St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-29
WORKINGS OF THE NEW LAW
Shown by the Increased Re-
ceipts at the Various Gus
toms Houses.
A SEASON OF ACTIVITY
Expected From the Release
of the Large Amount Of
Goods in Bond.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The few
senators at the capitol today refused to
express an opinion for publication on
the letter OF President Cleveland to Mr..
Catchings. The Democratic senators
said they had nothing to say, but they
seemed to feel that it was aimed at
them. The Republicans said there
seemed to be no necessity at present
for them to get into the fight in the
ranks of their opponents, and they
would not be quoted regarding it.
Members of the house were not so
reticent as the senators. Representa-
tive Sperry, (Dem., Conn.,, who opposed
the Wilson bill, said:
II was in hopes the president would
spare his party the infiiction of another
letter. The tariff bill is distinctly
party measure, and according to the
presidents letter to Mr.. Wilson, it is
measure permeated with pertidy and
dishonor. If that is a correct descrip.
tion of the bill l do not see on what
ground the Democratic party can
ask to be continued IN power any
longer. 1t seems by the second letter
to Mr.. Catchlngs, that the tariff fight
must be continued. This position must
be very disquieting to all the business
interests of the whole country. The
Democrats this fall are placed Oh the
defensive by these two letters. first in
defending policy of perfidy and dis
honor, and second, by threatening all
the business interests of the country
with further attempts at tariff leglSla-
ton. Every campaign speaker this fall
is compelled to defend his party against
the allegations contained in these two
letters. or else to defend the president
against the allegations i'll the letters
themselves. My own opinion of the
senate bill is that there is no perfdy or
dishonor In the bill itself or in the mo-
tiveS Of senators instrumental in its
passage. 1t is more mature ard eQuI-
table measure than the Wilson bill, and
will produce revenue which the Will
son bill professedly would not, and that
is what tariff bill is for.
cit is to be hoped that the president
will not write any more campaign docu-
ments tor the Republican party pending
the coming election"
Representative Johnson Dem., o.
said:
1.-The effect of his failure to sign the
bill and writing a letter will be to in
tensify and continue the fight against
protection mot protection as he puts
it, but Democratic protection"
Representative Warner Dem., n. "
said:
1.-The presidents letter will meet with
unqualified approval from all true
friends of revenue reform, especially
on the party policy there outlined, and
the programme of offensive action, first
against trusts and then i'm favor of free
raw materials and in favor of every
other Democratic principle, to reach
the fulfilment of which tine ranks of
tariff combination must first be broken"
Hon. j. w. Babcock, OF the national
Republican congressional committee,
said:
81 confess that have great deal of
sympathy for the president in the posi-
tion in which he finds himself. He has
been humiliated Dy his party and
obliged to give his consent tacitly to
the enactment of law which is posi-
lively against all his convictions on
tariff legislation. L can really appreciate
the situation in which he is placed, he
being obliged to subordinate his own
feelings as TO what is right to. the be-
heStS of the trusts aud cOrpoI atiOns. The
letter of the president to Mr. Catchings
very positively indicates the disappoint-
ment he feels. The admission the
president makesy that he will not per-
init himself to be separated from his
party to such an extent as might be
implied by veto of this tariff legisla-
ton, and that the provisions of this bill
are not in line with honest tariff reform,
all make it embarrassing for Democratic
speech-makers. who will find 1t neces-
sarF to say that Mr.. Cleveland is still
a Democrat cuckooing the words of
Mr.. Hill, and that this is tariff reform
Notwithstanding 1t had been repudiated
by Democratic president. The plain
admission that the president makes in
his letter as to the communism Of pelf,
whose Vaccinations have prevented us
from reaching the success we deserved
must indeed be very humilIating to
him and disgrac6ful to the Demo-
cratic party. who are responsible for
the enactment of this bill. | cannot
help but look upon the letter of the
president as beiiig an. excellent docu-
ment for the Republicans. The tariff
bill. as passed, is In line with all Demo-
cratic legislation. and thoroughly bears
out the expressed sentiment of prom
inent Democratic member of congress
who said that the Democratic party
could not originate legislation; it was
simply party of opposition. The SEN
ate bill is the result of opposition to
Republican tariff measure. 1t Is, as the
president says, full of Inconsistencies
and crudities which ought not to appear
In ia riff La ws or laWs of anx kind ~