The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-07
In Congress.

IN congress.
The report of the Committee on For.
eign Affairs on the Hawaiian matter,
which appears elsewhere in this issue,
is the most important action in Con-
gress for the past ten days, and il has
taken some of the interest from the
Tariff question. The Senate is still
struggling with the sugar scale and
also with iron ore and coal. Sugar is
said to have given them the most
trouble, with the income tax a good
second. The committee has strictly
carried out its rule to give no hearing
to people who desired to argue against
the various phases of the Wilson bill.
The measure will therefore be what
the committee think it ought to be.
1t is expected the bill will be ready
to be reported in q few days. 1t is
understood that the screws will be
put on the whisky and brandy dis
tillers in the shape of a heavy ill.,
crease of tax, and that the California
wine men will be ruined by the legis-
lation proposed.
In the House Bland has failed to
secure q quorum for a vote on his sill
yer seiguorege bill, owing to the fill
clustering of Democrats. A number
of the latter were finally arrested and
brought before the bar of the House,
but were not punished, and are again
at their old tricks. Bland took occa-
sion to roast the filibustering members
most severely.
GO saw gentlemen here" said he,
shaking his head savagely and lifting
his voice until it fairly rang through
the hall, disobey the rules and COM
mands of this House. i saw gentle
men rise and boast that they had
defied the power of the House. If that
is not anarchy and revolution what is
it? Democratic applause. We in
the house are the fountain source of
order, the law making body. Shall
we resolve ourselves into a body OF
anarchists? If some one were to
throw a bomb from yonder gallery he
would be no more an anarchist than
he who on this floor defies the power
of the House. [Cries of "Shame
shame ~ and Misses.
awhile the people of this country
are in the throes of hunger and star
vation," continued Bland, angered by
the demonstration against him,
" when they expect US to do some
thing, to become filibusterers and OBJ
structionists is to become anarchists,
for its purpose is u defiance of the
laws of the country. We were sent
here to- do our duty at a time when
our cities are thronged with MODS of
people who cannot go to bed in peace
ami comfort, and this is not time
when mob law should obtain here"
The following from the New York
Sun, of Feb. -, will hardly be inter
esting reading for the friends of the
President: Governor Cleveland's plur-
atty for President on the popular vote
I'm ali the forty-four States of the
Union fifteen months ago was $50 2ll.
The plurality on Tuesday last ag-
ainst Mr.. Cleveland and the policies
of his administration was half as large
as that, in the single State of Pen
nsyivania, one State out of forty-four.
Such is the verdict from Pennsylvania
The verdict from New York u fort
night ago was the same. 1t will! be
the same wherever the people get a
chance to vote.
Political disasters and new humiIi-
atoms are closing in upon the Demo
crazy from every quarter. Popular
condemnation OF the dishonest anti
Democratic Wilson bill, the insane
income tax project, aid the infamous
mouarchical plot which the present
Administration has made distinctive
features, takes impressive form when
ever aud wherever the ballotboXes
are opened. This is the time to- tell
the plain truth, and here is the truth
in its nakedne-S.
Defeat does not necessarily bring
dishonor. Defeat in defence of Il
principle or in an honest attempt to-
redeem n sacred pledge or for the right
or for the flag can never be dishonor-
able. That Is not the sort of defeat to
which Grover Cleveland has led the
Democracy in tine eleven months since
he entered into Office with a commits
sion plainly written and straight
ami clear way before him.
His promise repudiated and insO-
lently ignored, the Democracy tram
pied under foot, responsibility shirked,
lying aud cOwardly evasiOns substitu-
ted tor the unqualified declarations of
a few b.