The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-22

than for him to nominate a Demo-
crat to the Supreme Court vacancy
who would be at once confirmed
without single adverse vote, but
he prefers to drag his personal fights
into the Senate in his effort to hui
initiate Hill. So far the humilia-
ton has been his own and he neither
n deserves nor gets any sympathy.
d There is a tariff fight going on
among the Democratic Senators
that is quite as bitter as that be-
tween the Cleveland and Hill men,
4 although there is more effort made
to keep it secret. 1t was this fight
which prevented the tariff bill beng
reported to the Finance committee
last week. A week ago members Of
the subcommittee stated that the
bill was ready to he reported The
reason it was not reported was the
concerted demand Of a number of
| Democratic Senators for additional
amendments giving certain indus
tries IN their states protection. The
| fight got SO warm at one time that
the subcommittee informed those
Sen ators that it would report the
bill just as it came from the House
and they could support it or not
just as they pleased. Of course
Iothis was merely a bluff. Senator
| Voorhees, has told the Republican
| members Of the Senate Finance
committee that the bill Will be re-
ported to the committee at its regu-
lar meeting, TOMORROW: but it is
not at all certain that it will be.
Democratic Senators are beginning
to express doubts among themselves
as to their ability to so patch up the
bill that it will receive the votes of
all the Democrats in the Senate.
Senator Morgan has completed a
report on the Hawaiian investiga-
ton made by subcommittee of
the Senate committee on Foreign
Relations, but 1t will not be made
public until the full committee has
acted upon it. 1t has been read to
the subcommittee and the Republi-
can embers thereof informed Mr..
Morgan that if he would make Ger
tain changes in the report they
would sign it. 1t is understood
that the tone Of the report is antag
onlstic to the restoration policy of
Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Bland has not yet succeeded
in citing his bill for the coinage
OF the selgniorage passed by the
House, owing to the refusal Of those
opposed to vote to make a quorum,
but he will probably have quorum
of the friends of the bill on hand
early this week and the bill will
then be passed.
For many years the Woman's
Suffrage Association has held its
annual conventions in Washington,
but at the one just closed it was de-
cided to hold the 1895 convention
at Atlanta, Ga. The southern
members of Congress appear to re-
gard this decision as a joke.
Secretary Morton got a little
roasting on account Of letter writ
ten last August saying that the
Russian thistle was II blessing, at a
hearing before the House commit
tee on Agriculture in favor of the
bill providing for the eXtermination
Of the weed, Governor Shortridge,
Of North Dakota, one Of the prInci-
pie speakers, dismissed Morton S
letter by calling it "rot," but Rep
resentative Siblev, of Pa. d Demo
crat, declared that the letter demon
strateG Morton's ignorance of agri-
cultural matters and his unftness
to be at the head of the Agricultural
Department.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
who cast one Of the "a Republican
votes that made the reject on of
Peckham's nomination to the Su-
preme Court humiliating defeat
for Mr.. Cleveland, says of his rea-
son for so voting: "There were a
large number of protests against
MIR. Peckham's confirmation and a
great deal Of serious testimony as
to his not possessing the proper ju-
dicial temper, of which his dispatch
to Judge Caldwell repudiating IN
violent language an order of the
Court was an unfortunate example.
But that which weighed most against
him with me was the manner in
which patronage appeared to be
used by the administration in the
attempt to secure votes for his con
| firmation, joined with the exertion
apparently of every sort of influence
of which the head of the govern