Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-01-20
BRIDGING THE cHASM.
Carlisle will Issue Bonds Talking
Free Trade.
From our regular correspondent.

associates IN congress lot legislation
that would provide the money to meet
the deficit made by the announcement
Of the Cleveland tariff programme, he
has now called upon Senator Sherman
for advice and aid. Senator Sherman
told the Democratic Senators. at the
lime they declined his suggestion, that
he silver repeal bill should be amend
ed 50 as to authorize an issue of bonds;
hat the administration would in the
end have to issue bonds. Well, the
end is in sight and the administration
is going to issue bonds, with, or with
out the consent of Congress. If Con-
gress will authorize an issue of bonds; !
they can be made to run a short per i
iod and to carry only three per cent
interest; if Congress will not author
ize the bond issue, they are to be issu-
ed under the law OF 1875 and will con-
carry 4 or AZ per cent in
terest and will run long time. The |
bonds have been printed and the Off |
cial announcement of their issue may
be made at any time.
Mr.. Cleveland is as obstinate as ev-
er Notwithstanding the humiliating
position in which he is placed by the
last batch of Hawaiian correspondence
which includes President Dole's man
ly and straight forward answer to
Minister Willis demand that the pro-
visional government retire in favor
of the dissolute woman who had pre-
viously announced her intention to
behead her opponents as soon as she
got back into power and which was
sent to the House Saturday and to the
Senate to-day (the Senate was not in
session Saturday., he still wishes to
restore the queen, and is making use
of the methods which have become ia
miliar since the meeting of the extra
session to convert" members of Con-
gress to his views. If public opinion
instead of being strongly opposed as
it has been from the first had been
overwhelmingly in favor of restora-
ton, this batch of correspondence,
which includes the dispatches of Will
lis heretofore withheld. would have
made restoration impossible.
If plain arguments and incontrover-
tible facts counted for anything with
Democrats the Cleveland tariff bill
would have been buried beyond
hope of resurrection by those pre-
scented against it by the few Re-
publicans who have had an opportu-
nifty to speak during the absurdly
short time allowed for general debate.
The orders to railroad the bill are i'm
perative and there is little probability
that any of the numerous amendments
which will be offered by dissatisfied
Democrats during the debate under
the fve-ininute rule, which will occu-
Ply the rest of the time until the 10th
instant, when the bill will be voted
upon, will be adopted. But there is
one consolation ahead Mr. Cleve-
land will not be able to recognize his
bill when the Senate Finance Commit
tee gets through with it. Nothing
could show palmer what the Demo
Gratis of the House really want than
the applause they gave to the out and
out free trade speeches of Tom John
son, of Ohio, Jerry Simpson, of Kan
sas, and Bryan Of Nebraska. They
want free trade, and, as Representa-
tive Black of Illinois, who wants to
succeed Senator Cullom, put it, to re-
duce wages in the United States to the
level Of those paid i'll other parts of
the world. This is beautiful ard
enticing programme to lay before the
nation of wage -earners, now isn't it?
The opposition to the income tax
proposition has unquestionably fright
ened the Democrats who favor it. One
result of the fright was the determina-
ton of the Democrats of the Ways and
Means Committee not to offer the in
come tax as an amendment of the
Cleveland tariff bill, but to report it
to the House as separate measure
Another is the proposition, not yet
definitely acted upon, to hold Demo
cratic caucus to decide whether the
income tax shall be pushed or aban-
doned. The final result will be the
same either way. The income tax
may be forced through the House by
a very small margin, but its death in
the Senate is certain
The minority report prepared by the
Republicans of the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections against
the bill for the repeal of the Federal
election laws which was passed by the
House at the extra session and is now
before the Senate, is a document that
fairly bristles with common sense rea-
SONS why these laws shonld not be re-
pealed. Common sense plays very
small part in Democratic legislation,
but there is a dim and shadowv hope
that this bill may be defeated in the
Senate by Democratic opposition to it
II is known that Mr. Cleveland Dem /
ocratic friends in New York are afraid |
Of the effects of repeal and that thew |
have made their fears known to Mr.. /
Cleveland and to some of the Demo
cratic Senators.
There is no significance i'll the cleo /
ton of Hon. J. H Marley, of Maine,
to succeed Hon. r. H. Carter, of Mon
tana, as chairman of the Executive
Committee Of the Republican National
Committee. Mr.. Carter wished to be