Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-05-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May /, '96.

paw ooAiSiChb ONC1uC w ultGt tUt
needs Of the Government. The ackpowl.
edgement was openly made this week
In both House and Senate, and really
amounts to putting in a plea of guilty
Of ineficiency for the Democratic party.
Yet they still pretend to think that the
people Ia be bamboozled into giving
the Democratic party an opportunity
to put the country still deeper in the
hole, when the Republican party with
its unbroken record of good manage.
ment of the Governments business and
prosperity for all classes of our citizens
stands ready to again take charge and
put a stop to the increase in the pub.
lie debt, which has been 80 great un.
der the Cleveland administration.
When Republicans charged that See.
rotary Carlisle was withholding appro.
priations made by Congress and refus-
ing to pay claims against the Govern.
ment upon the fimsiest excuses Demo.
Gratis denied both charges. Now comes
Senator German with a statement fully
substantiating both charges and say
ing that Secretary Carlisle was obliged
to resort to such methods because of
lack OF money.
Senator Squire's bill appropriating
$500, 900 for the erection of an eaues
TRAN statue of Gen. Grant, upon Gov
eminent land in the city of Washing
ington, was this week favorably re.
ported to the Senate, and Senator Squire
hopes to get 1t passed before Congress
adjourns. He thinks it q shame that
Congress has not long ago provided for
q Grant statue, and has done his part
towards getting n by introducing a
similar bill to the present one in sew
eral Congresses, but circumstances Of
one sort or another have prevented any
Of them becoming laws.
Senator Sherman tripped up Senator
German very nicely this week. Mr..
German had just made a speech deal.
ing with the enormous and alarm
ing deficit in Government revenues
his total was 1906, 900, OOO-and cal
culated by throwing a few boquets
to himself for having lessened the def.
cit some by preventing the original
Wilson tariff bill from becoming a law,
and declaring that he was prepared to
vote for any measure that would add
S75, 600, 900 a year to the revenues
Senator Sherman promptly challenged
that declaration by stating that the
House had passed a non-partisan reve,
nue. tariff bill, which would have added
SOC, 900, 900 a year to the revenues, and
that Mr.. German had led the solid
Democratic opposition to it in the Sen
ate. TIE only answer Mr.. German
could make was that the bill was Nc
Kinleyism. He then tried to make O
a point by asking Senator Sherman II
he would vote for a duty on tea and
coffee, but Mr.. Sherman squelched him
by saying: mo, will not; for l would
not put the whole burden of taxation
upon those who drink tea and coffee.
l am willing to get the revenue from
the taxation of foreign goods"
Senator Chandler's amendment to
the naval appropriation bill against
the employment of naval officers, on
the retired list, by naval contractors
after June 80, 1897, was adopted by a
vote of 45 to II. This amendment is
n of the results of the recent investi
CATION by the Senate Committee on Ma.
val Affairs of the making of armor
plate for the Government.
The House this week passed the Pick
Ter pension bill, and is now debating
the bankruptcy bill, which will be
voted upon tomorrow afternoon. 1t ID
considered probable that the bill will
be passed.
Senators Vest and Cockrell. of Mo,
were made to realize that the admins
tration is in dead earnest in the fight il
is making on the silver Democrats
when p. B. Lyles. one of their special
proteges, was forced to resign the posi-
ton of chief clerk of the Bureau o.
Animal Industry, of the Department Of
Agriculture, into which they had hin
put in the early days OF the admins
tration.
The result of the Illinois Republican
State Convention was not surprising II
anyone in Washington who had beer
in a position to get an unprejudiceC
statement of the sentiment of the party
in that State. but the declaration of th'
Republican State Convention of Yer
mont, for Mckinley, was 80 great {
surprise that it created a sensation
among Republicans in Congress: VIVA
caused the surprise was that the Yer
mont Republicans had never instructed
for any candidate before, not ever
when 1t was known that the name o
Hon. George F. Edmunds, then Sena
tor, was to be presented to nationa
convention, and that Speaker Reed
friends had not ever asked that he b.
endorsed by the convention.
DmOcratic Convention.
The Democrats of the county met IL
Jonesboro, on Saturday, May 2, for tn