People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

Ah IneereMinjj Ba Uli of New* From I Bic Capitol. I ti>ur I!.' _ r Cori • - li-is I'. V. AS’I r: ’’ON. April 6, ‘94. The attempt is to be made to add a free coinage amendment to the ur.if i id, the House having failed to pass the Bland bill over the veto, but it is not yet certain that it will be supported by ail of the Silver Senators. Notice was given by Senator Quay when the tariff bill was first reported to the House of his intention to offer a free coinage amendment to it when it got before the Senate, and since the debate began in the Senate. Senator Allen. of Nebraska, has introduced an amendment which lowers the duties in the tariff bill and .provides for the free coinage of sii .er. © ® © Nothing st.i -’dug was expected and n ■thim.t of that nature has happened during the first week of the tariff debate. The s teicAs are just what were expected: t 1 * sa:.m old stories on both sides 11. at most intelligent men are familiar with. It has,

however. abe .dy been made apparent that the contest is to be a long and stubbornly contested one and that the policy of the opponents of the bill will be to prolong the debate indefinitely. The fate of the bill is really in the hands of the eight or ten democrats who are opposed to certain sections of it. ® © o A bill allowing greenbacks to be taxed by States and munieipilities is to be favorably reported to the House. At present greenbacks are exempt from taxation while coin is taxed, and it is stated by those who favor the bill that although there are only $346,000,000 of greenbacks in circulation tanks and individuals by trickery ciSim and obtain exemotion every year on $3, 000,000,000 of greenbacks. ’o ® ® The opposition to the new Chinese treaty, which how has tie right of way in executive sessions of the Senate, is much

| weaker than it was expected to | be. and its ratification withou* ■ amendment is generally believed •to be certain, although Senator ’ Perkins, of California, will en- : dem cr to secure some slight ' amendment. The announcement that Senator White, and Repremative Geary, of California, author of the Geary anti-Chinese law, favored ratification has done much to prevent a fright being made on the treaty. • • • The populists are pointing to the returns from the late elections, as an indication that the next Presidential contest in the west and south will be between republicans and populists, instead of republicans and democrats. It is reported that a number of southern democratic members of the House will ask for a renomination and election as populists, and not as democrats. • • •

Representative McLaurin, of South Carolina, who is trying to work up a sentiment among southern and western Congressmen in favor of signing a call for a convention to be held at some western or southern point for the purpose of forming a silver party, believes that the movement proposed by him will succeed, Mr. McLaurin is not a crank, but is a well-educated and very bright young lawyer—he hasn’t celebrated his thirityfourth birthday yet. He is now serving his second term in Congress and has been a member of the state - legislature and Attorney General of South Carolina. He has always been a straight democrat, and his proposal to cut loose from that party is being much talked He says the proposed movement has not reached a stage of certainty and that no announcement will be made until it does. This indicates that he will give it up unless convinced that it will get support enough to succeed.

Senator Morgan’s bill for the reorganization of the State department, which was introduced this week, has been favorably commented upon in all quarters. It will neither increase the employes nor the expenditures of the department, but it will, if it becomes a law, make that department what similar departments are under’ every great government in the world—a school of diplomacy. With the exception of the Secretary, First Assistant Secretary, Ambassadors and ministers, all employes of the department would be placed upon a permanent basis and their promotion made entirely dependent upon thep- merits. No man w T ho has travelled extensively has any doubt about the benefits to be derived from permanent consuls and consular agents abroad, and this bill would seem to be a step in the right direction; but it would be still better to strike out all the exceptions it makes, except the Secretary.

It is stated that the requests made by the Latin-American government that the United States join then in a monetary conference will be refused by President Cleveland on the ground that such a conference can accomplish nothing until England and Holland have shown a disposition to change their attitude towards silver. The refusal is to be softened by a suggestion that the condition 1 will probably be more fovorably | a year hence for hold an Ameri ican monetary conference. I Meanwhile Representative Com- ■ inette, of California, has introduced a joint reselution directing the President to invite the nations of the western heinis- ■ phere to a financial conference, with a view to securing the adoption of a silver standard by them. Say, farmers, G. M. Wilcox, at Surrey, is selling galvanized two point hog wire at $2.50 per 100 pounds.

The Brecknmdge Poliard trial is showing a prominent, beastly congressman up in his true character. Breckinridge is perhaps nd worse than a hundred of his fellow congressmen, bat he has had the misfortune of being caught and publicly exposed. Our own state has one or two representatives that are but little, if any, better than Breckinridge. Men who frequent gambling dens, fire their brains with intoxicating drink and associate with thieves and harlots cannot be expected to make wise, wholesome laws for the people. To-day an hundred of our national law-makers are guilty of one or other, and some of all of these crimes. We, the people, really have no right to complain of inebriate, dissolute and dishonest congressmen, for we have given them their places.

When you sell a good horse for forty dollars and fat cattle at two cents a pound, it would seem a little hard if you didn’t happen to think that the “character of your money was not questioned.”

The people asked for fish and

they gave them serpents. They asked for money and King Grover gave them bonds. "Who runs this government? Wall street.

From present indications the Democratic squad will be relieved in 1894. and the Republican gang will shovel dirt for Wall street two years.

Cleveland is as good a silver man as I am. Dan Voorhees, in 1892, you told the truth about Cleveland, but lied on yourself.

Dan Voorhees is a Greenbacker that established the gold standard, and a free trader for extreme protection.

It is not the Russian thistle, but the monopoly thistle that is destroying American agriculture.

The liberal silver legislation promised by Voorhees, was the establishment of the gold standard.

WESTERNand Southern Democrats make good jumping jackes for their eastern gold-bug brethren.

The Democrats, with one hundred majority, lack a quorum more than half the time.

Keep the ‘ ’character of your money good” even if you go naked and starve.