The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-25
THE DADDY DOLLAR.

The Silver Question Likely 70 be IN Iuests
esting Ono in the Next COnEress-Dee,-
sion Reversed.
WASHINGTON, September 1S.-Repre
sentative Warner, of Ohio, Is in the city,
having come here to see Secretary Manning
and Treasurer Jordan about his proposed
silver compromise bill Mr.. Warner has
been consulting with all the prominent sill
yer men he could reach with a view Of
strengthening his proposition. The most
important persons on both side. Of the
question are said, however, to stand in their
original positions and the prospects for .
compromise are not thought to be good.
Both Mr.. Bland and Mr.. Reagan are quoted
as declaring their determination to stand by
the Bland dollar uncompromisingly and the
anti-silver men say that President Cleve-
land has not altered his views in the least
since writing his famous anti-siIver letter
shortly after his election. The prospects
seem to be for a straight issue on both sides
and the outcome depends upon whether or
not the administration has received enough
converts since the last session to put
them in control of the House on that cues
ton, which it is thought will be the most
important in tile organization OF the House.
In this respect Speaker Carlisle will be
placed in an embarrassing position. There
is 10 idea that he will meet with any oppo-
sition in his canvass for the Speakership.
and he will have to decide as to the organ.
ization sf the Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures Committee, which will have the silver
question before it. According to the gem
eral custom the old chairlnen who served
satisfactorily will be reapponted at the
heads OF their respective committees. THUS
Mr.. Morrison will expect to so at the head
of the Ways sand Means; Mr.. Randalrs
friends will claim fer him the Apnr0pria.
tons Committee; Mr.. Bland will expect to
be placed ut the head of the Coinage,
Weights and Measures Committee MIR.
Bland will expect also that the committee
will he organized according to his ideas, so
that silver men Will be in control. Should
his expectations be accomplished the silver
men would have tie reins in their own
hands, and the administration would be
defeated at the outset On the other
hand, if Mr.. Carlisle should refuse to
place Mr.. Eiand in his old position, or should
organize the committee so as to take the
power ont of his hands at its will, it would
have the tendency TO commit the House to
the support of the administration before
any vote had been taken, and to plunge it
into long and exciting contest at once. In
the face of these circumstances it is i'm
pOrtant 70 know what Mr.. Carlisie's views
on the question are. The silver men nat
uraiiy reckon OH his being with them as OPP
posed to the New York bankers, but it is
understood that he has studied the ques-
ton very carefully aud is inclined to think
with the President that there is danger in
the unlimited coinage of silver dollars.
This question is giving him more uneasiness
than the tariff or anything else that may
come before Congress this winter and for
months past he has been talking with men
on both sides and making a careful study
of the situation. Representative Warner
expressed the opinion that Congress would
pass compromise silver bill this S, asGn.
DECISION REVERSED.
WASHINGTON, September 1S.-The Secre-
tary of the Interior has made decision in
what are known as the Ontonagon land
case, reversing the decision of the Commits
sioner of the Land Office. The parties to
the case, which is said to involve the pos
session of several million dollars worth Of
land in the Marquette district, Mich, are
Picard VS.. Camens, Wakefield vs.. LongOn
and Spies VS.. Mohring, and the question at
issue was the right of pre-emptOrs TO locate
upon lands covered by private entries. In
his decision the Secretary holds that the
private entries and locations are not void,
but voidable only for want Of restoration;
that the Prescriptions are not admissible
upon the lands, and private entries may be
submitted to the Board of Equitable Adju-
dication upon the filing within sixty days
of petitions By the parties interested.