The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04

~ LakAeAs
Washington, June ESPECIAL l-Repre
sentative Sweet, of Idaho being a mem
Der of the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds has had practic
ally under his charge the bills proposing
10 construct government buildings il
Idaho, Utah, Wyoming Montana anC
washington. 1t is understood that in the
near future favorable reports will bt
made on the bills for Salt Lake Ogden
Cheyenne and other cities in that por
ton of the country. AS stated recently
in The Herald's correspondence, it is
hardly expected that any of these meas
ures can be passed this session, but the
object is to get them on the calendar sc
that they may be ready to call UP early
next session. There is not time enough
this session, even if Uncle Sans money
box had more funds in it for distribution
1t is the ardent desire of members of al
the political parties to get away from
washington as soon as possible. 1t is
the prevs Ting belief that the tariff bill
can be d ,osed of certainly by the Isl
of July, and that the Senate will
have TO put great deal of speed on the
appropriation bills. There will be differ
ences between the Senate and House on
the items in these big measures. There
is always hitch and the differences
have to be settled in conference. That
work alone will consume two weeks or
more, and the amendments added by the
Senate to the tariff bill will cause con-
siderable of a fight If the radical Dem
ocrats VINO are smarting under the new
features that have been incorporated in
the new tariff bill can have their way
they will offer stubborn resistance
when ii goes to conference but they will
have to give IF Is not r0SSihla fn
any bill unless the one now before the
Senate is accepted practically in the
shape in which ii will be sent back to the
House No one knows this better than
Chairman Wilson of the Ways and Means
committee. 1t does not suit him, but
rather than have the suspense continue
he is said to be willing to take anything
in preference to continual wrangling.
Adjournment of Congress.
1t is highly important for the Demo-
Gratis to have Congress adjourn no later
than the 1st of August so that their can
didateS for Congress may go to their dis
tricts and open the campaign. Already
some of the strongest and best Democrats
in the House have been defeated for re-
nominations because they could not leave
their posts here to fix up the fences.
Hon. Clifton r. Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas, has been vanquiShed at the pri-
marics held in his district, and he will
be succeeded by a man who has yet to
make a reputation. Mr.. Breckenridge,
for many years one of the leading MEM
bers of the Ways and Means committee,
is considered among the best thinkers in
Congress, and he is close student of
every ching affecting the welfare of the
country when economical questions are
considered. He is different style of man
from his cousin, w. c. P. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, who recently was the de-
PENDANT in the breach of promise suit
filed against him by the Pollard woman.
The Kentucky Breckenridge is a deep
eyed old hypocrite who has the respect
of no one here. There is a possibility
that the ranting, gushing, affected, hypo-
critical Kentucky congressman may Sc
cure a denomination, as he has the party
machinery under his control in the dis
trict, but they are making such war on
him that it win probably cost the Demo-
Gratis a district if he is renominated.
Kentuckians report that the revolt will
be so great if this man is nominated that
the Republican candidate is likely to be
elected in the district. The decent people
out that way will not support such
double-faced man as the recent trial
proved Billy Breckenridge to be.
BIand's Predictions.
Ii is understood that the defeat of
Hon. Clifton r. Breckinridge in Arkan-,
sas, is due to the vote he cast last year
during the extra session of Congress for
the unconditional repeal of the purchas-
stituents are of the opinion that he
should never have voted for any such
bill until assurance was given that some
thing else would be passed to give silver
its proper place as one of the money
metals of the country. The lesson or re-
bulle administered, therefore, to the gen
Tleman from Arkansas is having salu-
tary erect on some other members OF
Congress who are supposed to have too
much liking for the Wall street IDEA OF
finances. Congressman Bland, OF Mis-
souri, predicts that many more of the
representatives who did not stand up TO
the mark will have to bite the dust
politically during the year, and he rather
chuckles that Democratic platforms pro-
mulgated recently in some or the state
conventions have spoken emphatically on
the mercy question.
The Tariff Bill.
If the tariff bill can be disposed, Of in
the Senate by the 18th of June, II is DelleV-
ed that IN two weeks more 1t Will nave
been agreed to IN conference and signed
by The president. Then it is expected that
business throughout the country VIII be-
Gin to revive There has been a stag
nation which many of the ablest men IN
the land attribute almost entirely TO the
n-action of Congress in dealing with
this great question. Some of the ardent
advocates of the free coinage of silver
dispute the reasoning on any such line
Fhey insist that the debasement of silver
has had more to do with the depression
than all of the other agencies combined
Soon it will be demonstrated whether it
is the tariff that has spread such wide
destruction. whether it is the currency
question still unsettled.
The friends of Utah will urge Senator
Faulkner to call up the statehood bill
as soon as the tariff bill goes to confer
ence. He seems disposed to get it in at
the earliest possible moment, but, of
course, the temper of the Senate will have
a great deal to do with the matter How
ever, as there is no opposition to the Utah
bill. ii is thought it can be taken up and
disposed of in one day. It will be remem-
bered that Senator Faulkner insisted all
during the months that so many others
were declaring the statehood bill would
never emerge from the committee, this
session. that he would report ii. He kept
his word and he now says that the meas
ure will surely be passed before the close
of the present session.
Senator Faulkner is partial to Utah. He
has long recognized that the territory
ought to be admitted, and his friendli-
ness is due largely to the fact that he has
been out there, and knows the people
and the immense resources of Utah
Could he have hsd his way the statehood
hill would have been reported two months
ago. There were some men on the COM
nlitteo who had doubts and they feared
also that an effort would be made TO tack
On to this bill amendments admitting 9TH
er territories, which they want TO consid-
er further before they are willing to vote
to admit them.
TYNAN'S REVELATIONS.