The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-04-20
NO. 1S.
From our. regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 18th, 1894

| VASblNGION, Aprll I0tD, 1851.
| Senator Hill is the bull in thedemo-
cratic China shop just now, and as
smasher of political crockery he is
success. The first week of the tariff
debate brought the free trade demo-
cratic Senators three separate and
distinct defeats small in themselves,
but still defeats. The free traders are
bewildered. They are asking each
other "where are we at?" in piteous
tones, and no one can give them a de-
finite answer. The second week open
ed even more inauspiciously for them
with Senator Hills bold declaration
of war against the tariff bill as it now
stands. While Senator Hills heaviest
artillery is trained upon the income
tax clause of the bill he intimates very
strongly that the bill will not be salts
factory to him even with the income
tax struck out.
1t is an open secret in Washington
that Mr.. Cleveland is in sympathy
and Senator Brice is authority for the
positive statement that Mr.. Cleveland
is strongly opposed to the income tax.
Mr.. Brlce does not hesitate to say that
he also is opposed to the income tax
but he says he has not yet decided
now he will vote if he fails to get it
struck out and also to get some other
amendments he wishes adopted. Hill
Brice and the other dissatisfied demo-
Gratis would gladly make combina-
ton with the republican Senators to
str ike out the income tax and to
amend the bill and those in a number
of schedules, making the duties be-
tween those named in the bill and
those in the Mckinley law, but the
republicans are not in q combining.
mOed. They consider that the chances
for defeating the bill have seadily in
creased for some time past and are
disposed to accept nothing less than
It's defeat, at least not at this stage of
the proceedings. 1t will be time if
enough to talk about compromises
th rec or four months from now, il in
the meantime the bill has not been
absolutely beaten or side-tracked.
Ex-Speaker Reed has had lots of
things in which he could take salts
faction brought out on the floor of the
House lately, but the acknowledge
ment he forced from Mr.. Sayers, chair
man OF the House Appropriation COM
mite, that the total deficiency caused
by insufficient appropriations by the
52nd, Congress will..reach the enormous
amount of about 100000 notwith-
standing the Saving" made by chang
ing up" old soldiers applications for
pensions, leaving them to starve while
the administration keeps the money
appropriated for them by Congress 20
use for other purposes at the end of
the fiscal year when it can be covered
back into the Treasury and be made
available to pay any existing claims
against the government, was probably
the greatest satisfaction he has had.
II proved the appropriations made by
the fifty-Second Congress, controlled
by democrats, to have been many
millions greater than those made by
the much abused "billion dollar" or
Reed congress. Democratic economy
is thing that plays big part in
elections, but somehow it has never
yet been put into practical operation.
The local protestations against Mr..
Cleveland's nomination of the Kan
sas colored man, G.. III. J. Taylor,
whom the Senate refused to confirm
as Minister to Bolivia to be Recorder
of Deeds for the District of Columbia,
had been so general and so strong that
| it is now almost certain that the
Senate will reject the nomination.
Home rule has always been strong in
the Senate.
Representative Caldwell, of Ohio,
who was elected Mayor of Cincinnati,
the other day, received an ovation
when he returned to Washington,
Saturday. He will retain his seat in
the House until May l., but will pro-
badly resign the Craftsmanship of the
Republican Congressional campaign
! committe this week. His collea-
CUES will be sorry to have him leave
Washington, but they are confident
that he will return some day.
The republicans of the House are
making it plain to the democrats in
that body that it is needless for them
to attempt to do any political busi-
ness without a quorum of their own.
The republicans are not disposed to