The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence of The REcoGD.


easily, as he does everything that comes to
him. He has never had doubt that the
counting OF quorum would eventually be.
come one of the fixed rules of the House no
matter which party is in pswer If he felt
any surprise at all at the action of the
Democratic caucus iu directing the com
mittee on rules to prepare rule providing
for the counting OF members present and not
voting, in order to make quorum. it was
not because the caucus had come around to
:sh ideas but because as many as forty
Democrats should have voted against the
proposition. While the Republican MEM
bers of the House are thorough believers in
the principle OF counting quorum it is not
yet certain that they will support the Rule
reported by the conn ittee on rules, or that
they -. g. All to help the Democrats
get quorum to adopt it. The principal
reason for this uncertainty is that the caucus
resolution also directed the committee to re.
port rule to compel the attendance Of ab.
sent members. 1t will depend upon how
the Democrats intend to accomplish the pro.
posed reforms what position the Republicans
will take.
Another Democratic Senator has placed
himself in the doubtful column. Senator
Smith. of New Jersey, i'll his speech On the
tariff bill, Senator Quay correctly called a
measure of mingled malice, compromise
and sectionalism," renewed the cold shivers
which Senator Hill sent up and down the
sp,nes of the free traders last week. 1t has
been agreed that the debate on the bill as
whole shall end next Monday. Then the
contest over the individual schedules will
begin and the fighting will be forced by the
Republicans from the first to the last. The
Democratic managers of the bill are in doubt
as to the status OF ut least six Democratic
Senator's not to mention the successor to
who died here recently.
Senators Hill and Vorhees no longer speak
when they pass each other. The cause is
the remarkable raking over Hill gave Vor-
hees in his speech They speak of each
other to their pers nal friends in such en-
dearing terms AS blatant demagogue" and
TRAITOR" and each refers ssrcsstically to
; the others "gall' in considering himself q
Presidential possibility. Voorhees, calls
Hill traitor because in Difference to the
almost unanimous sentiment of his state he
refused to support the tariff monstrosity
That refusal is the one act of Hills since he
became a member of the Senate that was
5 not tainted with demag agusm. He wa
sent to the Senate to care for the interests
= Of the State Of New York and for once he
t did it, although he had to oppose his owl
D party to do it, Hill hits the bulls ey
G when he calls Voorhees, demagogue. H
n has never been and never will be anything
e else If anyone doubts this let them reat
g the sp eech with which Voorhees, opened tn
n tariff debate.
One Democratic Congressman has Prov
If ded himself with shelter from the great pc
d litical cyclone Of next November, aud man
e more of them would like to do the SAINT
is The man referred to is Barnes Compton
)f who got into the House in 80, by the ski
i. Of his teeth, the saying goes, from tn
1t Fifth Maryland District, and who was se'
At ersl days ago nominated by Mr. Clevelan
to be collector of the port of Baltimore. II
n knew he couldn't be reelected so he utilize
ia hi. "pull' to grab nice fat federal otf'
a. which he could keep until after the inaug
ne ration of Republican President in 1897.
re 1t is charged here that Mr.. Cleveland VI
10 not only cognizant of the corrupt barga
q. said to have been made by the frightene
I'd free traders with the sugar trust, wheret
~ the trust is to be allowed to fix the sug
to schedule of the tariff bill just as it wants
ia in return for helping the tree traders to pu
en- the bill through the Senate, but that
suggested the making Of the bargain