Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-09
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE PRESIDENT THE FIRST TO
CONGRATULATE WILSON.
charges 10 He Pushed Against the
Smuggling Ring BY the Treasury
Department.. "a.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

smuggling King BY the Treasury
Department.. "a
From Our Regular Correspondent.
/ WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1894.
President Cleveland was one of the
first, outside of his Congressional
colleagues, to extend congratulations
to Chairman Wilson on the success of
his tariff fight in the House. The
congratulations were telephoned from
the White House to the Capital. Mr..
Wilson is not man of robust health
at the best, and the continuous and
arduouS labor which he has performed
since becoming chairman of the WAYS
and Means Committee has almost
completely broken him down. He has
earned n rest and he will probably
leave Washington to spend several
weeks IN some quiet place. Other
democrats at times allowed the noise
OF the opposition to raise doubts of the
passage Of the bill, but Mr.. Wilson has
been calmly confident from the day
the bill was reported from the commit
tee that it would pass without being
materially changed. The result shows
that his confidence was built upon a
firm fOundation--the belief that men
elected to congress on tariff reform
issue would not allow themselves to be
stampeded by manufactured senti.
ment against tariff reform.
Representative Dingley, of Maine,
was the only republican who succeeded
in getting ain amendment to the tariff
bill adopted. He moved that the bond
period provided in the whisky clause
of the internal revenue section of the
bill should be three years, as at present,
instead of eight years, as reported
from the committee, and the House
voted with him.
Democratic opposition to the in
come tax amendment, which at one
time seemed strong enough to en-
danger the whole bill, began to grow
less and less early in the week and a
day or two before the vote was taken
had grown so insignificant that it was
no longer considered factor in the
fight. Ii the Democratic Senators will
do as well as the Democrats in the
House have done tariff reform will
SOON be here, but indications do not
point to speedy action by the Senate.
Upon evidence presented by Judge
Durand, OF Mich, who has been acting
AS special counsel in the smuggling
cases. the Treasury department. has
decided to push the indictment against
Whitney l.. Boise, chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee OF
Oregon, for completely in the illegal
landing of Chinese in that State.
Judge Durand brought with him to
Washington the chief of a band of
coast smugglers who has turned states
evidence. He it was who furnished
the evidence against Boise, and he
duplicates several other prominent
republicans of the State who will be
prosecuted if sufficient corroborative
evidence can be secured.
So many lies hkte been told con-
corning the absence of Senator Nc
Pherson, of New. Jersey, who was
recently ordered south byhis physician
because of severe bronchial affection,
that he has returned to Washington
and announced that he would resume
his duties, although his doctor says he
will endanger his life by so doing. Mr..
McPherson's friends. among whom is
President Cleveland, are trying to
persuade him not 70 try to resume his
work until his heslth gets better. l
can state on the very highest author.
itv that no break has taken place in
the pleasant relations which have
existed for years between Senators Nc
PhersOn and Voorhees,, and that all
stories to the contrary are maliciously
false. ~
The debate on the Tucker bill for
the repeal of the Federal election laws
will close in the Senate next Tuesday
and the bill will be passed, notwith.
standing the silly. stories which have
been widely circulated attributing in
difference on the part of democratic
Senators towards the bill. Not one
word has been said by democrat to
indicate that a single democratic
Senator will vote. against the bill or
remain away to keep from voting upon
1T. Neither is there any truth in the
statement that Mr.. Cleveland has ex-
pressed opposition TO the bill.
Secretary Carlisle accepted bids
yesterday for the $5O, 600 900 OF bonds.
in accordance with the official an.
nouncement recently made, notwith-
standing tire futile attempt of the
Knights of Labor to prevent the issu e
by obtaining an injunction from the
courts and the twaddle from Senators
Allen, PETER, Stewart and Hoar about
the illegality of their issue. There is
some talk in favor Of the Bailey resolu.
ton, which has been favorably re-
ported to the House, being rushed
through rs hint to Secretary Carlisle
that the money received for the bonds
shall only be used to strengthen the
gold reserve fund, but as Repre-
sentative McCreary has secured the
right OF way for the next three DAYS in
the House for his Hawaiian resolution
it is clear that Mr.. Bailey's resolution
cannot come up until the expiration
OF that time. Senator Sherman strong.
ly favors Secretary Carlisle's action.
but other republicans are trying to
make trouble, hoping to gain some
partisan advantage.
V. NJ. Jeffreys. the Palouse suicide
took his life by hanging himself to a
rafter in a barn on his ranch four
miles south of Palouse City. After
adjusting the moose the old man
dropped 10 feet, nearly severing his
head from his body. The cause was
dependency. Jeffreys had Endorsed
notes to large amount for a farmer
named James Lewis, who skipped the
country, and the creditors closed in on
Jetfreys. The latter, on the verge OF
financial ruin, ended his life in despair.
Deceased was pioneer of the Palouse
region and highly esteemed.