The St. Johns herald., 1897-06-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Way the House Is Muzzled.
 The Internal Revenue.
From Our Regular Correspondent. l

W ing how easily supposedly free brancl of supposed popular government car
 be muzzled. Three-fourths of the mem bers of the house would like to vote fol
 the Morgan resolution, adopted by the I senate last week, for the recognition o
 the belligerancy of the Cubans, but
 they are not allowed to do so. Mir. Me
 Kinley says the adoption of that resolu.
 tion by the house would interfere with
 the mysterious Cuban policy that he is
 engaged Tn matching out, by compelling
 him to show his hand, as it is a ioi 1
 resolution, which would have to be either
 signed or vetoed, and not concurrent
 resolution, like the one adopted by the
 last congress and pigeon-holed by Mir.
 Cleveland. The sugar trust says the resolution must not be adopted, and
 Czar Reed says it shall not, and there
 you are. The democrats kick to the full
 extent of their power, but the republ-
 can members of the house swallow their
 convictions and vote against the will of
 their constituents because they are
 afraid to offend Mr. Mckinley and Mr.
 Reed, lest they should fail to land an of-
 flee or two or to get the committee as- | signme. ts they want, and the farce of
 calling the house legislative body goes
 on. like the butcheries in Cuba.
 There will be no tax on the breakfast
 of the poor, nor any additional tax upon
 beer, the poor mans beverage, or tobac-
 co, if the democrats can prevent it, as caucus of democratic senators unani-
 mOusly decided to move that the entire internal revenue section of the amended
 tariff bill, now being debated in the sen ate, be stricken out. Whether that mo-
 tion is carried will depend upon the vote of the populist senators. It was also decided at the caucus that the demo- cratic senators would only antagonize the tariff bill to the extent of exposing it's enormous and unnecessary increase in taxation, and wonld interpose no ob- jectiOn to taking the final vote in a req sonable tune. The republican senators are having a regular mOnkey-and-parro time among themselves over some of the amendments to the bill The ex- planation of Senator Aldrich was not at all satisfactory, and there was lots of the plainest sort of talk at the republi- can caucus held to-day, and although l they are making strong effort to settle their differences in some way of the 1 floor of the senate, there is little pros l pect of their succeeding, and an open | fight among them is expected to be an early and interesting feature of tbe tar if debate. They are going to pass the bill. of course, but not until it has been much changed, The agents of the sugar trust realize tina the present sugar schedule has no show at all, and are scheming for another that will bamboo gle the public long enough tor it to be- come law
 There have been numerous things showing the hold of the negro politicians of the south upon Boss Hanna, as a natural result of Hanna's methods of securing Mckinley delegates in the South, prior to the St Louis convention. The latest example was the withdrawal from the senate of the nomination of <. 5. Matthews to be register of the land office atJackson, Mississippi. Matthews s white republican who was strongly backed by such men as Senator Foraker, Pension Commissioner Evans, General Powell Clayton, but the negro member 'f the Republican National committee rom Mississippi, Jim Hill, didn't like he nomination, so he went to Boss Han. Ia and told him it must be withdrawn, !, md MT. Hanna lost no time in getting , Ir. Mckinley to withdraw it from the $ enate. $
 From all directions come authentic lews of change in sentiment since last ! November. For instance, Mir. s. w. NJ: 2 'eters, of West Virginia, said. "West Virginia cast it's electoral vote last year . or Mckinley, but if the election were o be held over again right now, the yer lict would be reversed. I am satisfied hat free silver would win If the fight vere to be made over again. Of all my emocratic friends who voted the repub- ican ticket last year, or for Palmer and 'uckner, I doubt if there is one who would fail to cast his ballot for Bryan, the opportunity were again presented. The next legislature will be strongly and q democrat will be hosen to succeed Senator Faulkner"
 The interest-in the successor to Sena- or Earle, of South Carolina, who died
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