The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-01-20
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1894

From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is, 1894.
Secretary Carlisle has one good
trait; he knows where to look for
good advice when he is in hole. He
is in hole now, and it is a deep and
dark one. Having called in vain
upon his party associates in Congress
Tor legislation that would provide the
money to meet the deficit made by
the announcement of the Cleveland
tariff programme, he has now called
upon Senator Sherman for advice and
aid. Senator Sherman told the demo
cratic Senators at the lime they de-
cllned his suggestion that the silver
repeal bill should be amended so as to
authorize an issue Of bonds that the
administration would in the end have
to issue bonds. Well, the end is in
sight and the administration is going TO
issue bonds, with or without tine con-
sent OF Congress. If Congress. will
authorize an issue of bonds they can
be made to run a short period and
to carry only three per cent interest
if Congress will not authorize the bond
issue, they are to be issued under the
law of 1875 and will consequently carry
or a I-2 per cent interest and will
run a long time. The bonds have
been printed and the official announce
ment of their issue may be made at any
time.
Mr. Cleveland is as obstinate as
ever. Notwithstanding the humiliating
position in which he is placed by the
last batch of Hawaiian correspondence,
which includes President Dole's manly
and straightforward answer to Minister
Willis demand that the provisional
government retire in favor OF the dis
solute woman who had previously
announced her intention to behead her
opponents as soon as she got back
into power, and which was sent to the
House on Saturday and to the Senate
today (the Senate was not in session
Saturday,, he still wishes to restore the
queen, and is making use of the meth
DDS which have become SO familiar
since the meeting of the extra session
to Convert" members of congress to
his views. If public opinion instead of
being strongly opposed as it has been
from the first had been overwhelmingly
in favor of restoration, this batch
of correspondence. which includes the
dispatches of Willis heretofore with
held, would have made restoration
impossible.
If plain arguments and incontrovert-
lble 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 and
there is little probability that any OF
the numerous amendments which will
be offered by dissatisfied democrats
during the debate under the five mia
ute rule, which will occupy the rest of
the time until the 10th. inst, when
the bill will be voted on, will be
adopted. But there is one consolation
ahead. Mr.. Cleveland will not be
able to recognize his bill when the
Senate Finance committee gets through
with it. Nothing could show palmer
what the Democrats of the House
want than the applause they gave to the
out and out free trade speeches of
Tom Johnson of Ohio, Jerry Simpson
of Kansas, and Bryan OF Nebraska.
They want tree trade, and, as Repre-
sentative Black of Illinois, who wants
to succeed Senator Cullom, put it, to
reduce wages in the United States to
the level of those paid in other parts of
the world. That is a beautiful and |
enticing programme to lay before a
nation of wage earners, now isn't it.
The opposition to the income tax
proposition has unquestionably fright
ened the democrats who favor it. One
result of the fright was the determina-
ton of the democrats of the Ways and |
Means committee not to offer the income |
tax as an amendment to sthe Cleveland |
tariff bill, but to report it to the House
as separate measure. Another is the |
proposition, not yet definitely acted |
upon, to hold democratic caucus to |
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pushed or abandoned. The final
result will be the same either way.
The income tax may be forced through
the House by very small margin, but
its death in the Senate is certain.
The minority report prepared by the
Republicans on the Senate committee
on Privileges and Elections against the
bill for the repeal of the Federal elect
ion laws which was passed by the
House at the extra session and is now
before the Senate, is document that
fairly brIstles with common sense
reasons why these laws should not be
repealed. Common sense plays very
small part in democratic legislation
but there is dim and shadowy hope
that this bill may be defeated In the
Senate by democratic opposition to it.
1t IS known that Mr.. Cleveland's dem
ocratic friends IN New York are afraid
of the effects of repeal and that they
have made their fears known to Mr..
Cleveland and to some of the demo.
cratic Senators.
There is no significance in the
election of Hon. H. Marley of Me-,
to succeed Hon. T H. Carter OF
Mont, as chairman of the Executive
committee of the Republican National
committee. Mr.. Carter wished to be
relieved of portion of the work. He
still remains at the head of the Nat.
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