The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July 80, 1s9.

WAsHiNtEoNs July 30, loof
VIII there be any tariff legislation at
this session OF Congress? That is the
conundrum which everybody 10 Wash
,ngton has been trying to guess ever
since President Cleveland, through
Chairman Wilson, sprung that remark
able letter, favering the original Wilson
bill and opposing the Senate bill, on Con-
gress and the public. At this time there
is a deadlock apparently as firm as a
granite mountain between the House
and the Senate, each standing by Its own
tariff bill; but these congressional dead
locks have a way OF getting unlocked
just at the time that everybody thinks
they ave become permanent and this
one may not prove an exception. Had
the President been more diplomatic In
the language he used concerning his
party members Of the senate there would
be more probability Of an agreement.
also OF future harmony in the Democratic
party.
1t Is stated that the letter never would
have besn made public II Mr.. Wilson had
not ascertained that movement was on
foot to authorize the House conferees to
agree to the most important Senate
amendments and that sixty Democrats
had promised to vote for 1t, which with
the solid Republican vote would have
come dangerously near to passing such a
motion. AS shown by his letter Mr..
Cleveland prefers no tariff legislation to
the Senate bill with its duty on coal. iron
ore, and other so-called raw materials, so
the letter was made public to prevent
the surrender OF the House.
The conference committee will resume
this week, but with each side Instructed
to stand by its own bill there is little
probability that any agreement will be
reached by the committee and less that it
would II reached be accepted by both
Honse and Senate. Public opinion may
bring about an agreement when 1t has
had time to make itself heard in Con-
public wants this tariff business settled
at this session, in order that business
can have chance, and 1t ought to be an
easy matter for each side to give and
take until a compromise upon which
both can stand without loss of dignity is
reached. but only strong pressure of
public opinion will make them drop thoir
personal fight long enough to do it.
1t will be long time before those who
heard Senator Vest, in the course of o
very beligerent speech antagonizing the
course of President Cleveland on the
tariff bill, tell what Senator Hills de-
Tense of the president reminded him Of
will forget either the words or their
reception by the Senate and crowded
galleries. Mr.. Vest said: The speech
o. the senator from New York reminds
me Of desperate murder case In which
was counsel foI the defense, and where
was obliged to plead the abnormal
moral weakness and obliquity of my
client which made him incapable Of
committing crime. After acquittal the
man came to me ana said: Il AN obliged
to you for having got me off, but would
rather go to tie penitentiary for life
than hear that speech again."
Representative Meiklejohn of Ne
braska, has introduced in the House
bill imposing duty on each and every
alien migrant arriving in the U. s.,
excepting those who come at the request
of a relative who is a citizen of the U. S.
The exception noted is interesting In
view Of the recent ruling Of the u. S.
commissioner OF immigration, that 1t is
violation of the alien contract labor law
for foreign born citizens Of the u. S. to
send for their relatives In Europe and
promise to obtain or give them employ
ment on their arrival.
The geld reserve in the Treasury is
down to SOL, 200, 900 which is lower by
several millions than 1t has been since
the reserve fund was established, but it
does not seem to be worrying any OF the
officials to any marked extent.
The Senate committee on Territories
has practically decided to favorably re.
port the bill for the admission Of Arizona
and New Mexico. but whether action can
be had upon them at the present session
will depend largely upon circumstances
yet to be developed.
The sugar trust Investigation has been
re-opened for the purpose of investigat-
ing the charge made In the New York
Herald that certain senators perjured
themselves when they testified under
oath that they had never bought stock Of
the sugar trust. While this charge is in
line with rumors which have been cur
rent here since the senator's testified, IL
Is regarded as very doubtful whether 1t
can be sabstantiated by legal evidence.
In fact 1t is believed that such evidence
Is In existence, but that 1t will be held
over the heads Of gully senator's for lob
byinx purposes instead Of being submit
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