The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-01-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1898.

advice when he is III hole. lie is In
a hole now, and it is deep and dark
one. Having called in vain upon his
party associates in congress for legls-
lation that would provide the money
to meet the deficit made by the an
nouncement of the Cleveland tariff
program, he has now called upon
senator Sherman for advice and aid.
Senator Sherman told the democratic
senators at the time they declined his
suggestion that the silver repeal bill
should be amended so as to authorize
an issue of bonds that the admins
tra.ion would in the end have to IS
sue bonds. Well, the end is in
sight and the administration is going
to issue bonds, with or without the
consent of congress. If congress will
authorize an issue of bonds they can
be made to run short period and to
carry only three per seent interest; if
congress will not authorize the bond
issue, they are to be issued under the
law of 1875 and will consequently
carry four or four and one-half per
cent interest and will run long time
The bonds have been printed and
the official announcement of their issue
may be made at any time.
Mr.. Cleveland is as obstinate as
ever. Notwithstanding the humiliat-
ing position in which he is placed by
the last batch of Hawaiian correspond
snce, which includes President Dole's
manly and Straightforward answer to
Minister Willis's demand that the
provisional government retire in favor
of the dlssolute woman who had pre-
viously announced her intention to
behead her opponents as soon as she
got back into power, and which was
sent to the house Saturday and to the
senate today (the senate was not in
session Saturday,, he still wishes to re-
store the queen, and is making use OF
the methods which have become SO
familiar since the meeting of the extra
session to "convert" members of con-
gress to his views. If public opinion
instead of being strongly opposed as it
has been from the frskhad been over
whelmingly in favor of restoration this
batch of correspondence, which in
cludes the dispatches of Willis here
tofore withheld, would have made re-
storation impossible.
If plain arguments and incontfo-
vertlble facts counted for anything with
democrats the Cleveland tariff bill
would have been buried beyond hope
of resurrection by those presented
against it by the few republicans who
have had an opportunity to speak
during the absurdly short time allowed
for general debate. The orders to
railroad the bill are imperative anc
there is little probability that any O.
the numerous amendments which will
be offered by dissatisfied democrat:
during the debate under the five
minute rule, which will occupy th'
rest of the time until the 29th, inst
when the bill will be voted upon, viii
be adopted. But there is one conso-
lation ahead. Mr.. Cleveland will no
be able to recognize his bill when tn,
senate finance committee gets through
with it. Nothing could show plaine
what the democrats of the house reall,
want than the applause they gave tt
the out and out free trade speeches O
Tom Johnson of Ohio, Jerry Simpson
of Kansas, and Bryan of Nebraska
They want free trade, and, as Repre-
sentative Black of Illinois, who want
to succeed Senator Cullom, put it, t
reduce wages in the United States t
| the level of those paid in other part
of the world. That is beautiful AM
enticing programme to lay before
nation of wage earners, now isn't it,
The opposition to the income ia
proposition has 'unquestionably fright
ened the democrats who favor it. On
result of the fright was the determin
alton of the democrats of the way
, and means committee not to offer tn
income tax as an amendment to til
: Cleveland tariff bill, but to report it t
the house as separate measure. Al
other is the proposition, not yet def
initely acted upon to hold democra
lc caucus to decide whether the incom
tax shall be pushed or abandoned
The final result will be the same eithe
Way. The income tax may be force
through the house by very sma
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