Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-24
HOWLING MAD.
Cleveland Charges Cuckoo Sen
ators With Duplicity.
PATCHING THE WILSON BILL.
Secretary Morton and the Russian
ThistIe-Hawaii.
From our regular correspondent.l

Cleveland has been bowling mad ever
since Peckham was rejected, and he is
just as mad with the cuckoo Demo-
Gratis who voted for confirmation as he
is with the Democrats who voted for
I rejection. He is mad with the cuckoos
becauses he charges them with having
deceived him up TO the time the vote
was taken by claiming to have the
pledges Of a majority Of the Senators
to vote for confirmation. His first
move after Peckham S defeat was to
attempt to prevent any amendment
| favored by any one of the fifteen Dem
ocratic Senators who voted against
! Peckham being included in the amend
ed tariff bill, but inasmuch as two out
of the three members of the sub-com-
mittee-Jones of Arkansas and Vest
voted against Peckham he did rot meet
with much success in that project
What his next step will be is some
what doubtful, but even the cuckoos
do not expect it to be anything calcu
lated to heal the gaping Democratic
wounds left by the rejection of Horn
blower and Peckhanl. Nothing would
be easier than for him to nominate a
Democrat to the Supreme Court va
cancy who would be atonce confirmed
without single adverse vote, but he
prefers to drag his personal fights in
to the Senate in his effort to humilia; e
Hill. So far the humiliation has been
his own and he neither dese1 YES nor
gets any sympathy.
There is tariff fight going on
among the Democratic Senators that
is quite as bitter as that between the
Cleveland and Hill men, although
there is more effort made to keep it
secret. 1t was this fight which pre-
vented the tariff bill being reported to
the Finance Committee last week. A
week ago members of the sub-com-
inittee stated the bill was ready to be
reported. The reason it was not re-
ported was the concerted demand of a
number of Democratic Senators for adj
ditional amendments giving certain
industries in their States protection
The fight got SO warm at one time
that the sub committee informed those
Senators that it would report the bill
Ijust.aS it came from the House and
they could support it or not just as
they pleased OF course this was
merely bluff against a bluff. Sena-
tor Voorhees, has told the Republican
members Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee that the bill will be reported to
the committee at its regular meeting,
tomorrow but it is not at all certain
that it will be. Democratic Senators
are beginning to express doubts among
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patch up the bill that it will receive
the votes of all the Democrats IN the
Senate.
Senator Morgan has completed a re-
port on the Hawaiian investigation
made by subcommittee of the Sem
ate committee on Foreign Relations,
but it will not be made public until
the full committee has acted upon it.
1t has been read to the sub committee
and the Republican members thereof
informed Mr.. Morgan that if he would
make certain changes in the report
they would sign it. It is understood
that the tone of the report is antago-
nistic to the restoration policy of Mr..
Cleveland.
Mr.. Bland has not yet succeeded in
getting his bill for the coinage of the
seigniorage passed by the House, ow-
ing to the refusal of those opposed to
vote to make quorum, but he will
probably have quorum of the friends
ofthe bill on hand early this week and
the bill will then be passed.
For many years the Womans Suf-
frage Association has held its annual
conventions in Washing ton, but at
the one just closed it was decided to
hold the 1895 convention at Atlanta,
Ga. The southern members of Con-
gress appear to regard this decision as
a joke
Secretary Norton got little roast
ing on account of a letter written last
August, saying the Russian thistle
was blessing, at ahearing before the
House committee on Agriculture in
favor of the bill providing for the ex-
termination of the weed. Governor
Shortridge, of North Dakota, one OF
the principal speakers, dismissed Nor
ton $ letter by calling it "rot, " but
Representative Sibley, of Pennsylvan-
ia. Democrat, declared that the let
ter demonstrated Mortons ignorance
of agricultural matters and his unfit
ness to be at the head of the Agricul
tural Department
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts,.
who cast one of the 81 Republican
votes that made the rejection of Peck
hams nomination to the Supreme
Court a humiliating defeat for Mr..
Cleveland, says of his reason for so
voting There was large number
OF protests against Mr.. Peckham's
confirmation and great deal of seri-
Gus testimony as to his not possess /
ing the proper judicial temper, of
which his dispatch to Judge Caldwell
rePudiating in violent language an
order of the Court was an unfortunate
example. But that which weighed
most against him with me was the /.
manner in which patronage appeared
to be used by the administration in
the attempt to secure votes for his con