The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Of TIE RECORD.
WASHINGTON. May 9, 1894.

w ASHINGTON, May - ioS7.
The presence of 500 men csmped for a
week within the limits Of the National Cap.
ito, bsnded together under the name of an
army" and threatening openly to remain
until Joined by sufficient number of men
to intimidste Congress into granting the
ridiculous demands Of its sslf-appointed
leader, and the circumstances attendant
upon their coming and their stay here pre-
sents quite as impressive an "object lesson"
as the financial "object lesson" inaugurated
by the Cleveland administration about this
time last year. and unless the difference be-
tween liberty and license is more sharply
defined may lead to quite as much misery.
That a majority of the men that this man
Coxey has enticed into Washington and
ausrtered in pest hole from which heshas
moved his valuable horses for fear of their
diving from the foul and malaria laden at
mosphers are lazy. good.natured tramps,
only intent upon avoiding work and being
fed. is apparent by their refusal of work
when offered them, but it is equally appar-
ent that this man Coxey means mischief
should his force grow strong enough to make
it, and the Populist Senators and Represen.
tatives are doing all they can to encourage
it. When this man Coxey and two of his
followers were arrested for violating law in
their absurd attempt to speak from the
steps Of the Capitol, every Populist in Con-
gress who could make any claim to being
lawyer appeared in the police court, nomi.
nally as their volunteer defenders, but in
reality to intimidats that court
The manner in which the old law. dock.
ing the pay of members of the House sb-
sent without leave, except on account Of
sickness, is being enforced is extremely
farcical The members are allowed to certi
fy their own absence and the highest mum.
ber of days that any member has owned up
to being absent was six, while any number
of them who were absent at times during
the month of April returned no certificate of
absence and drew their full months pay.
The Speaker of the House, who under this
law is required to the certificates Of the
members before they are paid by the
Sargeant at Arms, declines to go behind the
returns made by the members, even ii he
has actual knowledge of their incorrectness
thus leaving the matter entirely with the
conscieuces of the members. Experience
!. has proven that mems consciences are very
, much like rubber when questions arise af
. fectng their pocketbooks.
, Sugar has certainly played star part il
l the tariff. .tinkering farce comedy that ha
been going ON in the Senate for five weeks
t and unless information that has been re
+ ceived from Louisiana is incorrect, sugar i
d either going to get all the flowers in the las
9 act or it is going to break up the show, De
( mands have been made upon Senators CaH
g cry and Blanchard of La, by the suga
e planters of that State, that they repudiat
v the forty per cent ad valorem duty put o
y sugar by the present bill and demand
e straight duty of two cents pound-fort
It per cent is fraction less than one cent
d pound vote against the entire bill
al the two cent duty is not put on sugar. Th
III is very embarrassing to thu Senators namet
r who have already in caucus agreed to SUI
n port the bill as it stands They are, it
I'd said, given their choice of obeying the d
ry mand of the sugar planters or retiring fro
tn the Senate. They both hold gubernatori
tn appointments, and the legislature that "
t, meet on the 18th, will elect Senators to
n. both of the unexpired terms as we'll as o
he for full term. To fully understand t
he situation it must be remembered that t
We Louisiana legislature is said to be ov'
he whelmingly in favor of two cent duty
to sugar, and that it has the power shor
ed Gallery and Blanchard decline to fight for
ty to send, within forty-eight hours after
of meeting, as their successors men who VI
rat 1t must not be forgotten, either, that W
ion the votes of the two Louisiana Senators a
that of Hill, of New York, cast against
he tariff bill, even if there are no more Der
eft cratic defections, that measure will
ain killed.
vas The oil, sugar, whiskey and other tru
as have been taken care of, through Democri
The threats to defeat the tariff bill, so who
ing blame the Louisiana people for taking
edo vantage of the power civen them by CT
He of extraordinary circumstances to dem
My what they want. Ever since the Sci
and began its tariff tinkering it has been a {
game. Why shouldn't Louisiana grab
share? 1t is to head off the action Of
LOOT Louisiana Senators that the proposition
w been made in the House to put an AM
e'A' ment on the legislative and executive ap
priation bill, repeating the sugar bou
hese but its efficacy would be more than do
want full, although there is little doubt abou
the being put through the House easy emo
But, il the Louisiana Senators can d,
=. the tariff bill, unless their demands are
,.n they can also defeat the repeal of the s
H. bounty. 1t looks to q man upa tire
A.. though they can be absolute masters o
situation if they have the nerve and the
to be such.
have -
says Inc survey OF the upper missouri
Of now going on, shows that its watert
,sne. escaping and forming the subterranean
,t,v of water known as the Great Dakota Art
Basin.
miles
Jos Professor Of Astronomy-Ca Can anyone
what the "milk way" isf Tommy-P