The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-20

WASHINGTON, Sept 19.-By visit to the
Farmers Alliance headquarters in this
city, some interesting information was OBJ
tanned in regard to the program of that
body during the next session of congress.
In addition to the headquarters being To-
Gated here and the principal officers OF the
Alliance being on hand most of the time,
there will be a committee especially charg-
ed with looking out for the interests of the
Alliance before congress The Alliance
claims to have fifty-five men in the next
house who will vote with it on all the
measures which it may see fit to bring for
ward. 1t also claims four senators-Petfer
of Kansas, Kyle of South Dakota, Irby of
South Carolina, and Vance of North Caro-
elected after the legislature of his state
had passed resolution that no man could
be chosen senator until he agreed to pro-
gram which was practically that of the
Alliance. Mr.. Vance having agreed to
those resolutions, the Alliance now claims
him as its own.
At the next session the sub-treasury bill
as it was introduced in the last congress
willnot make its appearance. That meas
ure, they say atAlliance headquarters, has
been repudiated by both houses of con-
gress, and will, for that reason, not be
resurrected. A bill constructed, however,
upon lines similar to it, and embodying
the same principles, will be introduced
into both houses and pushed to a vote.
Exactly what changes will be made in the
original sub-treasury bill have not yet
been determined npon. The Stanford land
loan bill will not be touched by the Alli-
ance, whose leaders are very much put out
that the people think the Stanford bill
finds favor with them. 1t is said at Alli-
ance headquarters that that bill is only
designed to help people who already have
fair share of this worlds goods A bill
bearing upon the same subject will, it is
true, be introduced under Alliance au-
spices. II will provide for the relief of
the agricultural population Of the United
States and for the promotion and encour-
agement of agriculture. It's main feature
will provide that any citizen who owns
and resides upon any tract of land con-
tanning not less than ten nor more than
320 acres. and who has at least one-half of
that tract in actual cultivation, shall be
entitled to apply for and receive from the
treasury of the United States one-half the
assessed value of the land and the i'm
provements Oh it. The loans are to be for
not less than five nor more than ten years,
and the borrower is to pay interest at the
rate of ~ per cent. per annumn.
Antoher measure the passage of which
the Alliance will demand is a free-coInage
bill These three measures are the ones in
which it will take the most interest. But
ether bills will come from its hand. 1t
will have introduced a bill providing for
government control of railroads and tele-
graph systems. In regard to the railroad
and telegraph companies the Alliance is
misunderstood it is said at its headquar-
ters 1t is not, as is generally supposed, in
favor of government ownership of railroads
and the telegraph. 1t simply wants the
government to control them. The ALI
ance will not bring forward any tariff bill.
1t will content itself with demanding the
equalization of the tariff so that it will
bear upon all alike. 1t will, however, put
forward bills to abolish the national bank
ing system.
The above furnishes an outline of the
Alliances program before the next con-
QreSS