The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
Warrington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

EIOunO Jul AcHuldI SOEICoROuucAV'
WASHINGTON, May %, 1894.
Signs are plenty that the republican
Senators are ready to give up their use
less fight against the tariff bill, and IN
timatiOns have been given to Senator
Harris by their leaders that il he would
carry out his announced intention of
compelling long night sessions this
week an agreement might be reached
upon q date for the taking of a final
vote upon the bill. AS the easiest way
is always the best way, Senator Harris
will defer for a few days tho holding of
night sessions, in order to see whether
an amicable arrangement a DO reach
ed with the republicans. If so, all right
and good /; if not, the democrats are all
prepared to endure any amount of per-
sonal hardship that may be necessary
to force it. 1t is the expectation of the
democratic Senators that the bill will
be passed in time for the conference
committee to act and get their work en-
dorsed by both House and Senate and
the bill signed by President Cleveland
before the first day OF July: Only one
democratic vote is in doubt.that OF
Senator Hill, and after he fails to get
the income tax struck out of the bill it
is believed he will fall into line and
vote for the bill.
The Senate investigation committee
found BUTTE guilty Of having attempted
to bride Senators Hunton and Lyle, but
no steps have been taken towards Grim
inally prosecuting him. The commit
tee 10 now engaged in Investigating the
charges of c%rO0kedness on the part OF
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill, and,
judging from the evidence already
taken. those charges are likely to be
shown up as outright fakes. For in
stance, it vas charged that the sugar
schedule was prepared in the hand
writing of Secretary Carlisle, who car
ried it to a meeting of the Finance COM
mittee, and demanded that it be adopt
ed because Of obligations the party
owed to the sugar trust, and tho man
who made the charge declined to give
bis authority. The story was read to
Senator Jones, of Ark, who WAS chair
man of the subcommittee that arrang-
which included the sugar schedule, and
he was asked by Senator GRAY. chair
man of the investigating committee,
what truth there was in it. None.
whatever" he replied emph%tically Il
think l have attended every meeting OF
the tariff subcommittee this session,
but no such scene was ever enacted. nor
a demand made by Mr.. Carlisle for The
protection of sugar. With seference to
the charge that Sec Carlisle prepared
tho sugar schedule, | would say that
my recollection is that | prepared the
sugar schedule in the bill as first report
ed the schedule. in the last bill report
ed was put in sl,ap" at the Treasury
department at my request, in order that
the administrative features of the
schedule should b. in cot,tct foiin.
The suggestion OF the rate and all of
the essential details of the schedule
were from me-" Theirs il about the
amount of lruti, in tho claIKes NELL
toned as in all the rest. The schedule
was prepared at the Treasury depart,
ment at Senator Jones' request, and
some republican clerk employed therein
probably told it outside; the rest Was
imagined. The committee may ask the
Senate to order the arrest of the cores
pondents who refused to give their an-
thOrity for the charges, but that will
accomplish nothing, as they would be
certain to continue 10 refuse. The Sem
ate has several times tried, but
successfully, to compel correspondents
to tell where they got information from.
Every Senator whose name has been
connected with these charges has ex-
pressed a willingness to appear before
the investigating committee without
the Formally of II summons.
1t seems hardly necessary to say that
the stories printed 10 republican papers
about the great cost to the government
of the little vacation trip of President
Cleveland and Secretaries Carlisle and
Gresham, IN the light house tender,
Violet, were entirely false. The pres
eDce of these gentlemen on the little
boat did not cost the government II
trip, supplying the light houses with
supplied at President Cleveland's per-
sonal expense. The Violet was not even
delayed, Mr.. Cleveland insisting before
the start that the fishing and hunting
should only be done while the boat vas
transferring supplies to the lighthouses.
and that rule was adhered to during the
trip.
Representative Bryan, of Nebraska, is
just as enthusiastic in his advocacy of
the building of the Nicaragua canal as
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, but he
proposes, in a bill now before the Com
merce committee of the House, to do it
in a different way. His bill calls for AN
Issue of $4,000 900 in greenbacks, to be
used to purchase q controlling interest
in the stock of the company and for the
building of the canal under the control
of a board of eleven directors. eight nf
them to represent the United States.
The House has laid aside the regular
appropriation bills temporarily and will
this week try to decide whether the tax
on state bank notes shall be repealed or
not. Both sides claim a majority.