The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-04-20
ashiBgion Letter.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April Is, 1891
Senator Harris very cleverly outwItted
the Republican senators this week and
put an end, for the present at least, to Re
publican fillibustering To delay the reso-
luton providing for meeting at IL |
O'Clock and sitting until 8 each day /
This frightened the Republicans and |
they made the proposition that for |
week the senate AXE up the tariff bill at !
l o'clock and continue its debate with |
out roll calls or other Interruptions un- |
til > clock. This was exactly doubling |
the time that had previously been devO- |
ted to the tariff bill and being more than
the Democrats expected to get without "A
struggle was promptly accepted. Seua-
tor Harris Is perfectly willing that this
agreement should continue in force for
| ten days or two weeks longer. Then he'l
will begin to put on the screws in earn
| est, to bring the debate to au end, begin
ming by addin an hour day to the
| SittingS and continuing until they are
| continuous, compelling the Republicans
| TO keep a speaker on the floor at all
| times.
| Senator Morgan in the only senator
| who has publicly noticed the eXtraordin-
| AIRY address lately published as emana-
| ting from IA Minnesota Democratic asSo-
citation, referring to twelve senators as
! "masked Democrats and opponents
to the tariff bill. He made personal
| explanation on the floor of the senate in
which he characterized that address as
| being like the French method of trying
"A man in his absence and without serv-
ing notice upon him. He expressed
| 4 l.
it now stands and announced his inten-
tion to vote for it and his willingness, if
necessary. to stay on the floor of the
senate several consecutive days and
nights, as he had done on other occa-
sons, to listen to Republican tillibuster
ing speeches against it. He said he
had been a tariff reformer long before
those who had formulated the diatribe
against him, and expected to remain one
until we get fair system of tariff tax
alton.
The most notable feature of the eau
Gus held bv Democratic members of the
| House this week at which resolutions
| endorsing the repeal of the tax on state
bank currency were adopted. was the
speech made by Representative Cum
mIngs, of New York in favor of the res
olutions. He told the caucus that the
| people of New York had cast their votes
| for the Democratic candidates with full
| knowledge of the contents of the nation
: | al platform, and that he was anxious
| and ready to redeem every plank In that
| platform. 1t is the general impression,
even among the strongest friends OF re
peal, that it cannot he accomplished as
1T present proposed. That is to say that
: | a majority of the House will vote against
unconditional repeal of the law. 1t
might be possible to pass bill repeating
the law which imposed stringent cOndi-
tionS upon the issue of currency by state
/ banks The caucus was attended by less
: than One-half of the Democratic MEM
! bership of the House.
Senator WOlcott's resolution, which
was passed by the senate requesting the
President to open negotiations with
: Mexico for the purpose of obtaining the
consent of that government to the COIN
ing by our mints of standard Mexican
silver dollars for export to China and
other eastern countries. Is generally re-
2 | garded as bit of buncombe on the part
of Mr.. WOlCOtt, intended to please the
friends of silver. Few people believe
that Mexico will grant such request.
If, as asserted bv Mr.. WOlcott. the mint
capacity of Mexico isn't sufficient to
P supply the demand for these silver dol
, lars in the east, the question naturally
| arises why not increase it2 The mint
ing of these dollars is very profitable to
Mexico and it seems little short of ride
i. ulOus to expect that the Mexicans would
+ be willing to surrender any of that prof
1t to a foreign nation. 1t would not
surprise me if President Cleveland should
ignore the resolution entirely, as he may
very properly do in the exercise of the
e discretion vested in him by the consti
= tuition.
y Senator Hills speech against the tar
; iff bill has been the most talked about
event of the week, and Republican
o praise of it has been carried to an extent
= that must be nauseating to Senator Hill.
Democrats, as a rule, decline to public
ly discuss the speech, but the few who
do, while conceding Senator Hills per
sOnal right to talk and vete against his
partys measure, are practically unani-
- nous IN expressing the belief that he
= has made great mistake, and that il
was aggravated by his uncalled for at,
tack on the administration which he
helped to put into power, as well as by
his slur upon the Southern Democrats
2 who have SO often stood by the Demo
- cratic party even when they had to pock
ct their own personal opinions as wei
as those of their constituents in order to
do it. The man does not live who has
the right to doubt or cast aspersion upon
the loyalty of southern men to the Dem
I | Ocratic party, and least of all Senator
o Hill, who has had SO many good friends
among southern Democrats. What eff
j feet the speech will have upon the fate o
j the tariff bill remains to be seen.