The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-01-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Troubles of Southern Democrts, Who
Are Overridden.
From our Regular Correspondent.


From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1894.
The free trade democrats are in the
saddle this week, and they have ridden
rough-shod over their democratic col
leagues in the house who wanted pro-
lection for the leading Industries of their
districts and free trade tor the rest of
ments to the Cleveland tariff bill, abol-
ishing the proposed sliding bounty on
domestic sugar and placing all grades of
refined sugar on the free list, were ap-
parent, but not real, defeats for the
democrats of the ways and means COM
mittee. 1t is plain now that the demo-
Gratis of that committee intended from
the first to betray the sugar industry of
the country, and that they knew per-
fectly well when they adopted that slid
ing bounty clause of the bill that a ma
jority of the house would strike it out.
The free traders of the house also won
victories by defeating the amendments
to put duty on coal and on iron ore.
That the object of the free traders is
to force the income tax tilrough the
house, in spite OF democratic opposition,
is now as plain as the nose on your face,
and, although the democratic "kickers''
are making lot of noise, it looks as
though they would succeed. Republi-
cans are calmly looking on while these
progressive steps towards free trade are
being taken, believing that the nearer
the Cleveland tariff bill is to an out and
out free trade measure when it is sent to
the senate next week, the more certain
it is that it will be torn all to pieces, if
not actually defeated, in that body.
Democratic members of the house who
do not like the bill are discussing the
probability of carrying motion to re-
commit the bill to the committee when
the time comes to vote, but they cannot
possibly do that without the solid re-
publican vote of the house, and that
cannot be had for any such purpose.
The republicans will help to defeat the
bill, but not to continue the uncertainty
by recommiting it.
The cuckoo Hawaiian resolution ap-
proved by the democrats of the house
committee on foreign affairs is rather
farcical attempt to extricate the admin
istration from its present unpleasant
predicament, and democrats who are
not cuckoos say 1t cannot be adopted.
1t says that "we heartily approve of the
principle announced by the president of
the United States that interference
with the domestic affairs of an inde-
pendent nation is contrary to the spirit
of American institutions thus misrep-
resenting Mr.. Cleveland's position and
then approving the misrepresentation.
If the administration has no better ex-
pectation of financial help from congress
than that which is based upon the bill
Senator Voorhees, says he is preparing,
it is to be pitied. Dan Voorhees, has
been member of the senate committee
on finance for nearly seventeen years,
but he has never in all that time faith
cred single financial idea that was
sound and practical, and man doesn't
often change his ideas when he reaches
Dams age, although they sometimes pre-
tend to do SO, in order to get something.
Senator Teller, who has been quoted
by some democrats as favoring the dem
ocratic tariff program, sat down very
heavily on such statements when he
spoke as follows: ssThe industrial de-
preston at present is fearful. The situ-
alton, fear, will become still worse, for
there is hardly ray of sunshine the
whole world over. This is what makes
the present program of the democratic
party so ridiculously absurd, and the
issue of bonds amusing. The secretary
of the treasury estimates the yearly
deficit to be about $7S, ,000, 900, and he
proposes to issue 5O,0o0,0 900 worth of
bonds to meet the present needs of the
government. 1t is but temporary ex-
pedient, drop in the bucket, and only
means further increase in the public
debt, with no provision for its payment.
The tariff tinkers propose to cut down
the revenues of the government almost
to free trade basis. The effect Of this
will be to make greater deficit and the
consequent need of issuing more bonds,
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