The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. %, '93.

Mr.. Cleveland is slowly but surely
finding out that there are some things
which even President with power.
full will cannot do, and one of those
things is to compel the United States
Senate to vote upon a bill before its
members get good and ready. A week
ago the announcement was made that
having become tired of the delay Mr.
Cleveland intended to personally force
vote on the Voorhees, repeal bill
Well, the vote has not been taken and
and there is no indication that it will
be taken soon. On the contrary the in
dications are that it never will be taken,
unless the Senate shall adopt the change
of rules proposed by Senator Platt,
which would practically be cloture, and
Senator Voorhees, who is Mr.. Cleveland's
personal representative on the floor of
the Senate has publicly said that he
would never consent to cloture. The
silver Senators have announced their
determination to fillibuster indefinitely
to prevent vote, and they are quite
strong enough to do it under the present
rules of the Senate.
The Democrats in the House have for
the purpose OF getting the bill repeating
all laws authorizing Federal supervision
OF Presidential and Congressional elec-
tions before the House adopted the most
outrageous cloture rule ever even sug
gested to legislative body, rule OF
which Representative Burrows truly
says: sin the Fifty-frst Congress all
that we ever did was to cut off dilatory
motions. Bnt now, if the capitol should
fall down or take fire while the commit.
tees were being called, we could not
even take a recess" If this unusual
method had to be adopted by the Dem.
ocrats after a weeks Intellectual efforts
to get this bill before the House it is
difficult to imagine what they will resort
to before it is passed. The Republicans
in the House will fight it with all the
means at their disposal, and Republican
Senators may be compelled to use the
silver question as club to kill it.
The closing days of the tariff hearings
exciting and decidedly unpleasant for
chairman Wilson and his free trade
Democratic colleagues on the House
Ways and Means committee, by the
presence of one hundred prominen
Democrats from the states of Maryland
Virginia and West Virginia, who de
manded that the tariff on bituminoui
coal be left alone. Mr.. Wilson and hil
colleagues were told that if they re
moved the tariff on coal they would Kill
one of the most important industries o
those three states, to say nothing o
all chance for keeping those states il
the Democratic coldmn. The men WHIT
publicly made those statements wer'
not confined to those personally inter
ested in the mining and transportation
of COAL but included such prominen
Democrats as Governor McCorkle, o
West Virginia. The public statement
of these Democratic protectionists ere
ated sensation among Democratic fire.
traders in Congress, but their privat
talk created panic in the same class
They told Mr.. Wilson and other Dem
ocrats that they might as we'll bid
long farewell to public life if they per
sisted in their free trade ideas. The,
| ole nj hot oil
facts concerning the Whitney syndicate
which has obtained options upon all G
the Nova Scotia bituminous coal mine
with the expectation of monopolizin
the trade of the United States when tn
tariff on foreign coal was removed, an
that they would make public the fu
details, no matter who was injured,
this tariff was removed or lowered. Thi
last statement was not pleasant readin
at the. White House, as it is well know
that the Whitney syndicate is compose
OF men who contributed the money ths
made Mr.. Cleveland's election possible
Speaking of money contributed I
elect Mr.. Cleveland, the nomin alton {
James j. Allen, a son in law OF Willial
b Astor, to be Ambassador to Italy,
direct result OF certain large contribl
tions to the campaign fund. Mr.. Va
Allen is credited to Rhode Island, b.
cause he owns an establishment ther
but he should in reality have been cree
tied to Europe, where he has live
nearly all the time for number
years.
The nomination of VIM. b. Horl
blower, OF New York, to the vacancy
the United States Supreme Court is 1Ai