The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-08-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
FIon our regular correspondent.
WAsH1NGToN, A


WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1894.
After more than month spent in
wrangling which has left very bitter
feeling in the several factions of the
democratic party the democratic confer
ees have reached an agreement on the
tariff bill. Whether this agreement will
end the troubles of the patched up
many-sided (none of them right) bill re-
mains to be ssen. The agreement can
be put through the house under whip
and spur easy enough; but, inasmuch
as some of the democratic senators
stated very plainly in advance that they
would regard any change from the senate
bill, which was made by democratic
caucus, as absolving them from their
promise to support it, and that the votes
of the populists, Allen and Kyle, are as
likely to be cast against as for the agree
ment, its chances for getting through the
senate are not specially bright, even if
the republicans do nothing more than to
vote against it.
Prominent members of the party are
urging the republican senators to en-
deavor to throw the whole business over
to the next session, so that the will of
the people may be ascertained at the
congressional elections before such bill
becomes law. The republican senators
have not decided to make any attempt,
but it is among the possibilities, that
they may. If the solid republican
strength in the senate should be thrown
in favor of postponing final action on the
bill until next December there is little
doubt that it could be accomplished, if
not by direct vote, by dilatory tactics.
Unless democratic senators can be made
to eat words publicly uttered a motion
to postpone further consideration of the
conference report until next December
would carry in the senate. 1t is alto
gether probable that they will be put to
the test, anyway.
Secretary Herbert, when democratic
member of the house, belonged to the
crowd which never failed to characterize
every trip of a republican official on a
government vessel as wicked waste
of public money in junketing," but
since he became secretary of the.navy
he has become an expert in devising ex-
cuses for trips for himself and family at
government expense. His latest ex-
plot in this line was the discovery that
the Atlantic navy yards were all in need
of the personal inspection of himself,
his daughter, and his son, and possibly
of come of his friends. Accordingly the
dispatch boat Dolphin was ordered from
New London to Washington, where she
is now taking on supplies for cruise of
thirty days. But, mind you, this isn't
to be a .'iunket;'' it is to be an official
inspection tour. What hypocrites these
democrats are, any way.
There was persistent rumor floating
around this week that Senator Vest was
trying, through Dan Lamont, the dep
uty president, to negotiate treaty with
Mr.. Cleveland, on the basis of Vest
casting his vote and influence in favor
of the house tariff bill in exchange for
the influence of Mr.. Cleveland and the
administration being used to aid Vest
in his fight to be returned to the senate.
Interest was added to the rumor by the
presence in Washington of ex-Gov.
Francis of Missouri, who had been by
general consent slated as the adminis-
tration candidate for the seat now occu-
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