Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Senator Sherman Places the Respon-
sibility-HilI Comes Out Strong.
Other Capital Gossip.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 26, 1893.

foremost OF New England orators. Hi:
speech fairly represented the feeling il
the East upon the Chinese question The
bill, as amended, is almost as rigid as the
original Geary law, but extends the time
for registering six months after the pas
sage of the law. Mr.. Geary is perfectly
satisfied with the new act, as it carries
the Photographic Identification, deporta
tion and jailing without bail clauses Of
the old bill. There were only nine votes
against the bill, in spite of the fact that
even this bill breaks the treaties with
China.
Mr.. Slime has bill before the Judicia-
ry Committee now, on the subject of i'm
migration, that will pretty surely come
before the House, and arouse lively de-
bate in regard to immigration from Eu-
rope. The bill proposes to make it
necessary to apply for permit to
come to this country, the application to
be made to a consular officer on the other
side Of the Atlantic, who will decide as
to the fitness of the immigrant to come
to the United States and take care of
himself. The House shows a commend
able disposition to get down to regular
business. After disposing of the Chinese
bill, it at once took up the Cox Banking
bill, and very soon disposed of it. The
BANKRUPTCY bill will soon follow; and if
we can believe anything we hear, the
Ways and Means Committee will be on
hand with the new Tariff bill by the mid
die Of November But the cloud still
hangs over the other end of the Capitol.
The Senate is still discussing, and the
Congressional Record is running over
with the elaborate arguments of the Sen.
ators who are talking against time.
When they are not talking silver, they
discuss the rules. Senator Sherman made
an able speech the other day. He de-
clared in favor of change in the SEN
ate's rules at the next session of Con-
gress; that the Senate was fast losing its
dignity. and the only way for it to retain
the respect of the people, was change
that would give the majority the right to
bring about vote after reasonable de-
bate. That it was not, and never has
been, the purpose of the old rules or GUS
toms of the Senate to allow a minority
to resist successfully, and defeat ma
ljority.- He said the Democratic side of
the Senate must bear the responsibility
Of the present situation. The people
had hOnOred them with a majority of
the votes. That side of the Chamber
must take definite position, or give the
thing up; that action of some kind was
necessary, and ought not to be delayed
He appealed to the Democratic side to
decide on some line of action at once
David b. Hill is master of sarcasm
He has been on the floor good many
times in the last few days. lie is an ad-
vOcats of the Reed rules, and wants to
see them put in force in the Senate. He
sarcastically asked the Senate the other
night at IL o'clock to remain in session
to hear Senator Stewart out on his big
speech. He said this was new subject
for Stewart, and as he had larger audi
ence than he could get in tie daytime, he
was in favor of staying and giving him
a chance. Morgan said in a speech the
other day that he could not expect any
thing better of Hill than defense of the
Reed rules; he said New York politi-
clan like Hill must be expected to be-
lieve in arbitrary rulings and actions.
That he (Morgan) believes in the Consti-
tuition, had always supported it, and
cared nothing for the decision of the Su-
preme Court in favor of the Reed rules
The beautiful way in which Mr.. Hill
laid out Morgan's position after that,
broke down the Senate with hearty
laugh. Hill said he knew they had poll
ticians in New Y ork, but he would admit
that there were no politicians in Alabama;
they were all statesmen down in that
country. He had not expected to con-
vince Senators who had no respect for
the Supreme Court, and were not willing
to bow to its decisions. AS to Morgan's
lifelong devotion to the Constitution he
said he had supposed the gentleman had
supported for a brief period another
constitution, but he might be mistaken.
AS to Morgan's dying in the last ditch,
he said good many others had died in
the last ditch, but there are great many
of them still with us. This hit at the Con-
federacy brought the applause from the
galleries. He said Morgan's position in
regard to the Supreme Court, made him
think of the lawyer before the Justice of
the Peace, who read chapter from
Blackstone, not to show the Justice was
wrong, but to show what fool Black
stone was. He said by the reading of
the decision of the Supreme Court we
can see, not that Mr.. Morgan was wrong
for he was always right-but that we
could see plainly what fool the Supreme
Court had made of itself.
Ex-Governor Hoadly of Ohio, now of
New York, has been appointed by the
Attorney Generals recommendation, as
counsel to represent the Government in
the Union Pacific affairs. He has been
in the city in consultation with the At
torney General concerning his orders.
The report of the Treasury Depart
ment giving statement of the exports
and imports of the first nine months of
the persent year shows a wonderful
change as compared with the first nine
months Of 1899. The excess of imports
over exports for the nine.months of 1893
is s22, ,s2l ,440, while in the same period
in 1892 the excess of exports over i'm
ports was s29,204, ,09O. This is surely a
striking change.
Snnrema Justice Brown came very