San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. April l6.

EX.Speaker Reed takes his new
honOrs easily, as he does everything
that comes to him. He has never
had doubt that the counting Of
a quorum would eventually be-
come one Of the fixed rules of the
House, no matter which party is in
power. If he felt any surprise at
all at the action of the Democratic
caucus in directing the committee
on Rules to prepare a rule provid-
ing for the counting Of members
present and not voting, in order to
make quorum, it was not because
the caucus had come around to his
ideas, but because as many as forty
Democrats should have voted
against the prop rsition.
Another Democrat Senator has
placed himself in the doubtful
column. Senator Smith, Of New
Jersey, in his speech on the tariff
bill, which Senator Quay correctly
called a measure of mingled NAL
ice, compromise and sectionalIsm,
renewed the cold shivers which
Senator Hill sent up and down the
spines of the free traders last
| week.
Senators Hill and Voorhees, no
longer speak when they pass each
other. The cause is the remark
able raking over Hill gave Voor-
hees in his speech. They speak of
each other to their personal friends
in such endearing terms as "bla-
tant damagogue." In con-
sidering himself Presi-
Dental possibility, Voorhees,
calls Hill traitor because in def
erenCe to the almost unanimous
sentiment of his state he refused
to support the tariff monstrosity.
That refusal is the one act Of HIPS
since he became member Of the
Senate that was not tainted with
demagogism. He was sent to the
Senate to care for the interests of
the State of New York and for once
he did it, although he had to OPP
pose his own party to do it. Hill
hits the BULBS eye when he calls
Voorhees, demagogue. He has
never been and never will be any,
thing else. If any one doubts this
let him read the speech with which
VOORHEES, opened the tariff debate.
One Democratic Congressman
has provided himself with shelter
from the great political cyclone Of
next November, and many more
Of them would like to do the same.
The man referred to is Barnes
Compton, who got into the House
in '92, by the skin of his teeth, as
the saying goes, from the Fifth
| Maryland District, and who was
several days ago nominated by Mr..
Cleveland to be Collector of the
port Of Baltimore. He knew he
couldn't be reelected so he utilized
his "pull" to grab a nice fat federal
office which he could keep until af-
ter the Inauguration Of republic
can President in 1897.
1t is charged here that Mr.. CleVe-
land was not only COgnizant of the
corrupt bargain said to have been
made by the frightened free-trad-
Prs with the sugar trust, whereby
the trust is to be allowed to fix the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill
lust as it wants it in return for
helping the freetraders to push the
bill through the Senate, but that
he suggested the making Of the
bargain.
No Washington jury ever rem
dered a more popular verdict than
that which gave Miss Mad
alene Pollard the $4,000 as
damages in the breach of prom
Use of marriage suit she brought
against Representative Breckin-
ridge, Of Kentucky. 1t was, taken
all in all, perhaps the filthiest
case ever tried in the Wash
ington courts, and it was
made worse by the blackguard
tactics adopted by some of the
Kentucky lawyer Breckenridge
brought here to defend him. 1t is
not because OF any special SYM
pathy the people feel for Miss Pol
lard that they like the verdict, but
because they believe it will result
in retiring such a hypocrite as
Breckenridge has shown himself
to be from the seat in Congress he
has disgraced by the double life
he led in their midst. o. X.