The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-18
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP
Houston Post Bureau,
Sun Building. 1911 r. Street.

! Special. 1.-The Natiunal Intelligence
! this city has the following kind words L
say OF the BLACK Eagle OF Gregg" oul
DeGrnffenrcid M
. zone OF the most distinguished looking
members In the house is Congressman X.
G. DeGraffenreid. OF Texas. This is De-
Graffenreid's first term, but will be by nc
means his last. as he is without exception
!. the most popular man In hts district.
And his popularity is well based. De.
as he lis Familiarity called by his friends
and colleagues Is a man OF unusual abil-
| ity. AS a lawyer he ranks with the best
In the house, and as a stumper. he Is Sec
ond TO none His reputation as a stumper
and orator preceded him to Washington,
and perhaps more than any other man Ia
the house he has been urged TO turn him
self loose and shake up the dry bones.
And he can do 1t, or am no Judge OF the
man. He Is one of the new members who
hides his personality under the cloak OF
Imodesty. While he pays the closest at
Etention to the proceedings Of the house.
and is therefore familiar with every de-
tail of legislation, yet he has not Up to
this time sought to make himself cons
+, spicncus by breaking In on O mans orgu-
mcnt with an irrelevant question, as 80
many new members do. who want to get
Themselves In the Record. Nor has he
availed himself Of the opportunity to
or currency question. But he Is waiting
the right opportunity which will soon make
It's appearance, and then In the language
OF the song, he'll turn himself loose lie
said 10 inc yesterday that the silver issue
| Will sweep the country the coming fall,
and that IN 90 the Fifty sixth congress will
pass free coinage bill Mckinley viii
veto it, of course, and then tho question
VIII again be submitted to the country
with the result, in his opinion, of sweep
| ing democratic victory, DeGraffenreid Il
| still young man. and after he has served
| eight or ten years IN the house the people
of Texas win take him up and make him
governor OF the Lone Star State"
There is n rumor around the capital that
De Is going to cut loose and submit
few remarks in day or so that will cause
the bones of the republican party TO rattle.
! The action Of Mr.. Bailey In coming out
| sqnarely against Mills and in favor of
| Culberson for the senate is commented ON
very freely here In the Texas colony ana
| the universal opinion is that there will
be music on the Texas hastings this sum-
| ner and that before the frost is on the
| pumpkin and the folders In the shack
some one viii be minus scalp. Bailey Is
opposing Mills on the free raw material
idea of the tariff question, and he Will
have plenty of support. Bailey does not
favor a tariff on raw materials merely
because It gives protection to the producer
of the raw material That is merely an
incident that he deplores because he Is |
not In favor OF protection TO anybody; but |
as an economical proposition he believes Il |
correct under our present system OF rails |
Ing revenue to support the government. |
lie believes the manufacturer should be |
made to bear his proportion of the ex
pcnse OF supporting the government and he /
does not believe in giving him free raw |
materials and at the same time putting a |
high protective tariff on his manufactured |
product, thus giving him double protection
at The expense OF the consumer. He be-
lleVes In making wealth bear its share of
TIE burden in this country. He believes In
taxing what people have, arl not what
they haven't got and are trying to get.
IN other words. he does not believe in put
ting "A tax on thrift and energy While 1t
" true that Mr., Bailey voted for the Will
son blli that contained several provisions
Tor Tree raw materials he did 1t because
ne submitted to the viii of his party but
ne has never submitted his iudginarJ 10
the wisdom of 1t and last summer during
the consideration Of the Dingley bin is
the first time he ever had an opportunity
to embody his own theory and idea OF tay.
ation in speech before congress The at
tack OF Senator Mills upon his theory ha,
cohpeiied him to come out fat -footed In
opposition TO that gentleman and The aues-
tlon VIII be fought out before the peonle
VI ihe state they love best, 1t Is going TO
ne an intensely interesting campaign. TIE
silver question will also cut prominent
figure in that campaign because of the
remark of Senator Mills Inst re loss rot
UoleVc thls country can Independently
inaintaln silver at parity with gold at
me present legal ratio OF 16 to / II Ia I'M
oefsteod that Senator Chiffon colnoidas In
Inc views of Senator Mills on the tariff
question anent free raw materials and thnt
at once brings Chiffon and Bailey into an
taSonism | predict now that Bailey will
ne Chilton's opponent when the latter he
comes candidate for recollection.
inc gubernatorial fight which is growing
warm and the echoes of which reach Wash
inston, does not seem TO be disturbing m
'he serenity of Major sayers. He is hard ,
NJ work every day in his committee room ,
uh 'ne appropriation bills that are yet to
come ont. | had talk with him the other
day about the river and harbor bin and he {
Is stun of the opinion that there will ha /
suoh Dill and that all Tom Reeds in /
lpuehco cant prevent such bill from be- ,
ing sent In. He also made the statement :
'hat II such bill were reported at this !
session that Buffalo bayou would be In tn, t
Dill. Major Sayers is a very warm frlend c
70 thai Improvement and II Is a lucky d
ming Tor Houston that he Is | say right 9
mere ana the opinion has been formed @
after talking with the most prominent r
members Of the house on both sides. that s
zoe savers has more Influence and can Il
'ohe nearer getting anything he asks for {
nan IN congress That Is rather biz Z
assertion. hut the proof OF the pudding Is a
. ne GAZING thereof and results are tile s
my Things that count, He never went &
Yer anything IN that line in his life that u
'e didn.i land II and he VIII. IL a river and n
'srnoF Dill comes out, put Houston under
Nefsasting obligation to him.
inc Texas republican pio-grahblng sit-
alton remains In statu quo. Every other
fiee down there WAS lost sight OF last
eek except the fight for the new Judge o