Middletown transcript., 1894-08-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The concluding chapter in the history
of the Democratic tariff bill was writ.
ten and completed yesterday as far as
Congress is concerned. By vote of
1872 to 105 the Democratic House ac-
cepted the Gorman-Brice Senate bill,
which Mr.. Cleveland has characterized
as an act of 'Party perfidy and dis
honor" After subscribing to the bill
which the apostle of tariff reform has
denounced, the House proceeded to
ease it's conscience and to attempt to
bamboozle the country by passing four
individual free raw material bills. The
first. putting coal on the free list,
passed by vote Of 100 to 104; the sec
ond, making iron ore free, passed by a
vote of 1877 to 102; the third, putting
barbed wire on the free list to spite Mr..
Springer, who has been thorn in the
side of his Democratic colleagues and
to cater to the Populistic vote, passed
by vote of 1877 to 81; the fourth which
is the greatest Democratic bluff of all,
puts all sugars on he free listand
passed by a vote of 276 to H.. The
President, it is thought, proposes to
file memorandum with the bill in
which he will state his reasons for al
lowing it to become law +! without his
signature. So far as the Senators are
concerned, they do not care rap what
method the President chooses, whether
he signs the bill direct or assumes the
responsibility all the same by holding
it ten days and compelling his subjects
in the House to wait here in this hot
weather at his pleasure.
Mr.. c. Fl. j. Taylor, the colored citi-
zen of Kansas who was, by Mr.. Cleve-
land made Recorder of deeds for the
District of Columbia, after the Senate
had refused to confirm his nomination
to a diplomatic position, is in bad order
with the Civil Service c )mmission be-
cause of his having violated the law in
soliciting and receiving money for po-
litical purposes from employees of the
government. The combined cheek and
egotism of this fellow Taylor may be
judged from the following explanation
given by him: "Mr. Cleveland no doubt
thinks there are plenty of Democratic
politicians out of Office to take care of
the politics of the party, without the
ofice-holders taking hand, but with
the negroes it is altogether different.
There are SO few men among them pos
sessed Of sufficient ability to lead that
If all the recognized leaders are put
into Office and told to shut up and
keep out of politics, there would be
absolutely no one left to direct affairs
among the colored Democrats. is
necessary that the men who have the
ability to lead should continue in poll
tics.n Perhaps court sentence would
reduce the size of Taylor head.
Speaker Crisp hasn't always been
cuckoo, but there is no discount on his
cuckooism at this time. He even car
ried it to the extent of making ruling
that literally taken would mean that
any member Of the House would be out
Of order the moment he uttered crit
icism Of member Of the Cabinet. This
ruling was made when Representative
Boutelle, Of Maine. was making Z few |
concerning the cowardly |
Imotherine e4n the House Foreien Com
nittee III his regointion for t1e recoeni |
ion Of Hawaii. and tie spedki6g rsu-
lsr IA which rs AdmInistfstion v6lt |
Ibout anacu66lnf ~ formal recoenf,
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