The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-07-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, July s, 1894.


WASHINGTON, July 6, 1894.
How many of the democratic senators
really believe with Senator Hill that the
tariff bill they helped to pass and. which
he voted against is a ''rag-bag produc-
tion, crazy quilt patchwork, a splendid
nothing" may never be known, but the
more one talks with democratic senators
on the subject the greater becomes the
surprise that thirty-seven of them should
have voted for a bill which each and
every one of them declares privately to
be as whole personally unsatisfactory.
Senators Allen and Kyle delivered their
votes according to contract, although
Allen came near openly repudiating the
bargain when part ofNit was upset by
the shrewdness of Senator Palmer, who
secured protection for the barbed wire
manufacturers of his state. PETER and
Stewart voted with the republicans
against the bill.
| What the tariff bill is now cuts very
small figure in the discussion at present.
It is what it will be when the conference
committee gets through with it that
everybody is interested in. The free
traders of the house have received a
fresh infusion of courage lately and it is
believed that most of it bears the Cleve-
land brand. If they can act up to their
talk the -Brice trust combination,
which made the radical changes in the
bill in the senate, will have their choice
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whole bill; but democratic talk is
always taken with big allowance in
Washington, and nobody would De sur
prised to discover in the end that the
free trade members of the conference
committee on the part of the house are
just as susceptible to the power of the
before mentioned combination as the
democratic senators were. There is
some talk about the conference COM
mittee completing its work in week,
| but it doesn't come from those whose
opinions are entitled to weight. If the
committee can get through inside of four
weeks it will be surprising to the old
stagers. Amy attempt to predict the
outcome at this time would be only guess
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sight upon which to base a prediction,
the democratic senators claiming that
they intend to insist upon the senate
amendments and the democratic mem
bers of the house that nothing short of
tie Wilson bill will satisfy them. The
probabilities are, of course, that conces-
sions will be made on both sides and
that the bill as finally agreed upon will
be compromise between the house and
senate bills.
Representative Babcock of Wisconsin,
chairman of the republican congress
sional campaign committee, is man
who never allows his wishes to run
away with his judgment. He recog-
nizes the fact that SO long as the demo.
Gratis have the solid south to start with,
and no federal election laws to hamper
them, the republicans have no walk
over in electing majority of the house,
but he calculates that by hard work the
republican majority in the next house
will be at least twenty. He thinks that
few democrats will be elected outside OF
the solid south, although they may
hold their own on the Pacific coast and
in the Rocky mountain country. He
takes no stock in the idea that the pop
ulists will increase. On the contrary,
he calculates that the two populists
from Colorado win be succeeded by re-