Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. June II, 1894.

ing any predictions as to when the
final vote will be taken on the tariff
bill in the Senate, but they take no
stock in the assertion of Senator Har-
ris that the democrats will force a
vote before the close of the present
week, not because they doubt Sena-
tor Harris willingness to do SO, but
because they doubt his ability to keep
quorum on the floor continuously
for that purpose. The republicans
have not altered their position. Sen
ator Henderson of Nebraska, ex-
presses the opinion that it will be
nearer month than a week from this
time when the final vote is taken.
Senator Brice made one of the most
remarkable statements ever publicly
made by a Senator, when he said:
''Whatever you may hear about dis
sension, can tell you, that there will
be forty-three votes for the bill,
may make notifications, but what he
finally decides upon will be voted for
by forty three Senator's In other
words, if Senator Brice knows what
he is talking about, forty three Sena-
ators have agreed to sink their own
individuality and principles and to
vote for whatever Senator Jones
tells them. Never before has the
majority of the Senate delegated such
autocratic authority to one man.
Ex-senator Abner Taylor, of H., is
regarded as an authority on political
matters in that state. He has jast
been over the ground and this is the
way he sizes up the situation: ''It
isn't a question Of republican success,
but of how large our majority will be.
I put the republican plurality at $4,000
in November, but shall not be sur
prised If it reaches 100000. There is
no longer the slightest doubt that the
legislature will be republican, and the
democrats may consider themselves
lucky if they get as many as five out
of the states twenty two Congress-
men.
Representative Breckenridge of KY.
has shown himself to be the possessor
of a skin as thick as that of rhino
ceros, but thick as it is it was penetra
ted by direct shot from his demo
cratic colleagues in the House. He
has been boasting of his intention to
take charge of the general deficiency
appropriation bill when it was ready
to be reported to the House, by viz
tue of his being chairman of the sub
committee which has charge Of that
bill. j. AS soon as his democratic col
leagues found out that he really meant
to do SO they lodged a formal protest
with chairman Sayers of the Appro
priation committee, and the result
was that Mr.. Sayers informed Brock
inridge that he would not be allowed
to take charge of the bill, because of
the refusal of democratic members to
recognize his leadership in even so
small matter as the management OF
a bill which usually goes through
without any serious opposition. If
Breckenridge were not entirely with
out the sense of shame he would re-
sign from Congress and withdraw
from his contest for denomination.
The democrats of the House are
more susceptible to the influence Of
public opinion that the Senators; they
have to stand up for renomina ton
and reelection this year, and they are
hearing from their constituents |
Consequently they are opposed to SUI
gar trust schedule of the tariff bill, |
and many of them are outspoken in |
their determination to defeat it even |
if it be necessary to defeat the bill to |
do so.
The Senate investigating committee |
is wasting more time over a contu-
macious witness, ID member of the
New York firm of stock brokers
tors are supposed to have done their
sugar specializing. He refuses to tell
the name of Senatorial customers or
to produce his books, and the COM
mittee will ask that his case be certi
fed to the Grand Jury, which has not
yet indicted the newspaper CORES
pondents.
The American Government has
guaranteed the payment of a sugar
bounty for the production of raw
sugar in the United States which has
been made from sorghum, cane, beets
or maple. This contract was entered
into for definite term of years, and
the suggestion should never be acted
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