The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-06-23
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. G. Ju

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Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. D. G. June Is, 1894.
President Cleveland's health is
once more the text upon which the
Washington exagerators are maxi
ing the same old sermons. He
called in a doctor this week because
of little trouble with his stomach,
such as most of us are liable to
have at this season, and the doctor
told him to keep quiet for a few
days. That is the whole unadorned
story. He has not stopped trans
acting business for single day.
He only cut down the amount Of
work he usually does for a day or
two, in order to comply with the
doctors orders, and he is now all
right again; but the sermons will
be kept up until new text is found
Recognizing the fact that the dem
ocratic Senators had about exhaust
ed their stock of patience and were
about to force matters, Senator AL
drich, on behalf of the Republican
Senators, proposed to Senator Har-
ris that Monday, June rs, be set as
the date for taking the final vote
on the tariff bill. Senator Harris
declined to accept, because he is
satisfied that vote can be reached
before that date, or certainly not
later, without any agreement The
income tax is the only thing re-
naming to be disposed of that is
likely to consume much time. Sem
ator Hill will make long speech
against it, but, like the rest Of the
bill, it cannot be defeated, because
the votes to pass it have been
pledged.
The delay Of the Senate in pass
ing the tariff bill will make it nee
essary to pass joint resolution ex-
tending the appropriation bills for
the current fiscal year into the new
one that begins July /, as not q
single one of the regular appropria-
ton bills has been touched by tho
Senate, although eight of them
have been passed by the House
and the rest of them could be dis
posed of IN the next two weeks if
the Senate was ready for them.
81 never exchanged a word with
Mr.. Cleveland or in bis. company
in my life, and / have never seen
the man." These were the words
used by Mr.. Havemeyer, the presl-
dent of the sugar trust, when ask
ed by Senator Gray, chairman of
the Senate investigating committee,
whether he held a conversation on
Mr.. Bendict's yatch in the summer
of 1892 with President Cleveland,
as alleged by one of the newspaper
correspondents who has been in
dicted by the grand jury. No de-
NAL could possibly be more con-
1 vincing than that, although 10 de-
NAL was needed to convince the
American people that Grover Cleve-
land had never been q party to a
bargain with the sugar trust or any
other trust or person. He owes to
the fact that he never wonld make
bargains in politics some the most
persistent personal enemies he has.
Mr.. Havemeyer made another
statement that Democrats ought to
paste in their hats to spring on Re-
publicans who accuse the Demo-
Gratis of favoring the sugar trust.
He was asked what profits the su-
gar trust would make if the sugar
schedule became law. His reply
was: "About one-fourth of what we
make under the Mckinley law! II
taking away three-fourths Of its
profits can be called favoring the
sugar trust the Democratic party
should not object to pleading gull.
|ty the charge.
] A subcommittee of FIVE members
of the House committee on Bank.
ing and Currency began work to-
day, under special instruction from
that committee, upon bill provid.
ing for comprehensive system Of
currency and banking, an improve
ment upon the National banks
Although the subcommittee does
not expect it to be acted upon al
| this session. 1t merely desires te
get it perfected and reported to the
House in ordor that it may be dis
cussed By the people before the