Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-02
LOST IN THE SHUTTLE.
Printing Office Bill Has No Show With
the Tariff,

The bill for the purchase of a site for the
new printing office came up in the Senate
yesterday afternoon and might have been
acted upon had 1t not been for the desire of
senator Dolph to get a chance to stir I'D the
animals on the democratic side on the tariff
question. AS it is. the discussion on this
OH was confined mainly to partisan de-
bate, in which Senators Dolph and Allen in
Obliged in charges of sectionalsm and in
prophecies. Mr. Dolph said Of the bill it.
self: There seems to have been very re-
Gently great change in the controversy
concerning the printing office site In the
discussion of measures to provide for a site
heretofore the controversy has appeared TO
De between sites at a distance from the
present printing office, which were offered
10 the government, or considered eligible,
and, If l recollect Alright the site of the
present public printing office was con-
demned, and severely condemned, by even
the Senator from Missouri CIr. VesO, who
now has charge of the pending measure.
1t has been stated by him and other Sem
ators that 1t is not convenient location
and that in the interest of economy there
should be selected site to which there
could be constructed a branch railroad or
spur track, SO that transportation by rail
could be had instead of carriage by teams
1t has been stated that the present site is
too low; that basement cannot be con-
structed there which would be serviceable;
that it would be too damp. But now the
opinion seems to have changed. and the
proposition before the Senate is to buy adj
ditonal ground adjoining the site of the
present public printing office which is i'm
proved, and for which the government must
not only pay for the land but for the i'm
provements, and the excuse for this change
of opinion and for the purchase of the site
now proposed seems to be the necessity for
economy.
Something might be saved in the cost Of
the ground by purchasing the site now pro-
posed, instead OF some other site offered,
but the saving would be entirely in the cost
of the ground, and there would probably
be more loss in the additional cost of a
proper building at that location than would
be saved in the purchase of the ground.
which. as l say, is understood to be not
conveniently located and not adequate in
quantity"
Wilson Bill Denounced.
This brought Mr. Dolph to the point of
branching off to the subject of economy,
and the tariff and the matter of the printing
office was not mentioned again. He drifted
into a discussion of the Wilson tariff bill,
and asserted that it was placed in the hands
of three Senators who were conspicuous
in the late slave states. But 1t seems that
this committee of three. who deny that they
are committee. have not been able to pre-
pare in secret a bill that would meet the
approval of the democratic majority, and
after a week spent in caucus and 1t Is I'M
derStood that the matter is to be remanded
to the same committee" The bill was es-
sentially the same as it came from the
House, and the only notifications were
notifications to prevent OBJECTIONS from the
majority.
The bill is to be reranded, not in the in
terests Of the country's Industries, but that
the votes of the Senators from West Nir-
gnia, Maryland and Louisiana should be
secured, and that Senator Brice and the
Senators from New York might be placated.
The bill was shamefully sectional. said
Mr. Dolph, and was admirably designed for
the degradation of the American laborer,
and one of the most iniquitous features of
it was the reciprocity in agricultural prod
Lcts which would be to the advantage of
the Canadian laborer. Labor organizations
as they were when the Mckinley bill was
before the Senate.
MIR. DOlph Prophesies.
But" said Mr.. Dolph, "a day of reckon
ing is comming; the handwriting is on the
wall; the people will repudiate you demo-
Gratis; the next House of Representatives
will be as overwhelmingly republican as the
present one is democratic. The next Pres
ident will be republican, and the people of
the country will never rest until they have
undOne the mischief which the democratic
party has done. and which it is still doing"
Mr.. Dolph called attention to the election
of q republican Representative in a demo-
cratic stronghold in New York and TO the
majority of 10000 rolled up a few days
ago in Pennsylvania
A spirited personal colloquy between Sem
ators Dolph and Allen continued for some
time, when Mr.. Palmer of Illinois Gained
the controversy by moving that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of executive
business