Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-03-02


40 action binding upon upon the
was to be taken it has
resulted in accomplishing nothing
and the fight is still on. The sub
tried to reach a com-
promise by taking coal, iron ore
and sugar from the free list aud
putting small duty upon each of
them, but that appears not to have
pleased either the free-traders or
the home protectlonlsts. The
former are kicking because these
articles were taken from the free
list and the latter because the du-
ty placed upon them is too low. Ii
is impossible to say what effect
this fight will haye upon the fate
of the bill. 1t may be that the
home protectionists are, as the
free traders say they are, making
grand bluff in order to secure
the highest possible duties for the
articles they favor, and that they
will in the end fail into line aud
support the bill The retention
of the income tax has made it GER
tain that the three populists will
support the bill and Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, may 60 with them.
In that case the republicans will
only have thirty seven sure votes
against the bill, making it reces-
sary for six democrats to vote
with them % defeat it. Ii reports
are true concerning the condition
of Senator Vsnce's health he will
not be able to return to Washing
ton to vote for the bill, and, as
there is little probability of any
republican pairing with him, that
will mean one vote less for the
democrats. There is still a possi-
bility. however, that enough dem
ocrsts may vote with the repubii-
cans to carry a motion to post
pone consideration of the bill un-
til next December.
Mr.. Josiah Quincy. of Mass,
ex-hesdsmen of the Department
of State, will hardly go down to
history either as a great states
man or as shrewd political man.
ager, but it cannot be denied that
Josiah is well up in the ar. of self
preservation. He has asked and
been granted permission by the
Senate committee on printing,
which is Investigating charges
which allege that Quincy was
guilty of crookedness in getting
the contract for printing the Pat
ent Office Gazette, awarded to par
ties with whom he holds peculiar
business relations, to withhold his
testimony until all the evidence
against him has been presented
Mr.. Quincy frankly stated that his
reasons for asking this favor vas
that he lid not wish to give the
other fellows any pointers. The
committee will push the invesii-
CATION as rapidly rs possible.
Even the postal cards sold by
the government are poorer and
shabbier under the democ1 attic
than they were under the republi-
can administration. For proof of
this assertion you have only to
compare one of the democratic
cards with one of those sold un-
der the last administration, You
will find the democratic card much
fimsjer in quality and the print
ing vastly inferior in every re-
spect. Verify, the country is 60
ing through perio3 Of craw-fish
reform. Bat there is a day OF
reckoning ahead, end the verdict
will be another period of obscuri-
ty thirty years long for the organ
lied incompetency known es the
democratic party.
1t will be a long time before any
one who heard Mr.. Bland MAX E
that bitter speech, accusing those
members of the House who had
declined to vote to make q quo
rum SO that his bill for the coin
age of the seigniorage, which
still has the House tied up, could
be passed of teaching anarchy
and with being no better than
men who would throw dynamite
bombs on the floor and endsnge,
the lives of those present, will for
get it. if they ever do. Without
entering into the question OF
whether those who declined to
vote were justified in so doing =
ex-Speaker Reed insists that it is
a question which concerns only
the members and the constituents
whom he represents. it can be
truthfully said that man who
could make such speech as Mr..
Bland made is utterly unfit to be
entrusted with the management OF
any bill on the floor of the House
He lost his head, and no man who
loses his head is fitted to be lead
er of other men. BY none were
his Incorporate words more Sc
verely condemned, than by some
of the silver men whose leader
circumstances had made him. His
standing as man of judgment