People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An futereating Batch of New* From the Capitol. Krom our Jteguiar CorrM»pond«?nt. Washington, Sept. 1, 18CH.D Congress has only been play imr at being in session thia week, while everybody in impatiently waiting for President Cleveland to settle the tariff un certainty. ft was hoped that Mr. Cleveland would act as soon as ho returned to Washingion, but the indications now are that no action will be taken by him before Monday, if then. If the hili isn’t vetoed before or on Monday it will become a law 111 midnight on that day. Great pressure is being brought upon the President to sign the bill at once, but pressure doesn’t count for much in influencing Mr. Cleveland, While a majority of the people still believe that the bill will become a law, there has been a noticable increase in the number who expect to be vetoed, since th* 1 . President’s return to the White Mouse. • • • The advance guard of the Knights of Pythias encampment, to be held next week, are here, and they are all loud in their complaints against the railroads for not making lower rates for those who wished to attend the encampment. It is estimated that the attendance will be only about half of what it would have been with a fair charge for transportation.

'Phe most strongly endorsed resolution for the free coinage of silver ever presented in Congress or elsewhere is that offered by Representative Hartman, of Montana. Among the official endorsements are those of G rand Master Sovereign and Secretary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor; Marion Butler, president of National Farmer’s Alliance; Samuel Gompers, president American Federation of Labor; P. M. Arthur, Chief of Brotherhood of

Locomotive Engineers; John Mcßride, president of United Mine Workers; President-Treas-urer and Secretary Maguire, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners; Grund Master Seargeant and Secretary Arnold, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and C. A. Robinson, president of the Farmer's Mutual Benefit Association. In addition to demanding a return to the free coinage of silver at a 1G to 1 ratio, the resolution condemns increasing the bonded indebtedness of the country in time of peace, and the use of interestbearing bonds at any time. In an address to the people attached to the resolution, a unique method of showing the depreciMhaifi th* price of agricultural

products since silver was demonetized is adopted. For in* stance, the address says: “Before the demonetization of silver 3,500 bushels of wheat or 35,000 pounds of cotton equaled the salary of the President, while today 10/XX) bushels of wheat or 100/XX) pounds of cotton only equal a Congressman's salary, and 100/XX) bushels of wheat or 1/XX),000 pounds of cotton that of the President.” • • • In view of the slurs which have been cast upon the legal ability of Senator Hill, the following opinion of Representative Daniels, a republican, who was for more than 28 years a judge of the N. Y. Supreme Court, before his election to Congress, is suggestive and timely:” In all the cases that Mr. Hill tried before me his papers were the evidence of close study and careful preparation. He never stated a point that was not intended to be proven and it was always put in the most effective way. I

found that where he made a point he knew his ground and could logically defend it. When he set out to prove anything it usually proved to be so. His papers were as neat and as accurate as any I ever saw and there was never the slightest trace of carelessness or slip-shod work. He is without question a lawyer of the first rank.” There are several men in the Senate who believe him also to be a politician of the first rank.

No better example of the difficulty of predicting in advrnce what will l>e the action of either branch of Congress upon any given measure can be cited than the anti-anarchist bill, now hung up in the House by the absence of a quorum, and the opposition of two or three men. The bill was prepared by the Superintendent of Immigration, he claims upon information that a large number of dangerous anarchists, who will be compelled by new laws to leave Franco and Italy, are now preparing to come to this country. It passed the Senate without opposition and was favorably reported upon by the House Judiciary committee. It authorizes the Supl. of Immigration to prevent the landing of alien anarchists and to deport those now in the United States.

It is worthy of note that two out of the three members of the House Warner, of N. Y. City, and Goldzler, of Chicago—who have expressed opposition to the bill represent constituencies which would naturally be supposed to have the greatest dread of an increase in the number of anarchists, having had a taste of what anarchy moons. The opposition of the third,— Bland, of Missouri—is even more difficult to understand, as he represents an agricultural constituency. They all claim that their opposition is because the bill is not properly drawn and that it gives the Superintendent of Immigration more authority than can safely be put i nto the hands of any one man. Pressure is being brought to bear on absent members of the House to get enough of them to return to make a quorum.