
house. A resolution adopted bv the
House just before the close of the ex-
ira session provided that the republi-
can members of the Ways and Means
committee should have ten davs from
The time they were furnished with
complete copy of the bill to prepare
thelr report against it. IF that reso-
luton is to be binding the bill will not
be reported to the House until we'll
INTO next week, as the republicans
nave not yet been furnished q com
plete blll-the internal revenue mart
81 1t has not been finished by the dem
ocrats, and the figures of the Treas
nry department showing the estimated
effect OF the proposed bill on the reve
nues OF the country We're only furnish
ed them today. The astounding state
ment Is, however, unOfiiciallv made
that the democrats will make a seDa-
rate Dill or the internal revenue chang
rs, IN order that the ten davs NAV
date from last Monday, when the tariff
was first made public. To do
such thing would be manifestly un-
fair.
The reason why the internal reven-
ue OF the tariff bill has not been com
pleted Is that MIR. Cleveland and his
heretofore willing tools, the democrats
on the Ways and Means committee
have locked horns over the proposition
to include therein an income tax. to
winch Mr.. Cleveland is opposed. Up
to this time all efforts to reach com
promise have been unsuccessful, and
some shrewd men are predicting that
the income tax will be the rock upon
which the Cleveland and anti-Cleve-
land democrats in congress will split
tor good and all. We snail see.
The administration men are talking
IN a mysterious way about new
treaty with China, which the admins
tratlon is negotiating. They claim so
many things for this treaty Shat it will
perhaps be better to wait and ascer
tain how much truth there is in their
claims. Many statesmen have tried to
get the best of the willy Chinese diplo-
mats, but up to date none have sue
,eeded to any marked extent, and Mr..
Gresham is hardly the man to make a
good job, even if he had good found
alton to build upon.