The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-07-20
Congratulations to the President and Cabinet.
report OF Conference Committee on the
Tariff Anxiously Awaited.
The Knights Of Labor Want Attorney Gen.
eral 0lney lmpeached.
Senatorial Consideration Of Strikes and
Strikers.
From our Regular Correspondent.

President Cleveland and his cabinet
are almost swamped with kilograms
from every section Of the country con-
graduating them on the courage and
promptness with which they have
brought order out of chaos and pre-
vented what at one time looked like it
might be revolution, and volunteer
ing aid to any imaginable extent, in
both men and money. The President
and his advisers believe that the worst
is over, but they none the less feel
proud Of the confidence reposed in
them by Congress and the people and
will continue their efforts to deserve
that confidence.
1t is Speaker Richardson now, if you
please, Representative Richardson, Of
Tenn, having been elected Speaker
pro tenn. of the House during the alb
sence of Speaker Crisp, who has been
called to Georgia by the serious illness
Of his brother.
The Democrats of the tariff con-
ference committee have held daily
meetings this week, and the air is full
of rumors, each contradictory OF the
other. as to what they have done.
These rumors are nothing more than
guesses, as members of the conference
will have nothing to say until they re-
port to their respective Houses.
Had the situation not been entirely
too grave and important to be laughed
at, the silly talk of Messrs. Hayes,
Mcclure and French, members of the
Executive Committee Of the Knights
Of Labor, who are in Washington this
week, about beginning Impeachment
proceedings against Attorney General
Olney, because of the arrest of Debs,
would have been regarded as a good
Joke. AS it is it merely gave the inteili-
gent public an opportunity to guage
the caliber of the men who control a
once powerful and influential organi-
zation and to wonder how they ever
managed to get their authority, and
how long the organization can stand
the use they are making of it.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, in ad.
dition to being States rights Demo
crat of the staunchest sort, is known
among lawyers as an authority upon
Constitutional law. His resolution (of-
fered as substitute TO the semi anar-
chist resolution offered by Senator
PETER, of kans, and supported by the
Populist Senator in one OF the most
outrageous speeches ever made in the
Senate in which the abolition of Con-
gress and the transfer of authority to
committee composed of one member
from each State was advocated), en-.
dorsing President Cleveland and his
administration for the prompt and
vigorous measures taken " to repulse
and repress by military force the in.
reference of lawless men with the due
process of the laws of the U. S, and
with commerce among the States,
and declaring that "the action OF the
President and his administration has
the full sympathy and support of the
law-abiding masses of the people oi
the United States, and will be support
ed by all departments Of the govern,
ment and by the power and resources
Of the entire nation" would have been
Immediately adopted by nearly un'
animous vote Of the Senate as it was
the next day--only PETER voting
against it-had not Senator Gallinger,
of n. H., for some unexplained reason
caused it to 60 over day under the
rules by objecting to a vote thereon
and refusing to withdraw the object
ion, although he was begged to do SC
by his Republican colleagues. Speak
ing of the situation Senator Daniel
said: '' am States rights Demo
crat, and would be the last han to
stand idly by and see the authority OF
the State encroached upon; but l
fail to see anything here that en-
croaches upon the authority of the
State of Illinois in any way. The Presi-
dent is acting entirely within the lines
of the Constitution, and his action is
to be commended by all law-abiding
citizens, regardless Of their political
predlcation or partisan feeling
This is the way the situation looks
to Senator Davis, of Mimi, the Re-
publican whose raking-down OF PETER
will not soon be forgotten 81 have
looked into this matter as lawyer,
and my judgment is that the President
has gone about this business as law
yer. He has considered his ground,
become acquainted with his authority
and powers, and then gone in to exer-
else them in a righteous cause and for
the good of the general pnblic, He
has not exceeded his authority one
whit ; on the contrary, he has not as
yet exhausted it, If the Federal troops
are not sufficient for this emergency
the State militia Is at his command.
The President can swear the militia
of the various States into the service