Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Jan. IS, 1894.

Secretary Carlisle has one good
trait: he knows where to look for
good advice when he is in hole. He
is in hole now, and it is deep and
dark one Having called in vain upon
his party associates in congress for
legislation that would provide the
money to meet the deficit made by the
announcement of the Cleveland tariff
program, he has now called upon Sen
ator Sherman for advice and aid. SEN
ator Sherman told the democratic
senators at the time they declined his
suggestion that the silver repeal bill
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 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, they
are to be issued under the law 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 made at any time.
Mr.. Cleveland is as obstinate as ever.
Notwithstanding the humiliating po-
sition in which he is placed by the last
batch of Hawaiian correspondence,
which includes President Dole's man
1y and straightforward answer to Min
lister Willis demand that the provis-
ional government retire in favor of
the dissolute woman who had prev1-
ously announced her intention to be-
head her opponents as soon as she got
back into power, and which was sent
to the House Saturday and to the Sen
ate day (the senate was not in SEES
sion Saturday., he still wishes to re-
store the queen, and is making use of
the methods which have become SO 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 incontrovert-
ible 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 democrats
during the debate under the five min
ute rule, which will occupy the rest Of
the time until the 29th inst, when the
bill will be voted upon, will be adopt
ed. But there is one consolation
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 Repre-
sentative 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. That is a beautiful and
enticing program to lay before ma
ton 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 determine
tion of the democrats of the ways and
means committee not to offer the in
come tax as an amend ment to the
Cleveland tariff bill, but to report it
to the House as a separate measure.
Another is the proposition, not yet
definitely acted upon, to hold a demo-
cratic caucus to decide whether the in
come tax shall be pushed or abandon
ed. 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 SEN
ate is certain.
The minority report prepared by the
on the senate committee
on privileges and elections against the
bill for the repeal of the federal cleo