The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-11-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 1898.

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cans AS Senator Sherman and'ex Speak
er Reed concerning the condition of the
country. At least things are begin
ming to look that way He is credited
with being responsible for the conserv-
ative tariff talk that Senator Vorhees
and other democratic leaders have in
dulged in, and your correspondent is
told that he is using his influence with
the democratic members of the ways
and means committee to make the new
bill conservative So much for ru-
mors and indications. Now for fact
Representative Wilson says the new
bill will be from beginning to end a
tariff for revenue only, which means
that the duties will be made such as
to encourage and increase the importa-
ton SO as to bring large revenue to
the government. 1t would be difficult
to imagine more injurious bill than
one framed on these lines. You can
not largely increase importation with
out largely reducing the home produc-
ton of the same goods, which would
mean of course, less work to the
Americans. Foreign manufacturers
would ask nothing better than IL tariff
for revenue only.
If some of the southern senators do
not return to Washington with better
feelings toward the administration than
they carried away there will surely be
an open war before the regular session
of congress grows very old. There is
general complaint among democratic
senators and representatives privately
of course) that the administration
treats them with disrespect, and many
of them left Washington with anger in
their hearts because of their failure to
see Cleveland Saturday, although they
remained here day after congress had
adjourned for that express purpose.
Many of them did not hesitate to say
that it was because he exp cted they
would want to see him that he, in COM
pany with Secretary 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 of the house committee
on rivers and harbors will this week
start on "tour of inspection" which
will include system of locks and
dams on Monongahela river, the gov
ernment works on the Kentuckey river
and on the Kanawaha, in West Vir-
ginia. In view of the circumstances
this ''tour of inspection" is, to say the
least, an unnecessary one.
Mr.. Cleveland got only what the
republicans helped him to get ftom the
extra session of congress. He failed
to get the nomination of his friend
Hornblower to the supreme court va,
cancy 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 two collectors of in
ternational revenue in North Carolina.
Senator Hill is responsible for the
failure of Hornblower and the other
New York men to get confirmed; sill
yer men for the hanging up of Pres
toms nomination, and Senator Vance
for the failure of the "tarheels." Two
colored men nominated to diplomatic
positions also failed. One of them
G. H. J. Taylor, who was nominated
minister to Bolivia, not being acted
upon, and the other-H. III. c. Asst
wood, who was nominated counsel at
Calais, France-being formerly re-
jected.
Col. J. Hampton Hoge, Virginia
democrat of more or less prominence,
who was early in the extra session
nominated and confirmed consul at
Annoy, probably wishes that he had
either been more prompt in starting for
his post or had used more discrimination
in deciding between money that be-
longed to him and that which should
have been returned to others.
Although he was sworn in and began
to draw his salary as soon as he was
confirmed he showed no disposition to
start for China until given II rather
sharp hint from the state department
that it was high time he did so. When
he started for San Francisco to take
the steamer for China he neglected to
settle certain financial obligations, in
cluding money which he had collected
for Baltimore collection agency and
a swell Washington tailor's bill.
This tailor, who knows a thing or two.
besides having a "pull," concluded
that he would teach the colonel a
much needed lesson. So he went to
the state department and carried sew
eral tales of woe along with him, and
when Col Hoge got to San Francisco
he found telegram from Secretary
Gresham ordering him to come to
Washington to meet the charges which
had been filed against him, and when
he gets here he may find the demand
for his resignation too strong to resist,
Notwithstanding the efforts of his Vir-