The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-30
Programme OF the Alliance.

WASHINGTON, September 16.-The off,
Gals on duty at the headquarters of the
Farmers Alliance, in this city, are busily
engaged in arranging the programme of
legislation which they hope to see enacted
by the SD Congress. The Alliance claims
to have fifty-fve men in the next House
who will vote with it upon all measures.
1t also claims four Senators: PETER of
Kansas, Kyle of South Dakota, Irby of
South Carolina, and Vance ~ North
Carolina.
The Alliance claims Vance Lecause he
was elected after the Legislature Of his
State had passed resolution that 10 man
could be chosen Senator until he had
agreed to a programme which was prac-
tically 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 was introduced in the last Congress
will not, it is understood, make its ap-
pearance. That, they say at Alliance
headquarters, has been repudiated by
both houses Of Congress, and will for that
structed, however, upon similar lines and
embodying the same principles will he
introduced in both houses and pushed to
a vote. Exactly what changes will be
made in the original sub-treasury bill
has not yet been determined.
The Stanford land loan bill will not be
touched by the Alliance. The leaders of
the latter are very much put out because
the people think the Stanford bill finds
favor with them.' The Alliance people
who think that bill is designed to help
only those who already have fair share
of this worlds goods, and that the only
people who are booming 1t are those who
are engaged in booming Senator Stanford
for the Presidency. AS To the Alliance,
it declares it will have nothing to do with
Senator Stanford or his bill.
The bill on the same subject and intro
duced under Alliance auspices will pro-
vide for the relief Of the agricultural pop
ulation of the United States, and for the
promotion and encouragement Of agricul-
ture. It's main features will provide that
any citizen who owns and resides upon
any tract Of land containing not less than
ten nor more than 800 acres, and who has
at least one-half Of that tract in actual
cultivation, shall be entitled to apply for
ted States q loan not to exceed one-half
the assessed value of the land and the
improvements on it. The loans are to be
for not less than five nor more than ten
years, and the borrower Is to pay interest
at 2i per cent.
Another measure which the Alliance
will push is FREQ coinage bill. These
three measures are the ones which
It will take the most interest in,
but other bills will come from its hands.
1t will have introduced a bill providing
for Government control Of railroads and
telegraph systems. In regard to the rail-
roadand telegraph companies the Alliance
Is misunderstood, it is said, at It's head
quarters. 1t is not, as Is generally sup
posed, in favor of Government ownership
of railroads and the telegraph. 1t simply
wants the Government to control them.
The Alliance will not bring forward
any tariff bill. It will content itself with
demanding the equalization Of the tariff
80 that it will bear upon all alike. It will,
however, put forward bills to abolish the
national banking system.-Ne,u York
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