People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting Batch of jSews From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington. May 25, ’94. It was definitely settled on the test vote, forced by Senator Teller at the conclusion of Senator Gorman’s speech, that the tariff bill will receive the vote of every democrat and populist in. the Senate and consequently that no reason exists for further delay in taking the final vote. It was to prove this that Mr. Teller made his motion to lay the bill on the table. The vote was 38 to 28, only republicans voting for the motion. It is believed that this will hurry up the vote, as it will give those in charge of the bill a confidence they have heretofore lacked.

Fitzgerald’s branch of the industrial army arrived here this week. They are: quartered in a hall in which they hold public meetings every night. They express sympathy with Coxey, but do. not approve of his methods and will not join his army, but will return to their homes after presenting th-eir petition asking for the unemployed to Congress, Coxey, Brovme amd Jones are making themselves as comfortable as possible in jail and Coxey’s men say they will stick together until their leaders are released.

The Senate investigating committee has concluded taking testimony concerning the alleged attempt to bribe Senators Kyle and Hunton, and has begun on the sugar trust branch of the investigation. It is expected that the committee will submit a report on the bribery case in a day or two.

Senator Tello* has received many commendations from business men, whose only anxiety is to get the question, settled in some shape, on his remarks on the tariff bill this. week. He began by telling the republican Senators that thei e was no profit in taunting the democrats with inconsistency, and recalling to their minds the fact that the McKinley bill, which he said was neither the height of wisdom nor the sum of all excellencies, could not have passed the Senate if the Finance committee had not granted the demands of certain Senators, just as the present Finance committee had been compelled to do. Continuing Mr. Teller said: “In my opinion the bill is ample for the protection of American industries.

I believe that the demands of the govern ment for revenue are so great th at a bill laid for revenue only, if wisely laid, will, on four-fifths o f all the articles it touches, give* to the American people amply protection against foreign cheap labor. But Ido not think that this bill is so wisely drawn th;it it deos that in the sense that it ought. And yet lam bound to say that it is a better bill than I had an idea would come to us; from the democratic party afte r its declaration at Chicago. It i s a better bill than we, on this side of the chamber hoped to get. And I am glad to get Lt, with all its inconsistencies thrown in. Let us address ourselves to the question like practical business men, leaving politics alone long enough to get a 7>ils that will give to the prostra<\e business of this country hope and courage enough to open their now closed factories. Upon this bill the interests of 70,000,000 of people are dependent. And if. when we get through, the bill is not what we want, let us go to the people and submit the question in that great forum where right will ultimately prevail.”

The Tucker bill providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the peopjq, which was passed by the House during the last Congress, has been again favorably -reported to the House, which it will pass. The Senate does riot take kindly to the idea. • • • Representative Enloe, of Tenn., is now a firm believer in the maxim "all things come to him who waits.” For several pears past when the Legislative, Executive and Judicial appropriation bill was before the House Mr. Enloe has offered an amendment, striking out the item making appropriations for salaries of the Civil Service commissioners and their clerks. The vote on this proposition has been a little larger each year, and it was large enough this week to get the amendment adopted when the House was sitting as a committee of the whole by a vote of 109 to 71. The amendment will have to stand the test of a formal yea or nay vote in the House before its adoption is accomplished, and the chances are that enough votes can be rallied to defeat it, but Mr. Enloe says he can wait until next year, if it is defeated. Of course this is a sort of underhanded way to cripple the Civil Service Commission, but those who favor the amendment say that it is no more underhanded than some of the methods of the commission have been. The

“outs” are always staunch defenders of the civil service law. and the republicans are practi cally unanimous in oppositiou to Mr. Enloe’s amendment. • • • The House did not propose ■that the Senate should monopolize the investigations, so it adopted the resolution directing the committee on Naval Affairs to investigate the Carnegie companies relations with the government under their contracts to furnish steel armor for war ships. And to further emphasize the distinction between the two oolies the House committee decided to investigate with open doors.