The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-01-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Ian. az, 1904

displayed IL plotting his ta'itf b.tI
through the amendment rocks. lie
nas tun aground but once when the
House voted down an amendment en-
dorsed by the Ways and Means com.
mlttee, proposing to postpone until
next fall the time for the free wool
clause Of the bill to take effect and
adopted one making that clause 60 in
to effect upon the passage of the bill.
This week the hardest fighting will be
done. An attempt will be made to
drop the sugar bounty, substituting a
tax on sugar also to drop the bounty,
leaving sugar free. Attempts will al.
so be made to put iron and coal on
the dutiable list, and to make the in
come tax an amendment to the tariff
bill. All Of these changes are oppos-
ed by the Ways and Means commit
tee, and chairman Wilson is confident
that none of them will be made, al
though several of his colleagues on
the committee are in doubt as to the
sugar clause and the income TAX
amendment. 1t is understood that
the republican vote will be cast solid
ly for the income tax amendment, not
because they favor it, but because
they believe It's adoption will weaken
the entire bill In the Senate. The re-
publicans in the House are not voting
on their convictions just now, but TO
develop democratic dissention.
Senator Morgan gave ex.Minister
Stevens, who at last found time be.
tween his alleged bad health and his
lecture engagements to appear before
the Senate committee on Foreign Re-
latlons and give his testimony, a most
rigid cross examination concerning his
conduct while U. S. Minister to Ha-
waii, and brought out the acknowledge.
ment that Mr.. Stevens was from the
first a rabid annexationist, and that he
wrote those much talked about letters
to MIR. Blaine, asking instructions in
case Of the overthrow Of the queen,
with the full expectation that such an
event would take place during his
term of office, just as Mr.. Blount's re-
port charged him with having done.
Under ordinary circumstances the i'm.
pudent and insulting letters written by
President Dole of the provisional gov
ernmcnt to Minister Willis would
arouse great public Indignation, but
what could be expected when publ
cations In prominent United States
papers are considered
Any sort Of misrepresentation seems
to go down with the anti .administra-
tion papers. For instance, Mr.. Hast.
Ing, who was in charge of the Ha.
waiian legation here during Minister
Thurston's absence, was not invited to
the State dinner given by President
and Mrs. Cleveland to the diplomatic
corps, and straightway the anti-admin.
lstratlon was unfriendly to the present
Hawaiian government. An inquiry
At the State Department, through
which these invitations are always sent,
would have shown the concoctors of
hese stories that Hastings did not fill
IN official position which entitled him
% an invitation, but sensations, no.
acts, are what these papers want.
That Mrs. Cleveland has not lost
any OF her immense popularity with
he people was shown by the large at
at her first public reception,
aeld at the White House Saturday af
ernoon. There were more people
Who desired to pay their respects to
1er than attended the crushes at the
public receptions held by her when
she was bride, and she received
hem just as graciously as she did
when the whole tiresome business was
IN enjoyable novelty to her.
A member OF the cabinet who was
asked what Re thought of the adverse
criticism publicly made by democrats
n Congress of the proposed bond is
sue, said: 81 grant the right of free
speech which ! demand for myself for
every man, but l must say that these
criticisms would have come with bet
ter grace had the men who indulge in
them shown any real disposition to
prevent the issue of bonds in the only
practical manner-by providing the
money that they knew as we'll as Sec.
retary Carlisle did the Treasury must
have If it would escape defaulting in
the payment of its obligations, in some
other way. The administration did
not wish to issue bonds, and only de
clded to do so when it became appar.
snt that Congress would not afford
immediate relief, and after becoming
fully satisfied of its legal right to do SO
under the law of 1875" 1t is not be
Ileved here that either Of the several
resolutions that have been introduced
in the Senate concerning this issue of
bonds will be passed, or that the pass
age Of either of them or of Represen-
tatlve Bailey's resolution by the House
would affect the matter in either way.