Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM WASHINGTON.

WILSON TARIFF BILL AND THE PROPOSED BOND ISSUE. Chief Topics at the National CapitalFree Silver People Against Bonds-lt Is Believed the Wilson BUI Will Become a Law. Bones of Contention. Washington correspondence:

THE twochief topics of discussion at the capital are the Wilson tariff bill

and the' proposed bond issue. The free silver people ■are decidedly against any issue of bonds, taking the position that all I that is needed is a plentiful coinage of whe white metal and its use as ■ money. The Texas will be (solidly against any issue of bonds. Representative Mc-

Millin, of Tennessee, believes a measure should at once be passed providing for the use of the seigniorage of the silver bullion. This would afford temporary relief, he thinks, and possibly obviate the necessity of issuing bands. It has been asserted that until the silver bullion now in the treasury is coined there can be no seigniorage, but the men who favor its use argue that when it is known the bullion will coin fifty million dollars more than was paid for it there can be no reason for hesitating about it. They do not believe it necessary to coin the seigniorage, but that certificates may be issued against it. The WUson Bill. As ta the Wilson tariff bill, the general opinion is that it will pull through in some shape or other. Representative Tarnsey, a member of the Ways and Means Committee, who has just returned from his home in Missouri, he found no one among his constituents dissatisfied with the tariff bill. Representative Hayes, of lowa, says the bill will become a law in time, and that all differences about it will be adjusted within the party, so that there will be no " fatai break over it. Representative Stevens, of Massachusetts, who is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, and an extensive woolen manufacturer, says the bill will pass the House unchanged, and ■'that whatever changes are made bsfo -e the measure becomes a law will be made in the Senate. Representative Cousins of lowa, on the other hand, viewing the situation from a Republican standpoint, says that if all the Democratic members of the House that he has heard express themselves against the bill actually vote as they talk now, the bill will eetainly be beaten in the House, to say nothing of the Senate, where its chances are at least doubtful. However, he says, i is pretty hard to get a Democrat to kick out "of the party traces, so you cannot just figuie on lesults when Democratic bolting becomes an essential element in the calculation.

Koutlno Proceedings. Since the reassembling of Congress after the holidays but 11 1 tie has been done. Filibustering on the Hawaiian matter and the Wilson tariff bill has been the rule in both bouses. It has been almost Impossible to accomplish anything more than the confirmation of appointments. The indications now are that the leaders of both parties, in both Senute and House, will unite with the presiding officers in action, which will compel the transaction of business. In any event, exhaustive debate? are certain to ensue upon both questions mentioned above, and also the matter of bonds. In the Senate Monday Senator Hoar’s resolution of inquiry into Mr. Blount’s compensation was referred after a hot discussion. Among the nominations sent to the Senate was that of J. M. B. Sill, of Michigan, to be Minister and .Consul General to Corea. An adverse report on the nomination of Hornblower for the Supreme bench was agreed to bv the Senate Committee. The tariff bill was taken up in the house, the Democrats having mustered a quorum. Mr. Wilson made a speech in its favor. Chicago members of Congress agreed to push the McGann bill for the construction of a new public building at Chicago. Secretary Carlisle urged on iho Ways and Means Committee the necessity of a loan to supply the Treasury’s needs. Debati on the tariff bill was continued in the House on Tuesday. Congressmen Wilson. Burrows and Black were among the speakres. The Federal elections bill was taken up in the Senate. It will soon become unfinl-hed business and will ba pushed to a vote.