The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-08-17
" ashiDgtOn Letter.

Washington. ID. G. August 10, lo94--
''It Is the hour before day that Is al
WAYS the darkest" lust when Demo
Gratis almost despaired of any agreement
ever being reached on the tariff and the
outlook was at its darkest, the day of
tariff reform began to dawn, and now
the sun Is brightly shining upon an
agreement which. if it does meet with
the enthusiastic approval of every Dem
ncrat. can be honestly and cOnScienCi-
ously supported 10y every Democrat with
out loss OF dignity or smlrching of party
principles. The agreement l. not a vic
tory for either house or senate; 1t Is VIC
tory for the great Democratic party OF
the country, which made its wishes
known in Washington. and there should
not be any doubt of its prompt accept
ance by both house and senate. There
isn't as far as the House l. concerned,
but. unfortunately, things do not lOokso
promising in the senate, where threats
| have been made which may he carried
| out and the will Of the party Toe defeat
| ed by the votes of members of the party.
| However, let Us not borrow trouble when
we should be rejoicing over the end of
! the long dead lock 1t may be that the
! threats referred to, which were made be
| fore the agreement was reached 10y the
/ cOnfereeS, were merely made for blutfing
/ purposes, and that the only danger the
| agreement will have to meet in the SEN
ate Will be the attempt OF the Republ-
| cans to postpone a vote by dllatory tao
| tics Next week will probably tell the
story.
The house Judiciary committee has
| unfavOrably reported Representative
Everett's bill to enable persons of Japan
eSe descent to become citizens OF the
| United States The committee couldn't
see any good reason for granting to the
| JapS what has been denied to the Chi
| nese.
In response to several petitions ask
! ing that Judges Kicks, of the Northern
! District of Ohio, be impeached for mis-
! demeanors in office, the house Judiciary
committee has, through Representative
! Bailey, of Texas, reported resolution
authorizing that committee to investi-
| gate the charges and the house has
adopted it.
| Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has
returned to Washington from his sensa
| tional joint stumping tour with Governor
Tillman. The senator expresses the
greatest confidence in his reelection to
| the senate.
President Clevelaud's veto of the pri-
vate bill for the relief of Eugene Wells,
late captain in the Twelfth Infantry, Is
approved by army officers, and it is
moreover based upon principles of the
| highest justice. This man retired from
the army in 1870, to avoid a court mar
tial that would have resulted in his dis
missal; was appointed a second heuten-
ant in 1885 and court martialed and
dismissed the servicet in 1887, for drunk
| enness and other causes. The vetoed
bill provided that he should be appoint
Ell a second lieutenant of artillery and
placed on the retired list without the usu-
al examination. In plain words, that
man who had been officially found un-
tit to be an officer should be paid saa>
| ry for the rest of his life as a retired of.
J ficer. The fact that Wells has influen
tial friends merely adds to the credit to
which the President is entitled for veto
ing the bill, and brings out the strongest
trait in Grover Cleveland's character
his absolute determination to do what he
believes to be righ: regardless of whom
it may please or diSplease.
The Republicans in congress who We're
| deluded into contributing money to the
KOlh campaign in Alabama-there are
number of them-in the hope that the
movement might be made the entering
wedge to break up the solid Democracy
of the South, were a deeply chagrinned
| lot of individuals when the returns were
received. Needless to say that the Dem
, OCratIc colleagues of Governor elect
Oates were delighted at his success. and
! dOubly so because he has always StOutly
! opposed anything like concessions to the
| populists. President Cleveland also had
! good reason TO feel gratifed, as Colonel
Oates from the beginning of his cam
! paign for the nomination had been
! claSsed as the Cleveland candidate
! This election has thrown a wet blanket
over the loud-mOuthed. but pOorly-In-
formed, individuals who have been
| prOpheSyIUg tremendous gains to the
pOpullsts in the South at the expense of
| the Democratic party. 1t has also con
| WINGED many that the Democrats will re
tain control of the house at the coming
| congressional elections
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, was not
| speaking at random when he said: at
Is absurd to talk about the sugar trust
| owning the senate. / believe that the
trust would willingly give a million dol
! lars to be assured that there would be no
! tariff legislation, as under the existing
/ Mckinley law its profits would be vastly
! greater than under any Democratic
| law NJ