The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-03-09
NO. T..
From our regular Correspondent !
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WASHINGTON, March 3. 1894
| Democratic cuckoo and anti-cuckoo
Senators have temporarily buried the
Ratchet and are now engaged in far
more important fight, the tariff being
the battle ground. There are ten
democratic Senators who demand
more home protection than the sub
committee is willing to give them. A
caucus of democratic Senators was
held this morning, but inasmuch as it
was understood before hand that no
action binding upon Senators was to
| ne taken it has resulted III accomp
| fishing nothing and the fight is still
on. The subcommittee tried to
reacn compromise by taking coal,
iron ore and sugar from the free list
md putting a small duty upon each
If them, but that appears not to have
pleased either the free-traders or the
home prOtectiOnists. The former are
Kicking because these articles were
taken from the Tree list and the latter
'ecause the duty placed upon them is
800 low. 1t is impossible to say what
fleet this fight will have upon the
'ate oi the bill 1t may he that the
home protectionists are, as the free
traders say they are, making grand
tlufi' in order to secure the highest
possible duties for the articles they
favor, and that they will in the end
iall into line and support the bill The
retention Of the income tax has made
it certain that the three populists will
support the bill and Senator Stewart
of Nevada, may go with them. In
that case the republicans will only
have thirty-seven sure votes against
the bill, making it necessary for six
democrats to vote with them to de-
feat it, If reports ale true concern
ing the condition of Senator Vance's
ealth he will not be able to return to
Washington to vote for the bill, and,
as there is little probability of any re-
p ublican pairing with him, that will
mean one vote less for the democrats.
There is still Il possibility, however,
that enough democrats may vote with
the republicans to carry motion to
postpone consideration of the bill
until next December.
Even postal cards sold by the gov
ernment are poorer and shabbier
under the democratic than under the
republican administration. For proof
of this assertion you. have only to
compare one of the democratic cards
with one of those sold under the last
administration. You will find the
dem ocratic card much Aimsier in
quality and the printing vastly infe-
rior i'll every respect Verify, the
country is going through period of
crawfish reform. But there is a dav
of reckoning ahead, and the verdict
will be another period of obscurity
thirty years long for the organized in
competency known as the democratic
party.
1t will be a long time before any
one who heard Mr.. Bland make that
bitter speech, accusing those members
of the House who had declined to vote
to make a quorum so that his bill for
the coinage of tho seigniorage. which
still has the House tied I'D. could be
passed, of teaching anarchy and with
being no better than men who throw
bombs on the floor and endanger the
lives of those present. will forget it. if
they do. Without entering into the
question of whether those who de-
clined to vote were justified in so
! ldoing-eX-Speake Reed insists that
it is question which concerns only
| the members and the constituents
whom he represents, it can be
! truthfully said that man who could
make such speech as Mr.. Bland
made is utterly unfit to be entrusted
with the management of anv bill on
| the floor of the House. He lost his
head, and no man who loses his head
is fitted to be leader of other men
By none were his intemperate
words more severely condemned than
by some of the silver men whose lead
er circumstances had made him. His
standing as a man of judgment has
never been high in the House, but he
will in the future have no stading at
ALL Mr.. Bland insists that his bill
will be kept before the House until il
is voted upon, but it will surprise no
one to see it side-tracked at any time
PRENDERGAsT, the slayer. of Mayor
Harrison, in Chicago, viii hang on