The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, lS9.

a piece OF Democratic dupnclty at
the beginning of the consideration
of the Cleveland tariff bill bv the
Senate Finance committee that is
far from encouraging. Previous to
the passing of the bill by the House
Senator Voorhees,, charm an of the
Finance committee, promised Re
publican Senators that the commit.
tee would grant full hearings to in-
dustries affected by the bill. Now,
those promises are ignored and Mr..
VOORHEES, says the committee will
grant few, if any hearings, alleging
as an excuse for breaking his word
that the Information which will be
received from the circular letters
sent out by the committee will be
all that is needed. This is a mere
subterfuge, and no one knows 1t
any better than Mr.. Voorhees,. 1t
is perfectly true that the answers to
the questions In that circular letter
would furnish all the information
necessary; but it is also true that
this information never will be put
in shape to be used by the commit
tee, and that also is known to Mr..
VOORHEES,. If answers are received
from only one half Of the one mil
lion circular letters sent out it
would require the continual SER
vices Of fifty clerks for at least six
months to tabulate the answers and
put them in an understandable
shape. The committee hasn't the
clerks nor the disposition to wait
for the work to be done if it had
them. The plain unvarnished
truth is that Mr.. VOORHEES, has re-
ceived the orders of his master in
the White House and he will break
his word to his colleagues who have
nothing to give him in preference
to disobeying his master who has
offices at his disposal. 1t begins to
look as though Mr.. Cleveland has
sufficient control of the Democrats
on the Finance committee to COM
pei them to report the bill to the
Senate practically as it was passed
by the House, leaving the fight to
be made on the floor of the Senate.
The Republican Senators propose
making it a fight that will be
memorable in the tariff history of
the country.
The most notable feature of the
Democratic side of the Hawaiian
discussion in the House was the uu-
blushing atfrontry of Representa-
tive McCreary, of KY, in standing
up and gravely informing the House
and the country that Mr.. Cleve-
land had never decided upon the
restoration of the queen. This is
one of the results of cuckooism
upon man who has always been
considered in spite of his intense
partisanship fair minded and patri-
otic. When a man becomes the
defender of Mr.. Cleveland's policy
he necessarily has to drop the role
of patriotic statesman and assume
that Of pettifogging special
pleader who endeavors to make a
good case for his clients regardless
of law or facts. Such men are
common enough in every commun-
ity, but it is little short of a
national calamity that so many of
them should occupy seats in Con-
gress. The only consolation is that
the people have fully acquainted
themselves with the facts in this
case and cannot be bamboozled by
misstatements or cuckoo resolu.
| tions.
Mr.. Cleveland is doing more in
his effort to beat Senator Hill and
secure the confirmation of Mr.
Peckham to the Supreme Court va
cancy to lower the dignity attached
the office of President of the [. s.
than any other man has ever done
and the result appears to be con.
trary to his expectations. Some
Senators who were at first disposed
to vote for Peckham s confirmation
will vote against it as rebuke tC
Mr.. Cleveland for his peculiar and
undignified tactics and it may be
that enough of them will so vote tC
reject the nomination. There il
another feature that is not con
sidered creditable to Mr.. G. The
financial condition of the govern
ment is such that it would seem tC
demand the entire attention anC
the best abilities of the President
but instead he is giving his entire
time to conducting personal fight
leaving the finances to get along as
best they may.
The patriotism of the Republi.
cans in Congress has never been
more Strikingly exemplified than 10y
their conduct concerning the sale
of $50, 900, 900 Of bonds by Secre-
| tary Carlisle. They preferred