The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-04-06
IN CONGRESS-.
Speaker Crisp Eumiliatos Ex-Bully Reed.
SENATOR VOORHEES, OPENS
TARIFF DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
Democracy Apt to bo Harmonious on
Vital Points.
From our Regular Correspondent.


with democrats, in and out of Con
gress, at Washington, but his populari-
ty is today one hundred per cent
greater than it ever was before. His
refusal of seat in the Senate, when
all his personal inclinations were for
taking 1t, because it was clearly more
beneficial to the Democratic party for
him to remain Speaker of the House
during the remainder of this Congress,
was of itself enough to account for
much of the increase in his popularity,
but it was another event-the greatest
triumph of the Speakers Congression-
al career-that capped the climax and
made every Democrat in Washington
ready to throw his hat in the air and
give three cheers every time the name
Crisp is called. He humbled ex.
Speaker Reed, as that legislative bully
was never before humbed on the floor
of the House. They have had many
parliamentary contests, in which the
Speaker got the best of the ex-Czar,
but never until this time has the
Speaker succeeded in completely hum
bling Reed-so completely that he
sat, after having been made to do so
by the Speaker, like whipped cur.
If the Georgia Democrats are of the
same mind as the democrats herea-
bouts Mr.. Crisp will certainly be
Senator after the 4th of next March,
and they are talking at this end of the
line Of something higher yet for him
in the future.
Senator Voorhees,, in opening the
tariff debate in the Senate, made little
use of his extraordinary oratorical
power. He just gave plain straight
forward business talk, largely in the
nature of an explanation of the chang
es made in the bill by the Senate com
mittee of which he is chairman, and
laying special stress upon the urgent
necessity for speedy action. Accord
ing to the present program, very few
set speeches will be made by the other
Democratic members of the Finance
Committee, and no attempt to limit
the debate will be made until the Re-
publicans have been given ample op.
portunity to state their objections to
the bill.
am glad to be able to state posi-
lively that there is absolutely no truth
in the published statement that Demo
Gratis who are dissatisfied with Presi-
dent Cleveland's veto of the Bland
bill intend to vote for free coinage
amendment to the tariff bill. Not a
single Democratic Senator who favors
silver will say that he is in favor Of
such an amendment, and Mr.. Bland,
who certainly has the right to speak
for the silver Democrats in the House,
if any man has-he has been their
leader, both in this and in number
of previous Congresses-character-
ized the idea as San outrage and a
crime" that would do no good and
would, if carried out, result in the GER
tain defeat of both tariff reform and
free coinage.
Mr.. Bland will, as soon as the
House can get and keep Democra-
tic quorum long enough to dispose of
the report of the Election Committee
in the contested case of O'Neil VS..
Joy, of Missouri, which has been hang
ing for more than a week for lack of
voting quorum, move that his coin
age bill be passed over the Presidents
veto. 1t cannot pass, unless the Re-
prblicans who voted against the bill
should refuse to vote, and even then
it could hard y pass, as there are a
number of Democrats who voted for
the bill when it was passed who will
not vote to pass II over the Presidents
veto
There is little doubt that a free
coinage bill will soon be reported to
the House from the Coinage Commit
tee, of which Mr.. Bland is chairman,
but there is much doubt of its being
passed.
Well, the long wait is over. A
Democratic Public Printer is to sue
ceed Mr.. Frank w. Palmer, the Re-
publican who has held the Office since
May 1880. The lucky man is Mr..
Thomas L. Benedict, of New York,
who held the Office from September,
1886, until Palmer's appointment.
While there is, of course, some per
sonal dsappointments among Demo
Gratis vino were close friends of other
candidates for the appointment, there
is general Democratic rejoicing that
the position which controls the ap-
poin,ment of nearly three thousand
employees, all outside OF the CLASSIFIED
service, is to be filed by Democrat.
Mr.. Benedict is not only good
Democrat, but, as proven by his rec
ord when in control of TIE office, he
is good Public Printer. There will
probably not be one single objection
raised in the Senate to the conhrma-
ton of his nomination