Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From cur Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 2, 1891.

Washington. IAN 4 1871
The Senatorial situation was never
in worse middle than it is today.
Nobody can say with any certainty
what the result will be, there is so
much pulling at cross purposes on all
sides. First, because most numerous,
comes the republicans who want the
election bill passed and who believe
the cloture rule to be necessary IN or
der to get a vote on that measure;
then come the republicans who want
free silver coinage and who don't care
a continental about either the cleo
ton bill or the cloture rule; then there
are the republicans who neither sup
port nor oppose the election bill with
any spirit, but who gladly assist In
keeping that measure before the SEN
ate, because it prevents the consider
alton of financial Legislation, to which
they are unalterably opposed; the
democrats are solldly united in oppos-
ition to the Election bill. and it is
generally believed that they viii
agree to sacrifice any or all legisla-
ton if thereby they can bring about
the defeat of that measure.
Everybody is taking long breath,
SO to speak, for the decisive contest
which will begin Monday and end
with the triumph of some one of the
forces above mentioned Some idea
of the feeling of the free coinage re-
publicans may be gained by the fol-
lowing remarks made by Senator Tel
Ter: ST wish to say that think there
are other subjects which ought TO be
brought before the senate of infinite
~ more importance than the election
bill. We stand in the very face Of
great financial CONFUSION, and no
matter what gentleman May say, the
best minds in this country assert to-
day that we are on the very verge of
} financial panic. I know that GER
tam bankers in the city of New York
are saying that everything is lovely,
Why? They dare not say otherwise.
If the great mass of people of this
country were fully aware of our inan-
cial condition they would see that
there is danger of financial rum to
thousands and tens of thousands of
men who are absolutely solvent today.
I believe it is the duty of the senate
to meet those questions; not that I
put dollars and cents above human
rights or above liberty, but there can
be no liberty in any country where
there is not prosperity of the people,
and the people today in every por-
ton of this country are muttering
their discomfort against existing facts
and existing conditions. They are
] demanding Legislation at our hands,
: and rightfully demanding it." A
Z member of the House, who is decided
I ~ favorable to the Farmers Alliance
. remarked to me as Mr. Teller finish
I ed his short speech: IF Teller
; wasn't lawyer that speech would
make hum eligible for membership IL
: the Farmers Alliance"
The presence of Hon. Robt. T. Lin.
y coin, United States minister to Greai
Britain. has revived the talk about {
$ crisis having been reached In our ne
s gotiations with the Great Britain gov
eminent IN relation to the Behring
Sea dispute, and the air is again full
of rumors, some Of them of the mos
y Sensational and improbable character
The correspondence between the TIVE
S governments will be submitted Il
congress in few days, and then
can be seen whether the situation i
as grave as some gruesome gossip
would have us believe.
Senator Wolcott shocked the re
publicans and shamed the democrat
IN a speech announcing his opposition
to the election bill. He said in effec
that he opposed the election bill be
& cause it was an attempt to put intel
sSe hgence in certain southern states.
ID Prof. Koch's lymph, the new con
e sumption remedy, is being thorough
t. " tested by the physicians in chsrg
of Garfield Hospital in this city
.e The experiments have not yet laste
At long enough for the formation of a
=. intelligent opinion as to the result.
se The Post-ofice Department IS. q
- the request of MIR. Harrison, invest
= eating the recent killing of the posi-
d master at Carrellton, Mississippi
Tftba senate docs not chanoe II