People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Washington Letter. [ARTICLE]

Washington Letter.

( From onr rejnlar correaoondiMlL Washington, Sept. 1, 189$. | Some Very interesting finance! I speeches are now a feature of ’every fiat’s *Vs*toh of the Senate! but the speeches made tn several executive session? this i week, although net SO carefully ; prepared-. threw a great deal , mdW light upon the silver situal don as it actually i« tMft de those made for phbl’ichdoh ih thb •Record ” Those people who we talking abedl the probability of a vote being reached tn the senate on the Voorhees Mil tor the unconditional repeal of the ■Sherman *d\br law in two weeks am shhply, in the language Of ’the street, “talking through ■ their hats/’ likewise O'oE’d who say that the tilg majority by which the repeal bill passed the house will make its passage by the senate certain. The «i</br senators haVe plainly ’stated to the unconditional repealers, in e-xdvhtive session, that if they cannot out-vote them they can prevent a vote being taken, and< that they intend doing so bideft-' nitely; also that they will have the *«j.pport of th'eir constituents th resorting to every expedient to prevent a vote. That is the exact "situation. * * * Congressmen from the W.cific coast have been trying to get Secretary Or’isle to enforce the Geary Chinese act, but they are all met with the same thing, “no money. This week Senator Dolph introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 to carry out the provisions of the act, and gave notice of his intention to make a speech thereupon in the near future. *r -XTwo members of the house did not vote on the Wilson repeal bill. They were Representatives Boatner, of Louisiana, and Capehart, of West Virginia. Rumor says the telegraphic comments which a number of members have received from their homes have made them wish they had not voted, or at least had not voted as they did.

* * * The government departments in Washington are literally on a gold basis, as nearly all of them paid their employes this week in gold coin. Various reasons are given, none of them official, as to why gold is being paid out by Uncle Sam. Some say it is because of the scarcity of available paper currency in the treasury, and others that it is a part of a plan to coax the hoarded gold of the country into circulation. * «• * Senator Hill’s recent dashes in which he broke the party leading strings and asserted his independence have made him a much talked about man, and a much abused man, and some of those who might reasonably be expected to approve any act of independence on the part of any senator are the loudest in the>r abuse. Senator Hill, although very much in the minority, has no occasion to feel ashamed of his language concerning the Stewart resolution asking for information from the secretary of the treasury, as to a rumored probable deficit for the present fiscal year. He said: “I stand here to-day where I stood the other day, where I shall stand to the end, no matter how much my position may be assailed—that any senator in this body, who offers a respectful resolution on a question of this character, asking for information from an officer of the government, ought to have it. I can see no valid, no tenable, objection to the passage of this resolution, and I shall continue upon that line if it takes all summer, or all the fall.” Only sixteen senators agreed with Mr. Hill, while forty voted to bury the resolution by referring it to the finance committee. Senator Stewart raised a smile while this discussion was going on, when asked by Senator McPherson, if he did not know that the Democratic party was in power in the senate and responsible for legislation, by replying: “No, Ido not know that. I know that the gold party is in power. There seems to be more administration men on this (the Republican) side than on the Democratic side. We hear more eulogy of the administration from this side than from the other.” * * * Upon a number of occasions during the session crowds have assembled in the galleries of the house expecting to hear and see something existing, only to be disappointed, and when the most exciting episode of the session—the impromptu word duel be-

I Lwfeeh Gx-Speaker lifted &nd i Speaker Crisp— the almost empty-, j Mt-. Reed made one of his chariacteristic speeches the ntw rules «*? the house. the sarc»*nt of which so irritated b’peaker Crisp that he called | Representative Richardson, cl i Tennessee-,.. t 5 the ehftit Uhd |d»ade fed hhp&hiOiied speech. I defending the new rules and Hiking an attack upd>n Mi*. I Jteed and the Gt the last Kapublidan house. It was very JiVely for a time to hear this© leaders of their respective parties expressing their opinions. Followers of each .ffidintijitt thdt their man » u h% pf it but td Ah man there did not seem to be any best for either of them to get. Reed had the best cdntrol of himstlT. but that i« io the different .dlhperament of the two men. Reed is in some respects like the late Ben Butler—tlie hotter things get around him the cooler he gets, while Speaker Crisp has the hot blOOd of the South.

4 Wh'efi GaiaghOr Barker returned Li'om Wyoming, he brought with him the finest collection of curiosities in the way of deer, 'elk and bufTUlo horns, Indian rel’cS, etc., that has perhaps ever been seen in this part of the country. Mr. Barker also brought brought back with him a young wolf whioh differs in many respects from the wolves of this country.—Morocco Courier. A western editor apologizes to his readers after this fashion': ‘•We expected td have a death and a marriage to publish this week, but a violent stdrni prevented the Wedding, and the doctor being sick himself the patient recovered, accordingly we were cheated out of both.”