People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting Batch of N'ew« From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, August 3, 1894. “You can guess as well as I; the deadlock may end in a day, a week, a month, or it may continue to the end of the Fiftythird Congress. No man is in a position to predict with any degree of certainty what will be done.” Such was the answer of a democratic member of the conference committee to your correspondent’s inquiry for information as to what was the probable outcome of the second conference on the tariff bill. Every day brings its fresh batch of rumors, which are mostly started for the purpose of trying to influence the result. This is particularly true of the publications in the local and New York dailies, which are w’idely read in Congress. The editors of the New York papers have become notorious by reason of their using the Washington dispatches to their papers to influence legislation, regardless of foundation for statements made therin, and it. is equally notorious that they sometimes succeed. There are lots of men in Congress who fear the New York papers more than they do their God. It is but an application of common sense to suppose that the democrats will soon reach an agreement that will be approved by House and Senate. Aside from the necessity. from a strictly political point of view, for such an agreement, the business interests of the country, regardless of politics, are demanding it in no uncertain tone, and if the demand be not complied with—so much the worse for the democratic party. ffi • • The presence of representatives of the ex-queen of Hawaii in Washington to ask that this government defer the recognition of the republic is regarded as a colossal exhibition of cheek. Secretary Gresham granted them an audience as individuals, but told them that he would not treat them as entitled to any official consideration. It is expected that Congress will settle the matter by the adoption of a resolution recognizing the republic. • • • Representative Boen, of Minn., has no love for the National banks and he doesn't care who knows it. He introduced a bill this week which makes it unlaw’ful to charter a National banker to provide additional currency to those already chartered. The bill also directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw all deposits of public moneys from .National banks and to hereafter keep all public funds in the U. S. Treasury. S 9 • The U. S. strike commission, which met in Washington this week and decided to begin its investigation at Chicago on the 15ta inst., has been sharply criticized for the tone of the preamble and resolution it adopted and gave to the press. It is charged that the resolution indicates that the members of the commission expect to sit down in the government building at Chicago and have all the facts concerning the strikes brought in to them. Perhaps it ; will be best to wait and see what the commission does before beginning to criticise it. 1 Because it has asked for information, either in the shape of written or oral evidence, is not a certain indication that it intends to neglect its opportunity to hunt up evidence and facts which > for any cause may not be volunteered, • • • The Bailey bankruptcy bill, which was sometime ago passed by the House, has been favorably reported to the Senate, and Senator George, who is in charge of it, has given notice of his intention to call it up next

week. Monday, if possible. The bill has been so changed by the Senate Judiciary committee that it is really a misnomer to still call it the Bailey bill. • • • To meet the assertions as to the impossibility of framing a law against trusts that will stand i the Constitutional test Representative Hutcheson, of Texas, has introduced a joint resolution for the following amendment to the U. S. Constitution: “Trusts and monopolies dealing in agricultural products or other articles of prime necessity shall not exist in the United States, and Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” • • • At the fag end of - the session the “jobs” always begin to show up, as the confusion attending the closing days is favorable to their slipping through. The Mahone “job” for .the purchase of an unsuitable site for a new 7 Government Printing Office at an exhorbitant price is old enough to have died long ago, and has been exposed so often that everybody in Washington knows its character. Still, it succeeded in getting through the Senate this week as an amendment to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, and if the House will be as accommodating Gen. Mahone will soon be a goodly sum ahead of Uncle Sam. unless President Cleveland should exercise the veto power, which isn’t probable owing to the number and importance of the other appropriations carried by the bill.