The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
REPEAL OF rHE ELECrION LAW.

Debate In the Ouss Republican FIJI
bustering sgAin- Hut Grip wouldn't Al
a py Il ed Kule-MOv~ment to kostoi
1910 Democratic Postal Clerks.
The Wilson bill ia now In the hand. of Il
:. senate Finance committee which proposes
u Export II Sitn,n week and certainly With
u 10 days. Senator VOORHEES, thinks 1t viii p,.
o be senate inside OF q month and the Dsmt
cI.ts gent rally are confident that It will z
= through before April 1st. The Democrats {
be committee have decided to consume n
time with public hearings. Everything tbs
Q can he said bias been said over and over agat
. before the tariff commission of 1883, befor
the Morrison aud Mills COMMITTEES and agat
+ before the N, Ktnley and Wilson committees
Besides the Finance committee mas sent GU
over one million circulars to manufacturer
aud Others with tnterrOgati0ns that wi
supply all the Information that can pc.
3 -ibly be wanting. A Chairman V0or
| hees we'll saws, 1.-THE whole subject IL yer,
familiar to the American mind and needs n,
, furtaer calculation han will be incident to
full, free deb .te. The country ne eds action
,ctien." But the Republicans of the commit
tee have given formal notice of flibusterini
intent, issuing statement declaring the re
tu-al to be "both unwise and unjust. ant
should be resisted BY all parliamentary meth
DDS" Some Of them are tslking of keepin.
the discussion going for three months.
Senator Quay of Penn, showed Frida,
how be intends to fight by giving notice tn |,
he will try to bitch on amendments involving
the fri Q coinage Of silver, the repeal Of the
Estate bank TAX under certain conditions, tht
purchase of god bullion by treasury notes and
Tue prohibition OF future issues Of bonds.
There is OF course much talk of Democratic
opposition, just as there was when the til
first appeared In the house. and 1t will prob.
ably amount TO just about a. mucn. Senator
German Is the ! adler no doubt of small ELF.
| mt hus "a "a Ral Drt
not say thit he intends to vote against IT, but
he does say II will be materially changed
and bis position NAV be modified bv the resO
uti0ns which b we TIL, week passed the
NJ land legislature by a large majority IN
| tructing h m TO vote for the bill substantial v
as It stands. He will not have the aid-un 'e,s
| all infOrma Ion from The capitol Is misleading
Ut some senators who afforded him most
| fllclent assistance IN bis long and tedious
fight for silver compromise. N gotiatiOns
have been going on between anti ,dministra
lion and Pr0tectiOnist Demo rats and the Re
publicaDs ever since he Hornblower fight
with view 70 an alliance against the free
raw materials and other feaI'res of the W =
son bill ant the Peckham fight lie involved
Ia them. But 1t Il not bell we'd that practices,
results unfav0rable 10 the Wilson bill will be
secured. Gay and Cam ron alone among
the Republican senators st EN- now to be will
Ing 10 unite with the "cun-ervstives" in an
cu III " udhc tuo VII Gun DfIQ 10 the desires
., Inc protection stronghold. The real Re.
publican leaders In the en-. nber hold that the
respops'b lily Of preparing the bill rest,
wholly with the Drmoc ITS and that the,
must meet 1t. The 4 publicsns will m AXE
their record In voting aga ust the bill.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Wilson's speech
closing the tariff debate Ia week there was
scene su a as was never witnessed before IN
the tou.e. Enthusiastic Democrats seized
n n nm - btvvn, sl.x-
ami bore him In triumph down the aisle,
while the cheers and SHOUTS redoubIed. IL.
.tantly the packed galleries burst into thun.
derstorm OF applause. Wild shouts and cheers |
went up on every side, Men sprang to their |
feet aud pressed forward IS II they would |
bave plunged over the ratings. Wave after |
wave OF applause swept through the galleries |
and over the floor. 1t was q great triumph |
for him
The House has spent the week over the
business losing one day IN attempt.
ng to get quorum to overcome the Rvpub-
lean hliDusiering and 6n lily succeeded Wed.
