The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-02-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence OF tbs gEoosD.
WASHINGTON, January 8, 1894

Republican Senators are met with piece |
Of Democratic duplicity at the beginning of |
the consideration of the Cleveland tariff bill |
by the Senate finance committee that is far |
from encouraging. Previous to the passing |
of the bill by the House, Senator Voorhees,,
chairman of the finance committee, promised |
Republican Senators that the committee |
would grant full hearings to industries
affected by the bill Now, those promises
are ignored snd Mr.. Voorhees, says the COM
mittee will grant few. ii any hearings, alleg.
ing as an excuse for breaking his word that
the information which will be received from
the circular letters sent out by the com.
mittee will be all that is needed. This is
mere subterfuge. and no one knows it any
better than Mr. Voorhees,. 1t is perfectly
| true that the answers to the questions in
that circular letter would furnish all the 10.
formation necessary; but it is also true that
this information never will DO put in shape
to be used by the committee, and that also
is known to Mr. Voorhees, Ii answers are
received from only one.hslf OF the one
million circular letter sent out it would re-
quire the continual services OF fifty clerks
for at least six months TO tsbulate the
answers and put them in an understandable
shape. The committee hasn't the clerks
nor the disposition to wait for the work to
be done If it had them The plain unvsr.
nished truth is that Mr.. Voorhees, has re.
ceived the orders of his master in the White
House and he will break his word to his
colleagues who have nothing to give him, in
preference to disobeying his master who has
offices at his disposal, 1t begins to look as
though Mr.. Cleveland has sufficient control
of the Democrats on the finance committee
to compel them to report the bill to the
Senate practically as it was passed by the
House, leaving the fight to be made on the
floor OF the Senate. The Republican Sena
tors propose making it fight that will be
memorable in the tariff history of the
country.
The most noticeable feature of the Demo.
cratic side of the Hawaiian discussion in the
House WAS the unblushing atfrontry of Rep.
resentstive MeCreary, of Ky, in standing
up and gravely informing the House and the
country that Mr.. Cleveland had never de.
cided upon the restoration of the Queen.
This is one of the results of cuckooism upon
3 man who has always been considered, in
spite Of his intense partisanship, fair minded
and patriotic, When a man becomes the
r defender of Mr.. Ceveland's policy h,
necessarily hiss to drop the role of patriotic
statesman and assume that of pettifoggins
special pleader who endesvors to make {
, good case for his clients regardless of Law
or facts. Such men are common enough III
every community, but it is little short Of
national calamity that so many of then
should occupy seats in Congress. The only
consolation is that the people have fully &C
quainted themselves with the facts in th
case and cannot be bamboozled by msstate
ments or cuckoo resolutions.
Mr.. Cleveland is doing more in his effor
to beat Senator Hill and secure the con6rma
ton Of Mr.. Peekham to the Supreme Cour
vacancy to lower the dignity attached t
the Office Of President Of the United State
7 .hSn any other man has ever done, aud tn
result appears to be contrary to his expecta
: tions. Some Senators who were at frat dis
. posed TO vote for Peskham's confirmation
will vote against it as q rebuke to Mr.. c
for his peculiar and undiguihsd tactics an,
it may be that enough Of them will 50 vot
to reject the nomination. There is anothe
= feature that is not considered creditable t
: to Mr.. c. The financial condition Of th
5 government is such that it would seem t
demand the entire attention and the be.
o abilities Of the President, but instead he
giving his entire time to conducting a per
d sonal eight, leaving the finances to get slon
l. as they may.
The hardest fight that will be made upo
n any one section o! the tariff bill will be this
/, against the income tax. According to th
is latest poll forty one Senators-two less tina
10 . maiority-ars against it, thirty.seven fc
> it and six in doubt OF the six in dout
n three are Republicans and three Democrat