The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
NO. Z.
Washington letter.
lFrcm our regular Correspondent ]

WASHINGTON. Jan. 26, 1894.
The Cleveland-Hill fcud has taken
a fresh start and now promises to turn
INTO war OF examination. Hill an-
peared to be qpitelv allowing himself
to be snubhed by acquescins in the
confirmation of the nominations of
his personal enemies to federal Offices
until Hornblower's nomination to the
Supreme Court. Then he began to
prepare to fight back, ending with q
knockdown blow for Mr.. Cleveland bv
securing the rejection OF the Horn
blower nomination. While Hill was
receiving the congratulations of his
followers, in and out of the Senate.
Mr. Cleveland SAW his opportunity for
revenge and promptly took advantage
OF 1t by voting the New York and
New jersey Bridge bill, measure in
which Senator Hill and many of his
most prominent New York henchmen
were known to he deeply interested
some people say, in a financial as well
as. a political way Hill and his Sena-
torlal supporters are not doing anv
talking for publication, about their
plans, but when the Cleveland tariff
bill emerges from the Senate the effect
OF their next blow will be visible to
all the world without the use of q
microscopes. Republicans are eniov-
ing the combat and are perfectly will
my t" shout $50 it Cleveland. go II
HllP' with sufficient energy to keen
EN- fighting.
The democratic tariff "kickers'
have one more week in which to trv
to amend the Cleveland tariff bill.
and 1T will include the sugar, iron and
coal clauses, to say nothing of the in
come tax, which they will trv to at
tach to the tariff bill as an amend
ment; but if the result of their efforts
during the last week is an indication
of their voting strength their efforts
Will only result in talk; they have
succeeded IN securing only one amend
ment that was opposed hy the demo-
Gratis OF the Ways and Means com
mlttee--that making the free wool
clause go into effect on the passage
of the bill.
Ex-Minister Stevens gave some very
interesting testimony to the Senate
committee on Foreign Relation. on
saturday, concerning happenings in
Hawa1 during his period in office as
Minister. He went over the whole
business, frankly stating that he fav-
ored annexation and showing that for
that very reason he was 50 particular
IN all his official acts up to the forma-
ton of the provisional government
that the anneXationists thought him
opposed to them. 1t is almost anus
ing to hear of the anger felt by Mr.
Cleveland and the cuckoo democrats
because Of President Dole's plain Ian
guage to Minister Willis concerning
bis lntrigues with the ex-queen and
ms lack OF fraDkness in dealing with
the provisional government. If Mr..
Willis had not deserved receiving such
a letter it would perhaps never have
been written. -:'''
The bond issue announced by Secre-
tary Carlisle has turned the popu1ists
and'a majority of the southern and
western democrats in Congress into
bowling dervishes, and wild and in
f1ammatary talk is INDUCED in bv
them, some of which will be given an
escape valve by the resolution of
Senators Peffer and Allen which will
be made The text for some speeches in
the Senate this week. Whether the
action OF Secretary Carlisle was pro-
per one is question that your CORES
pondent will not deal with at present.
but there is no doubt Of it's legality,
even putting Tie strictest constructions
upon the authority conferred bv the
act OF 1873. That act authorizes Tie
issue OF bonds for the purchase of
gold Tor the redemption of Treasury
notes. OF course everybody knows
that this bond issue is really to oct
money to meet current obligations,
the democratic tariff policy having
resulted III causing tie revenues to
lall below the amount needed, but il
must be plain to the humblest stD-
dent of finance that it will be verv
easy matter for Mr.. Carlisle to comply
with the letter Of that act by having
bis friends, the Wall Street bankers.
present Treasury notes for redemption
IN sufficient amounts to require all
the gold received from the sale of
bonds, thus leaving him the treasury
notes to pay the expenses Of the gov
ernment. True, there will be a little
trickery about such plan, but that
will be nothing new from the demo-
cratic administration.
Representative Tom johnson, of
Ohio, who glories in being democrat
free-trader-monopolist, is still very
much in favor of protecting the per-
sonal interests Of Tom Johnson. He
makes steel rails, and in an attempt to
to monopolize the manufacture of
these rails he was recently defeated in
the courts by other steel rail manufac-
turers. Having substantial protec-
ton for the rails made by his COM
pany, through the ownership of
of patents, he tried to destroy
the business of his rivals. by offering
an amendment to the Cleveland tariff
bill, to put steel rails on the free list,
an atlemptin which he failed, thanks
to the exposure made by Representa-
tive Dalzell to Pennsylvania, and to
the solid republican vote in the