Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1891-04-02
WASHINGTON NOTES,
The NeWs From the National Capital as it
Effects the interests of the Vest 4
eyn Farmers.
Our Correspondent Tells What Our Of
fciais are Doing in the Capital
City.

TtSpo1tuett' OOuleUOuy IS going W Ue ulS-
appointed about this reciprocity business
between Canada and the United States,
and it will not be Mr.. Blaine. The Cana
dian officials haye not helped their cause
any by getting the British government to
bring the reciprocity negotiations between
this country and Newfoundland to an
abrupt close, by declining to allow that
colony to negotiate seperate treaty.
Mr.. Blaine knows that he has the whip
handle of Canada, and has intimated
very plainly. understand, the British
minister who has been trying to pave the
way for the Canadian commissioners to
negotiate a reciprocity treaty, that un
less they can come hear prepared to nego-
tiate from an American standpoint, they
might as well not come. ''That is just
the point exactly" said a western sena-
tor, Canada wants our market good
deal worse than we do hers, and she must
calculate to take that fact into considera-
tion, there can be no dickering If Blaine
doesn't get the best of the bargain he will
simply decline to take it at all, and then
what will Miss Canada do. Commercial
ly speaking Canada is in our power, and
she must accept such terms as we may be
to offer.''
1t is a mistaken idea, that many people
have been led into from lack Of trust
worthy information, to suppose that all
of the men elected to the fifty-second con-
gress, by the Farmers Alliance, are un-
educated. Just the reverse is true. SEN
ator PETER, of Kansas, while not well up
in the dead language and classical lore, is
nevertheless an educated man and as
authority upon matters relating to the
United States government, and its do.
mestic affairs, he has few superiors.
Representative John Davis, from the
same state will be one of the best educat-
ed men that will sit in either house of the
ffty-second congress. Indeed he is so
close student that he has earned the
title of "crank." But he is the kind of
a crank that the country can always
find room for. He is the originator of
the idea of state agricultural colleges, and
the author of the bill passed by the Illi-
nois legislature establishing the first one
of those colleges in that state. He will
be heard from in the house, and any
that tackles him under the i'm
preston that he doesn't "know beans"
will get badly left.
Nearly all the states entitled to pay
ments under the direct tax act have ap-
piled for and received their checks from
the treasury department..
Hayti, the black republic, according to
private advice received here, wants to get
under Uncle Sans protective wings, if
the old gentleman has any such appurten-
ances. In return for a cooling station
upon the island which the United States
has long been desirous of possessing, the
Haytians want the United States to IS.
sumo q protectorate over the island. The
here is that the price is too
high. 1--WE have quite enough trouble
with the blacks we already have without
to care for any more" is the
way gentleman from the south, puts
it.
No more silver dollars will be coined
after July l, owing to the fact that the
silver law enacted by the last congress
the secretary of the treasury
to discontinue the coinage at that time,
with discretionary power to resume when
ever it becomes necessary to redeem the
silver certificates. The 4, 500, 900 ounces
Of silver bullion purchased each month
thereafter will be paid for in treasury
notes. The mint will put in a big part
Of its time for quite while after the first
Of July in recoining the mutilated and
abraded fractional currency now in the
which amounts to several mil
lions of dollars. The total number of
silver dollars now in existence is 397, 600,
600 of which 67, 600, 900 are in actual cir