The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-08-10
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 30th, lS9

WASHINGTON, July 3Oth, 1894.
| The free traders publicly bluster
lquite as loudly as they did week
lago, rs to the House conferees holding
out for free raw material until the
Senators are compelled to surrender,
but their private talk and acting tells
|another story. Mr.. Cleveland has
discovered that he could not dictate
to the democratic Senators in matters
iaffecting the welfare of thousands of
icitiZens of the states they represent,
and he is said to deeply regret that he
allowed the advice of Don Dickinson,
the Michigan rainbow chaser, to out
weigh that of Secretary Carlisle, who
Iadvised him not to send the letter.
He hasn't changed his mind about
free coal for the benefit of the Whit
ney syndicate; free iron for the Carne-
gle crowd, and protection for the
sugar trust, but he has found out that
he went the wrong way to get this
unique combination of "tariff re-
FORM" He wants them as bad as
ever, and some say he is willing to see
all tariff legislation fail rather than
not to get them, but he regrets having
jumped on those who know how and
do not hesitate to fight back
Although the conferees held their
first recorded meeting today, sine the
| bill was, on Friday last, sent back to
conference without instructions by
the Senate, the democratic conferees
spent all day Saturday and Sunday in
trying to patch up the differences
no satisfactory answer has yet been
found to the ultimatum of the Sena-
get nothing"--the status IS unchang
ed. Some of the shreWdest observers
are convinced that victory for the Sen
ate bill is assured, and that the time
of the democratic bosses is now princi
pally taken up with series of more or
less confusing changes in the bill,
which shall make it seem that con-
cessions were made on both sides, or
as one man puts it: "finding a soft
place for Cleveland to fall on" The
House conferees are individually will
ling to hold out against the Senate,
but the democrats of the House gen.
orally are not willing to keep up the
fight and they haye plainly shown
their disinclination to fight Mr.. Cleve-
lands battle for him.
Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle
are do ing their best to defeat the bill
which provides that immigrants shall
be inspected by U. S. Consuls, before
being allowed to start for this country,
and which was recently passed by the
House and is now before the Senate
immigration committee The princi
pal ground for their opposition, ac-
cording to their chief spokesman, Mr..
Stump, T. S. Commissioner of Immi-
gra ton, is that the bill, if it became
law, would stop all immigration. That
argument will hardly defeat the bill,
as there are many who believe that
immigration ought to be stopped, for
a time, any way. Representative
Stone, of Pa, the author of the bill
and by whose shrewd management it
was engineered through the House in
spite of the opposition OF the chair
man of the House committee on I'M
migration, thinks it will be. just the
law that is needed; that it would shut
out the undesirable, giving us only
the class of immigrants who are
always welcome in all aSuntries.
No finer bit OF sarcasm was ever
got off on the floor of the Senate,
than when Senator Mandersom sent
fan 10 Senator Villas, just before his
name was called on the vote to in
struct the Senate conferees to recede
from the differential duty on refined
sugar, to hide his face while he voted
against motion he had originally
made himself and had only withdrawn
after two lengthy and exciting demo-
cratic caucuses. He certainly must
have felt like hiding his face when he
voted for the sugar trust after shaving
posed before the country as one of it's
most determined opponents. Senator
Stewart's refusal to vote prevented the
striking Out of the differential duty.
The Senate Investigating committee
is at a standstill because of its inabili-
ty to get hold Of one Battershall, a
man who is said to have taken the
orders OF Senators for the purchase of