Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-03-09


it cannot be definitely stated how the
tariff bill will emerge from this storm,
it can be stated to certainty that it
must be modified sufficiently to get
seven out Of those ten democratic votes
or it's defeat is certain. 1t has been re-
turned to the finance committee for
modification.
Senator Frye made a strong speech on
the reports Of the senate committee on
foreign relations on the Hawaiian inves-
tigation this week, and when the grand
nigh chief of the senate cuckoos-Gray,
Of Delaware-attempte to break the
force of some of his sharpest criticism on
the acts Of Mr.. Cleveland and his pup
pets Blount and Willis, Mr. Frye just
made him the laughing stock of The sem
ate as he tied bin up. Owing to the
time taken up by the democratic tariff
caucuees it took Mr.. Frye q part of two
days to deliver his speech.
Pension bureau officials are hopping
mad because OF the following resolution
offered in the house by Representative
Taylor, of Ind. "Whereas there is rea-
son to believe that certain officials and
employees in the medical division of the
pension bureau are, and have been,
making false reports of evidence in pen
sion cases to their superiors in office IN
order to secure unjust decisions in such
cases; thereto "Resolved, That the
commtte on invalid pensions is hereby
directed to inquire into the conduct of
! business in the medical division of said
pensio bureau and to report to the
house of representatives if systematic or
manifest injustice has been Cone to pen
sioners or to applicants for pensions by
any Of the employees of said division
said committee to report to the house
by resolution or otherwise; also to re
port the names and political utilization
of said employees and by what admins
tration they were appointed" The u.s.
ual defence-"it is nothing but parti-
san political attack" will not answer in
this case, as the resolution was offered
by a democrat
Mr., BANDS incapaclty as leader and
absolute lack of tact resulted in endan-
gering his bill for the coinage of the
seigniorage, which he had SO much at
heart, and which might have been
passed a week or more before it was had
it been properly managed. The only
really important thing that Mr.. Bland
has secceeded in dong is in putting the
democrats of the house. with their SO
majority, in very deep hole, and in
leaving a chasm between the silver and
anti-silver democrats that is not likely
to be bridged during the present session
of congress, and which will be almost
certain to make trouble among the dem
ocrats when the tariff bill comes back
from the senate, if it ever does.
Congressman Lafe Pence, populist, of
Colorado, who was sat down upon by
the house this week for Incorporate Ian
guage and who publicly apologizsd to
Representative Hainer, of Nebraska, for
having said: "You are fuller of beard
than of comprehension of my IDEAS de-
clining to apologize or withdraw his
statement that his democratic colleague,
Cooper, of Indiana, had traded his vote
on silver for patronage, Whereupon
Mr., Cooper said that common decency
should have prevented Pence, who has
money invested in silver mines, CRITICS.
ing the position Of other members. Mr.,
Cooper also said that Pence had no con-
stitutional right to vote on any question
affecting silver. As Cooper and Pence
were raised in the same town and have
always known each other well their
opinions of each other have been more
generally accepted than they would ha We
been under other circumstances.
Republican senators are, as Br'e'r
Rabbit would say, '1yin' low on the
tariff question They are not ready just
yet to make public the tactics they pro-
pose using against the bill, They re-
gard it as a needless waste of ammuni-
ton for them to begin firing at it before
the democrats get through.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.