Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-03-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

aDyOOuJ IudJ MduIC" '"' mig u
speak slightly of, or make fun OF
his resolution lnstructing the Sen
are Finance committee TO inquire
Into the feasibility OF the United
States Government loahlng the
farmers of the country money at
one or two per cent per anndm tax.
ing mortgages upon their land to
secure payment, but that the reso-
luton was offered after mature con-
slderation, and he believed 1t to be
entirely practicable and also to be
the best method OF restoring pros.
perity to the depressed agricultural
interest. Mr.. Stanford also stated
that he proposed using all the
influence he had to get the com
mittee to frame and report a bill
on the subject. The thing looks
somew hat startling at first glance,
but when a man of Mr.. Stanfords
business experience advances a
business proposition, it ls certainly
worthy of careful consideration.
The President has been urged to
go to Philadelphia Wednesday to
witness the launching of the new
cruiser "Newark" and he may do
so; he has it under consideration.
Secretary Tracy has become dis
gusted with the tireSome, long
drawn out, red tape method of con-
Quoting business III certain bureaus
of the Navy department and has
determined TO have a change, and
in order to have it made according
to his own ideas he has gone TO the
Norfolk navy yard to make a per
sonal investigation into the delays
that have attended the completion
of the cruiser Baltimore" at that
yard. Commodore Fulton, chief Of
the bureau of provisions and cloth
ing Of the Navy department, has re
signed and others may go in conSe-
quence Of the Secretari's determl
nation.
Representative Lodge, of Massa
ch1setts, has introduced his Fed
eral election bill. 1t contains
many features similar 10 tue Aus
tralian system Of voting and is in
tended to apply to all CongresSlon
al and Presidential electl5Ds. Each
polling place is put in charge o
SIX judges, three representing each
political party. Voters who can
rot read and write mag have tbei
tickets marked by one OF tn,
Judges, in the presence of anothe
Erepre senting the opposite party
Upon petition of 800 voters in an,
district the Federal goyernmen
will assume full control OF the poll
) under the same regulations tina
apply to State control.
! The President has issued a proc
| lamatlon warning intending settler
: to keep off the Cherokee Strip /
the Indian Territory, which man
, people seem under the impressiO
1 was opened to settlement by I'll
! passage OF the Oklahoma bill.
commission is now negOtiatin
= with the Cherokee Indians tC
J. these lands, aud It is prO5ab
that they will be open to settlemer
10 the near future, but they al
0 not open now.
S The Democrats have been Il
L dustriously engaged for sone tin
e past in trying to get up a politics
J. sensation by making statement
Q about the enormous appropriation
e this Congress was to make and Il
B big deficiency there was to be
. the Treasury instead of a surplu
Il Representative Cannon, of IlIlnoi
who Is chairman of the House y
preparation committee, has, by
statement OF facts spiked eve
gun on the Democratic line, VI
Cannon says that with the exec
ton ola pension bill appropriate
: of the present session OF COngre
), will probably be less than that
/. the last, and that there will be ST
g plus enough LETT to enable tie /
J. publicaDs to make the ccntemplat
= reductions III the tariff. Mr.. Ca
4 nou is authority in this ma tier
r. no appropriation bill can get
y fore the House until it has be
u passed upon by his commit,
q The Democrats will have to {
at up something new.
10 a resolution has been adopt
IS by the House calling for inform
~. ~ ton from the Secretary of War
a to the facilities and money at
IN mand to guard the levees a
at government works from dana
Is and destruction by the pres6
u flood 10 the Mississippi river, a
~ what steamers can be used to r
y. cue those in peril