People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting; of lew* From S'feCapii-ji. Krom out Regular Corre.'.Toudeut. Washington. May /8. ’94. The tariff bill , Isas been the basis for two big sensations this week. The firs*, charging that the susrar trust (rot the nrotecu. I lion given it in the proposed amendment to the sugar schedule of the tariff bill in return fora contribution of Cs(X).Od ; .’ to democratic campaign fund of 1892. and the second, that Maj. J. A Pnttz, now of North Dakota, but once a carpet-bag member of Congress from South Carolina, had attainted to bribe Senators Hunton, of Va., and Hyle of South Dakota, to vote against the tariff bill, offering them $25,000 each. Buttz denies the charge. Senator Lodge has offered a resolution providing for an investigation of both charges, but in as much as the Senate voted down Mr. Peffer’s resolutions providing for an investigation of the charges made against Senators of speculating in the stock of the sugar trust while thetariff bill was in the hands of the Senate Finance commit tee, its action on this resolution is doubtful. Few people believe that there was any money behind the alleged attempt to bribe the two Senators, if it was made by Buttz. because Buttz, who has been a lobbyist ever since he was in Congress, is not the sort of men who would be selected to disburse big money by would-be bribers of Senators.

Coxey’s army of the commonweal is apparently settled in its new camp at Bladensburg, Maryland, just beyond the line of the District of Columbia, for an indefinite stay. The contributions received this week, including money and a car load of flour, make it certain that the army will have plenty to eat for the next twenty days, even if nothing else were received. A bake oven has been built and the flour will be baked in camp. No one was surprised when a new trial was refused Coxey, Browne and Jones; the did not expect it themselves. Coxey has decided that he will accept the nomination for Congress tendered to him, if he is allowed to run on a Coxey platform. © @ © Representative Boen, of Minnesota, thinks the machinery of the U. S. Courts in that State has been working one-sided, and he has offered a resolution in the House authorizing the Judiciary Committee to investigate. In a preamble he gives as reasons for the investigation: That Judge Nelson adjourned Court at Fergus Falls before completing public business and without calling juries as provided by law; also, that he contrary to law compelled a number of laboring men charged with offences against the United States to go 200 miles to St. Paul to be tried, when they lived within 30 miles of Fergus Fall, at which place they should have been tried.

® 0 © It seems that every week must furnish a personal difficulty on the floor of either the Senate or the House, and the present was no exception. One would not suppose that the Agricultural appropriation bill contained anything upon which to base an exciting episode, but that is just where one is mistaken. While that bill was being considered Representative Hopkins, as Ills., charged Representative Hatch, of Mo., who is in charge of the bill, with attempting to juggle an increase of salary for an employe of the Agricultural department into the bill without the knowledge of other members of the House. Mr. Hatch jumped up quivering with excitrment, and, shaking his fists towards Mr. Hopkins, shouted; “If the gentlemen from Illinois means that word in its ordinary English signification, I want to tell him

that if he should use it to me outside of this chamber, I would ram it down his throat!” As soon as Mr. Hopkins could make himself heard above the shouting and jeering he replied; “I do not know whether I will need a body guard to escort me from the Capitol or not, but I want to say to the gentleman from Missouri that he can take my words in any sense he pleases. I shall neither withdraw or modify them and he cannot frighten anyone with his blustering manners here.” There was a time when such language would have been followed by trouble outside of the House, but it has long since passed away.

The populist Congressional committee is just as busy sending out documents etc., as the committees of the old parties are, and its members are figuring on electing enough members of the next House to hold the balance of power between the old parties and to distate the officers of the House. • e e There is again lots of talk about a cloture rule in the Senate, to force the tariff bill to a vote, but there is no probability of its adoption, for the very good reason that it would take as long or longer to reach a vote for the adoption of a cloture rule as to reach a vote on the tariff bill itself, even if a known majority of the Senate favored cloture, which is by no means certain. On the contrary, thers is every reason to believe that a majority is opposed to cloture.