The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-01-26
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. 1S9.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 1894.
Secretary Carlisle has one good
trait; he knows where to look for good
advice when he is in a hole. He in
hole now, and it is deep and dark
one. Having called in vain upon his
party associates in Congress for lepis-
lation that would provide the monay
to meet the deficit made by the am.
nouncement of the Cleveland tariff
programme, he has now called upon
senator Sherman for advice and aid
senator Sherman told the democratic
Senators at the time they declined his
suggestion that the silver repeal h;Il
should be amended so as to authorize
an issue of bonds that the administra.
ton would in the end have to issue
bonds. Well, the end is in sight and
the administration is going to issne
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 Con
gress will not authorize the bond IS
sue, they are to be issued under the
law of 1875 and will conseouentlv
carry 4 or 4 IL per cent interest and
Will run long time. The bonds have
been printed and the official an
nouncement of their issue NAV be
made at any time.
Mr.. Cleveland is as obstinate "a
ever. Notwithstanding the humiliat-
ing position In which he is placed bv
the last batch of Hawaiian CORES
pondence, which includes President
Dole's manly and straightforward
answer 20 Minister Willis's demand
tnat the provisional government re-
Tire IN favor of the dissolute woman
who had previously announced her in
tentlon to behead her opponents as
soon as she got back into power, and
which was sent to the House Saturday
and to the Senate today (the Senate
was not In session Saturday, he still
wishes to restore the queen, and is
making use of the methods which
nave become 80 familiar since the
meeting of the extra session to "con-
VERT members of Congress to his
views. If pubic opinion instead of
being strongly opposed as it has been
from the first had been overwhelming
ly III favor of restoration this batch of
correspondence, which includes the
dispatches of Willis heretofore with
held, would have made restoration
impossible,
Ii plain arguments and incontro-
vertible facts counted for anything
with democrats the Cleveland tariff
bill would have been buried beyond
hope of resurrection by those presented
against it by the few republicans who
have had an opportunity to speak
during the absurdly short time allow
ed for general debate. The orders to
railroad the bill are imperative and
there is little probability that any of
the numerous amendments which
will be offered by dissatisfied demo-
Gratis during the debate under the
five minute rule. which will occuy the
rest of the time until the 30, inst,
when the bill will be voted upon, will
be adopted. But there is one conso-
lation ahead. Mr.. Cleveland will not
be able to recognize his bill when the
Senate Finance committee gets
through with it. Nothing could show
palmer what the democrats of the
House really want than the applause
they gave to the out and out free
trade speeches of Tom johnson of
Ohio, Jerry Simpson of Kansas, and
Bryan of Nebraska. They want free
trade, and, as Representative Black Of
Illinois, who wants to succeed Senator
Cullom, put it, to reduce wages in the
United States to the level of those
paid in other parts of the world. This
is beautiful and enticing programme
to lay before 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 determi-
nation 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 II
to the House as separate measure.
Another is the proposition, not vet de-
tinitely acted upon, to hold demo-
cratic coucus 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
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 Senate, is a docu-
ment that fairly bristles with common
sense reasons why these laws should
not be repealed. Common sense PLAYS
very small part in democratic legis-
lation, but there is dim and shadow
hope that this bill may be defeated in
the Senate by democratic opposition
to it. It is known that Mr.. Cleveland's
democratic friends in New York are
afraid of the effects of repeal and that
they have made theirs known to Mr..
Cleveland and to some of the demo-
cratic Senators.