The Opelousas courier., 1897-03-27
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, March %, 1897.
Nothing more daring has been done
IN the House during either of the auto
cratic reigDs of Gar Reed than the pass
ing in few hours of the Appropriation
Bills which failed to become laws at the
last session Gf Congress, without refer
ehce to any sort OF committee and prac-
t!cally without debate. just stop and
think for moment Of the auducity of
this proceeding. Here is new House,
more than onc-thrd of its members be.
ing men who did not belong to the last
House and who know no more about the
items Ia those appropriation bills than
1t they were prepared in Africa. These
bills were brought forward and the
House WAS ordered to pass them "sight
| swapping concealed articles, although
they carried many millions of the
peoples money and it was admitted by
some Of the republicans who helped to
force them through that they contained
items that We're questionable as we'll as
extravagant And this remarkable as
sumption OF authority on the part of
Car Reed had not even the excuse of
urgency and lack of time to have the
bills take the regular course of such
measures. There will he time to waste
in the House after the 81 of this month,
upon which date the Mckinley tariff
bill, No. 2, is to be passed. The sole OBJ
ject was to keep the hands of the House
by not appointing tho regular commit
tees, another unheard of thing origin
ated by the gentleman from Maine, wi ho
still kindly allows the members of the
House to draw their salaries and dis
pose OF the money without consulting
him, and who also allowed them to vote
themselves extra milage.
Representative Champ" Clark, of
Mo, made a red hot speech in the House
on the new method of passing appropri-
alton bill, saying in part: "'The longer
man lives the more he finds out First
and last, I've said so,nc nnkind things
of the U. S. Senate, and poked consider
able fun at it, In the days of 1894,
although | believe in two Legislative
bodies, | was i'm favor of abolislling it, |
But in this distinguished presence,
wish to retrace all the criticisms | have
made against it. | thank God that the |
Senate remains deliberative body. In |
this House we are going through the |
most astounding performance which |
ever took place on this continent" |
Speaking directly to the republicans MIR. |
Clark continued: "In the campaign of |
last year You charged G,50O,0OO voters of |
this country with being anarchists, You
are the real anarchists. What is an
arclyY 1t is running the affairs Of a
country without government. You are |
doing just what you charged us with |
wanting to do, but let NE tell you, a day
Of reckoning will come"
Mr.. Mckinley and other republicans
are much alarmed at the signs of ii tar
lit revolt in the Senate. 1t is given ont
by prominent republican senators, mem
beis of the Senate Finance Committee
among them, which has already taken
up the subject, that the Mckinley tariff
bill, No. 9, will not do, and that they are
going to amend it SO it will not be re-
ccsniztd. 1t il, OF course, possible that
thesc republican senators are only max
ny IL bluff to give Mr.. Mckinley an op-
ooriun:ty to offer them inducements in
he shape OF patronage to support his
bill. but the manner in which the
Senate amended the two last tariff bills
passed, is calculated to make Mr..
believe it means something
more serious.
There is Il rumor that Secretary Bliss
las resigned because Mr.. Mckinley COM
>elied him to accept the resignation of {
land Commissioner Lamereux, which !
vas rendered before the close of the ,
Cleveland administration, and which I
Bliss had refused to accept because of |
made in connectieaawith
chicago lake front land casf, but the q
umor is denied. - !
Although the output Iu'the admini.y
ration pie plant copte Iues limited in Il I
the fact is not,d with wrath
" those who were not o,Jginal Mckin- J
eyites that nearly all that has been
ished out has gone to the original
lcKinley men. This too, in the face of
lr. McKinlcy's continued reiteration
t his intention to recognize no factions
t bis party in making appointments.
t. is beginning to dawn upon the minds !
t some of the republicans who were o
ot fer Mckinley before the st. Louis s.
that they are being tricked. o
Whenever one of them looms up as a a
rominent aspirant for good position,
, happens that he runs against Mr..
lcKinley's very convenient rule not to
ppoiut men who cannot get the en-
orsement of their entire congressional n
1t looks very much as if
he old auti-Mc's, will have to content s.
themselves with the smaller federal Of Ii
ces in their states, while King Hanna
akes "a re of "Onr ffiends'' =