The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
Correspondence Of THE RECORD.

WASHINGTON, August %, 1894.
Mr. Cleveland was fguratively given
slap in the face when the S.natr adopted
the resolution piTcred by Murphy, Of New
York, declaring It to b. the sense Of the
Senate that no further tariff legislation
should be considered at this session, and
that it was advisable tn adjourn at the
earliest possible moment, and the free
traders of the House are accusing the Demo.
cratic steering committee of the Senate of
of having buncoed them by making promises
concerning the passage of the popgun tariff
bill which the adoption of this resolution
makes it impossible for them to carry out
Senator Sherman took the floor after the
adoption of the Murphy resolution to make
few remarks, which he correctly charac-
terized as "plantalk. He told the Demo.
Gratis of their numerous blunders which in
cluded from so to 100 important errors in
the tariff bill, now in the hands of Mr.
Cleveland, one of which, that for the free
entry of alcohol used in the arts, would if
uncorrected cost the government from
twenty to thirty millions of dollars in lost
revenue annually. He also had sharp
word or two to say about the unusual ex-
tent to which the entertainments of the
executive upon the legislative branches of
the government had been pushed during the
present session of Congress, and in concu-
l
sion expressed his belief that the best thing
to be done was to go home and await the
verdict of the voters before further meddling
with the tariff. To show that he was in
earnest Mr.. Sherman has himself gone home
not to return until the opening of the next
session of Congress.
While it is generally regarded as certain
that Mr.. Cleveland is going to swallow his
big dish Of crow aud allow the Senate tariff
bill, which he so roundly abused in the
Wilson letter, to become law, either with
Or without his signature, there are men,
prominent men, too who believe that he is
still in doubt, and that his present visit to
Buzzards Bay was not because of his illness
but because he could better hold Sc ret con
ferences there with certain individuals than
he could at the White House, and that
those conferences will settle whether the
bill shall be allowed to become law or he
vetoed. These men say further that Score.
tary Carlisle is fully committed to the
Senate bill and has been ever since he wrote
its sugar schedule and that his actions in
sending copies of the bill to all collectors OF
customs and afterwards preparing to exc
cute the provisions of the new law, is merely
a shrewd move to allow the public to sup
pose that the administration accepts the bill
and thus to aid in coercing Mr.. Cleveland
, into allowing it to become a law.
Congress can do nothing more for lack of
a quorum in both branches, but it will be
kept in session until next Monday, unles.
: Mr.. Cleveland acts upon the tariff bill before
7 then, and it may even then have trouble t.
journ if some member takes the notion to
) raise the point of ''no quorum when the
motion is made. However, it is probabl,
t that enough of the members might be got tt
return for the purpose of making a quorum
to al journ when it can be done withou
} jeopardizing the tariff bill.
Nothing but the need of the $4,000
year which the position pays keeps Secre
7 tary Carlisle in the Cabinet" This asser
e ton was made by personal friend of Sec
| of Ri al is IL
J not surprising to those who know anythn
about the inside history of this admnistra
e ton. Mr.. Carlisle has known for some tim
D that the failure of the financial policy, O
s rather the entire lack of financial policy, c
j the administration has killed his politica
d future, and he feels doubly sore because h
d has not been allowed to be more than
clerk to MIR. G.
He thinks that things would have bee
better had he been allowed to control affair
connected with his department. as he e,
pected he would be when he left the Senat
where he could have remained as long a
I Kentucky could elect a democratic legisla
l. ture, to enter the cabinet. He has bee
disposed to rebel for some time, and h
+ letter against the popgun tariff bills fc
g which Mr.. Cleveland was largely respons
. BILE, barring the free sugar bill, which h
" did not want, was sent to Senator Harr
II without Mr.. Clevelands knowledge an
with the special intention of blocking NJ
IS Cleveland's efforts to help the Whitney col
~ syndicate and the Carnegie iron ore synd
&c cate, and at the same time to help the sugs
II trust, which may furnish salary for NJ
u Carlisle when he eventually has to leave tt
IL Cabinet
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