People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — PULLMAN CAR PASSES. [ARTICLE]

PULLMAN CAR PASSES.

More of Them Distributed in Congress Than Ever Before. NO FKMiCUL LEGISLATION THIS SESSION 'The Ineome T»x it at Last Passed by the denote Without Division. NICARAGUA CANAL BILL DEAD. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington. Jan. 18.--The silver men in Congress are mastors of the financial situation to the extent of being able to prevent legislation they do not want, but there is little probability of their power extending and further; hence, the certainty that there will be no financial legislation at this session. There is a scheme on foot to let the whole question rest until a few days before the close of the session and then to attempt to rush a bill through the house and the senate authorizing the issue of bonds at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury. This scheme is the result of a combination of those democrats and republicans who think nearly alike upon financial questions, and will, as a matter of course, be opposed by the silver men. The Frankiny Priv lege Derived Somebody has either been very schrewd or very careless. It has just become known that a < lause in the bill regulating the publication and distribution of public documents, known while before congress as the “printing bill,” which this week received the President’s signature and went into effect as a law, partially revives the franking privilege. The vice president and members and members-elect of congress being allowed to frank letters not exceeding one ounce in weight. Not a word was said about this clause when the bill was before either the house or the senate, and every senator and representative whose attention has been called to it professes ignorance of its having been in the bill, but it is not likely that any of them will on that account fail to take advantage of it.

T» Hhipthr Kffrttt to .4 fri* i. Senator Morgan made a speech at the seventy-eight annual meetin? of the American Colonization Society that has attracted considerable attention, in view of his position in Alabama, where many have insisted that 1 he negro laborers were a necessity. Senator Morgan advanced the opinion in his speech that Ibe most beneficial solution of negro problem, so far as the negro himself is concerned, is to be found in their emigration to Africa, which he declared to be the richest country, in resources, on earth. The senator urged the formation by negroes of a line of steamships to run between Charleston or New Orleans and Africa, and pledged himself if that were done to secure commercial treaties with Siberia and the Free Congo State allowing trade between them and the United States. liberal With Hufi. It is said that more Pullman car passes have been distributed in congre.s during the present session than ever before. It is not surprising that people should connect this liberality with the proposal to put legislative restriction on the charges ma le by sleeping and parlor car companies; also with the failure to push those proposed legislative restrictions. Bill* Ttlkt-B t» Drath

If JSsuator Gorman was coriu saying that only once in Ihe history of the senate has a hill bavin? a majority in its favor—in 1850, when Robert Tombs of Georgia, defeated an appropriation bill holding the floor during tne last two hours of the session —been defeated by failure to reach a vote on it, some m'stakes have been made by th >se w io have assumed to say in advance how all the senators w >aid vote. Measures have certainly failed to reach a vote w hich were supposed by the public to b«> favored by a majority: bm. ot coarse. Senator Gn-n n tn know more about h. than the public. To Impeach J i4ge Biekt Tue aou>ejudiciary comm'ttee has decided by a vote of 7 to 6 to rep »rt a resolution of impeachmost against Judge Ricks, of Ohio. Tle seven votes for impeachment were ail'cast.by demujrats. except one. Representative U pdegraff. of lowa, who is a' republican; and the six votes against impeachment were all

cast by democrats, except one, representative Updegraff of lowa who is a republican, and the six votes against impeachment were all cast by republicans except that of Representative Goodnight of Kentuckey. who is a democrat. Representative Bailey, of Texas, will draw up the resolution of impeachment. .¥• .4 twopriation for the Niearajua Canal It begins to look as though the Nicaragua canal bill is dead so far as this session of congress is concerned. The bill has been steadily losing ground, even in the senate, ever since it was pointed out that no official government investigation had ever been made, either of the feasibility of the proposed canal, the money already spent by the canal Company, or, of what has actually been done towards building the canal company. There is much more probability that congress will merely authorize an official investigation to be made than that it will pass the canal bill. If such an investigation was thoroughly made some very interesting things would oe found out. The income tax appropriation went through the senate without a division. You who worship at the political shrine of the Inter Ocean, please note, that it advises you to read Coin’s Hand Book, a standard populist treatise upon finance. Note also that the Inter Ocean's editorials are as offensively cranky on the subject of free silver and greenbacks as the populist platform itself, and if you have time, just read the leading editorial of Sunday. Jan. 13, 1895, which is reprinted in this paper—it actually shocks the nervous system of the faithful. so have your smelling bottle handy.

The Union Pacific railroad is to be sold to satisfy its first mortgage of $32,000,000. That is what is threatened providing the government does not extend its second mortgage of over $100,000,000 for fifty years. It is fair to presume that congress will maintain the sweet harmony of its record by granting that robber octopus everything it asks for. It is safe to say that Uncle will never receive a dollar back of she millions it loaned the company.

The Inter-Ocean believes in restoring silver to its old coinage rights: it calls the demonetization of silver by John Sherman in 1873 a fraud; it repudiates the financial policy of both the old parties; it takes back what it said in 1893 when it urged repeal; it has a good word for greenbacks. And are these not fundamental demands of the populists? The Pullman company has ♦40.000,000 worth of property upon which it pays no taxes, yet it put the state of Illinois to great expense last summer in its labor difficulty. It is to such tax dodging corporations that the graduated income tax would so beaiitifully apply. Revolution to restore a monarchy in Hawaii is but the natural result of the government’s friendliness to the royalists.