The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-06-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our regular oorrsspohdsntl
WASHINGTON, D. O., June 1st, '94.

Cuckooism was ignominiously routed
in the Senate this week by clever
move OF Senator Hoar which compelled
the Senate to vote on the principle in
volved in the question Of the annexa.
ton of Hawaii. The news from Hawaii,
that the royalists we're taking advantage
Of the failure of Congress to act on the
subject to circulate reports OF the inten.
ton of the administration to restore the
Queen as soon as Congress adjourned,
caused the anti. cuckoo Senators to de.
termine that the Senate should take
action, either on the resolution reported
from the committee on foreign relations
or upon some other. Senator Kyle had
agreed to withdraw resolution he had
offered in favor of the committee reso-
luton, but Senator Vest, who has been
cuckoo OH this subject, but not on
others, offered substitute resolution,
declaring against annexation now or in
the future. Senator Hoar saw the op.
portunity to put the Senate on record on
annexation, free from any outside COM
plication, and promptly took advantage
of it by moving to lay Vests anti. annex
alton resolution on the table, and the
vote was SO to 1S in favor of his motion.
In other words, 36 Senators favor an
nexation aud believe it will come sooner
or later, while only Is stand by Mr..
| Cleveland's anti annexation policy. 1t
was great victory for Benjamin Har.
rison's Hawaiian policy, and the Repub.
lican Senators were perfectly willing to
let the administration and the cuckoos
down easy by agreeing to the adoption
of a resolution declaring the Senate to
be opposed to any outside interference
! with Hawaiian affairs, and not mention
| ing annexation.
No time has been set for the closing
of the debate on the repeal of the tax
on State bank currency, which has been
going on in the House all the week, and
it may last two weeks longer. fhe vote
will be close, but it is believed that
repeal will be defeated.
Representative Black, of Georgia,
whose only distinction previous to this
week came from his having defeated
Tom Watson, the loud mouthed popu.
list whose antics in the last House
made him ridiculous, made speech in
favor of the repeal of the tax on State
bank currency that has given him the
belt for idiotic oratory. Among other
absurd statements he said that the U. s.
Supreme Court had no more right to
bind the House than the House had to
bind the Supreme Court, and that the
general government had no right to entea
State and interfere with it's internal
business affairs under the guise of regu
lating commerce.
In statement made to the House
Immigration Committee this week Dr.
Senner, Commissioner of Immigration
at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, said
the departures of aliens now exceeded
the arrivals, and that the falling off in
immigration was due to the operation oi
the new laws. "Due to fiddle sticks, u
remarked gentleman who happened
to hear the statement. "The falling of
in i'm migration is due wholly and solely
to the falling off in prosperity of the
people of the United States. When
men cannot better themselves by immi
grafton they prefer to stay at home"
1t seems to be enough for this admin
istration to know that anything was
favored by any previous administration
for it to oppose it. A specimen of thii
spirit of contrariness is shown in the
letter of Postmaster General Bissol
opposing the bill for Government tele
graph in connection with the post. office
department, which was this week sen
to the Commerce Committee of the
House. Every Postmaster General fol
the last forty years has favored thil
telegraph idea in one form or another.
The Senate Investigating Committe.
has been working very hard to max,
the people pelieve that it is the news
paper correspondents who have refused
to tell the names of those who gave
them information in confidence, wht
are on trial before that committee, ant
not the Democratic Senators and mem
bers of the Cabinet who are charged
with disgraceful and profitable dicker
ing with the sugar trust. The Senator
may delude themselves with the ide'
that the main issue in this investigation
is to decide how far they may go il
their efforts to compel these newspape
men to violate confidence reposed il
them, but to everybody else it appear
that every fresh effort against the COZ
respondents is but another attempt t.
distract public attention from the rea
scandal, and to delay bringing out an
scandalous facts until the sugar schedule
of the tariff bill shall be disposed oi
TT the siloar achedula can he Daaapd an,