People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting Batch of A’ew* From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, June 1, ’94. Senator Hill seems to possess in a marked degree the faculty for stirring up the Senate whenever he has a mind tq do so. It wiil be some time before the Senators on that investigating commitlee get over the racking down he gave them in his speech for persecuting the newspaper men who published the sugar trust charges and neglecting so < plain away of getting at the truth as examining under oath the Senators against whom charges were made, and it is already plain that the speech has had effect of making the committee understand that persecution of newspaper men will not be accepted as exoneration for the Senators who have been charged with wrong doing. Senator Hill’s championing of the wright of newspaper men to decline to give the names of those from whom they get confidential information was entirely unexpected, but it was none the less appreciated on that account. It has been a long time since the newspapers had any surplus of friends in the Senate. • 9 ® The fate of the sugar schedule of the tariff bill, now about to be decided, will settle that of the bill. The republicans have been working hard to secure votes , enough to beat the sugar schedule, but they have not succeed- • ed, and, unless there is some radical change, will not succeed. • 09 Coxey’s army has been joined by Galvin’s men and the combined forces marched into Washington Memorial Day and decorated the Peace monument. The men are not happy. They have been living this week on bread and water, a diet that is not calculated to make anybody happy. They still say they intend to re*, main until Congress acts upon their petition. If they do they will stay along time. Coxey’s lawyers are going to try to get him out of jail under habeas corpus proceedings. • 90

Postmaster General Bissell has stirred up a hornet’s nest by writing a letter opposing the bill providing for government < ownership of all telegraphic lines, which was framed by a -committee of the International Typographical Union and has been endorsed by labor organizations in all sections of the counj try. The P. M. G. concluded his letter against the bill as follows: “I believe the incorpation of the postal telegraph with the mail service of this country would add enormously to the annual deficit without correspondingly advancing the interest of .public, and it is, therefore my judgment that the bill ought not to become a law.” This was op position from an entirely unexpected quarter, as every head of the Post Office department for a decade past has been in favor of some sort of a governmnt telegraphic seviee, but it has not frightened the supporters of the bill, who deciare that if this Congress does not pass the bill the labor organizations will make 'government ownership of telegraph lines an issue in the coming Congressional election, voting against every candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for it in the next Congress, They contend that if Mr. Bissell’s argument is good the carrying of the mails, which is done at a |oss, should be turned over to private parties. The subject is a live one. © e 9 Representative Black, of Georgia, the man wh® defeated Tom Watson in the last Congressional election, made the somewhat remarkable assertion in the course of a speech in favor of the repeal of the tax on State bank currency, which is now 7 being considered by the House, that

the United States Supreme Court had no more right to bind the House in its actions than the House had to bind the Supreme Court. • 9 9 The Lake Carriers Association doesn’t like the bill introduced by Representative Lockwood, of N. Y., intended to prevent the employment of Canadian sailors on American vessels, and Col. R. C. Parsons and Harvey D. Goulder, of Cleveland Ohio, appeared before the House Committee on Immigration this week, to state why the association opposed the bill. The clause they particularly object to is that requiring that seamen shall be domiciled in the U. S. six months before they are eligible for employment on American vessels. • 99 The Hawaiian question, which has spas modically occupied the attention of the Senate for more than a year, was by Senator Kyle's persistency forced to the front again this week. Mr. Kyle asked the Senate to pass a resolution merely declaring that this government would not interfere with Hawaii, as a means of stopping the rumors of the intended restoration of royalty, which he declared his private letters from Hawaii said were frequent and decidedly embarrassing to the Hawaiian government, and to show his indifference to the wording of the resolution, offered to withdraw his own resolution in favor of that report from the committee on Foreign Rela tions months ago. That did not suit Senator Vest, who offered a substitute declaring against annexation. The Senate evidently favors annexation, as it promptly voted 36 to 18 to lay Mr. Vest’s substitute on the table. Later it was agreed to pass a resolution declaring against interference and not mentioning annexation.