Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-05-31
Washington Letter.
tFrom our Regular Correspondent
wAsHrNGroN, d. c.. May Is, 1894.

(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 25, 1894.
Senator Teller's test vote on the tariff
bill, although entirely unexpected,
served a good purpose. 1t showed that
the democratic Senators have not only
got together, but that they have also
captured the votes of the populist Sem
ators. Mr.. Teller's object, frankly
stated when he moved to lay the tariff
bill on the table, was to show bis re-
publican colleagues that lac was right
when he stated the day before in q
speech that it was useless to DELAY yot
ing on the tariff bill with the expecta-
ton that democrats would assist the re-
publicans IN defeating the biz Wheth-
tr this will shorten the time in which
the bill will be considered remains to
be seen, but the probabilities are that
it will not, as the republic Senators
have repeatedly said that they had no
intention of fillibustering againss the
bill. but only desired to point out the
unwisdom of the various important
schedules of the bill IS they were
reached.
The public seems to have lost all in
terest in the Coxeyites. Coxey, Browne
and Jones are in Jail serving their 20
day sentences and the men composing
Coxey's "army" are daily growing
fewer in number as the rations grow
scantier. Another party of unem.
ployed men, under the command OF
Michael Fitzgerald, arrived here from
Boston this week. Although after the
same thing Congre .sional legislation
to provide employment for the uuem-
ployed-they do not affiliate with the
Coxeyites and say that they propose
returning to their homes as soon as
they get their petition presented to
Congress. They have hired hall in
which they sleep and hold public meet
ings, to which they charge no admis-
sion fee. There are only 43 of them
and they sll claim to be mbers in
good standing of labor organizations.
The action of the House in adopting
a resolution instructing the committee
on Navel Affairs to begin an immediate
investigation Of the alleged inferior
armor plates etc, furnished the govern
ment by the Carnegie establishments
was by no means complimentary to
either President Cleveland, who had
RENTED certain penalties as the result
OF an investigation made by him, or to
Secretary Herbert, who now has an in
vestigation gong on under the super
vision of naval officers. 1t looks as
though the democrats of the House do
not trust the democratic President or
his Secretary of the Navy.
The sneaking attack msds on the
Civil Service Commission, when Enloe,
of Tenn, succeeded ia getting an
amendment to the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, striking
cut the appropriation for the commits
sion. adopted by the House while ting
as a committee of the whole. was char
aeteristically democratic. Everybody
knows that the democrats have always
been opposed at heart TO the abandon
ment of the old spoilS system, and it has
been made palmer than ever since they
have had charge of all branches of the
government, bat they lack the courage
TO make the sue square by passing a
bill for the repeal OF the law and try to
accomplish their ends by withholding
the appropriation necessary to enforce
the law. But it will not work. Civil
Service reform has come to stay, and
even should the House formally adopt
this amendment, which is extremely
doubtful, the Senate can be relied upon
to put it back in the bill and to compel
the house to agree to it. MIR. Cleve-
land is said to have used some language
that cannot be printed in family pa
per when he got back to Washington
and learned what these democrats III
the House hid done.
The first act in the Senatorial inyes-
LEGATION farce IS over, although the
committee has not yet made public
either the testimony taken in regard to
the charge that Msi Buitz had
attempted to bride Senators Hunton and
Kyle or the conclusion arrived at.
Butiz told the committee that he never
made such an attempt or had any idea
of 1t The second act, which will be
longer, began with hearing the testi-
mony of newspaper cores pondents who
bad charged democratic Senators with
proiiting through conces sjons granted
to the sugar trust When the news
paper men have finished their testimony
the Senators involved will be called on
to answer some questions. and the re-
publicans on the investigating commit
Lodge. OF Mass, and Davis, of
Minnesota determined that the
questions shall be searching in their
nature But there is very little proba-
bility of any important disclosure being
made. as there is no law to compel any
witness to answer questions concerning
anybody's private business. aud no one
expects any Senator to convict himself
A Popular Remedy.