Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-05-25
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
ATTEMPTS AT BRIBERY TO DE-
FEAT THE TARIFF BILL.

ATTEMPTS AT BRIBERY TO DE-
FEAT THE TARIFF BILL.
The Atlanta International Exposi.
ton Seeking Aid From Congress
England's scheme Regarding
Brazilian Irate Representative
Practical Retrenchment.
The public received its first knowl-
edge this week that in addition to
other more or less disreputable methods
of defeating tariff legislation attempts
had been made to bride Senators to
vote against the tariff bill, but the
Democratic managers OF that measure
have known for some time that an at
tempt had been made by lobbyist
named Buttz, once carpet-bag, Re-
publican member Of the House from
South Carolina, to bribe Senators
Hunton, of Virginia, and Kyle, Of
South Dakota, to vote against the bill.
BUTTE claimed to represent n wealthy
syndicate which was prepared to spend
$1,000, 900 to defeat the tariff bill. He
went to the house of Senator Hunton
and told son of the gentleman that
his father could have $4,000 if he
would agree to vote against the bill.
Senator Hunton at once informed half
a dozen Democratic Senators. Buttz
had the audacity to breach the subject
to Mr.. Kyle in person. That gentle
man referred him to his private Sec
rotary, after instructing that function
airy to have witness to their CONVEX
sation, and in the presence OF wit
ness Ruttz offered to give Mr.. Kyle
$14 600 to vote against the bill. Mr..
Kyle at once placed these facts in the
hands OF the Democratic Senators and
expressed his willingness to aid in
bringing this would-be briber to Justice.
1t has not yet been decided what, if
any, action will be taken by the Sen
ate, but there is little doubt that these
attempts will hasten the passage Of
the tariff bill.
Secretary Hoke Smith has added to
his popularity with Georgians by the
help he was given the delegation from
Atlanta, here this week, to work up
Congressional interest in the Interna-
tional Exposition to be held at Atlanta
in the fall of 1885. They do not want
q government appropriation for the
exposition, but only ask that Congress
recognize it to the extent of authoriz.
ing government exhibit in a building
to be erected by the government.
This recognition is necessary if foreign
governments are to be represented at
the exhibition. Speaker Crisp and the
entire Georgia delegation in Congress
are working like beavers to secure what
is wanted, and the speaker, before going
home to attend his mother-in-law's
funeral, placed his room at the Cap
itol at the disposal OF the visitors and
it is being used a. their headquarters.
1t is now easy to understand why
this government took such strong
grounds in favor of the government OF
Brazil and against the insurgents, al
though it was only this week that it
became so. From information that
has leaked out through gossip in
diplomatic circles there is little doubt
that the stand taken and maintained
by President Cleveland during the
Brazilian contest was the only thing
that prevented the carrying out of the
plot instigated and backed by the
government of Great Britain, for the
overthrow of the Brazilian republic
and the setting up Of monarchy that
would have been dominated by Great
Britain. President Cleveland and
Secretary Gresham were conversant
with the plot from its beginning and
were determined to thwart it. The
failure OF that plot 10 believed to have
been At the bottom of the dilatoriness
of the British government in making
arrangements to carry ont the Bering
Sea arbitration. The Britishers were
mad at Uncle Sam for spelling their
little grab game.
Representative Hatch, OF Missouri,
is no longer young man, having
passed his sixtieth milestone last Sep
TENDER. but his courage is just as
young as it ever was, and when &C.
cused by Representative Hopkins, oil
Illinois, OF trying to juggle an increase
of salary for friend into the Agri-
cultural appropriation bill, which il in
! his charge, he said, shaking his fist
significantly at Hopkins: eff the
gentleman from Illinois means that
word in its ordinary English signifi.
canoe, I want to tell him that if he
should use it to me outside of this
chamber, I would ram it down his
throat"
, Retrenchment in government ex
penditures has been the watchword oI
the Democrats who have made the
regular appropriation bills for this
. Congress, and the Legislative. Execu.
, tive and Judicial appropriation bill
completed by the House committee on
appropriations this week, shows how
we'll they have worked up to the
watchword. This is the bill that
carries salaries OF all officials, and sos
fewer of them are provided for than
were in the bill for the current fiscal
, year. It also carries $766.199 less
than this years appropriation, a very
substantial reduction when everything
is taken into consideration.
, distance lends enchantment to
the view" Since Coxey moved his
tramps out to Bladensbury, Md.
Washington has lost all interest in
them, but q carload Of -four and some
} cash has this week come to them from
, Missouri and Colorado, showing that
there are people who have not yet seen
them as they are; Dem.
THE vast facilities OF the J. C. Aver
Co., of Lowell, Mass, enable them to
place The Superior Blood.puri6er-
Ayers Ssrsaparilla-within easy reach