The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-12-18
Washington Letter.

Washington, December 18th, 1896 -
.sDear Boss: Unless YOU can buy sew
eral more senators it will be impossible |
to pav a tariff dividend on the invest {
meuts of the late campaign While |
the above is not the exact wording of the |
,u,ssmge sent by the caucus of Republi |
can senators to King Htnna, 1t con-
tains the substance and real meaning OF !
the request OF the caucus steering com |
mittee, that Mr. Hanna shsll try- to in !
huence" the election of senators who |
will pledge themselves to act with the |
Republicans on the tariff, IN several |
states Among the legislatures upon |
which the Republican senators desire
Mr.. Hanna to try his ''iutiuence" are
those of North Carolina, Kentucky,
| Washington and South Dakota If
| nigh tariff senators can be secured for
| ali all Of these, the passage Of high
| tariff bill at the extra session of the next
| congress will be assured. Otherwise the
| matter has been made very doubtful,
| with the chances against high tariff, by
the action of the silver Republicans IN
| declining iuvitati ms TO enter the Repub-
lican senatorial caucus
While the caucus of Republican sem
| alOIS 1lu IOl DN IL NOht dt'ANOiA
the Dingley tariff bill, they did what WAS
practically the same thing when they
| referred it to the steering committee and
| empowered that cJmmittee to act npOn
its own Judgment Pressure from the
wooden manufacturers may compel the
| Republican senators to demonstrate 10y
| some sort of vote. not necessarily on
the bill itself, that the Dingley bill can
| tb. iC loud Ron
Harrison's force bill, so far as any seri-
nus attempt to pass it is concerned
The Republicans couldn't pass ii if they
wanted 10, and very few of them want to
This WAS shown this week when the
oil was before the senate for few min
| utes ton Senator Aliens molten to take
it up, which was carried by vote Of 50
| to 2D, by the CONSERVATION which exist
ed among the Republicans who had vo-
ted for the motion because they We're
| afraid to do otherwise.
| Representative Stokes of ;. G. has
beeu served with notice OF a double con
test for his seat in the present and IN the
next house. DIR. stokes came to Wash
ington last year with the propr cerlifi
cate Of election but his seat was contest
ed by Mr. johnson, a Republican.
|
&c base an excuse for giving Johnson
the seat, the Republicans of the house
| declared the seat vacant. The two men
were again candidates and Dr Stok' $
was elected to the vacancy and also tn
the next house. JohnsOn's contest de-
pends more upon tho Republican ma
iority thnn it does upon any evidence he
expects to produce.
| Senator Blanchard voiced the Senti-
ment of nearly all of the Democrats in
both branches Of cangress when he said:
The Democratic party, while beaten in
the recent ielectiOn, is compact. organi-
zel, and full OF hope for the future. 1t
simply bides its time. IL hss lost ma
,erial which can be spared, and gained
lots of friends, adherents, and well-wish
ers. Ii has always been a party of won
de-fol recuperative capacity. IL will he
ready for the fray IN lS9S and in 1900.
Woe To the Republican party if it does
not make good that dangerous promise
1t has heralded throughout the land Of
prosperity and good times" "
Senator Quay has astOnished those
who thought they knew him, not only
by ms change OF tactics-he has here
tofore been the most silent of fighters
hut 10y the wording of some of his pub
lished interviews against the candidacy
Mr.. John Wanamaker for the
senate For instance, when he said:
, "In the United States senate, we
havd millionaires and business
men enough to serve all legitimate
e | purposes. Senators are needed who
r have no specialties but who will act TO-
the interest of the country in gross witht
out special affinities. The people most
i deserving of representation and most
T in need of legislative protection are the
3 farmers, the small store keepers, the ar
tisans and the laborers, and | stand by
them" The truthfulness of the above is
unquestioned, but that it should come
from Mr.. Quay is astonishing While
t not himself a millionaire, Mr. Quay has
e always had the reputation of being IN
, touch with the millionaIres of the couu-
try. But, he is first OF all politician
II and as such is apt to make use of what
u he thinks to be the most effective weap
r Ons to carry his purpose.
4 Senator Mills has left all the other re.
solutions relating to Cuba away behind
. by offering one directing the president
Z to take fOrcible possession of Cuba anC
IS hold it until the Cubans organize a gov.
l. ernment of their own.
The house is going right ahead pass
;. ing bills just as though the senate calen
dar was not already choked up with
Z house bills passed at the last session
1t haven't ghost of a chance to get actec
; upon.
n The Mountain would not go to. Ma
homet so Mahomet went to the noun
+ tain After remaining in Washington
nearly week, stopping just around the
corner from the hotel at which Speake
g Reed, makes his home in Washington
1t without receiving a call from Mr.. Reec
10 Boss Hanna decided to call upon Mr.
j. Reed. and he did so at latter's office il
the capitol. In view of the humbl
q manner in which most of the RepubIi
ID cans waited upon Hauna, this call mus
to have been little humilitaing to him
,e that 1t was pleasant to Tom Reed is Ger
tain. NJ