Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, July 8, 1894.

in the stand he has taken against an
archy and in favor of law and order,
but, to their shame be it recorded,
there are quite a number of demo
Gratis in Congress who stand with the
protesting democratic and populist
governors against the action Of the
administration. Among his OppO-
nents are, of course, the most of the
extreme states rights democrats, and
the populists, whose public utterances
have done more to encourage the
spread of anarchy in this country
than all other causes combined. The
question of the rightfulness or
wrongfulness of the original strikers
against the Pullman company became
a secondary consideration with every
body the moment the free passage of
the U. s. mails was INSTRUCTED and
the authority of the U. S. courts de-
fed.
The u. S. government has nothing
whatever to do with the strikes of
employees against individuals Or cor
porations, but is has everything to do
with the rights of the people Of the
several states to communicate with
and to do business with each other at
will, and Mr. Cleveland would have
neglected his sworn duty had he done
less than he has done. It isn't the
rights of the strikers that are at
stake, but the very life of republican
institutions in America. Fortunately
the number of men in Congress who
are opposed to the position Of the ad-
ministration is too small to be fac
tor in any Congressional action that
may become necessary, and as long
as Mr.. Cleveland stands for the pres
ervation of law and order and main
tanning the dignity and authority of
the U. S. government he can count
upon the support of Congress and Of
nine tenths of the people, regardless
of their political opinions. There is
no politics in the present situation;
it is Americanism against anarchy.
Senator Call would better have al
lowed that little episode of pulling Off
his shoes in the Senate chamber
while that august body was in ses-
sion to die of itself, as it would soon
have done. Then he would have been
considered merely as a man with
questionable taste. But since he
made that SO called personal expla-
nation, and attack upon the Washing
ton correspondents, he is considered
as a blackguard and a-well, call it a
little unbalanced.
1t is clear that the democratic
members of the Senate committee
scandal are in no hurry to get their
report before the Senate, having fail
ed to get either Senators Lodge, Davis
or Allen to agree to a meaningless
support that would practically dis
miss the whole matter The repubH-
can Senators propose making a re-
port that will be in keeping with the
evidence taken, and owing to the ex-
treme nature of some Of the conclu-
sions drawn by Senator Allen he will
voted largely to showing that the
money which the sugar trust people
admitted having contributed to dem
ocratic state committees was actually
used to help the democratic national
ticket and was so intended to be used.
The republican report will only agree
with that of the democratic Senators
in one thing-it will eXonerate Secre-
tary Carlisle from any blame for hav-
ing at the request of Senator Jones
written that sugar schedule. 1t will
then show that the sugar trust con-
trolled the making of the sugar sched-
ule. The report will make the most
interesting sort of campaign docu-
ment, and the Republican Congress
sional Campaign committee will see
that it gets widely circulated.
The Conference committee on the
tariff bill held it's first meeting to- day,
in the Senate Finance committee
room. If the applause which the
democrats of the House gave Mr.. Will
son, chairman of the Ways and Means
committee, when he attacked the 643
Senate amendments to the tariff bill
meant anything it meant that the
House is going to make a hard fight
to knock out every one of those
amendments which raises the duty
or which puts a duty upon articles
which were put on the free list by the
original Wilson bill. If it is success
full, it is believed that the bill is
combine shall abjectly surrender, as
every member of it has openly stated
that they would not vote for the bill