The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-18

would in the end have to issue
bonds. Well, the end is in sight
and the administration is going to
issue bonds, with or without the
consent of Congress. If Congress
will authorize an issue of bonds
they can be made to run short
period and to carry only three per
cent. interest; if Congress Will not
authorize the bond issue, ,tney are
to be issued under the lay Of 1875
and will consequently CARRY 4 or 4
per cent. interest and will run long
time. The bonds have been printed
and the official announcement of
their issue may be nrade at any time.
Mr.. Cleveland is as obstinate as
ever. Notwithstanding the humili-
ating position in which he is placed
by the last batch Of Hawaiian cor
respondence, which includes Presi-
dent Dole's manly and straighttor-
ward answer to Minister Willis's
demand that the provisional gov
eminent retire ia favor Of the disco
lutte woman who had previously an
nounced 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 Saturdaal he still
wishes to restore the queen, and is
making use of the methods which
have become so familiar since the
meeting of the extra session to
Convert" mem bers of Congress to
his views. If public opinion in
stead OF being strongly opposed as
it has been from the first had been
Overwhelmingly in favor of restor
alton this batch of correspondence,
which includes the dispatches of
Willis heretofore withheld, would
have made restoration impossible.
If plain arguments and incontro-
vertible facts counted for anything
with Democrats the Cleveland tariff
Hhill would have been buried hey ond
hope of resurrection by those pre-
scented against it by the few Repub
licans who have had an opportunity
to speak during the absurdly short
time allowed for general debate.
The orders to railroad the bill are
imperative and there is little proba-
bllty that any of the numerous
amendments which will be Offered
by dissatisfied Democrats during
the debate under the five minute
rule, which will occupy the rest of
the time until the 29th inst, when
the bill will be voted upon, will be
adopted. But there is one consola-
ton ahead. Mr.. Cleveland 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
johnson, of Ohio, Jerry i5llhpkins,
Of Kansas, and Bryan, of Nebraska.
They want Free Trade, and, as
Representative Black, Of Illinois.
who wants to succeed Senator Gull
lom, put it, to reduce wages in the
United States to the level Of those
paid in other parts of the world.
That is a beautiful and enticing
program to lay before a nation of
wage earners, now isn't it?
The opposition to the income tax
proposition has unquestionably
frightened the Democrats who favor
1t. One result of the fright was
the determination of the Democrats
of the Ways and Means committee
not to offer the income tax as an
amendment to 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 a Democratic
caucus to decide whether the in
come tax shall be pushed or aband-
oned. The final result will be the
same either way. The income tax
may be forced through the House
by very small margin, but its
death in the Senate is certain.
The minority report prepared by
the Republicans on the Senate COM
mittee 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 Sen
ate, is document that fairly
bristles with common sense reasons
why these laws should not be re-
pealed. Common sense pays very
small part in democratic legisla-
ton, but there is a dim and shadowy
hope that this bill may be defeated
IN the Senate by Democratic oppo-
sition to it. 1t is known that Mr..