The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-02-06
THE DALLEs. OREGON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY s. 1884,
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tom Reeds Irresistable Speech Bef ore
an ImmovabIe Crowd.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1894.
Ex-Speaker Reed probably never
made better or stronger speech than
that with which he closed the republi-
tariff bill, but it was casting pearls be-
fore swine to attempt to stop the demo-
Gratis of the house in their headlong
rush toward ruin and destruction. But
there are millions of intelligent people
in this country who will appreciate and
heed the masterly array of calm and in
surmountable facts presented by the
honored republican leader of the house,
even if they did fall unheeded upon the
ears of men, many of whom voted for
the atrocious measure against their hon.
est convictions, knowing that it would
injure those who had sent them to con-
gress. Some of these men voted for the
bill simply because they lacked the
courage to do otherwise, but not a few
of them did SO for mess of pottage in
the shape of "a few Offices for their per-
sonal followers. The tariff bill now goes
to tae senate, where there is hope of
making material alterations in, if not
of defeating it outright.
1t is entirely fitting that the public
debt of the United States should be in
creased $50 ZOO, 900 by the sale of bonds
on the same day that the house passed
the Cleveland tariff bill. Indeed, the
increase in the public debt was but the
natural consequence of the mere propo-
sition to saddle such tariff upon the
country. Owing to the very determined
movement against the issue of bonds in
and out of congress the issue would have
been a fiat failure had not Secretary
Carlisle's appeal to the Wall street
bankers brought them to his rescue. To
prevent this fact being too plain to the
country Mr.. Carlisle has refused to make
public the names of the purchasers of
the bonds. Congress did not act in
time to stop the issue of bonds, but it
may take steps that will prevent the
use of the money for any other purpose
than strengthening the gold reserve.
Representative Sibley of Pennsylva-
MIA who got on his ear and rendered his
resignation to the governor of that state,
because his constituents objected to his
position on the tariff, has wound up the
string which he tied to his resignation
before sending it, and will keep his seat
in the house.
The returns from the special congress
sional election in New York City were
not reassuring to Mr.. Cleveland or the
cuckoo democrats. They bore out the
assertions of the New York democrats
in the house, that the Cleveland policy,
if persisted in would result in making
New York go republican by an unheard
of majority. At the last presidential
election the fourteenth N. Y. district
went democratic by plurality of S,S25,
and now it elects republican congress-
man by plurality of 905-a republican
gain of few less than 10000 in single
district. The fifteenth district went.
democratic by IL 1863, and now it is only
by the personal popularity of the candi-
date that it has democratic plurality
of 4.5l0-a republican gain of 1859.
That is the first time the wage-earners
have had chance to express their opin-
ion of the democratic tariff bill. Its
effect upon democratic senators will be
carefully watched.
It is regarded as significant that it is
the friends of Mr.. Cleveland, and not
those of Senator Hill, who are seeking to
delay action on the nomination of Peck
ham to the supreme court vacancy. A
close friend of Senator Hills said today
"Whether the nomination be acted upon
next week or next month the result will
be the same-rejection.' On the other
hand administration men are claiming
the votes of several Southern Senators
which were cast against Hornblower.
Meanwhile important business of the
Supreme Court is being delayed because
of the vacancy. The even division of the
court-four on each side-in one i'm
portant case the other day will prevent
other cases from being taken up until
the vacancy IL filed.
| Senator elect Gear-"Old Business"
some Iowa people call him-was given