San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
GFrom Our Regular Correspondent.

them by the Republicans during
the general debate on the tariff
bill, which is to close tomorrow,
and the unmistakable trend Of
public sentiment against the pres
ent bill, that they have opened
negotiations with the revolving
Democratic senators which, it is
believed, will end in their COM
plete and abject surrender. Repub-
licans have not, of course, been
made acquainted with the exact
nature. of these negotiations, but
enough has leaked out to lead
many to believe that the income
tax is to be dropped and the pres
ent tariff bill practically abandon
ed, something like the old Mills
being substituted therefor.
The impression left by the rep
resentatives of the National Work
Ingmen's Protective Tariff League
more than 1000 in number
who met in convention here Satur..
day, has been decidedly good. The
Democrats of the Senate Finance
committee refused to hear their
personal protest against the tariff
bill, but they were compelled to
hear them read on the floor of the
Senate by Senator Quay, and the
members of the League occupied
the galleries of the Senate as
pleased listeners. These men and
women did not come here to at
tempt to coerce congress by threat
ening to remain in WASH
ington until some absurd
demands were complied with,
as Coxey's army proposes to do,
but merely in the exercise OF their
rights as American citizens to pro-
test against being deprived of their
bread and butter by vicious legis-
lation ; and having filed their pro-
test, they quietly returned to their
homes. They neither walked nor
came on free railroad transporta-
ton, but on tickets purchased with
the money of the laborers they
came to represent. Nor did they
ask donations of food they paid
for everything they got, as self re-
speeding people usually do. Wash
ington people will be glad to see
them again, under happier circum-
stances.
There are times when nothing
but plain talk will fill the bill, and
Senator Hawley thought Que of
these times was at hand when he
replied to the extraordinary speech
of Senator Allen, of Nebraska, in
favor of the PETER resolution,
which provides for the formation
of a new Senate committee to hear
the petitions of Coxey's army and
similar organizations. Senator
Hawley paid particular attention
to Mr.. Aliens denunciatiOn Of the
laws which prohibit parades in
Washington without permission of
the authorities, and the marching
of any organized body of men across
any portion of the Capitol grounds,
laws which Mr.. Hawley declared
to be right and proper and said
would be enforced to the letter.
But the most striking part of Mr..
Hawley's speech was the conclu-
| sion in these words, calmly and
deliberately uttered: 81 am sorry
to saw, but | feel bound to say,
that the speech Of the Senator from
| Nebraska was one that would have
been received with tumultous APP
plause in a meeting of anarchists.
1t had in it, not requiring a micro
scope, but visible to the naked eye,
the bacteria and bacilli of
anarchy. Rough, but deserved.
The Populists in Congress, while
pretending to be opposed to the abb
surd idea which is causing so many
ill-advised men to move toward
Washington are in reality doing
everything in their power to en-
courage the movement. Represen-
tative BOen, of Minnesota, has in
troduced a resolution in the House
directing the secretary of war to
furnish camping grounds and tents
for all organized bodies Of"laboring
people" who may come to Wash
ingtOn to obtain "redress from Con-
gress." The adoption of a resolu-
ton like that would invite every
tramp in the country to spend the
summer encamped in the suburbs
of Washington, and what the re-
suit of bringing such an enormous
body of men together, whose re-
spect for law and order are not
their most striking traits, would
be, no man can tell. 1t would GER
tainly be nothing good. But there
isn't even a possibility that Mr..
Boen's resolution will get even a
score of votes in the House, if it