The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-24
wAsuIN GTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.

From our regular cOrrcsponGent.
 WAsHINGToN, D. C., May IS. 1891.
 The tariff bill has been the basis for two big sensations this week. The first, charging that the sugar trust got the protection given it in the proposed amendment to the sugar schedule of the tariff bill in return for contribu- ton of $500, GOO to the democratic cam paign fund of 1892; aud the second, that Maj. J. A. Buttz, now of North Da- kota, but once carpet-0ag member of congress from South Carolina, had at tempted to bribe Senators HuntoD, of Virginia, and Kyle, of South Dakota, to vote against the tariff bill, offering them $25, 900 each. Buttz denies the charge. Senator Lodge has offered resolution providing for au iuyestiga- tion of both charges, but inasmuch as the senate voted down MT. Pcifcr'sres- olutions providing for an investigation of the charges made against senators of speculating in the stock of the sugar trust while the tariff bill was in the hands of the senate finance committee, it's action on this is doubtful. Few peo- pie believe that there was any money behind the alleged attempt to bribe the two senators, if 1t was made by BuitZ, because Buttz, who has been lobbyist ever since he was in congress, is not the sort of man who would be selected to disbursc big money by wouId-be bribers of senators.
 CoXey's army of the commonweal is apparently settled in it's new camp at Bladonsburg, Maryland, just beyond the line of the District ofCoiumbia. for an indefinite stay. The contributions received this week, including money and a carload of four, make it certain that the army will have plenty to eat for the next twenty days, even if noth- ing else were received A bake oven has been built and the flour will be baked in camp. No one was surprised whcn a new trial WIS refused Coxcy, Browne and Jones. They did not ex- pect it themselves. Coxey has decided that he will accept the nomination for congress if rendered to him, if he is al- lowed to run on a Coxey platform.
 It seems that every week must fur pish personal difficulty on the floor of either the senate or the house, and the present was DO exception. One would not suppose that the aricultural appro- priation bill contained anything upon which 10 base an exciting episode, but that is just where one is mistaken. While the bill was being considered Represent ative Hopkins, of Illinois, charged Rep resentative Hatch, of Missouri, who is in charge of the bill, with attempting to iugglc an increase of salary for an employe of the agricultural department into the bill without the knowledge of other members of the house. MT. Hatch jumped up quivering with cx- citement. and shaking his fists toward | Mir. Hopkins, shoutedi ''If the gentle man from Illinois means that word in | its ordinary English signiication, I 1 want to tell him that if he should use it to me outside of this chamber, | would ram it down his throat" As soon as Mir. Hopkins could mako him. self heard above the shouting jcering, he replied: Il do bot know whether l | will need body guard to escort me from the capitol or not, but want to say to the gentleman from Missouri that he can take my words in any sense he pleases. shall neither with. draw nor modify them, and he cannot frighten any one with bis clustering manners here" There was q time | when such language would have been followed by trouble outside of the house, but it has long since passed away.