People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An iHlcristin;’ Butcli of Xeiv* From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Mch. 30, '94. Excitement is running high in Congress. President Cleveland has displeased many influential members of his party who claim that they had a right to expect different treatment for the Bland bill for the coinage of the seignienure, at his hands. It is needless to repeat the angry threats heard on all sides, because such threats are not really factors in future legislation. The situation is one that requires calm consideration on the part of those who are in a position to control future legislation, and that can only cotne after the excitement has had time to exhaust itself. Nothing is* ever accomplished in Congress by going oil' half-cocked; therefore the longest-headed and most conservative men are laying low and saying nothing.

Senator Pe-ffer is determined that the administration shall issue no more bonds without express authority from Congress, i r he can prevent it, and, as the first step towards prevention, he has introduced a resolution directing the Finances committee to prepare a bill repealing all laws authorizing such issues. © © © Senator Kyle has published a lei ter denying a published interview that made him say he en-hu'.-ed Coxey’s army. He calls Goxey's scheme a silly one that cannot possibly accomplish any goed result. The other populists in Senate and House agree with him and want distinctly understood that they do not endorse either Coxey or his army and. that, the populists as a party have nothing whatever to do with it.

A unique delegation in the shape of forty women mill workers, from New England are in Washington for the purpose of protesting against the tariff bill as it now stands. They waul a hearing before the Senate Finance committee, but as that committee denied hearing to all applicants before the bill was reported to the Senate it is byno means certain that they will success in getting it. e> @ e The Nicaragua canal scheme is about to have another inning hi Congress. At least that is he expectation of those who favor the bills now being consider'd by the Senate committee on I > reign Relations. There are wo bills, one by Senator Morgan,of Alabama, and the other by Senator Hale, of Maine, but, A. as much as they both provide Wat the U. S. shall guarantee •' i J 0,000,000 of bonds to be issued by the Canal company and only differ as to minor details, they are practically the same. The Senate is on record in favor of the scheme, so that it will not be suprising should the committee favorably report and the Senate again pass one of these bills. It.will, however, require some very slick work,, to get it in sight of passing the house.

Representative Hatch says his new anti-option bill will certainly pass the House and that he has personal knowledge that five or six Senators who worked against the old bill will support

the new one. He thinks the piesent bill being a revenue measure, and not prohibitory like the old one, adds largely to its chances for becoming a law ® • • Some western Congressmen do not hesitate to say that certain changes made in the tariff bill by the senate committee on Finance were made with the deliberate intention of causing the income tax to be dropped from the bill, and that this roundabout way of killing the income tax was resorted to because the committee lacked the nerve to openly drop it, prefering that it be done by vote of the Senate. • © 9 The men in tha House who knocked out the sliding sugar bounty put by the majority of the House ways and Means committee in the original Wilson tariff bill have been putting their heads together for the purpose of devising a scheme that would give the Senate a hint of their opposition to the sugar schedule of the revised tariff bill, and they think they have discovered it. They propose to put an amendment on the regular legislative and executive Appropriation bill providing for the repeal of the sugar bounty of the Mckinley law, and they express confidence that it will, easily pass the House, which has placed itself on record as favoring free sugar and no bounty. The proposed amendment cannot be thrown out on a point of order, as it will be germane to that bill, which carries the appropoiation to pay sugar bounties. Another construction put upon this move is that the men behind it arc doubtful about the Senate passing the tariff' bill and want to make sure of abolishing tho sugar bounty. As yet it is only a project. o 9 o The House after wasting a week because the democrats could not muster a quorum of their own to dispose of several contested election cases this week succeeded in getting a quorum and business was resumed. Judging, however, by the past the quorum will not remain long, more shame to the absentess. ® e ® The Senate committee on Foreign Relations made quick work of the new Chinese treaty, which was this week favorably reported without amendment. There seems to be no doubt of its ratification.