Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-12
D0INGs AT WASHINGTON.
Washington. Mar II. 1896.

by in Washington are all working along the
same lines, to defer Congressional action in
| favor of the Cubans and to prevent the Gu
bans getting aid from private parties in the
United States, and il is not to be wondered
at that there are whispers of a bargain.
There are certainly grounds for suspicion
that such is the case. It'll well known that
| Mr. Cleveland has been and is at this time
using all his influence to get Congress to
postpone definite action, and failing in that
to have the action of such a nature that it
viii not be binding on him. and tits said that
he has positively promised the Spanish
| minister that this government would take
no stepnkely tostrengthen theCubans before
next June it is also well known that there
is strong lobby. wen supplied with money
working on Congress in behalf OF spain.
These things together with the whole power
OF the administration being at the beck and
call Of the Spanish minister to be used
whenever and wherever he suspects that
hilibustering expedition IS about to leave
the United States for Cuba are notcalcuIat-
ed to increase public confidence in an adj
ministration already tainted by its past
acts.
/ A more senseless bluff was never made on
the floor of the Senate than that of Senator
Allen, of Nebraska. Having first ascertain
ed by publicly questioning Senator's Aldrich.
Plat and Hawley that his proposition would
not be accepted by the republicans. Mr. Al
len gravely proposed in the name of the six
populist Senators, that they would furnish
the votes necessary to pass the House tariff
bin. if the republicans would furnish the
votes necessary 10 add an amendment to
that bin providing for the free coinage of
silver And al this, mind you on the floor
Of the Senate in open session.
No man who heard Senator Sherman's
snort speech after the Senate had for the
second time voted against consideration of
the House tariff bill could doubt the intense
feeling that lay behind his words. There is
no question about Ehis having meant
every word when he said: 1t is a disgrace
to our civilization; it is disgrace to the
country itself thar we are now expending
SS0.0o00o0 a year more than the receipts of
the government, and that Congress now in
session. with both Houses fully armed with
power to furnish the revenue, is idle and re-
fuses to act. Iwill vote for tax on tea.cof-
fee on anything in order to meet this dehc-
iency and 1 say that if the present Congress
does adjourn in the face of declarations
now made TO us. OF the ofiicial reports sent
to US. Of the statements made by the Presi-
dent Of the United States and the Secretary
Of the Treasury. that we are now going on
day by day like a careless spendthrift to in
volye the country in debt, selling bonds
when it is the duty of Congress at once to
supply the revenue At this point Senator
Peffer interrupted to say that the President |
asserted that we did not need additional
revenue. Quick as a fash Senator Sherman
retorted in tones sharper than he has been
heard to use for years Il do not care what
the President says. Every man within the |
sound of my voice knows that we need more |
revenue"
Chairman Dingley, of the House Ways and |
Means committee, said of the fate of the |
tariff bill which bore his name: "Of course |
this ends all chances for the passage of any |
revenue bill BY a solid democratic and |
populist vote-making in themselves a ma
jority. without the votes of the five silver
republicans who joined them-the Senate
has said that 1t will not have the forty mil
lions of revenue offered by the House bill to
prevent further deficiencies, The House
has done its duty in offering revenue but
this majority of the Senate assumes the full
responsibility for refusing it; and no doubt
President Cleveland is grateful to them for
relieving him from the dificult position he
would have occupied if the bill had reached
hAlll anu udO inter pOScu d veto. Inc vote
of the Senate simply means that so far as
the majority of that body is concerned they
want the deficiency to continue with the
bond sales which it necessitates."
senator Mitchell. of Oregon, chairman of
the committee on elections, has given notice
that he win call up next week the report of
that committee in favor of seating Senator
Dupont of Delaware The debate on the
report will be spirited, butt is believed that
senator Dupont will be seated even if the
the Senate.
The resolution condemning and censuring
Ambassador Bayard, for having used I'M
American language in public speeches. was
this week reported to the House and its
adoption may be set down as a certainty. 1t
is really great pity that the House has not
the authority to recall him from the post
which he has used to misrepresent the peo-
pie 10 whom he is under obligations for hon.
ors conferred which have been out of keep
ing with either his ability or his patriotism.
List of patents granted to Wiscon-
sin inventors this week. Reported by
C. A. Snow & Co., solicitors of Amer
lean and Foreign patents. Opp. L. 5.
Patent Office, Washington. d. c.: G.
L Challoner, Oshkosh, shingle-saw-
ing machine. S. Dederick. Milwau-
kee. apparatus for gathering, elevat-