The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-02-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, IAN. %, 1898.


The Cleveland-Hil feud has taken
"A fresh start and now promises to turn
into a war of determination. Hill ap-
peared to be quietly allowing himself
70 be snubbed by acqescing III the
confirmation of the nominations OF
mis- personal enemies to federal offices
until Hornblower's nomination to the
supreme court. Then he began to
prepare to fight back, ending with a
knockdown blow for Mr.. Cleveland
by securing the rejection of the Horn
blower nomination. While Hill was
receiving the congratulations of his
followers in and out of the senate, Mr..
Cleveland saw his opportunity for re-
venge and promptly took advantage of
it by vetoing the New York and New
Jersey bridge bill, a measure in which
Senator Hill and many of his most
prominent New York henchmen were
known to be deeply interested, some
people say, in financial as we'll as a
political way. Hill and his senatorial
supporters. are not doing any talking
for publication about their plans. but
when the Cleveland tariff bill emerges
from the senate the effect of their next
blow will be visible to all the world
without the use of microscope. Re
publicans are enjoying the combat and
are perfectly willing to shout $50 it
Cleveland, 60 it Hill" with sufficient
energy to keep 'em fighting.
The democratic tariff "kickers'
have one more week in which to try
to amend the Cleveland tariff bill, and
it will include the sugar, iron and coal
clauses, to Say nothing OF the income
tax, which they will try to attach to
the tariff bill as an amendment, but if
the result of their efforts during the
last week Is an indication of their vot-
ing strength their efforts will only re.
suit in talk; they have succeeded in
securing only one amendment that Was
opposed by the democrats of the ways
and means committee-that making
the free wool clause go into effect on
the passage of the bill.
Ex-Minlster Stevens gave some very
interesting testimony to the senate
committee on foreign relations, on
Saturday, concerning happenings in
Hawaii during his period in office as
minister. He went over the whole
business, frankly stating that he fa-
vored annexation and showing that for
that very reason he was SO particular
in all his official acts up to the forma-
tion of the provisional government that
the annexationists thought him op-,
posed to them. 1t is almost amusing
to hear Of the anger felt by Mr. Cleve'
land and the cuckoo democrats because
of Pres. Dole's plain language to Min
lister Willis concerning his inLrigu
with the ex-queen and his lack OF
frankness in dealing with the provis-
ional government If Mr.. Willis had
not deserved receiving such letter it
would perhaps never have been writ
ten
The bond issue announced by Secre-
tary Carlisle has turned the populists
and majority of the southern and
western democrats IN congress into
bowling dervishes, and wild and in
fammatory talk IS INDUCED in by
them, some of which will be given an
escape valve by the resolution of Sen
ators PETER and Allen, which will be
made the text for some speeches in
the senate this week. Whether the
action of Secretary Carlile was a