The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-01-17
THE DALLEs, OREGON. WEDNESDAY,. JANUARY Il, lse4.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Mr.. cleveland Anxious to Clear Him..
se1f--The Coming TariT Debate.
From our Regular correspondent.


From our Regular Correspondents.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1894.
Mr.. Cleveland's anxiety to prove to
congress that he has not been guilty of
double dealing in relation to Hawaii is
the first creditable feeling he has shown
IN the whole business, but whether he
has experienced a change of heart or is
afraid of being impeached is more than
your correspondent undertakes to say,
although the known circumstances favor
the latter. His anxiety to let the coun-
try know that congress IS coordinate
branch of the government comes late
and probably would not yet have come
except for his desire to escape some of
the responsibility for his miserable fail
ure as setter up of disreputable fallen
dynasties. Congress is not deceived; it
takes his acts for just what they are
worth, and if there is one drop of Amer
ican blood spilled he will be held to
strict accountability.
It is physical impossibility for one
tenth of the members of the house who
would like to speak on the tariff to do
SO in the short time allowed for general
debate. It is expected that the most
exciting time will be under the five-
minute rule, when the bill will be open
to amendments. There is little proba-
bility, however, that any of the proposed
democratic amendments will be adopted,
as the republicans are still determined
not to help democratic members to
make themselves solid in their districts
at the expense of the rest of the coun-
try.
The members of the republican ma
tional committee in attendance at the
meeting of the executive committee held
here yesterday, are all enthusiastic over
the outlook for the party and unanimous
in the belief that the country is anxious
to return the republican party to power,
and that it will make beginning by
electing republican house next Novem-
ber. In the language of Tom Johnson,
the Ohio democratic freetrader, in
speech made in the house this week,
s'What would be the result of.an election
held tomorrow? The November cleo
tions have told us, we would be beaten
out of sight Mr.. johnson. for once
was right.
Consistency is asjewel that is always
conspicuously absent from the demo-
cratic makeup. While Representa-
tive Black of Illinois was charging on
the floor of the house that the vivid
picture of the suffering of the wage
earners of the country which Represen-
tative Burrows of Michigan had drawn
in his able and convincing speech
against the Cleveland tariff bill was an
exaggeration of the industrial situation
Secretary Carlisle was making an ap-
peal to the senate finance committee for
aid in securing financial legislation for
the immediate relief of the treasury,
which contained statements quite alarm
ing and as strong as those made by Mr..
Burrows in his speech. Mr.. Carlisle
told the committee that the revenues
were falling off $40, ,0O0, 900 month and
that even if it grew no worse the deficit
would reach $50, 1000, 900 by the close of
the fiscal year, instead of the $2S, 600 900
which he had estimated early in Decem-
Der. He said that the rapid increase in
the deficit was due to general stagnation
in business and the falling off in impor-
tations caused by proposed tariff
changes. The democrats always get
non-partisan in their ideas when they
get into hole, SO no one is surprised to
hear that the republicans on that COM
mittee are to be asked to aid in devising
a financial bill that will afford the
needed relief.
Paramount Blount is here, although it
is not yet certain that the democrats on
the investigating committee will allow
him to be called before the committee
although they allowed him to be sum-
moned to appear. Blount is having a
hard time among the democrats In ex-
planning why his Hawaiian report diff
fers so radically from what comes from
reputable sources. He sticks to his re-
port and maintains that he, and he
only, knows the real facts. He had the
cheek to wind up talk of that sort
with this language: Given President
Cleveland did not know all the facts
until my report was submitted" It
will be shown by the investigation that
Blount's report contained no facts of