Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-01-24
Budget from Our Regular
 Correspondent.
FREE COINAGE OfLOOK
In the House Thought to be
 Rather UnlaVorable.
Windom's Silver Brick Decision Blaine Commended--Quay
 New Election Bill.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 16, 1891.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16, 1891.
 This is certainly the era of political
 sensations, and this week has produced two, the influence of which will be felt
 for many q day in this county; and may
 hap in others closely related to us in
 business. The first was the attempt of
 Great Britain, after having been fairly
 outwitted in diplomacy by MT. Blaine to
 use our Supreme Court for the purpose
 of opposing the executive branch of our
 Government, proceeding unparalleled
 and without precedent in the interna
 tional diplomatic annals of the world
 and the second;was the passage of the | free silver coinage bill as a substitute | for the Senate Financial bill, ln spite of the determined efforts of Senators Sher-
 man, Allison, Evarts,s sMorrill, Aldrich
 and others whose financial sagacity has
 moulded the policy of the republican party on money matters for more than | decade.
 It was evident several days ago that silver was on top in the Senate, after the speech of Senator Ingalls, in favor of free | coinage, which was in many respects the ablest and brilliant ever delivered by that l extraordinarily brilliant man. No power 1 onsearth could have stemmed the tide | It was-all in vain that Senator German, the democratic leader, who probably re- gretted when too late the part he and
 many members of his party had taken ] in bringing about the present situation, attempted to stem the silver flood by proposing an amendment which would
 result in shutting out silver produced in l other countries. The die was cast, and, as far as the Senate can compe! it io do so, this country has thrown dos the gauntent to the financial world, and proposes to make silver the equal of gold in every respect in this country, whatever may be the consequences.
 Mir. Blaine has right to feel proud of the sentiment which the action of the British Government, in attempting to ig
 nore the executive branch of thIs Gov ernment by appealing to the United States Supreme Court for help, has evoked. It was the one thing needed to solidIfy American sentiment in support of the stand taken by this administra- ton. Iodaya Congress is practically a unit in support of MT. Blaine, whereas there had been a disposition previously among the democrats to sheer at MT. Blaine's methons of conducting Boring Sea negotiations. The sentiment now existing among the democrats may be judged by the action of Representative Enloe, of Tennessee, who has introduced resolution in the House reciting the action of the British Government and lc, Ai tion of the dignity of the United States, and providing that copy of this resolu- ton shall be sent to the British Govern ment. General Hooker one of the oldest democratic mem bers of the House con- mittee on foreign affairs, says: "Mr. Blame will come out all right. I have great confidence in him. I differ with him in politics, but have great conf dence in his ability to manage anything he undertakes"
 The house committee on the Worlds Fair have agreed upon a report which favors more care in the expenditure of money by the commission and a reduc tien in the number as we'll as the sala ries of the employees Everything in connection with the exposition is nov ing along nicely and points to a general success.
 Postmaster General Wanamaker has, at the direction.of the President, abolish ed the Post Office at Catharine, Alaba ma, because of the action of some of the citizens of that place in driving the re- publican postmaster away from hIs office.
 Secretary Windom has decided, as he was compelled to under the present law, that the director of the Philadelphia mint was right in declining to coin a silver brick which was presented to him by the agent of several owners of silver mines.
 here is an interesting rumor here l that the pins are being set up to have | Perry Belmont, the young man who, l when chairman of the house committee | on Foreign affairs few years ago, gain | ed some valuable although painful ex- perieuce through a controversy with | MT. Blame, elected to the Senate from l New York.
 Senator Quay's new election bill pro- | viding for the suspension of the writ of | habeas corpus and the use of the army | and navy whenever necessary, in the | Presidents discretion, to prevent fraud | or force at the polls, is disturbing the | democrats very much.
 Those who ought to know say there | is not the slightest probability that free | coinage coinage will get through the | house at this session; it's friends are nev- ertheless making a most determined ef- | fort in that direction.