The St. Johns herald., 1897-02-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rom Our Regular corresbet tlAnL. l

been burning ever since 1G HaE an' nounced that he had chssen Lyman J Gage, of Chicago. naa who voted for Cleveland, signed the petition upon which Governor AItged pardoned the Chicago anarchists, and who has fo1 years been known as almost free tra- der in his tariff views, for his secretary of the treasury. It is great effort for the republicans in congress to keep from expressing publicly the disgust they feel for this break of McKinley's, but in view of the official pie that Me- Kinley will soon begin to distribute. they are making the effort.
 After all that has been said and done about the intention of the republicans of the House Ways and Means commit tee to give us a new and thoroughly conservative tariff bill, they are pro- ceeding to give us the same old McKin- ley bill, having already adopted several entire Mckinley schedules.
 The arbitration treaty has been amended and fav9rably reported to the senate, although every silver man on the committee voted against it.
 Although it is the policy of the re- publican leaders Tn both house and senate to keep the Cuban question in the background, there are some men who refuse to be gagged. One of these is Representative Hardy, of Indiana, who got the floor to speak on the Agri- cultural appropriation blll. and pro- ceeded to make red hot, five minute speech for Cuba. which he would have continued had not his request for unan- l imous consent for an extension of time been refused. He made direct attack upon the administration, and those i senators and representatives who, he , --:l ---~~o .l;,,i,~ u.;'N thc SnaniSh . minister too often to be able to hear ] the appeals Of the people struggling 1 for liberty.
 it was brought out during debate in the house which resulted Tn the rejec- ton of the conference report on the bilSto confer the rights and franchises of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad upon the purchasers under the mortgage foreclosure, that at least two of the New England republicans in the house do not entertain exalted opinions of each other. They are Mir. Powers, of 1 Vermont, who as chairman of the Pa cific Railroads committee, had charge of the report, and Mir. Barrett, of Mas sachusetts, who opposed the report as stock -jobbing scheme. Mr. Powers started by poklng fun at the dudish dress of MT. Barrett and wound up by slurring the whole Massachusetts dele gation, and charged that Boston was the place where railroads were wrecked. This aroused the ire of Mir. Barrett, who said "I am a young man. 1 came here with no reputation beyond service in the legislature of my state, but the gentleman from Vermont came here af- ter long term of service on the su- preme court of hls state. What was the record of that court? Ask any one of the shareholders of the Central Railroad of Vermont, who were robbed by the decrees of that court, and then let the gentleman talk to me of Massa- chusetts wrecking railroads" At tempts were made to stop MT. Barrett on point of order, but Speaker Reed, with a grim smile. overruled the point.
 According to republican gossip. one of the surest ways to get an asplrant for cabinet honors turned down by Mo KinIey IS to get him endorsed by Sena- : ter CD4LL--- Tt ie zaid that Mckinley dreads nothing so much as that he may by accident do something that Chand- Ter wants him to do. or appoint some body whom Chandler wants appointed.
 Senator Allen took occasion to reply to the various rumors saying that he would vote for the republican tarlH bill, by saying: "I have said that l believe the proposed tariff measure ol the republicans ought to be permitted to pass, if it has sufficient votes, after
 
 mean, however, that 1 will vote for the republican tariff bill. On the contrary 1 shall vote against it." In other words Senator Allen occupies the same posi- ton towards the tariff bill that Senator Joues and other democrats do-that nc fillibustering shall be lndulged Ill tc prevent it's coming to a vote. It was just the same with the Monetary Con. ference bill which passed last week. Although it was considered matter of doubt, the republican managers baC hopes that some of the silver republi can senators might be persuaded tC vote with their old party when the new tariff bill comes up for action at tht extra session of congress. They nc longer indulge such hopes. They know that not only will the silver republi cans not vote for the tariff bill, but tha they will vote against it if their vote,