Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-02-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IsrsoIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Feb. ~, 1894.

not to be torn all to pieces by the FL
nance committee, as many had eX-
pected. 1t is only to be sufficiently
amended before being reported to
gain the support of those democratic
Senators who had announced their
intention to vote against it unless
their demands were complied with.
Nothing has yet been officially given
out concerning these amendments,
but it is regarded as certain that they
will include duty on sugar, both raw
and refined, land duty on coal. These
concessions to the Senators from
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
and Louisiana, are not to be called
protection The democratic party is
opposed to protection, you know. So
the claim is to be made by the COM
mittee that these duties are levied
solely for revenue purposes and with
no intention to protect these indus
tries. AS matter of cold, hard fact
these proposed amendments are not
pleasing to the democrats, except
those from the states that will be ben
Gifted, and they are only to be made
because the bill cannot be passed with
even four democratic Senators vot-
ing against it, and as an offset the du-
ties on a number of articles princi-
pally produced in states that are re-
liably republican are to be still further
reduced. The income tax is to re-
main in the bill, unless struck out by
a vote of the Senate. The republican
Senators will probably hold a confer
ence as soon as the bill is reported, in
order to determine npon the plan of
opposition they will follow. The ad-
vices they are receiving from their
constituents are somewhat contradic-
tory. Some want them to merely put
themselves on record as opposing the
bill and then to allow it to be passed;
others want them to use every legiti-
mate parliamentary method to delay
or defeat it.
Colonel E. Z. Lee, of Monticello, ILL.,,
Secretary Of the Shiloh Battle Field
Association, is in Washington for the
purpose of presenting to the con-
gressional committees the memorial
adopted by the association, asking
Congress to purchase the battle field
of Shiloh and turn it into a National
Memorial park. The association at
recent meeting held at Indianapolis
designated Senators Harris Of Tennes-
see; Sherman of Ohio and Villas of |
Wisconsin, committee to take charge
of the memorial in the Senate and the
following representatives to perform
a like duty in the House: Col. D. B.
Henderson of Iowa, Gen. Joseph |
Wheeler of Alabama and Gen. John !
G. Black of Illinois.
Representative Geary - Chinese
Geary,' he is often called-of Califor-
MIA is democrat, but not a cuckoo,
as will be seen by the following Ian
guage of Of his: 81 have as much re-
spect for the President as any one
else, but I do not see why Congress
should first learn the wishes of the
President or consult the wishes of the
Executive departments before legis-
lating. Congress is here to pass laws
without consulting anybody and [, for
one, am growing tired of the constant
interference of the executive depart
ments in the work of Congress. Let
Congress make it's own laws, and if
the President does not like them, let
him exercise his constitutional pre-
rogative and veto them.'' That's the
most sensible democratic speech Of
the session.
The charge was made several days
ago that Secretary Gresham has had
a long letter from President Dole to
Minister Willis in his possession more
than week, and that it was with
held from the House for fear that the
terrible arraignment of Willis for
his double dealing since arriving in
Honolulu, which it contains, would
have defeated the cuckoo resolution
which the House was fairly driven to
adopt last week, and the charge has
not been denied. It certainly looks
as though the administration were
determined to sink itself to the bot
tom of the pit of public infamy in
dealing with Hawaii. Minister Dole's
letter is said to be something like ten
thousand words long and to go into
minute particulars concerning the
acts of Minister Willis. The admins
tration people are claiming that Sen
ator Morgan has been "placated,"
and that he will join Senators Butler
and Gray in the majority report of
the Hawaiian investigation, which