Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-04-28

Interesting Budget ~ News from
the Capital.

WASHINGTON. April 25, 1S94.-The
Free Traders in the Senate have
become SO discouraged, because Of the
revolt in their own party. the broad
sides poured into them by the Repnb-
licans during the generaldebate on the
tariff bill, which is to close tomorrow,
and the ~unmistakable trend of public
sentiment against the present bill.
that they have opened negotiations
with the revolving Democratic Sena-
tors which, it is believed. will end in
their complete and abject surrender.
Republicans have not, of course
been made acquainted with the exact
nature of these negotiations, but
enough has leaked out to cause many
to believe that the income tax is to be
dropped and the present tariff bill
practically abandoned, something like
the old Mills bill being substituted
therefor.
The impression lett BY the Repre-
sentatives of the National Working
mems Protective Tariff League-more
than 1000 in number-who met in
convention here Saturday, has been
decidedly good. The Democrats Of
the Senate Finance committee refused
to hear their personal protests against
the tariff bill, but they were compell-
ed to hear them read on the floor OF
the Senate by Senator Quay and the
members o. the League occupied the
galleries of the Senate as pleased lis
%teners. These men and women did
not come here to attempt to coerce
Congress by threatening to remain in
Washington until some absurd de-
mands were complied with, as Coxey's
army proposes to do, but merely in
the exercise of their rights as Ameri-
can citizens to protest against being
deprived of their bread and butter by
vicious legislation; and having failed
in their protest they quietly returned
to their homes. They neither walked
nor came on free railroad t~ransporta-
ton, but on tickets purchased with
the money of the laborers they came
to represent. Nor did they ask do
nations Of food; they paid for every
thing they got, as self-respecting peo-
pie usually do. Washington people
will be glad to see them again under
happier circumstances.
There are times when nothing but
plain talk will fill the bill, and Sena-
tor Hawley thought one of these times
was at hand when he replied to the
extraordinary speech of Senator AL
len. of Nebraska, in favor of the PETER
resolution, which provides for the
formation of a new Senate committee
to hear the petitions Of Coxey's army
and similar organizations. Senator
Hawley paid particular attention to
Mr.. Aliens denunciation of the laws
which prohibit paradesip Washington
without permission of the authorities,
and the marching of an organized
body of men across any portion of the
Capitol grounds, laws which Mr.. Haw-
declared to be right and proper and
said would be enforced to the letter.
But the most striking part of Mr..
Hawley's speech was the conclusion
in these words, calmly and deliberate
ly uttered: Il am sorry to say, but |
feel bound to say, that the speech of
the Senator from Nebraska was one
that would have been received with
tumultous applause in a meeting Of
anarchists. 1t had in it, not requir-
ing a microscope, but visible to the
naked eye, the bacteria and bacilli of
anarchy Rough, but deserved.
The Populists in Congress, while
pretending to be opposed to the absurd
idea which is causing SO many ill-ad-
viSed men to move towards Washing
ton are in reality doing everything in
their power to encourage the move
ment. Representative Boon, of Min
n~esota, has introduced a resolution in
the House directing the Secretary of
War to furnish camping grounds and
tents for all organized bodies Of "la-
boring people" who may CON toWash-
ington to obtain ''redress from Con-
gress." The adoption OF a resolution
like that would invite every tramp in
the country to spend the summer en-
camped in the suburbs of Washing
ton, and what the results of bringing
such al enormous body CT men to-
gether, whose respect for law and or
der are not their most striking traits,
would be no man can tell. It would
certainly be nothing good. But there
ism even a possibility that Mr.. Boen's
resolution will get even a score of votes
in the House, if it ever comes to a
vote at all. Those who are coming to
Washington expecting to be taken
care of by Congress would better turn
back.
Senator Gallinger's declaration that
the tariff is
Hating on crutches of unequal size,
One leg by truth supported, one by lies,
Thus sidlet to the goal with awkward pace
Secure of nothing, but to lose the race,
can hardly be classed as classic poetry;
but as a truthful description of the
present condition of the bill it would
be difficult to surpass it in the same
number of words.
The Democrats of the House pro-
fess to be greatly surprised because
the Republicans are making the reg
ular appropriation bill the bases for
showing up the absurd plumbers of
this laundering administration, and
they are actually talking of having
the Committee on Rules bring in a rule
with each appropriation bill to limit
debate thereon. IT is NOT surnr;cino