The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-22

Removal of the Laketown Post
office.
Washington, May Especial Dur
ing every long session of Congress
there is always heard about this time
of the year lots of talk concerning
a probable early adjournment. 1t
really commences sooner than this
generally by the 1st of April-and is
occasioned if the House happens to
get well ahead with the appropriation
bills. That body made considerable of
squirt through the latter portion of
&the winter, and when the tariff bill
WAS sent over to the Senate, by the
1st Of February, it was claimed there
was no reason why an adjournment
should not be reached by the middle
of June. Many years experience here
has shown that for the last decade
Congress has had too much business
to permit the session to close until the
end of the summer, and in spite of
the predictions INDUCED in, the states
men viii be fortunate if they can con-
clude their labors before the 1st Of
September.
The Senate is a slow-moving body,
and even if the tariff bill were to be
passed within the next six weeks, it
would hardly be possible to wind up
the other important business inside of
six weeks unless the majority should
determine to railroad things through,
and drop pretty much everything else
except the appropriation bills.
1t does not seem to be the intention
of the Republicans to permit an early
adjournment. The Democrats of
soon as possible. Net only are they
anxious to open the campaign in the
various Congressional districts. but the
leaders realize that the longer they peg
away at legislation with business in
such a deplorable condition as a result
OF Republican misrule from 1889 to 1888,
the more blame will be attached to the
party now in power.
Republicans Making Capital.
The Republicans have managed to.
make much political capital out of the
unfortunate state Of affairs that has
existed for the last year, and it will be
surprising if they do not hold Con-
gress together for at least two or
three months yet Under the lax rules
OF the Senate they can indefinitely
prolong the session. and every daV a
few of their sharpest debaters can fire
4 off a speech to the discontinue of the
majority party.
That business will revive so soon as
something is done with the tariff
there is not the slightest doubt 1t
would seem the Republicans ought to
be patriotic enough to contribute to
anything that will rebound to the well
fare of the nation, but it is unfortu-
nately true that they will resort to any
partisan political trick to gain a few
points in the game being played, re-
S1ardless of the suffering of the people
The tariff bill now before the Senate
us a measure that makes radical re-
ductionists like Mr.. Mills, of Texas, very
mad, but it was discovered weeks since
that unless a bill was framed on the
lines laid down in the Jones amend
ments it could not possibly secure votes
enough in the Senate. It has been
roundly denounced by the newspapers
whose editors insist that the Chicago
platform should be literally carried
out, but not having enough votes it
would be idle for the Democrats to
attempt. 20 pass such a measure as
was the Wilson bill when it was sent
over from the House. The remodeled
4 bill does not suit half of the Demo-
: cratic senators, but it is better than
nothing, and they seem to think the
best thing to be done is to make a
start, and later on further reforms can
Ne inaugurated.
Democrats in the Senate.
The are only forty-three straight
Democrats in the Senate, and even one
Of the senators so classed will not do
TO count on if he thinks he can worry
the administration. for he was eleo+e1
as sort Of Farmers alliance man, and
his name is Irby of South Carolina
In most particulars he is Democrat
and is perhaps as reliable as Allen of
Nebraska. The latter will vote for the
tariff bill, but he is not classed as a
Democrat. He is a Peoples party man
or Populist, and owes his political
elevation to that conlbina ton.
The Republicans have thirty-eight
members at present in the Senate
There are three vacancies. Counting
Allen, PETER and Kyle as Popu-
lists it viii be seen how slender is the
Dem 5cratic majority. AS Mr.. German
OF Maryland expressed il a few days
ago it is doubtful if the Democrats
have any majority at all, and that is
why they have had to present such a
conservative bill. There are four or
five shaky Democrats who have con-
stituencies behind them and who could
not be relied on TO help TO pass the bill
as it was reported. Not more than one
3 or two would have the nerve to vote
against it on the final test, but in a
body like the Senate with such loose
rules they might manage to give aid
and comfort TO the other side
Inquiry shows that the enemies Of
Utah have managed to get in their
work upon many of the senator's ana
the money power of the east is largely
responsible for the delay caused. AS
pointed out in The Herald correspon-
dence lately, they have yeeped and
yawped around the capitol that if
J3ah is admitted then Arizona, New
Mexico and even Oklahoma will de-
mand admission, and according to their
argument eight more senators in favor
of the free coinage of silver viii have
seats IN the chamber That would
simply give the Wall street crowd con-
Isiption fits.
Tricks That Are Worked.
I'VE have no special objection to
Utah" is what you can hear in the
capitol ev ~ hour in the day. But
If Utah comes in the precedent will be
sgt. and the other territories will de-
Eaand statehood this session"
YThese able-bodied hustlers have in
iuenced some Democratic senators by
telling them that al least three out of
TOUR Of the territories will send Re-
lublicans to the Senate. Then away