The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-07-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WAsHINGToN, July 20, 1891


WASHINGTON, July 20, 1894.
Senator German is not one of the sem
ate conferees on the tariff bill. but he is
credited by the cuckoos with being re-
sponsible for the action of the senate
conferees in standing out stubbornly for
the retention of the senate amendments
to the tariff bill and forcing the disa-
greement report that has been made to
the house, in the face of the influence
of Mr.. Cleveland and his administra-
tions- which has been openly used to
bring about surrender upon the part
of the senate conterees on all of the i'm
portant senate amendments, and par
ticularly upon those putting a duty
on sugar, iron and coal. Doubtless
Senator German is perfectly willing to
accept this responsibility, but as mat
ter of fact he and the few democratic
senators who aided him in putting a
duty on iron ore and coal, thus saving
two of our greatest industries from the
utter destruction intended by Mr.. Cleve-
land and the free traders, are in this
matter merely the representatives of the
great business and industrial interests
of the country, which have plainly in
dicated that as a choice of two evils the
tariff bill as amended by the senate is
far preferable to the original Wilson
bill, to which the democratic conferees
of the house wish to return. As the
matter looks at this writing the free
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between accepting the most important
of the senate amendments and no tariff
legislation at this session, and it is not
yet certain which they will take. The
republicans are wide awake and will
take advantage of the situation if an op-
portunity be given them. What they
wish most to do is. of course, to kill the
tariff bill outright, but falling in that,
they stand ready to help keep every
senate amendment which puts duty on
articles made free by the Wilson bill, or
raises the duty named in the Wilson
bill. Things look very favorable to
their succeeding in the last if they fail
in the first.
The Bailey bankruptcy bill, which
passed the house early this week, is not
Iikely to be popular with creditors, as
no matter how hopelessly mans bust
ness may be involved, he cannot be COM
PEELED by creditors to take any action.
He must do so voluntarily or not at all.
| This may be an improvement on no ma
tional bankruptcy Law at all, hut it is
such small improvement that it is
doubtful whether the senate will ever
pass the bill in its present shape.
The democratic bosses are considera-
bly, alarmed at the probable detection OF
number of democratic congressman
from the South. There has been con-
siderable talk on the subject. but it was
not until this week that the revolt really
showed its head. Representative Den
son of Alabama, who has been in his
district for a week or ten days, has
written a letter formally announcing
his intentions to leave the democratic
party and to affiliate with the populists
and others are expected to follow suit.
Republicans are not greatly interested
in the revolt, as the solid south has not
been allowed to play any part in theil
! congressional calculations, although
they would not object to anything that
promised even remotely to bring about
fairer election methods in the south
which can only come after the over.