People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — FROM WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON.

An Interesting Batch of News From the Capitol. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Nov. 16.1894. The new bond issue, which was officially announced within 24 hours of Secretary Carlisle’s positive statement that no immediate issue of bonds was contemplated, has succeeded the elections as a conversational topic. •• • • In Washington, Secretary Carlisle has a reputation for truthfulness that is not excelled by any man in public life. For that reason it is inferred by many that there is truth in the talk about President Cleveland

having made the arrangements for the bond issue with Wall I street bankers wi'hout consulting Secretary Carlisle, although the president himself has denied that he did. The puzzling thing about that theory is that Secretary Cai lisle should be willing to remain in the cabinet after such a humiliation. It is very positively asserted by some that Secretary Carlisle will resign as soon he completes his annual report to Congress, upon which he is now working. o • e Just why these bonds should be issued at this time is not apparent. The gold reserve is 512,000,000 more than it was several months ago, and although the receipts of the government from customs duties aie less than they were expected to be, many, even among the bond advocates, regard the issue of bonds as premature. It was quite fully proven by the last bond issue that it was merely a pleasing fiction to suppose that the money received from the sale of bonds added that much to the gold reserve fund. Theori*iieally it does, but practically i didn’t. The government requited that gold should be paid for the bonds, and the gold was i.aid, bin the purchase o-e .ends in nan 5 s .nmediately p.esi-'ti d .. .ry notes and got their g<>! 1 oack ihem, and there is no reason '• supposing that purchasers > e present issue of bonds ■A id not do likewise. All these ' n.v> and more will be hoard 'rom its soon as Congress meets, ast':--re lias been no indication of any .change in the marked :uiii i/O'id feeiing which was -mown at the last session.

© ® ® Tin* report of the strike commission which investigated the Chicago railway strikes is beimz very harshly criticized by extremists on the side of belli la -or and capital, but it seems to st rike the masses as a very fair and conservative document, recognizing t e rights of labor to organize for self protection and also its right to demand and get from the corporations recognition of committees from its organizations in all negotiations affecting the welfare of the employes of said corporations. There is, Of course, a wide difference of opinion as to the wisdom 'of accepting the commission’s recommendations, for a permanent strike commission and’ for State boards of arbitration. o © o According to current talk Senator Gorman has advised Senator Ransom to persuade the democratic leaders of North Carolina to resort to trickery to defeat the will of a majority of the voters as recently expressed by the election of a legislature, and Senator Ransom has accepted the advice. The trick is that the governor shall call an extra session of the legislature which expires by limitation Dec. 31, next, and that this legislature shall elect a successor to the late Senator Vance, whose term expires March 3, 1897, and also a successor to Senator Ransom, whose term expires March 3, 1895, he resigning so as to make a vacancy. Such a proceeding would meet the condemnation of conservative men everywhere. During the recent campaign every voter in North Carolina knew that he was to vote for members of a legislature which would have the election of the United States Senators, and those who would attempt £0 gain a temporary benefit by any such trickery as that mentioned would in the end be sure to find it dearly bought. It is not believed in Washington that the governor will give his aid to such a trick. • • • There is a large element on both the republican and democratic sides of the Senate who hate the populists, not as individuals, ljut as - a party, so

much that they would be willinj to do almost anything rathe than to see the populist senator! dictate the organization of the Senate by making acombinatioi with either of the old partie should the republicans fail.-a now seems likely, to secure th< necessary 45 Senators to organ ize the Senate. -There are a present too few Senators ii Washington to say what thii element will do, but it is knowi that a proposition has beei favorably considered by certait republican and democratic Sena tors which provides for a cofii bination of republican am democratic Senators which entirely ignore the populis Senators in the organization o the Senate. Several of tht populist Senators * are now in Washington and they say they have no fears of any combination against them.