Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-06-08
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.


served a good purpose. 1t showed that
the democratic senators have not only
got together, but that they have also
captured the votes of the populist SEN
ators. Mr.. Teller's object, frankly
stated when he moved to lay the tariff
bill on the table, was to show his repub-
lican colleagues that he was right when
he stated the day before in aspeeoh that
it was useless to delay voting on the
tariff bill with the expectation that dem
ocrats would assist the republicans in
defeating the bill. Whether this will
short the time in which the bill will
be considered remains to be seen, but
the probabilities are that it will not, as
the republican senat rs haYe repeatedly
said that they had no intention of fill.
clustering against the bill, but only de-
sired to point out the unwisdom OF the
various important schedules of the bill
as they were reached.
The public seems to have lost all in
terest in the CoXeyites. Coxev Browne
and Jones are in Jail serving their 20
day sentences and the men composing
Coxey's "army" are daily growing fewer
in number as the rations grow scantisr
Another party Of unemployed men, I'M
der the command of Michael Fitzgerald,
arrived here from Boston this week. AL
though after the same thing
sional legislation to provide employ
ment for the unemplo 0ed-they d. not
affiliate with the Coxeyites and say that
they propose returning to their homes
as soon as they get their petition pre-
senGed to congress. They have hired
hall in which they sleep and hold public
meetings, to which they charge no adj
mission fee. There are only 43 Of them
and they all claim to be members in
good standing of labor organizations.
The action of the house in adopting
resolution instructing the committee on
naval affairs to begin an immediate in
yestigation of the alleged inferior armor
plates, ETC., furnished the government by
the Carnegie establishments was by no
means complimentary to either President
Cleveland, who had remitted certain pen
alties as the result of an investigation
made by him, or to Secretary Herbert,
who now has an investigation going on
under the supervision Of naval officers.
1t looks as though the democrats of the
house do not trust the democratic pres
ident or his secretary of the navy.
The sneaking attack made On the civil
service commission, when Enloe, of
Tenn, succeeded in getting an amend
ment to the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, striking out
the appropriation for the commission,
adopted by the house while sitting as a
committee of tire whole, was character
istically democratic. Everybody knows
that the democrats have always been op
posed at heart to the abandonment of the
old spoils system, ard it has been made
palmer than ever since they have had
charge of all branches of the govern
ment but thew lack the courage to make
the issue square by passing bill for the
repeal of the law and try to accomplish
their ends by withholding the appropri-
alton necessary to enforce the law. But
it will not work. Civil service reform
has come to stay, and even should the
house formally adopt this amendment,
which Is extremely doubtful, the senate
can be relied upon to put it back in the
bill and to compel the house to agree to
it. Mr.. Cleveland is said to haye used
some language that cannot be printed IN
a family paper when he got back to
Washington and learned what these
democrats in the house had done.
The first act in the senatorial investi-
CATION farce is over. although the COM
mittee has not yet made public either
the testimony taken in regard to the
charge that Maj. Buttz had attempted
to bride Senators Hunton and Kyle or
the conclusion arrived at. Buttz told
the committee that he never made such
an attempt or had any idea of it. The
second act. which will be longer, began
with hearing the testimony of the news
paper correspondents who had charged