Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-04-20
WASHINGTON LETTER!
From Our REGULAR O, rrespe naeO,

Oh easily, as ha uceS everything
that comes to him. He has never
had u doubt tina, the counting of
the quorum would eventually be-
come one of the fixed rules of the
house, no matter which party is in
power. If he felt any surprise ut
all at the action OF the democratic
caucus III directing the committee
on rules to prepare q rule provid-
ing for the counting of members
present and not voting, in order
to make a quorum, it WIS not be-
cause the caucus had come around
to his ideas but because as many
as forty democrats should have
voted against the proposition.
While the Republican members
of the House are thorough bellev-
ers in the principle of counting q
quorum 1t Is yet certaing that
they will support the rule report
ed by the committee on rules, OF
that they will vote at all to help
the democrats get quorum 10
adopt it. The principal reason
of this uncertainty is that the
caucus resolution also directed
the committee to report q rule to
compel the attendance of absent
members. 1t will depend upon
how the democrats intend to ac-
complish the proposed reforms
what position the republicans will
take.
Another democratic senator has
placed himself in the doubtful
column. Senator Smith, of New
Jersey, in mis- speech on the tariff
bill, which Senator Quay correct
ly called measure of mingled
malice, compromise end section
alism," renewed the cold shivers
which Senator Hill sent up and
down the spines Of the free trad
ers last week, 1t has been agreed
that the debate on the bill as q
whole shall eud next Monday.
Then the contest over the individ-
ual schedules will begin and the
fighting will be forced by the re-
publicsns from the first to the
last. The democratic managers
of the bill are in doubt as to the
status of at least six democratic
Senators, not to mention the sue
cessor to the late Senator Vance,
North Carolina, who died here
Saturday night.
Senators Hill end Voo1 hees no
longer speak when they pass each
other, The cause is the
remarkable raking over Hill
gave Voorhees, in his speech.
They speak of each other to their
personal friends in such endear-
ing terms as "blatant demagogue"
and TRAITOR" and each refers
sarcasticalIy to the Others gall"
in considering himself Pres
dental possibility. Noorhe S !
calls Hill traitor because IN def
erence to the sentiment of
his state he refused to support
the tariff monstrosity. That re-
fusal is the one act OF Hills since
he became member of the Sen
ate that was not tainted with |
demagogism. lie was sent to the
Senate to care for the interests of
the stats of New York and COR
once he did 1t, although he had to
oppose his own party to do it. Hill
hits the bulls eye when he calls
Voorhees, the demagogue. He has
never been and never will be any,
thing else. If any one doubts
this let him read the speech with
which Voorhees, opened the tariff
1ebate.
One democratic Congressman
las provided himself with shelter
rom the great political cyclone of
next November, and many more of
hem would like to do the same
The man referred to is Barnes
Compton, who got into the House
n '92, by the skin of his teeth, as
he saying goes, from the Fifth
Maryland District, and who was
everal days ago nominated by
lr. Cleveland 10 be collector of 7;
he port of Baltimore. He knew 1
Ie couldn't be reelected SO he s
tilted his pull to grab nice t
at federal Office which he could I
eep until after the Inauguration /
f a republican president III 1897. 1
1t is charged here that MIR. &
,leveland was not only cognizant t
t the corrupt largains said to
ave been made by the frlghten- /
d free traders with the sugar a
'ust, whereby the trust is to be d
lowed to fix the sugar schedule 8
the tariff bill just as it wants Ii
In return for helping the free c
aders to push the bill through b
lie Senate, but that he suggested "
le making of the bargain. f,
No Washington jury eyer rem n
9red a more popular verdict than f,
at which gaye Miss Pollard h
5000 as damages in the breach D
promise of marriage suit she o
ought against Representative sc
reckiDridge of Kentucky. 1t o,
IS taken all IN all perhaps the a
thlest cese ever tried IN the bl
ashington courts, and it WAS &C