The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-06-17
WASHINGTON.
,,,or our Regular Correspondent.

of bumor when he lett washington L
Gor the Nashville exposition. Several h
things had not gone to suit him. The n
newspapers printed the report OF t
Co,sul General Fitzhugh Lee, on Il
the Ruiz investigation, before 1t was Il
received by the State Department,
and nobody could discover the leak /
Rut the principal cause of Mr.. Nc. r
Kinley's bad humor was the verbal
report made by his friend and personal q
representative, Mr.. Calhoun, who t
found out too much Of what Mr.. Nc
Kinley did not want to know, and
not enough to coroborate what he
thought he already knew. In short,
Mr.. Calhoun reported things as he
found them, regardless of whether they
pleased or displeased anybody. Mean
while the Cuban question is ready to
boil over in Congress.
Many republicans in the House who
have been keeping quiet in opposl-
,ion to the wishes of their constituents,
in order to give Mr.. Mckinley
chance to do something, are growing
restive and cannot be held in much
longer.
Notwithstanding the opposition of
Senators Jones, of Ark, and Vest, OF
Mo. both of whom denounced 1t
severely. SIX democrats voted for the
amendment offered to the tariff bill
bv Senator Bacon, of Ga, putting a
20 per cent ad valorem duty on raw
cotton. The republicans all voted
for the amendment and it is now
mart of the bill. The SIX democrats
who voted for the amendment were
Bacon and Clay of Ga, Tillman and
McLaurin, of S. g., McEnery, OF La,
and Rawlins, of Utah. Senator Bacon
replied to democratic objections by
saving that it was recognized that the
country was to have tariff bill and
that he intended to see that his state
received an equal share of its benefits,
as he believed, in the words OF the
Bible, that the man who does not
care for his own household is worse
than an infidel. There are reasons
for the belief that the republicans are
playing a bunco game on Senator
Bacon and his democratic supporters,
in order to exhibit them as supporters
of protection, and that when the tarli1
bill goes to the President it will moi
contain a duty on raw cotton.
Senator Jones, of Ark, chairman o
the Democratic National Committee
is naturally little skeptical abou
the stories printed from time to time
about the raising OF large sums o
money to be used for the continued
propagation of free silver ideas. Speak
ing of the latest story, that Colorad
had raised 100000. Senator J one
said 81 have not received cent fror
Colorado since the election, and II an
sum has been or is being raised ther
in the interest of silver, l don't kno
it. should be very glad to be a
sured that it is true"
Senator Mills, of Texas, is not
alarmist, but he can see nothing b'
trouble ahead for class legislation. n
said: "The effect of this tariff b
upon the people will be seen, not
its high taxation, but in the way
buttresses and fortihes trusts OF
kinds. Some of these days this SC
of legislation will have to cease or
will see a revolution. The people "
not stand it. Driven to the wall
the combinations of money pow
they will find leader, and we sh
see another Coxey's army-but 1t v
be an army which will carry guns
use them"
Democratic Senators are practlcs
unanimous in declaring the uselt
ness of Mr.. Mckinley asking Z
gress to authorize him to appoin
monetary commission, because tt
have decided that no such legslat
shall be voted upon by the Senate
this session.
Mr.. J. Addison Porter, who VIC
not be filling his present position
not its title been officially chan
from private secretary to The Pl
dents Secretary, captureda nice J
slice of pie this week, before he
Mr.. Mckinley and special
load of officials and newspaper
to the Nashville exposition. He
Henry w. Hoyt, of Pa, nomln
to be Assistant Attorney Gen
and got the Pa. Senators to acqul'
Mr.. Hoyt was class-mate OF
Porters.
A majority of the republican S
torial caucus realized that sonnet
had to be done to stop the wa
popular indignation on account c
sugar schedules notorious favor
towards the sugar trust, SO the II
schedule was substituted after mi
several changes in the interest c
trus. which still stands to re;