Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-13
.v4SH1NGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Auq. 6, 1891.
s .n,.L CORRESPONDENCE o. THE xoS,ros

tariff bill Is still as great as ever.
There is lots of talk every day about
an agreement to morrow, but, like to-
Just when a new sugar schedule, new
in words, but the same in principle as
that prepared by democratic Senators
and Secretary Carlisle under the di-
rection of the sugar trust, which
was to be used to blind the ignorant
followers of Mr.. Cleveland and the
House free traders to their surrender
to the Senate and the trust, which its
acceptance meant, had been patched
up at the White House and the end
seemed in sight, when the Trust Sena-
tors, reinforced by the populists, Allen
and Kyle, bobbed up with the state
ment that no sugar schedule would
be supported by them which did not
provide for the payment of the sugar
bounty for this year. That sent the
conference to the sea again and they
are still foundering around at this
writing, drawing nearer and nearer to
the breakers on the rocky coast all
the while. How they will get out, or
whether they will get out at all, is still
problematical. 1t is certain, however,
that the republicans will not volun-
teer as life savers.
Boss Cleveland has succeeded in pre-
venting the House committee on For
eign Affairs reporting the Boutelle
+lD 1ofn
milton of the Hawaiian Republic, al
though it was word for word the same
resolution introduced by the present
democratic chairman of that commit
tee, when the Brazilian Republic was
established, during the Harrison ad-
ministration, and when majority Of
the House was republican. But at
laast one democrat on toe committee
-Geary, of Cal, ashamed Of his
party and had the manliness to speak
his mind. He said: eve might as
we'll admit that the democratic party
has blandered in it's treatment of this
Hawaiian question; and we cannot
afford to make another bluuder."
The G. A. r. men have sent a formal
protest to Mr.. Cleveland and are pre-
pairing to bring to the attention of the
coming National encampment at Pitts
burg the unjust treatment the old
soldiers have relieved from the
Cleveland administration. Out of $50
employees dropped from the rolls of
the Record and Pension division of
the War department II were Union
veterans, and it is said that the records
of some of the ex soldiers show them
to have been among the most efficient
clerks in the division, while none of
them were below the average in their
efficiency records. Old soldiers have
also been Disseminated against in
other departments, particularly in
the Agricultural department. and in
the various branches of the interior
department, including the Government
Printing office and the Pension Bur- eau.
Representative Stone, of Pennsyl-
vania, is not discouraged by the Oppo-
siton OF the administration to his bill
re 9uiring all i'm migrants to be exam
ined and certified by u. S. consuls,
which recently passed the House, and
which the Senate committee on Immi-
grafton has tried to kill by reporting
a substitute theory which might easily
been added to the bill as an amend
ment. He says: ~ can see no ground
for objections except from steamship
companies that are engaged in the I'M
holy traffic of transporting to this
country criminals and paupers. had
hoped that this measure would be con-
sidered from a patriotic standpoint
alone and would not be made
party measure, as the opposition
from the administration gives me
cause to fear it will be. The peo-
pie, without regard to party, demand
a further restriction upon immigra
ton; it will come, if not now, in the
near future. For one, I propose to
keep this standard to the front as long
as L remain in Congress, andI believe
all patriotic people will respond. The
obje elton that inspection by consuls
will interfere with the present laws is
ridiculous. The measure will save
expense TO the government by utiliz-
ing these consuls instead of adding ex-
pense. This objection seems to be
pretext and will not weigh with men
of intelligence"
IVRAp t SAW OFT WEST