The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-08-17
NO. 35.
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug 10th, 1S94

WASHINGTON, Aug 10Th, 1874
The democratic distraction over the
tariff bill is still as great as ever
There is lots of talk every day about
an agreement tomorrow, but, like to-
morrow, the agreement never comes
Just when new sugar schedule-New
in words, but the same in principle us
that prepared by democratic Senators
and Secretary Carlisle under the di-
rection of sugar truSt-which was to
be used to blind the ignorant followers
of Mr. Cleveland and the House free
traders to their surrender to the Sen
ate and the truss, which its acceptance
meant, had been patched up at the
White House and the end seemed in
sight, when the La Senator'S, reinfOrc-
ed by the populists, Allen and Kyle,
bobbed up with the statement that no
sugar schedule would be supported by
them which did not provide for the
| payment of the sugar bounty for this
year. That sent the conference to
sea again and they are still houndering
around at this writing, drifting nearer
to the breakers on the rocky coast all
the while. How they will get out, orr
whether they will get out at all, is still
problematical. 1t is certain, however,
that the republicans will not volunteer
as life savers.
Boss Cleveland has succeeded in
preventing the House committee on
Foreign Affairs reporting the Boutle
resolution for the immediate recOgni-
ton of the Hawiian Republic, although
it was word for word the same resolu
ton introduced by the present demo-
cratic chairman OF that committee,
when the Brazilian Republic was
established, during the Harrison. ad
ministration, and when a majority of
the committee and of the House was
republican. But at least one demo-
Grafton on the mmittee-Geary, of
Cal. was ashamed of his party and
had the manliness to speak his mind
He said: "We might as we'll admit
that the democratic party has blum
dered in it's treatment of the Hawiian
question and we cannot and afford to
make another blunder."
The G. A. r. men have sent a for
NAL protest to Mr.. Cleveland and are
preparing to bring to the attention OF
the coming National encampment at
Pittsburg the unjust treatment the old
soldiers have received from the Cleve-
land administration. Out of $50 en-
ployees dropped from the rolls of the
Record and Pension division of the
War department II were Union We ter
ans, and it is said that the records of
of some of the ex-soldiers show them
to have been among the most efficient
clerks in the division, while none of
them were below the average in their
efficiency records. Old soldiers have
also been Disseminated against in
other departments, particularly III the
Agriculture department and in the
various branches OF the Interior de-
partment, including the Government
Printing Office and the Pension
Bureau
There is more or less anxiety in
Congress because of the war between
Japan and China. This is not because
of any special interest taken in the
war as it now is, but of the fear that
the United States may be in some
manner dragged into it by the diplo-
matte blundering of Secretary Gres-
ham, who appears to have, in place of
the calm judgment that should domi-
nate a Secretary OF State, an over
supply of the very undesirable faculty
which makes him "put his foot in it"
every time he makes move in con-
nection with the foreign relations OF
the government.
Representative Stone, of Pennsyiva-
MIA, is not discouraged by the opposl-
tion of the administration to his bill
requiring all immigrants to be ex-
amined and certified by L. S. consuls,
which recently passed the House, and
which the Senate committee on I'M
migration has tried to kill by report
ing a substitute therefor which might
easily have been added to the bill as
an amendment. He says: II can see
no ground for objections except from
steamship companies that are engag-
ed in the unholy traffic of transport
ing to this country criminals and pau
pers. I had hoped that this measure
would be considered from patriotic
standpoint alone and would not be
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