The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-02-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1894.

ported to the senate this week. 1t is
not to be torn all to pieces by the f.
nance committee, as many had ex-
pected. 1t is only to be sufficiently
amended before being reported to gain
the support of those democratic sena-
tors who had announced their inten-|
ton to vote against it unless their de-
mands were complied with. Nothing
has yet been officially given out con-
corning these amendments, butt is re-
garded as certain that they will in
clude duty on sugar, both raw and
refined, and duty on coal. These
concessions to the senators from Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia and
Louisiana, are not to be called pro-
lection. The democratic party is OPP
posed to protection, you know. So the
claim is to be made by the committee
that these duties are. levied solely for
revenue purposes and with no inten-
tlon to protect these industries. AS a
matter of cold, hard fact these pro-
posed amendments are not pleasing to
the democrats, except those from the
states that will be benefited, and they
are only to Be made because the bill
cannot be passed with even fonr
democratic senators voting against 1t,
and as an offset the duties on a number
of articles principally produced IN
states that are reliably republican are
to be still further reduced. The IN
come tax is to remain in the bill, un-
less struck out by vote of the sen
ate. The republican senator's will
probably hold conference as soon as
the bill is reported in order to|determ-
inc upon the plan of opposition they
will follow. The advice they are re-
ceiving from their constituents are
somewhat contradictory. Some want
them to merely put themselves on
record as opposing the bill and then to
allow it to be passed; others want them
to use every legitimate parliamentary
method to delay or defeat it.
Colonel E. I. Lee, or Monticello,
ILL.,, secretary of the Shiloh battle
field association, is in Washington for
the purpose of presenting to the con-
gressional committees the memorial
adopted by the association, asking con-
gress to purchase the battle field of
Shiloh and turn it into national
memorial park,~ The association at a
tecent meetipg held at Indianapolis
design;Eed Senators Harris of Tennes-
I sec;- Sherman, of Ohio and Villas, of
Wisconsin, a committee to take charge
of the memorial in the senate and the
following representatives to perform a
like duty i'll the house: Col. ID. B.
Henderson, of Iowa; Gen. Joseph
Wheeler of Alabama, and Gen. John
G.. Black, of Illinois.
Representative Geary-"Chinese
Geary" he is often caIIed-of Califor-
MIA, Is II democrat, but not cuckoo
as vii! be seen by the following lam
guage of his: II have as much respec
for the president as any one else, but
do not see why congress should frs
learn the wishes of the president o.
consult the wishes of the executive de
partments before legislatlng. Con
gress is here to- pass laws without con-
sulting anybody and [, for one, an
growing tired of the constant lnterfer-
ence of the executive departments ir
the work Of congress. Let congress
make its own laws, and if the presi
dent does not like them, let him exer-
else his constitutional preregative anc
veto them" That's the most sensible
democratic speech of the session.
The charge was made several day
ago that Secresary Gresham has had &
long letter from President Dole t,
Minister Willis in his possession NOR
than week, and that it was withheld
from the house for fear that the terri
BILE arraignment of Willis in his doublt
! dealing since arriving in Honolulu
which it contains, would have defeated
the cuckoo resolution which the house
was fairly driven to adopt last week
and the charge has not been denied
1t certainly looks as though the admin
istration were determined to sink itsel
to the bottom of the pit of public in
fanny in dealing with Hawaii. Mr.