The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-27
NO. 10.
Washington Letter.
tIFrom,our: regular Correspondent laa4


Ia WASHINGTON, April goth, 1894.
Ex-Speaker Reed takes his new hon
or easily, as he does everything that
comes to him. He has never had
doubt that the counting of the quorum
would eventually become one of the
| fixed rules of the House, no matter
which party is in power If he felt any
surprise at all at the action of the
democratic caucus in directing the
committee on Rules to prepare a rule
providing for the counting of members
present and not voting, in order to
to make a quorum, it was not because
| the caucus had come around to his
IDEAS but because as many as forty
democrats should have voted against
the proposition While the republi-
can members of the House are
thorough believers in the principle of
counting quorum it is not yet GER
tain that they will support the Rule
reported by the committee on Rules or
that they will vote at all to help the
democrats get a quorum to adopt it.
rhe principal reason for this uncer-
tainty is that the caucus resolution
-tlsO directed the committee to report
a rule to compel the attendance of
InnnnI
low the democrats intend to accom-
lish the proposed reforms what posi-
ton the republicans will take.
Another democratic Senator has
placed himself in the doubtful column.
Senator SIN ith, of New Jersey in his
speech on the tariff bill, which Sena-
tor Quay correctly called a measure of
mingled malice, compromise and sec
tionalism, renewed The cold shivers
which Senator Hill sent up and down
the spines of the free traders last week
1t has been agreed that the debate
oD the bill as whole shall end snext
Monday. Then the contest over the
individual schedules will begin and
the fighting will be forced by the re-
publicans from the first to the last.
The democratic managers of the bill
are in doubt as to the status of at least
six democratic Senators, not to men,
tiOn the successor to the late Senator
Vance, of North Carolina, who died
here Saturday night.
Senator Hill and Voorhees, no Ion
ger speak when they pass each other.
The cause is the remarkable raking
over Hill gave VOORHEES, in his speech.
They speak of each other to their
personal friends in such endearing
terms as "blatant demagogue" and
"traitor" and each refers sarcastically
to the others "galP' in considering
himself Presidential possibility.
VOORHEES, calls Hill traitor because
in Difference to the almost unanimous
statement of his state he refused to
support the tariff mOnstrosity. That
refusal is the one act of Hilps since
he became member of the Senate
that was not tainted with demagogism.
He was sent to the Senate to care for
the interests of the state of New
York and for once he did it, although
he had to oppose his own party to do
it. Hill hits the bulls eye when he
calls VOORHEES, the demagogue. He
has never been and never will be any,
else. Ii any one doubts this let him
read the speech with which Voorhees,
opened the tariff debate
1t is charged here that Mr.. Cleve-
land was not only cognizant of the
bargain said to have been
made by the frightened free-traders
with the sugar trust, whereby the
trust is to allowed to fix the sugar
schedule Of the tariff bill Just as it
wants it in return 70! helping the
free traders to push the bill through
the Senate, but that he suggested the
making of the bargain.