Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF TIE MONITOR
Washington, Apr. Is, 1894.


Ex-Speaker Reed takes his new
honor easily, as he does everything
that comes to him. He has never hae
a doubt that the counting of the quo
rum would eventually become One Of
athe fixed rules of the House, no naat-
ter which party is in power. If he felt
any surprise at all at the action of the
democratic caucus in directing the
the committee on Rules to prepare q
rule providing for the counting OF
members present and not voting, liz
order to make a quorum, it was not
because the caucus had come around
o-his ideas, but because as many as
forty democrats should have voted
against the proposition. While the
republican members of the House are
Thorough believers in the principle
of counting a quorum it is not yet
certain that they will support the rule
reported by the committee on rules,
or that they will vote at all to help
the democrats get quorum to adopt
it.
Another democratic Senator has
placed himself in the doubtful column.
Senator Smith of New Jersey, in his
speech .on the tariff bill, which Sena
tor Quay correctly called measure
of mingled malice, compromise and
sectionalism," renewed the cold shiv-
ers which Senator Hill sent up and
down the ~spines of the free traders
last week. &c has been agreed that
the debate on the bill as whole
shall end NEXT Monday. Then the
contest over the individual schedules
will begin and the fighting will be
forced by the republicans from the
first to the last. Fke democratic man
ayers of the bill are in doubt as to
the status Of at least six democratic
senator's, not to mention the success
Or to the late Senator Vance, of North
Carolina, who died here Saturday
night.
Senators Hill and Voorhees, no long
er speak when they pass each other.
The cause is the remarkable raking
over Hill gave VOORHEES, in his speech.
They speak Of each ether to their per-
sonal friends in such endearing terms
as "blatant demagogue' and Strait
Or" and each refers sarcastieally to
the others "gall'' in considering him
self a presidential possibility. Voor
hees calls Hill a traitor because in
Difference to the almost unanimous
sentiment of his state he refused to
support the tariff monstrosity. That !
refusal is the one act Of HIPS since he !
became member of the senate that |
was not tainted with demagogism.
He was sent to the senate to care for !
the interests of the state Of New York |
and for once he did it, although he |
had to oppose his own party to do it.
Hill hits the BULBS eye when he calls
Voorhees, demagogue. He has new
er been and never will be anything
else. If any one doubts this let him
read the speech with which Voorhees, !
opened the tariff ,de9ate.,. .e.~ee eI,sze !
One democratic. congressman has
provided himself with shelter from
the great political cyclone Of next No
vember land many more of them would
like to do the same. The man refer
red to, is Barnes Compton, who got
into the House in 1872, by the skin OF
his teeth, as the saying goes, from the
Fifth Maryland District, and who Was
several days ago nominated by Mr..
Cleveland to be collector of the port
of Baltimore. He knew he couldn't
be re elected, SO he utilized his "pulp'
to grab nice fat federal office which
he would keep until after the inaug-
uration of a republican president in
1897.
1t is charged here that Mr.. Cleve-
land was not only cognizant OF the
corrupt bargain said to have been
made by frightened free traders with
the sug ar trust, and the trust is to be al
lowed to fix the sugar schedule Of the
tariff bill, just as it wants it in return
for helping the free traders to push
the bill through the senate, but that
he suggested the making of the bar
gain.
No Washington jury ever rendered
a more popular verdict than that
which gave Miss Pollard $4,000 as
damages in the breach Of promise of
marriage suit she brought against
Representative Breckenridge of KY.
1t was taken all in all perhaps the
fiIthiest case ever tried in the Wash
ington courts, and it was made worse
by the blackguard tactics adopted by
some of the Kentucky lawyers Breck
inridge brought here to defend hlm-
IT is not because of any special sym
,.tbv the people feel for Miss Pollard