The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-02-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. o., Feb. I'd, '94.

oo0'oA VI o1iohkoT spec en- tnan CnaC
with which he closed the Republican
side OF the debate on the Cleveland tariff
Dill, but 1T was casting pearls before
swine to attempt to stop the Democrats
OF the House in their headlong rush
towards ruin and destruction. But there
are millions of intelligent people in this
country who will appreciate and heed
the masterly array of calm and insur.
mountable facts presented by the hon.
ored Republican leader of the House,
even if they did fall unheeded upon the
ears of men, many of whom voted for
the atrocious measure against their
own honest convictions, knowing that it
would injure those who had sent them
to Congress. Some of these men voted
for the bill simply because they lacked
the courage to do otherwise, but not a
few OF them did so for mess of pottage
in the shape of a few offices for their
personal followers. The tariff bill now
goes to the Senate, where there is hope
of making material alterations in, if not
of defeating it outright.
1t was entirely fitting that the public
debt of the United States should be in
creased $50, 900, 900 by the sale of bonds
on the same day that the House passed
the Cleveland tariff bill. Indeed, the
increase in the public debt was but the
natural consequence of the mere propo
sition to saddle such tariff upon the
country. Owing to the very determined
movement against the issue of bonds in
and out of Congress the issue would
have been fiat failure had not Secre-
tary Carlisle's appeal to the Wall Street
bankers brought them to his rescue. To
prevent this fact being too plain to the
country MIR. Carlisle has refused to make
public the names of the purchasers of
the bonds. Congress did not act in time
to stop the issue of bonds, but it may
take steps that will prevent the use of
the money for any other purpose than
strengthening the gold reserve.
Representative Sibley, of Pennsyl.
vania, who got on ish ear and rendered
his resignation to the governor of that
state, because his constituents objected
to his position on the tariff, has wound
up the string which he tied to the res.
ignation before sending it, and will keep
his seat in the House
The returns for the special Congress.
sional election in New York City were
not reassuring to Mr.. Cleveland or the
cuckoo Democrats. They bore out the
assertions of the New York Democrats
in the House, that the Cleveland policy
If persisted in would make New York
60 Republican by an unheard of major
ity. At the last Presidential election
the fourteenth N. Y. district went Dem
ocratic by plurality of s,S25, and now
it elects Republican Congressman by
a plurality of 905-a Republican gain of
few less than 10000 in single dis.
trict. The fifteenth district went Demo.
crat by II 1863, and now it is only by the
personal popularity of the candidate that
it has Democratic plurality of 4,5lO--
Republican gain of 1859. That is the
FIRST time the wage. earners have had
chance to express their opinion of the
Democratic tariff bill. Its effect upon
Democratic Senators will be carefully
watched.
IL is regarded as significant that it is
the friends of Mr.. Cleveland, and not
those of Senator Hill, who are seeking
to delay action on the nomination of
Peckham to the Supreme Court vacancy.
A close friend of Senator Hills said to.
day whether the nomination be acted
npon next week or next month the re.
suit will be the same-rejection." On
the other hand administration men are
claiming the votes of several Southern
Senators which were cast against Horn.
blower. Meanwhile important business
OF the Supreme Court is being delayed
because of the vacancy. The even di.
vision OF the court-four on each side
in one important case the other day will
prevent other cases being taken up until
the vacancy is filed.
Senator elect Gear-"Old Business
some Iowa people call him-was given
a banquet by the Iowa Congressional
delegation this week. In addition to
the Iowans the following were present:
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine; Albert G.
Hopkins and Joseph G. Cannon, of Ill.
John A Caldwell, of Ohio; Julius @.
Burrows, of Mich. Serena E Payne, OF
New York, and John Dalzell, of Penn
sylvania, all colleagues of Mr. Gear in
the House. Senator Wilson told the
party that he believed he would get as
much pleasure out of his self imposed
exile from the Capitol as his successor
would out of his continued public career.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon made a hit by
breaking in on that part of Senator
Gears speech which referred to the pres.
ence of two possible presidential candi-