Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-08-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Ts,xorAL CORRESPONDENCE OF ras xoSIroa
Wnxhin oton, Aug. 20, 1884.


given a slap in the face when the
Senate adopted the resolution offered
by Murphy, Of New York, declaring
it to be the sense of the Senate that
no further tariff legislation should be
considered at this session, and that IL
was advisable to adjourn at the ear
lest possible moment, and the free
traders of the House are accusing the
democratic steering committee of the
Senate of having buncoed them by
making promises concerning the pas
sage of the popgun tariff bill which
the adoption of this resolution makes
it impossible for them to carry out.
All of the republicans present, PETER,
KYLE and Stuart, and the following
democrats voted for the Murphy re-
solution; Blanchard and Caffery, of
louisiana, Gibson and German, of
Maryland; Murphy of New York;
Roach of N. Dakota, and Smith of
New Jersey.
Senator Sherman took the floor
after the adoption to make few re-
marks, which he correctly character
lied as "plain talk'' He told the dem
ocrats of their numerous plumbers
which included from SO to 100 impor-
tant errors in the tariff bill, now in
the hands of Mr.. Cleveland, one of
which that for the free entry of alco-
hol used in the arts would If uncor-
rected, cost the government from
twenty to thirty millions of dollars in
lost revenue annually. He also had a
sharp word or two to say about the
unusual extent to which the encroach-
ments of the executive upon the leg
islative branches of the government
had been pushed during the present
session of Congress, and in conclusion
expressed his belief that the best
thing to be done was to go home and
await the verdict of the voters before
further meddling with the tariff. To
show that he was in earnest Mr.. Sher-
man has himself gone home not to re-
turn until the opening of the next
session Of Congress.
While it is generally regarded as
certain that Mr.. Cleveland is going to
swallow his big dish of crow and al
low the Senate tariff bill, to become
a law, either with or without his sig
nature, there are men, prominent men
too, who believe that he is still in
doubt, and that his present. visit, r 70
Buzzards Bay was not because of his
illness, but because he could better
hold secret conferences there with
certain individuals than he could at
the White House, and that those con-
ferences will settle whether the bill
shall be allowed to become a law or
be vetoed. These men say further that
Secretary Carlisle is fully committed
to the Senate bill and has been ever
since he wrote it's sugar schedule, and
that his actions, in, sending copies Of
the bill to all collectors Of cnsto "a and
otherwise preparing to execute the
provisions of the new law, is merely
a shrewd move to allow the public to
suppose that the administration ac-
cepts the bill and thus to aid in CO.
ercing Mr.. Cleveland into allowing it
to become a law.
Congress can do nothing more for
lack of quorum in both branches,
but it will be keptin session until next
Monday, unless MIR. Cleveland acts
may even then have trouble to ad-
jOurn if some member takes a notion
to raise the point of Hno quorum"
when the notion is made. However, it
is probable that enough of the mem
bers might be got to return for the
purpose of making quorum to ad-
journ VIII en- it can be done without
jeopardizing the tariff bill.
Nothing but the need of the So, 900
year which the position pays keeps
Secretary Carlisle in the Cabinet"
This asser ton was made by a person
al friend of Secretary Carlisle's, a
Kentuckian, and it is not surprising to
those who know anything about the
inside history Of this administration.
Mr.. Carlisle has known for some time
the failure of the financial policy, or
rather the entire lack of financial pol
icy, of the administration has killed
his political future, and he feels doub-
ly sore because he has not been al
lowed to be more than a clerk to Mr.
c..
He thinks that thing would have
been better had he been allowed to
control affairs connected with his de-
partment, as he expected he would be
when he left the Senate, where he
could have remained as long as Ken