The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-01-05
NO.. 3.
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1898.
Can the Cleveland tariff bill be de-
Heated in the House9 That was the
important question considered at Il
Isecret conference of democratic mem
bers of the House who are opposed to
the bill, or at least to those portions of
it that fall heavily on industries in
their respective districts. have
learned that the members of this con-
ference decided to take advantage of
their visits home for the holidays to
ascertain the sentiment of their con-
stituents, and determine that if they
were, as they believe them to be,
against the clauses of the Cleveland
bill that effect their own industries,
that they would combine against
those particular schedules of the bill
and If the democratic caucus, to be
held as soon as Congress comes
! together again, refused to amend the
bill to meet their wishes, they would
in body decline to be bound by the
action of the caucus and would vote
against the entire bill. The impor-
! tance of this conference depends al
together on the number of votes it
can control. Statements as to the
number in attendance vary, ranging
| from to So The administration
men who have heard about it say that
| it is only bluff on the part of n
handful OF members, to secure amend
ments favorable to their constituents,
and good many republicans are dis
posed to regard it in the same light.
Republicans do not expect to see the
bill either defeated or materially
changed in the House, but they have
an abiding faith that it will have to be
radically changed before it can get
through the Senate, and they are not
without hope of its being absolutely
defeated in that body. Closing manu-
factories, failing merchants, millions
unemployed, many of them suffering
for lack of the necessities of life, and
the cessation of the payment of divi-
dends by all classes of corporations
are bound to have some effect in the
Senate, if not in the House.
Notwithstanding Secretary Car
isles refusal to allow members of the
q. A. r. to solicit contributions in the
Treasury department for the annual
Christmas dinner for the families of
INDECENT members of the organization,
an ample fund was secured for that
purpose and the materials for a first
class Christmas dinner were delivered
to the families of 663 comrades this
morning, and in addition shoes and
clothing were given to those who
needed them. 1t takes more than
the refusal of a request by member
of the cabinet to upset the customs of
the G. A. r.
An amusing incident of the strange
fear OF assassination which has taken
possession of Mr.. Cleveland and the
men who are prominent in supporting
his policy, even when it is necessary
for them to turn complete somersauits
to do so, is causing broad smile all
over the town. The other day a son
of Senator Mills, who comes from a
state which has long prided itself on
fearless men, applied to the police
authorities for permit to carry
pistol to protect his father from
mysterious assassin, who, he said,
had threatened to kill him. The per-
NIT was granted him, and young Mr..
Mills went on his way rejoicing in his
license to carry gun, not expecting
that any newspaper man would ever
know anything about it. That's
where he was mistaken. A newspaper
man not only found it out, but he
printed it, and the brave Texas Sena-
tor and his armed body guard became
the butts upon which the ridicule
which had been accumulating on ac
count of certain more or less absurd
I precautions which had been taken at
the White House and the Capitol to
keep out men feared to be upon MUIR
der bent, was poured without stint.
The Texas Senator, be it known, is a
man of fiery temper When he saw
the publication and observed the man
ner in which people eyed him he
became furious. He claims to know
nothing about the permit until he
saw the publication. Ike sexual
came out Saturday afternoon, when
young Mills WIFI QlSnoVoloQ ha1f and
wild eyes rushed into the police court
and asked that the permit issued to
him be cancelled. There is a double
moral to this story. First, don't get
frightened; second, don't expect to
succeed in hiding things from news
paper men.
The attempt on the part of Secre-
tary Lamont to compel the 500 clerks
who occupied the old Ford's Theatre
building at the time of the awful ac-
cident to 60 back into that old death
trap, which has been patched up to
the extent of $4,000, has been tempo
rarily frustrated by report of the
local building inspector, declaring the
building unsafe. A resolution is
pending in the Senate declaring
against the use of this building for
clerical purposes again. Even if the
building were perfectly safe it would
still be an unnecessary cruelty to
force the clerks who were there when
the accident took place to again oc
cupy it.
RTTY NuEAD lot I'M ANCrH