San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, MAY Ii.

OlueSU udulCue VI UHe CdplUOl mas
the majority of the Senate allowed
itself to be nagged by the minority
as the Republicans have nagged
the Democrats since those four
hundred amendments to the tariff
bill were presented to the Senate.
Although Senator Brice claims
that 43 Democratic Senators are
pledged to support the tariff bill
after those amendments are adopt
ed not single Democrat has had
the courage to defend the amend
ments. The nearest any one Of
them came to it was when Senator
Harris said: "The Democratic par
ty belives in a tariff for revenue
with such incidental protec.
tion as revenue duties Afford"
but he had not a word to say
when Senator Aldrich asked him
what then became of the declara-
tion of the last Democratic Nation
al platform, that protection was a
fraud and was unconstitutional. The
Democratic Senators are very much
at sea, and none of them make any
serious attempt TO hide it, while
Mr.. Cleveland has gone fishing to
hide his disgust. The Republican
senators will caucus tonight to
talk over their future course on
the amendments.
CoXey's nondescripts were COM
PEELED by the health authorities to
leave the pest hole in which they
had been encampcd, and being I'M
able to secure any other place in
Washington they are now camped
in Maryland, five miles from town.
The Marylanders do not relish their
presence even little bitand threats
are being openly made of compell-
ing them to move on. Sufficient
rations to feed the men is getting
to be serious problem with Coxey;
he has got about all from Washing
ton that he will get, and the Mary
land people say they don't intend
to encourage their stay by helping
to feed them. The argument for
new trial for CoXey, Browne and
Jones, convicted Of violating the
law for the protection of the capitol
building and grounds, will be heard
tomorrow. 1t is regarded as certain
that a new trial will be refused
them.
Senator Hill, of New York, does
not mince words in expressing his
opinion of tariff bill number 4. He
said: "Let the odium of it's passage
or praise for it's defeat rest upon
the shoulders of Senator German,
for aught | care. One thing is GER
tain, the tariff bill now before the
Senate should never become a law,
There is no justice in it, and it is
simply subterfuge and makeshift."
Hon. Sohn Patton, Jr., the new
senator from Michigan, has made
a very favorable impression upon
his colleagues and the public.
Although he had had no actual le-
gislative experience previous to
his appointment as the successor
of the late Senator Stockbridge his
wide general knowledge and his
grasp upon political affairs have
made him feel at home in the SEN
ate, where he will certainly make |
himself heard later on.
1t may not be entirely just to |
charge Representative Mccain,
chairman of the House comittee
on labor, who offered the resolu-
ton, and majority of the COM
mittee who voted to favorably re-
port the resolution providing for
the appointment of joint con-
gressional committee to in
vestigate the industrial de-
preston, with demagogueism but |
If that resolution, following as it |
did the hearing granted CoXey by |
the Labor committee, does not |
bear the genuine ear-marks of DEM
agoguery it has some excellent i'm
itations of them. 1t directs the APP
pointment of a committee of seven
three Senators and four Repre-
sentatIves--"to Investigate and re-
port to Congress within 30 days
the cause of the industrial depres-
sion responsible for so much dis
tress throug hout the country and
what legislation will preserve in.
dustrial and financial conditions
which will offer speedy, permanent
and lucrative employment to the
citizens of the United States"
Think of the enormity of the task
and of the time given-30
days-within which it must be
done, and you will see the points.
The House Judiciary committee,
Or rather the Democratic majority
Of that committee, has had another :
attack of states right fever, a dis
ease often scOtched. but newer en-