The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d C.,
12 1895

revelant this week. Both Senators
and Representatives have shown an
irresistible inclination to ignore
business and deliver speeches on pet
subjects. On one day the Senate
listened to three orations on totally
dissimilar measures, Silver, Art and
the Army. Senator Henderson call
ed attention to his bill for building
up the Army, Senator Blair asked
that monuments be erected to Lin
coin and Grant, and Senators Pugh
and Vance advocated continued
coinage of silver dollars.
Elk. Gov. Curtin's resignation of
the Guardianship of the Banking
and Currency Committee, and SEN
ator ingalls, coinage resolution are
the prominent financial features of
the week at the Capitol. Mr.. Cur
tins action, which was anticipated,
brings an extreme silver man, Re-
preventative Miller of Texas, to the
head of this committee, and the
Senator from Kansas proposes to
continue the present coinage of sill
yer until a limit has been reached of
$5O0,000,OO0. At the present rate of
coinage, $20,00O,OOO a month, it
would take fifteen years from date
to reach this amount. In declining
the position to which hewas assign
ed, Mr.. Curtin said he was not lack
ing in appreciation of the honor
conferred upon him by the Speaker,
but that he could not escapet the con-
viction that the tastes and expert
ences of his public life were not such
as fitted him to serve in that position
with satisfaction to himself or with
usefulness to the House.
The silver men have established
their headquarters here, and their
work is apparenti in the halls ofCon-
gress. Scarcely a day passes without
a Congressman introducing a petit
ton against the retirement of silver.
Agitation of the silver question will
probably continue through the en-
tire session. "But," remarked Sena-
tor Colvuit of Georgia, sit will be
only agitation, forno legislation will
be accomplished The opinion is a
fair reflex of the views of amajority
of the Senators from the South and
West, and party lines would be OBJ
liberated on a vote for the demone-.
~tization of silver. Senator Pugh, of
Alabama, in a good natured refer
ence to the ADMINISTRATOR silver
policy said, that ON this subject,
both parties allowed differences. of
opinion within their ranks. On next
Monday the silver question will be
formally presented in the Senate for
consideration and then talk on sill
yer, which has been given out so
freely of late, will be revelant in that
end of the Capitol at least.
A Democratic Representative was
speaking of the hardness of the
House in getting down to business,
and of the tendency of members to
speak in season and out upon their
favorite measures. Said he, "This
is like a glass of beer, there is a lot
of froth to be blown off before YOU
can get down to the substance.
Scores of members have speeches
prepared on various subjects, and
they had just as well be blown off
now when the House has nothing
else to do. They are sure to waste
time, hereafter, when the House gets
fairly to business. They are the
froth that has to be gor ridof before
any real work can be done.
The House has shown commend
able alacrity in regard to the Presi-
Dental succession bill, which has
already passed the committee and
been reported to the House without
amendment. Some members are dis
posed to objectt to certain provisions
of the bill, but it is probable that it
will pass substantially as it came
from the Senate. The feature in the
bill most criticized is thatwhirh ere
ates a cabinet i~nterregnnm till the
expiration of the full Presidential
term. But the contingency is so re-
mote that this objection lis rather a
fanciful one, it being altogether I'M
likely that both President and Vice
President will ever die at the begin
ming of a term.
The Senate, in secret session, has
been confirming the Presidents
nominations, many of them as fast
as the names could be read. Among
the first were the new Civil Service
Commissioners. When Mr. Eaton's
name came up, Senator Logan made
the point that he was a "mugwump,"
and that the spirit of the civil ser
vice law required that one of the
commissioners be a Republican.
Several Republican Senators vouch-
ed for Mr.. Eaton's politics, and the
Commission is now certified to the
country as eligible for its duties.
Very few of the nominations will be
objected to-not more than one per
cent. of them. The Presidents po-
sition in regardto them, is one which
Republican Senators find it hard
% extract any grievance. He did not
withhold any of his recess appoint
nents, but sent them all in as Dem
ocrats whom he believed to be per-
'onally honest, worthy and efficient.
f he has been deceived in some of
hem, he leaves the responsibility
With the Senate. Juno.
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The following. from the Cleve-
land Penny Press is to.the point:
The bankers do not care any,
hing about the weight or bulk of
si1yar. or tho ratio of ro1J =, -l;l