The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-06-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent

CtHito lClitI. aItfi iIS WY ctt
speech, telling the republicans tlial
they no longer had any reasonable ex
cuse for delaying the final vote on the
bill, clinched his argument by forcing
test vote on a motion to lay the bill
On the table. That Lotion received
the vote of every republican present
% in all, and every democrat present
among them Senator Hili,-35 in all
voted against it. as also did three pop.
ulists. That vote removed the last
vestige of doubt about the passage OF
the bill, and leaves republican fillibus-
tering without a leg tn stand on, the
republicans having claimed that they
were justified in using the tactics they
did by democratic opposition to the
bili. They will now be given a last
chance to agree rpon at time to take
a final vote. Should they refuse, the
bill will be forced tt a vote. There is
a feeling of relief 20 know that the
end Is IN sight.
The Senate committee has cOnclu.
ded the taking of testimony in the
brInery case, and it is believed the re-
por; will state the belief of the CON-
mittee to be that Buttz attempted to
bride Senators Hunton and Kyle. The
Commute is now taking testimony con
corning the sugar trust aud its alleged
relations with Senators.
The House committee on Naval At
fairs has begun the investigation of
the Carnegie armor nlate contracts,
authorized by the resolution this week
adopted by the House. 1t will prob
ably be a long one, as it ver all the
armor made by the Carnegie compa-
MES from the beginning Of their con-
tracts with the government.
Senator Walsh, of Georgia, was nat
urallv very much surprised when he
learned that the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers regarded his bill a
gaInst any stoppage or interference
with trains carrying mails as being
aimed against them. and, after telling
the Senate that as a j~ourBeyman prin-
ter his sympathies were and always
had been with the laboring men of the
country, of whom he was proud to be
one. he introduced an amended bill,
which he thinks cannot possibly be
misconstrued by anybody. The title
of the bill is ITO protect the United
States Nails" and it provides that
any person who shall rob or mali |
ciously obstruct oil retard for the pur-
pose of robbery the passage of any |
railroad train on which the mails are
carried shall be punished by impris-
Onment a. hard labor not less than one |
nor more than twenty years.
Attorney General Olney, in answer
to IA resolution adopted by the Senate !,
last week, asking what action had
been taken against tie trusts under
the act of July 9. 1890. has fur
nlshed the Senate with the record of IA
iii begun against the various firms
comprising the sugar trust, which was
dismissed in the Z, S. Court for TIE
Eastern District of PENNSYLVANIA, with
costs against the government, appeal
ed TO tie Circuit Court, which affirm
ed tie action of the District court, and
which is now before the Il. S. Supreme
Court on appeal. Mr.. Olney does not
say so, but it is inferred from his COM
munlcation and the accompanying
documents that he considers the much
talked about Sherman antitrust law
a worthless one. Other people sus-
picloned as much when 1t was first
proposed by Mr.. Sherman as a substi-
tute for "a more stringent measure pro-
posed by democratic Senators.
Coxey, Brown and Jones are in iail.
and the deluded men who followed
them are on the verge of starvation.
The lesson should not be lost.
Whether Freedom really shrieked
when kosciusko fell ia a matter about
which practical folk have doubts, but
no practical working democrat should
any doubts about throwing up
his hat and giving three cheers and a
tiger for the democrats in the House
who had the moral courage to support
the amendment offered by Represent
Enloe. of Tennessee, to the Leg
lslatlve and Executive appropriation
bill, striking out the appropriation for
etc, of the most colossal pub
lie sham of the age-the Civil Service
a commission which, al
authorized with the best in
to make it fair and impartial,
has been operated from the first day
Of its existence to the present time as
machine for keeping republicans il,
office. Mr.. EniOe has offered this a.
mendment several times when this an
nual appropriation was before the
but never until now has he
succeeded in getting it adopted, as the
to Twas taken when the
House was sitting as a committee If
he whole. and the republicans have
given notice that they will call for a
separate yea and nay vote on the a.
when tine bill! Is reported E
To tho Honso fro.. 3