The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-08
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


rs, 1894.
E Democratic cuckoo and anti-cuckoo Sepa
) tors have temporarily buried the hatebe
and are now engaged in far more imno,
tant light, the tariff being the battle proupd
There are ten Democratic Senators who de
mahd more home protection than the sinh
committee IS willing to give them.
caucus Of Democratic Senator's was hsId h,
'n"s'huch as 1t was understood before hanC
that no action binding upon the Senator,
was to be taken. it has resulted in acoom
pushing nothing aud the fight is still nm
ine subcommittee tried to reach compro
mise by taking coal, iron ore and sugar from
the Tree list and putting small duty unor
each OF them, but that appears not to hav,
p'ea'eu either the free-traders or the home
pFotectionists. The former are KICKING he
cause these articles were taken from the
free list and the latter because the dpty
placed on them Is too low. 1t is impossible
70 say what effect this fight will have unon
the fate OF the bill. 1t may be that tbe
nome protectionists are as the free. .trader,
say they are, making grand bluff in order
10 secure the highest possible duties for the
ARTICLES they favor, aud that they will ia the
end tall into line and support the bill. The
RETENTION OF The income tax has made it Ger.
tam that the three populists will support
the OIL and Senator Stewart of Nevada. NAV
go with them. In that case the Renubl.
cans VIII only have thirty-seven sure votes
against the bill, making it necessary for six
Democrats to vote with them to defeat If
Ii reports are true concerning the condition
oi senator Vauce's health he will not be
able to return to Washington to vote for
'he DILL and, as there is little probability of
any Republican pairing with him, that will
mean one vote less for the Democrats.
lhefe IS still possibility, however, that
enough Democrats may vote with the Re.
puoilcans to carry motion to POSTPONE con.
s'deration OF the bill until next December
Mr. josiah Quincy, of Mass, ex.headsman
Of the Department Of State, will hardly On
down to history either as a great state.mo,
Or a. shrewd political manager but it
cannot be denied that Josiah is well up in
the art OF self preservation. He has askad
anu has been granted permission bv the
9eha'e committee on printing, which is in.
'eSt'gating charges which allege that Quincy
was guilty of crookedness in getting the
contract for printing tho Patent Office Ga.
zette, awarded to parties with whom he
hoids peculiar business relations. to with.
hold his testimony until all the evidence
against him has been presented Mr.
Quincy frankly stated that his reasons for
asking this favor was that he did not wish
TO give the other fellows any pointers. The
committee will push the investigation as
rapidly as possible
Even the postal cards sold by the Govern.
'neht are poorer and shabbier under the
Democratic than they were under the Re.
Pup''can administration. For proof of this
assertion you have only to compare one of
the Democratic cards with one of those sold
under the last administrations You will
una the Democratic card much nin>ier in
quality and the printing vastly inferior in
every respect. Verify, the country is going
through period of crawfsh reform But
there is day OF reckoning ahead. and the
verdict Will be another period of obscuritv
twenty years long for the organized incom.
potency known as the Democratic marty
IL Will be long time before anyone who
heard Mr.. Bland make that bitter .naach
accusing those members Of the House who
had declined to vote to make onorr,, so
thst his bill for the coinage of the seiruorspe
which still has the House tied up, could he .
passed OF teaching anarchy and with being
no better than men who would throw dvno.
mite bomba on the floor and endanrer the
'iVes OF those present will forget it, if ever
they do, Without entering into the oues.
ton of whether those who declined 70 yoto
We're justified in SO doing Speaker Reed
insists that 1t is a question which concerns
only the members and the constituents
~ 'S irp'eSeht5-lt can be truthtully
SAID that man who could make such a
speech as Mr., Bland made is utterly unfit to
be entrusted with the management of any
Dill on the floor of the House. He lost bis
mead, and no man who looses his head is
1tted to be leader of other men. By none
were his lntempcrate words more severely
than by some of the silver men
whose leader circumstances had msde hin,
his standing as man of Judgment has
never been as high in the House, but he
viii IN the future have no standing at all.
Mr. Bland insists that his bill will be kept
before the House until it is voted upon hut
Will surprise no one to see it side tracked
1t any time.