Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-01-25
Washington Letter.
tFFom our Regular Correspondents

the trst ereditable feeling he has shown
10 the whole business, but whether he
has experienced change of heart or is
afraid of being impeached is more than
your correspondent undertakes to say.
although we know circumstances favor
the latter. His anxiety to let the PEG.
pie know that Congress is coordinate
branch of the government comes late
aud probably would not yet have come
except for his desire to escape some of
the responsibility for his miserable fail
ure as setter up of disreputable fallen
dynasiies. Congress is not deceived: it
takes his acts for just what they are
worth and if there is one drop of Amer
lean blood spilled he will be held to
strict accountability.
1t is physical impossibility for one
tenth of the members of the House who
would like to speak on the tariff to do so
in the short time allowed for general
debate. 1t is expected that the most
exciting time will be under the FIVE
minute rule, when the bill will be open
to amendments. There is little proba-
oilitY, however, that any of the proposed
democratic amendments will be adopted,
as the republicans are still determined
not to help democratic members 10
make themselves solid in their districts
at the expense of the rest of the coun-
try.
The members of the Republican Ma
tional Committee in attendance at the
meeting of the executive committee
held here yesterday are all enthusiastic
over the outlook for the party and un-
animous in the belief that the country
is anxious to return the Republican
party to power, and that it will make a
beginning by electlng a republican
House next November. In the Ian.
guage of Tom Johnson, the Ohio demo.
cratic free.trader, in a speech made in
the House this week, .sWhat would be
the result of an election held tomorrow?
The November elections have told us,
we would be beaten out of sight" Mr..
johnson for once wss right.
Consistency is jewel that is always
conspieuously absent from the demo-
cratic makeup. While Representative
Black, of Illinois. was charging on the
floor of the House that the vivid picture
of the suffering of the wage.earners of
the country which representative Bur
rows, of Michigan, had drawn in his
able and convincing speech against the
Cleveland tariff bill was an exageration
of the industrial situation Secretary
Carlisle was making an appeal to the
Senate Finance committee, for aid in
securing financial legislation for the
immediate relief of the treasury, which
contained statements quite Us alarming
and as strong as those made by made
Mr.. Burrows in his speech. MIR. Carli-
sic told the committee that the revenues
were falling off S10,000,01O a month
and that even if il grew no worse the
deficit would reach $50, coo, 900 by the
close of the fiscal year, instead of the
2S,000,000 which he hal estimated
early in December. He said that the
rapid increase in the deficit was due to
general stagnation in business and the
falling off in importations caused by
proposed tariff changes. The democrats
always get non-partisan in their ideas
when they get into hole, so no one is
surprised to hear that the republicans
ON that committee are to be asked TO
aid in devising financial bill that will
afford the needed relief.
Paramount Blount is here, although
it is not yet certain that the democrats
on the investigating committee
will allow him to be called
before the committee, although
they allowed him to be summoned TO
appear. Blount is having hard lime
among the democrats in explaining why
his Hawaiian report differs so radically
from what comes from reputable sourc-
es. He sticks to his report and main
tains that he, and he only, knows the
real facts. He had the cheek to wind
up a talk of that sort with this Ian
guage: Even President Cleveland
did not know all the facts until my re-
port was submitted. " 1t will be shown
by the investigation that Blount's re-
port contained no facts of any import
ance.
Representative Haines. of the nine
teenth New York district, which includes
the city of Troy, the principal industries
of which will be practically abolished
if the Cleveland tariff bill becomes a
law as il now stands, was the first DEM
ocrat to make speech against that bill
in the House. His speech might have
exercised more influence if he had not
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