The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-08-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, July %. 1894.

tors are compelled to surrender bu
: their private talk and acting tell
another story. Mr.. Cleveland ha
discovered that he could not dictate t
the democratic senators in matters af
fecting the welfare of thousands O
citizens of the states they represent
and he is said to deeply regret that h.
allowed the advice eff Don Dickinson
the Michigan rainbow chaser, to out
weigh that of Secretary Carlisle, wht
advised him not 10 send that letter
He hasn't changed his mind about free
coal for the benefit Of the Whitney
syndicate, free iron for the Carnegie
crowd and protection for the sugar
trust, but be has found out that he
went the wrong way to get this unique
combination of "talif reform" He
wants them as bad as ever, and some
say he is willing to see all tariff legis-
lation fail rather than not to get them.
but he regrets having jumped on
those who know how and do not hesi-
tate to fight back.
Although the conferrees held their
first recorded meeting today since the
hilt
conference without instructions by the
senate, the democratic conferrees spent
all day Saturday and Sunday in trying
to patch up the differences between
the house and senate, but as no salts
factory answer has yet been found to
the ultlmatum of the senators-"take
the bill as it is or you'll get nothing"
the Status is unchanged. Some of the
Observers are convinced that
victory for the senate bill is assured
and that the time of the democratic
bosses is now principally taken up
arranging a series of more or less con-
fnsing changes in the bill, which shall
make it seem that concessions were
made ON both sides, or DIS one man
puts it: "Finding soft spot for
Cleveland to fall on" The house
conferrees are individually willing to
hold out against the senate, but the
democrats of the house generally are
not willing to keep Up the fight, and
hey have plainly shown their disincli-
nation to fight MI. Cleveland's battle
'or him.
Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle are
loing their best to defeat the bill
which provides that immigrants shall
De inspected by q. S. consuls before
allowed to start for this country, and
which was recently passed by the
house and is now before the senate i'm
committee. The principal
ground for their opposition, according
o their chief spokesman, Mr.. Stump
u. 5. commissioner of immigration, is
hat the bill, if it became law, would
top all immigration. That argument
will hardly defeat the bill, as there are
many who believe that immigration
ought to be stopped, for time, any
way. Representative Stone, of Penn
ylvania, the author of the bill, and
~ whose shrewd management it was
engineered through the house in spite
If the opposition of the chairman of
he house committee ON immigration,
links it will be just the law that is
leedsd; that it would shut out the un-
desirable, giving us only the class of
who are always welcome in
II countries.
Mr. Cleveland seems to have little
Ifficulty in controlling the actions of
members of the house.
)nly the other day the democratic
members of the house committee on
were insisting upon the
ecessity for the adoption of the reso-
ltion authorizing that committee to
lake an invcstis cation of the recent
trlkes, because they did not consider
he law under which Mr.. Cleveland
ppolnted the investigating commission
road enoug gh to f,sentshTthe necessary
uthority. Mr.. Cleveland gave the
he chairman of that committee ii hint
rat he thought one investigation
nough, and straightway the democrats
n the committee began to talk about
ne clashing that would be caused by
Vo Investigations and to indicate very
lainly that the resolution was dead. |
1r Cleveland would doubtless he will |
,g to pay largely for recipe that
'ould enable him to control the sen
tors as easily.
No finer bit Of sarcasm was ever got |
IF on the floor of the senate, than |
hen Senator Manderson sent fan to |
enator Villas, just before his name
'as Called on the Vote to instruct the |