The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-07-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
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Washington, July 2l, 1890
Representative Lodge is monomsn-
lac on the subject of Federal election
law. He wants he says, "if necessary
file of federal soldiers al every poll
ing place iu his district" He has
made the Federal election idea the sole
object of his thoughts throughout this
session, and will attempt to crowd out
any other Important business in its
favor. He was the first member to
arrive in Washington, and promptly
attached his fortune TO that of Mr..
Reed, while he was a candidate for
the speakership of the House. He
came here before any other of the
Massachusetts delegation, and when
they arrived, they learned, as they did
two years before, that Mr.. Lodge had
his committee places picked out in ad.
vance of any of them.
There is great pressure at present
in republican circles, to have the Louge
bill pass OF course the actual reason
is that millions have been given away
through subsidies and tariff, public
buildings and in many other extrsvs-
CANT ways, and it is admitted by those
in authority that the u. 5. Treasury is
nearly bankrupted. To avoid deficit
the republican majority proposes that
the government shall commit a colos-
sal breach of trust. To be brief;. On
the 14th of August next the silver
coinage act becomes operative. Upon
that day the amount held by the U. 5.
Treasurer for the redemption of the
circulating notes, in the hands of the
public, of discontinued national banks,
according to the terms OF the a, t, are
TO be turned into the general fund.
The amount will probably, according
| to the best estimates, amount to about
$50, 100000 This is done under the
pretense of increasing the circulation;
while the real reason is to avoid de-
6cit in the Treasury, when all these
wasteful appropriations come to be
paid.
The statesmen here are, also inten-
sely excited at the outcome of the
census, aud the new apportionment
They realize that the old Northeran
States will scarcely hold their own in
population, and that the growth of the
country at large may even detract from
them something of their present repro
sentation. There is also good reason
| to believe that tie new industries
mines, and activity of the South, de
veloped during the last ten years, hav'
brought more people there than one,
{ were. Hence the great anxiety on tn
part of the republicans to pass tn
9 Lodge bill. But that cannot b.
reached without violating and chang
ing the rules that have governed th
, Senate for hundred years.
, Pressure is being brought to bea
, on the five or six republican Senator
who are most determined in their op
position to the measure; and meanwhll
the features of the bill are being con
sidered by the Senate Committee O
= Privileges and Elections. The Senat
' will dispose of the appropriation bills
and then the tariff bill, before tn
: election bill is reached; aud it will b
left pending at adjournment, unles
: those more conservative statesmen ca
D.. be influenced in its favor.
.. Representative Yoder, of Ohio, VIII,
is a member of the Democratic Con
gressional committee, says that tn
democrats will gain several Represent
. atives at the coming election, as tn
D.. result of the gerrymander of the state
D.. Mr.. Mckinley has been thrown into
D. district that will have a majority o
;. 2OOO against him. His friends wi
;. make a desperate effort to secure hi
D. election: but Mr.. Yod.r says that moth
. ing short of million dollars will az
;. complish that result.
=. The other gains, which the commit
>. tee is confident of making, are three i
:. Missouri, one in Kentucky, two il
Maryland, one each in louisiana an
Pennsylvania, and others possibly i
Iowa and Massachusetts. Enough,
short, TO give the democrats a goo
working majority in the next Hous
The Senate is still discussing th
" Sundry Civil Bill A lively debate b.
tween Senators Reagan of Texas an
" Stewart of Nevada, was one Of II
CLEANS of sunshine during this pr
longed" deliberation.'
The House to-day, after an at tim'
exceedingly lively debate, passed tt
"Original Package bill, it having bee
decided by the republican manager
IN that the passage of this bill was nece
ct sary to keep the prohibition republica
y voters in line at the coming Congress
d. ional elections.
r The next thing on the House repul
~ lican programme is the National Ban
III ruptcy bill, which is to be railroad,
IS in the usual Reed style; the Hou:
D. having by a party vote decided th'
n the final vote should be taken on We
ID nesday. Think of passing measu
as sweeping in its effects as this one
Us after only two days of alleged "deli
IN eration.'