Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04

tnan not to get them, but he re-
grets having jumped on those
who know how and do not hest
tate to fight back.
Although the conferees held
their first recorded meeting to-
day since the bill was, on Fri
day last, sent back to conference
without instructions by the Sen
ate. The Democratic conferees
spent all day Saturday and Sun
day in trying to patch up the
differences between the House
and Senate, but as no satisfac-
tory answer has yet been found
to the ultimation of the Senators
take the bill as it is or you'll
get nothing'-the. status is un-
changed. Some of the shrewd-
est observers are convinced that
victory for the Senate bill is as
sured, and that the time of the
Democratic bosses is now prin-
cipally taken up with arranging
a series of more or less confus-
ing changes in the bill, which
shall N axe it seem that conces-
sions were made on both sides,
or as oneman puts it: Finding
a soft place for Cleveland to fall
on The House conferees are
individually willing to hold out
against the Senate, but the
Democrats of the House gener-
ally are not willing to keep up
the fight and they have plainly
shown their Discrimination to
fight Mr.. Cleveland's battle for
him.
Secretaries Gresham and Car
Isle are doing their best to de-
feat 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 committee. The
principal ground for their oppo-
sition, according to their chief
spokesman, Mr.. Stump, U. S.
Commissioner of immigration,
is that the bill, if it became a
law, would stop all immigration.
That argument will hardly de-
| feat the bill, as there are many
who believe that immigration
ought to-be stopped, for a time
anyway. Representative Stone
of Pennsylvania, the author of
the bill, and by whose shrewd
management it was engineered
through the House in spite of
the opposition of the chairman
of the House committee on I'm
migration, thinks it will be Just
the law that is needed; that
it would shut out the undesira-
bic, giving US only the class of
immigrants who are always
welcome in all countries.
Mr.. Cleveland seems to have
little difficulty in controlling
the actions of Democratic mem
bers of the House. Only the
other day the Democratic mem
bers of the House committee on
Commerce were insisting upon
the necessity for the adoption of
the resolution authorizing that
committee to make an investi-
cation of the recent strikes, be-
cause they did not consider the
law under which Mr.. Cleveland
appointed the Investigating
Commission broad enough to
furnish the necessary authority
Mr.. Cleveland gave the chair
man of that committee a hint
that he thought one investiga-
ton enough, and straightway
the Democrats on the committee
began to talk about the clashing
that would be caused by two in
vestigations and to Indicate very
plainly that the resolution was
dead. Mr.. G. would doubtless
be willing to pay largely for
recipe that would enable him to
control the Senators as easily.
No finer bit of sarcasm was
ever got off on the floor of the
Senate then when Henderson
sent a fan to Senator Villas, Just
before his name was called on
the voteto instruct the Senate con
ferees torecede from the differen-
tial 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
Democratic caucuses. He GER
tainly must have felt like hid
ing his face when he voted for
the Sugar Trust after having
posed before the country as one
of its most determined oppon-
ents. Senator Stewart S refusal
to vote prevented the striking
out of the differential duty.
The Senate Investigating COM
mittee is at a standstill because
of its inability to get hold of
zone Battleshall, a man who is
said to have taken the orders of
Senators for the purchase of
Sugar Trust stock. AS soon as
Battershall found out that he
was wanted and ascertained
that he would be made to tell
all he knew or go to jail, he took
himself out of the country; at
any rate he cannot be found,
and rumor says he was supplied
with money enough, by those
who would be injured by his
his testimony, to make his trip
a long and pleasant one.
S. A. Houston, of Monroe
County, is the Populist nominee
for Congress in the Third Dis
i trict.
Windy" Wilson has been in
dorsed by a sufficient number
#of Democratic conventions to
render the reelection of Senator