The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-01-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 10, 'e4.

Democrats t1rSC, came the KnOCk'O OUT
blow administered to Mr.. Cleveland by
the Senate when it refused to confirm
the nomination of MIR. Hornblower, Of
New York, to the Supreme Court Then
the House gave the cuckoos whack by
refusing by vote of 154 to 6S to adopt
the amendment approved by Mr.. Cleve.
land and the Democrats of the Ways
and Means committee deferring the
time when the free wool clause of the
Cleveland tariff bill should 60 into ef-
feet on the passage of the bill. And
that was not all. notwithstanding the
pleading of Secretary Carlisle the Demo-
Gratis in Congress refused to share the
responsibility of issuing bonds with the
administration, thus compelling Secre.
tary Carlisle to+announce an issue OF
bonds under the law of 1875, which was
Il bitter pill for him to swallow, as he
has been persistent since he became a
member of the Cabinet in expressing
doubt of his authority under that law to
issue bonds for any other purpose than
the purchase of gold.
The silver men are much worked up
over this issue of bonds, as they had
been calculating that the necessities OF
the administration would have enabled
them to have passed Mr.. BANDS bill
for the issuing of silver certificates
against the seigniorage in the Treasury.
Under the leadership of Representative
Bailey, of Texas, they started move
ment for the adoption of resolution
stating it to be the sense of the House
that bonds could only be issued under
the act of 1875 (For the resumption ol
specie payments) for the purpose stated
in that act, but they met stumbling
block at the start in the continuing
order under which the House is consid.
ering the tariff bill, which will not ex-
pire until the goth inst, too late to stop
the issue OF bonds, even allowing that
the resolution could have passed, and
that it would have stopped Secretary
Carlisle.
The truthfulness and aptness of the
remarks made by Representative Hart
man, of Montana, concerning the pecu.
li"r position occupied by Chairman Will
son of the House Ways and Means com
ni'tee, who, Notwithstanding the proven
lsity of his prediction at the extra ses
sion that the repeal of the purchasing
cause of the silver law would relievr
the cuuhtry OF its financial and business
depression, is now predicting that the
Cleveland tariff bill will afford that re.
lief, almost excuses the unparliamen-
tary language used. Mr.. Hartman asked
concerning Wilson sis he Democratic
prophet? or the son of prophet, or only
the mouth-piece OF the stuffed prophet
OF Buzzard Bay :" While there are
people who object to such an undigni.
fed way of referring to the President,
there are few who will deny that Wilson
is the mouthpiece of Mr.. Cleveland. AS
chairman of the Ways and Means com.
mittee he is a mere fgure-head, the
actual chairman being Grover Cleve.
land.
The horny.handed wage.earners in
your locality will doubtless rejoice with
exceeding gladness to know that the
Democrats of the House in their anxiety
to enable them to wear shoes made OF
French calfskin, patent leather and
chamois skins, have reduced the duty
on those articles, which everybody
knows are so largely used by the toiling
masses, by an amendment to the Cleve-
land tariff bill, to Is per cent ad valor.
UNI. Still there are people who doubt
the friendship of the Democratic party
for the wage. earners, a friendship con-
stantly declared and-never shown.
Senator Chandler gave Senator Pal
mer raking down for the straddling
position he attempted to take in speech
in favor of the bill for the repeal of the
Federal election laws. Senator Chand-
Ter opened by saying that he was pre-
pared to defend the essential wisdom,
integrity and patriotism of the Republi-
can party from it's birth down to this
hour. 81 do not" continued Mr.. Chand-
ler, "defend it only, as the Senator from
Illinois has done, to the time when that
Senator, who has been Republican
governor of Illinois, left the Republican
party. The Senator from Illinois today
pronounced it to have been party OF
patriotism as long as he belonged to it,
but when he left it, according to Mr..
Palmer's argument, it had suddenly
turned around upon liberty, and
also upon everything that was good,
AID has gone down from that hour,
until it is now only party OF evil"
The laughter which several times re,
sounded through the chamber while
Mr.. Chandler was speaking did not i'm.
prove the taste OF the dose administered
to Mr.. Palmer.
Whatever may have been anyone's
personal preferences, Republicans are