Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-08

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yond reach of the telegraph when tbs
flag Of revolt was raised, be having
exhausted his influence in behalf Of
his tariff bill without winning a vote
In addition to the ten democrats thun
dering sway in the csucuses, two pop
ulists-AlIen and Peffer-bave publicly
announced that they will not vote FOL
the bill unless American sugar produc-
ers are as we'll protected as they are
under the present law. While it can
not be definitely stated how the tariff
bill will emerge from this storm, it can
be stated to a certainty that it must be
modified sufficiently to get seven out OF
those ten democratic votes or its defeat
is certain. 1t has been returned to the
Finance Committee for modification.
Senator Frye made strong speech
on the reports of the Senate committee
on Foreign relations on the Hawaiian
investigation this week, and when the
grand-high-chiet of the Senate cuck-
oos-Gray, of Delaware-attempted to
break the force of some of his sharpest
criticism on the acts of Mr.. Cleveland
and his puppets, BlOunt and Willis,
Mr.. Frye Just made him the laughing
stock of the Senate as he tied him up.
Owing to the time taken up by the
democratic tariff caucuses it took Mr..
Frye a part of two days to deliver his
speech
Pension Bureau officials are hopping
mad because of the following resolu-
ton offered in the House by Represen-
tative Taylor. of Ind: Whereas there
is reason to believe that certain officials
and employees in the medical division of
the Pension Bureau are, and have been,
making false reports of evidence in
pension cases to their superiors in
Office il order TO secure unjust de-
cisions in such cases; therefore.
Resolved, That the committee on
Invalid Pensions Is hereby directed to
inquire into the conduct of business in
the medical division of said Pension
Bureau and to report to the House of
Representatives if systematic or man.
fest injustice has been done to pen.
sioners u TO applicants for pensions
by any of the employees of said division;
said committee to report to the House
by resolution or otherwise; also to
report the names and political affilia-
ton of said employees and by what adj
ministration they were appointed. .
The usual defence-''it is nothing but q
partisan political attack will not
answer in this case, as the resolution
was offered by democrat.
Mr.. BANDS incapacity as leader
and absolute lack of tact resulted in
endangering his bill for the coinage of
the seigniorage. which he had so much
at heart, and which might have been
passed week or more before ii was,
had it been properly managed. The
only really important thing that Mr..
Bland has succeeded in doing is in
putting the democrats of the Bouse,
with their ninety majority, in very
deep hole, and in leaving chasm be-
tween the silver and anti-silver demo
Gratis that is not likely to be bridged
during the present session of Congress,
and which will be almost certain to
make trouble among the democrats
when the tariff bill comes back from
the Senate, il it ever does.
Congressman LATE Pence, populist,
of Colorado, who was sat down upon
by the House, for Incorporate
language and who publicly apologized
to Representative Hainer, of Nebraska,
for having said; "You are fuller of
beard than of comprehension of my
ideas, declined to apologize or with.
draw his statement that his democratic
colleague, Cooper, of Indiana, had
traded his vote on silver for patronage.
Whereupon Mr. Cooper said that
common deceney should have prevented
Pence, who has money invested in sill
yer mines. eritieising the position of
other members. Mr.. Cooper also said
that Pence had no constitutional right
to vote on any question affecting silver
As cooper and PeLce we're raised in the
same town snd have always known
each other well, their opinions of each
other have been more generally &C.
cepted than they would have been
under other circumstances.
Republican Senators are. as Br'e'r
Rabbit would say, "lyin' low" on the
tariff question. They are not ready
Just yet to make public the tactics they
proposed using against the bill They
regard it as needless waste of ammu-
nition for them 10 haoin frinU Of Il