1esday by the aid OF the PopulIsts. The fight
vas over the resolution reported by the For
Ign Affair, committee which condemns MIN.
ster stevens action approves the principle
u the president against inter ference with an
Independent nation. decl res annex alton or
'rotectorate inexpedient, and wsrns against
0relsn Intervention, ana substitutes by Hut [
nd Bou.eile. The latter abused the prts'-
ent generally ard the Former declared thai
ne presidents demand for the surrender of I
ne provisional government and eff,rt to real
stabli- D the monarchy were unwsrr Anted.
mere we're good many strong speeches on | 1
9th hides, Friday Gov. McCreary OF Ken .
1ckV opened be debate 10 beualf of the ad- /
.iulslratOn with a care al review of the en-
re- diplomatic history Of the Hawaiian revo- =
llion. Aud he asserted deliberately that In
lew OF what that correspondence disc osed, t
resident Cleveland st,nds before the couG- c
, a. an offictal who &C I'd in patriotic man. h
Or, actust-d only By desire to act fairly c
ID honoraoly by the IL .waiisn people, ami v
swing dene all be could to repair the wrong o
lat had en- done them he could Cffer on. q
to MEDIATE, anu that ofT,r bad b .en refused II
' the q ieen Of iha Haw nian Islands ana by q
e so.caile prov isional government. Outn- b
ate. OF Ohio. held that Minister Stevens. Ia Y
herlns troopS ashore ut tn, time of he rev s
utlon, WIS guilty OF an act of war, guilty of h
eacnery TO the government to which he had II
'tn the gar men to Overturn weak mon. al
chy. Judge Patterson OF Tennessee % sde Il
Is point: NJ
y Back of al this move ment is the sugar ir q
rest. II the Islands cOu | nave been annexed | NJ
~ the bounty clause VI the Mckinley act In ~
ceived from this COVE Gment upwards of e5, v,
1900 The Republican orators NAV pirate "
out patriotic motives. and make the air voc. ~,
Tn their touching Professions OF love for the u
&. but the fact csnnot he disguised that the o.
sire OF the sugar planters to pht their hands
, the U lied states treasury was the 1nderIy- r.
m 1tivs OF the revo Of 1885," ar
Gen. B ack OF Illinois s,ii: st'
rhe republicans had criticised the admins m
lion for falling to take the American people d.
o Its con teuce n dea ing with the CON q nc T. ~
ns In ia ~Ai,. why Mr. Cleveland was not tn
office" he said. "when this trouble begsn.
. Mr. Harrison take the mericSn people Into m,
confidence In all his dip ON .tic transactions -.
9 that President Harrison sent to the ca ptol pc
re received ny the senate under Q seal OF Sc Its
cy. Mr. cleveland, on the contrary has given ap
nv document that has resched him to the re,
bic an
Everett Of Msssac 1usetts declared that Mr.. th'
We land was ss true an American as any tot
q on the Il Ut an that In future time bis lon
wsiian policy would Id another proof to on
loyalty and ide Ity to his convictions. 20
Judge Turn OF Georgia: ~
lr Stevens, he declared, had occupied O nh
position, and In inciIing revolt, had nj
lated all the traditions of this country |
ericsn inteit sts = 'uli be moro vance by 90
lug high example of fair dealing than oy MOI
,mpiing Nv dupiicltv AMI trickerv. to secure sou
,niai extension The Republicans. he said. aga
. ht TO cha rye she president With sym. Re Y
nix,ng wita monarch. think Il hardy Arg
rssary for me to refer TO the act of the pre-. grs
Us administration In joining With two foreign -.
" RS to continue In face weat. to,tering ~; IT,,
barbarous monarch ia Samoa. Let me tell INT
Republican side that these charges come IN
b poor grace from them. The heal OF shis IN
eminent today IL hristisn and gentle IN
.yner o'Indisns srgued that tue evidence
ne case WIS conclusive; that the abdica- 100
of to- @ ,een was not 10 those who cor di-
.vf- IN al hut La,