The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-23
NO.. 10.
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

lported to the Senate this week. It is
not to be torn all to pieces by the Fl.
nance committee, as many had ex-
pected. 1t is only to be sufficiently
amended before being reported to gain
the support of those democratic Sena-
tors who had announced their inten.
to vote against it unless their demands
were complied with. Nothing has yet
been officially given out concerning
these amendments, but it is regarded
as certain that they will include a
duly on sugar, both raw and refined.
and duty on coal These conces.
slons to the Senators from Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and Louis
lana, are not to be called protection.
The democratic party is opposed to
protec ton, you know. So the claim
is to be made by the committee that
these duties are levied solely for reve-
nue. purposes and with no intention
to protect these industries. AS mat.
ter OF cold, hard fact these proposed
amendments are not pleasing to the
democrats, except those from the
states that will be benefited, and they
are only to be made because the bill
cannot be passed with even four demo-
cratic Senators voting against it, and
as an offset the duties on number of
articles principally produced in states
that are reliably republican are to be
further reduced. The income tax is
to remain in the bill, unless struck
out by vote of the Senate. The re-
publican Senators will probably hold
conference as soon as the bill is re-
ported, in order to determine upon
the plan of opposition they will fol-
low. The advices they are receiving
from their constituents are somewhat
contradictory. Some want them to
merely put themselves on record az
opposing the bill and then to allow
it to be passed; others want them to
use every legitimate parliamentary
method TO delay or defeat it.
Colonel E. 7. Lee. of Monticello, Ill.
Secre tary of the Shiloh Battle Field
Association, is in Washington for the
purporse of presenting to the congress
sional committees the memorial adopt-
ed by the association, asking Congress
to purchase the battle field of Shiloh
and turn it into a National Memorial
park. The association at a recent
meeting held at Indianapolis designat-
ed Senator Harris of Tennessee; Sher-
man, of Ohio, and Villas of Wisconsin,
a committee to take charge of the
memorial in the Senate and the fol-
lowing Representatives to perform II
like duty in the House: Col. D. B.
Henderson, of Iowa; Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, of Alabama, and Gen. John
@. Black, of Illinois.
Representative Geary- "Chinese
Geary", he is often .calIed-of Califor-
MIA, is democrat, but not cuckoo,
as will be seen by the following Ian
guage of his: "I have as much re-
spect for the President as any one
else, but l do not see why Congress
should first learn the wishes of the
President or consult the wishes of the
Executive departments before legislat-
ing Congress is here to pass laws
without consulting anybody, and I,
for one, am growing tired of the con-
stant interference of the executive
departments in the work of Congress.
Let Congress make its own laws, and
if the President does not like them.
let him exercise his constitutional
prerogative and veto them" That's
the most sensible democratic speech
of the session.
The charge was made several days
ago that Secretary Gresham has had
long letter from President Dole to Min
lister Willis in his possession more than
a week, and that it was withheld from
the house for fear that the terrible ar
raignment of Willis for his double
dealing since arriving in Honolulu,
which it contains, would have defeated
the cuckoo resolution which the house
was fairly driven to adopt last week,
and the charge has not been denied.
1t certainly looks as though the ad-
ministration were determined to sink
itself to the bottom of the pit of pub
lie infamy in dealing with Hawaii.
The silver men are on top in the
house, and the passing of Mr.. BANDS
bill for the coinage of the seignorage
is regarded as an assured fact, altho'
its opponents are still fighting it hard.
They are talking veto rather strongly