Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
PEoIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR !
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. 1894.

hatchet and are now engaged in fa1
! more important fight, the tariff being
the battle ground. There are ten dem
ocratic Senators who demand more
home protection than the sub com
, mittee is willing to give them. A eau
Gus Of democratic Senators was held
this morning, but inasmuch as it was
understood beforehand that no action
binding upon the Senators was to be
taken it has resulted in accomplishing
nothing and the fight is still on. The
sub committee tried to reach a COM
promise by taking coal, iron ore and
sugar from the free list and putting q
that appears not to have pleased
either the free traders or the home
protectionists. The former are kick
ing because these articles were taken
from the free list and the latter be-
cause the duty placed upon them is
too low. It is impossible to say what
effect this fight will have upon the
fate of the bill. It may be that the
home protectionists are, as the free
traders say they are, making grand
bluff in order to secure the highest
possible duties for the articles they
favor, and that they will in the end
fall into line and support the bill.
The retention Of the income tax has
made it certain that the three popu-
lists will support the bill and Senator
| nd of har
In that case the republicans will only
have thirty seven sure votes against
the bill, making it necessary for six
democrats to vote with them to de-
feat it. If reports are true concern
! ing the condition of Senator Vance's
health he will not be able to return to
Washington to vote for the bill, and,
as there is little probability of any
republican pairing with him, that will
mean one vote less for the democrats.
There is still possibility, however,
that enough democrats may vote with
the republicans to carry a motion to
postpone consideration of the bill un
til next December.
Mr.. Josiah Quincy of Mass, ex-
headsman of the Department of State,
will hardly go down to history either
as a great statesman or as shrewd
political manager, but it cannot be
denied that Josiah is well up in the |
art Of self preservation. He has asked |
and been granted permission by the |
Senate committee on printing, which
is investigating charges which allege
that Quincy was guilty of crooked
ness in getting the contract for print
ing the Patent Office Gazette, award
ed to parties with whom he holds
peculiar business relations, to with !
hold his testimony until all the evil
dence against him has been present
ed. Mr.. Quincy frankly stated his
reasons for asking this favor was that
he did not wish to give the other fell
lows any pointers. The committee
will push the investigation as rapidly
as possible.
Even the postal cards sold by the
government are pooer and shabbier
under the democratic than they we're
under the republican administration.
For proof Of this assertion you have
only to compare one of the demo
cratic cards with one of those sold
under the last administration. You
will find the democratic card much
fiimsier in quality aud the printing
vastly inferior in every respect. Veri
ly, the country is going through
period of crawfish reform. But there
is day Of reckoning ahead, and the
verdict will be another period of OBJ
scurity thirty years long for the or
democratic party.
1t will be long time before any one
who heard Mr.. Bland make that bitter
speech, accusing those members of
the House who had declined to vote
to make quorum so that his bill for
the coinage of the seigniorage, which
still has the House tied up, could be
passed of teaching anarchy and with
being no better than men who would
throw dynamite bombs on the floor
and endanger the lives of those pres
ent, will forget it, if they ever do.
entering into the question Of
whether those who declined to vote
we're justified in so doing-ex-Speak
sr Reed insists that it is a question
which concerns only the members
md the constituents whom he repre-
can be truthfully said that a
nan who could make such a speech
Is Mr.. Bland made it utterly unit to
,e entrusted with the management Of
my bill on the floor of the House. He
ost his head, and no man who loses
lis head is fitted to be leader of
'ther men. BY none were his intem-