The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-02-05
WASHINGTON, D, C.
LETTER FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Writes Entertain
ingly About Men and Matters Of
Public Interest.

Our Correspondent Writes Entertain
ingly About Men and Matters Of
Public Interest.
Special Correspondence Of the Gold Leaf
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1891.
The Sioux Indian delegation ha.
arrived. They came from Chicago ir
a special car. The entire party, con.
sisting Of eighteen Indians and inter.
prefers, went at once to the Beveridge':
boarding house on 3d street, where
they remain during their stay here
Acting under orders from the Indian
bureau, Special agent Lewis, who was
in charge of the party, gave directions
that no one should be allowed to speak
with the Indians 1t is proposed tina,
whatever they have to say Secretary
Noble shall be the first to hear it.
There are fourteen Indians in the
party and they are representative men.
Like the majority of the members OF
the Sioux tribes these Indians are fine
specimens of physical manhood. They
do not present as good appearance as
they will later on when their store
clothes are replenished. About half
the delegation appear in entire suits OF
civilized clothes and the other half
wear combination costume, part
Indian and part civilized. 1t is prob
able that they will not call on the Sec
retary of the Interior until next week,
and in the interval the Indian bureau
will supply the deficiencies in their
wardrobes.
At last Senator Matthew Stanley
Quay is going to speak.
For many months he has been under
charges from many sources of corrupt
and criminal acts in office. The long
silence he has kept, which has been
accepted by many persons as conclu-
sive evidence of guilt, is about to be
broken.
He has prepared to every charge a
specific and in some cases an elaborate
reply, the whole of which is pronounced
by friend of Mr.. Quay's to be one of
the most remarkable documents in re-
cent political history.
The medium through which Mr.. Quay
will give his version to the world is
the United States Senate and within a
day or two, perhaps tomorrow, if the
occasion is favorable, Mr.. Quay will
rise in the Senate to a question of per-
sonal privilege and startle the Sena-
tors with full statement of the f It's
as he views them, as we'll as with the
only attempt at speech he has made
Since he has been in Congress.
He has declined to discuss them
through the newspapers, because he
cannot reach all the public through
any one or a dozen papers, and for
other reasons which, the friends says,
are good and sufficient.
1t was for a time his intention to
resign from the Senate, seek re-elec-
ton from the present Pennsylvania
Legislature as vindication and when
he got it to appear personally at Har-
risburg and make his defence there.
The premature publication of this in
tention robbed it of a good deal Of its
dramatic effect and then there were
other reasons, including possibly the
fact that it was not as dead sure he
could get reelected, which drove him
from the idea.
As to the allegation that as State
Treasurer of Pennsylvania he abstract
ed sums for his own use from the pub
lie funds, Mr.. Quay will say that SO
far as the charge relates to him it is
entirely false. There was, he admits,
a shortage in the Treasury, of which he
was IN charge, but he was not the
cause of it.
The funds were distracted by the
cashier, a gentleman, by the way, who
is now dead.
"Far be it from me-" says Mr..
Quay, "to impugn the motives of the
dead"
He took no money himself, and
none was taken for his use nor re-
turned on his account by his friends.
The silver question is now COM
pletely the absorbing interest of the
lower house of Congress. The silver
men are doing all in their power to
force the issue and whatever causes de-
lay is certainly not distasteful to the
anti-silver men.
Two silver committees-onei inves-
tigating the "silver pool' and the
other considering the money value
of silver-were in full blast to-day,
and both hearings were largely at
tended, there being general interest
on the subject among men not in
Congress who are in the capital at
this time.
Delegations of silver men and OF
gold men were before the coinage
committee, and the room was crowded
until no more could enter.
The delegation from Massachusetts,
were heard during the morning.
Their arguments were directed toward
proving that it was not safe to expert
ment with free coinage.
Mr.. Gibson, Wall street broker, a
fellow of the London Statistical Soci-
ETY., gave the committee a surprise.
He was put on the stand by the gold
men, and being a Wall street broker,
was expected to argue in line with
those who had gone before. Instead