The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
Settled Conviction That Lobbyist Butiz At
tempted to Bride Senators. Horrorsl
lust Think OF II.
A LITTLE M0RE ARMOR PLATE
AND SUGAR TRUST.
Senator Walsh Explains coxey 8 Co. Jailed
.-Ciyil Service Commission Gets No
Appropriation.
From our Regular Correspondent.

OSudtOI ieiiSI, AFTER MS very Sensible
speech, telling the Republican Senators
that they no longer had any reasonable
excuse for delaying the final vote on
the bill, clinched his argument by
forcing test vote on a motion to lay
the bill on the table. That motion re-
ceived the vote of every Republican
present, 2S in all, and every Democrat
present-among them Senator Hill
IS IN all voted against il, as also did
three Popullsts. That vote removed
the last vestige of doubt about the
passage of the bill, and leaves Repub-
lican fllibusterlng without ley to
stand on, the Republicans having
claimed that they were justified in us
ing the tactics they did by Democratic
opposition to the bill They will now
be given last chance to agree upon
a time to take the final vote. Should
they refuse the bill will be forced to a
vote. There is feeling of relief to
know that the end is in sight.
The Senate committee has conclud-
ed the taking of testimony in the bribe-
ry case, and it is believed that the re.
port will state the belief of the COM
mlttee to be that Buttz attempted to
brlbe Senators Hunton and Kyle.
The committee is now taking testi-
mony concerning the sugar trust and
its alleged relations with Senators.
The House committee on Naval AT
fairs has begun the investigation of the
Carnegie armor plate contracts, au.
thorized by the resolution this week
adopted by the House. 1t will proba-
bly, be long one, as it covers all the
armor made by the Carnegie COM
paries from the beginning of their con-
tracts with the government.
Senator Walsh, OF Georgia, was
naturally very much surprised when he
learned that the Brotherhood OF I.o-
comotive Engineers regarded his bill
against any stoppage or interference
with trains carrying mails as being
aimed against them, and, after telling
the Senate that as journeyman prin-
ter his sympathies were and always had
been with the laboring men of the
country, of whom he was proud to he
one. he introduced an amended bill,
which he thinks cannot possibly be
misconstrued by anybody. The title
of the bill is " To protect the United
States Mails and it provides that any
person who shall rob or attempt to
rob or maliciously obstruct or retard
for the purpose Of robbery the passage
OF any railroad train on which the
mails are carried shall be punished bv
Imprisonment at hard labor not less
than one nor more than twenty years.
Attorney General Olney, in answer
to resolution adopted by the Senate
last week, asking what action had been
taken against the trusts under the act
OF July 2, 1890, has furnished the Sen
ate with the record of suit begun a.
gainst the various firms composing the
sugar trust, which was dismissed in the
U. S. Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, with costs against the
government, appealed to The Circuit
court, which affirmed the action of the
OF the District court, and which is now
before the U. S. Supreme Court on
appeal. Mr. Olney does not say SO,
but 1t is inferred from his communl- |
cation and the accompanying dccu-
ments that he considers the much talk |
edabout Sherman antitrust law a
one. Other people suspi |
cIoned as much when it was first pro.
posed by MIR. Sherman as substitute |
tor more stringent measure proposed |
by Democratic Senators.
Coxey, Brown and Jones are in jail, |
and the deluded men who followed |
them are on the verge of starvation. |
The lesson should not be lost.
Whether freedom really shrieked |
when Kosciusko fell is a matter about
which practical folks have doubts, but
no PRACTICAL working Democrat should
have any doubts about throwing up
MS hat and giving three cheers and a
.iger for the Democrats in the House
who had the mora courage 10 support
he amendment offered by Represent
'tiye Enloe, Of Tennessee, to the Leg
slatiye and Executive appropriation
oill, striking out the appropriation for
salaries, etc, of the most colossal
public sham of the age-the Civil Ser
nee Commission, commission which,
although authorized with the best in
entions to make il fair and impartial,
has been operated from the first day
'f its existence to tine present time as
machine for keeping Republicans in
,ffice. Mr.. Enloe has offered this a.
nendment several times when this an
,ual appropriation was before the
House, but never until now has he
ucceeded in getting it adopted, and
wen now it is not certain that it will
tay adopted, as the vote,Ioo to II,