Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 9Th.

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The Senate could Tscarcely have
done more this week to shake up |
things had majority of its members |
been Farmers Alliance men; 1t shelly |
ed the Election bill, which Is opposed
by the Alliance, but whether perma
nently or not remains to be seen, and
it took up the financial question In
which the Alliance is very deeply in
terested. 1t was certainly a revolu-
ton very quietly accomplished, and
it is only natural that it should have
caused charges of having made a
bargain, to be made against the eight
republicans who voted with the dem
ocrats; but it did not require the de-
malls Of those gentlemen to convince
close observers of the falslty of the
charge. No bargain was necessary.
Ever since the session began the
silver men in both parties, but par
ticularly the republicans, have been
growing more restless and more de-
termined that. they would make a
fight for free coinage; they waited
month for the disposal of the Election
bill, and seeing that measure still in
the way, they decided to wait no long
er. They knew, as did everybody else,
that the democrats would vote solidly
to take up the ten commandments, If
thereby the Election bill could be dis
placed, and they made the attempt by
having Senator Stewart move to take
up the financial bill, and it succeeded.
That's the whole story in nutshell.
But the important question now is,
what will be the result? Senators
Stewart and Teller, republicans, and
Daniel and Regain, democrats, tell me
that the bill is certain to pass the
Senate with a free coinage amend
ment, and that they think vote will
be reached late this week or early
next. It certainly looks now as if
these gentlemen are correct about the
passage of the bill with a free com
age amendment, but that vote can
be reached as soon as they expect, is
to my mind little doubtful While
the democrats, even those who oppose
free coinage, would doubtless gladly
aid in passing bill with free COIN
age attachment, in the hope that it
would be vetoed by Mr.. Harrison,
should it get through the House, they
will not wish to be in hurry about
it, unless they are given some assur-
ances that the Election bill will not
be again taken up as soon as the fl
nancial bill is disposed of. Besides
this, there is an ominous reticence OF
the part of the anti-silver republicans
as to their intentions which may mean
a great deal or nothing. In the hope
5 of again getting up the election bill
e these republicans might be willing tc
e see this bill go through, trusting to de
d feating it in the House, or as las
q resort by a Presidential veto, bu
m nothing is certain about it, and what
e ever the outcome is, the Senate fol
the rest of the session promises to b.
il a much more interesting body thar
&c usual
= Mr.. Blame is the one member o
the administration that does not seen
= to be bothering his head about eithe
the Election bill or the financial bill
n Perhaps it may be that his attention
is entirely taken up with the Behr
ing's Sea matter, the correspondence
relating to which is now before Con
n gress, and his Pan-American scheme
~ which are beginning to assume som
semblance of reality-the information
al monetary conference recommends
by the late All-America Congress me
- here this week, and the railroad com
mission has been here some time, t
say nothing of the headquarters tina
Is has been established here for the pun
pose of furnishing commercial infol
nation about South and Centra
~ America.
= The Indian question bids fair t
l, make trouble between the Intero
=. and War departments, as Secretar
u Noble opposes a permanent transfe
d of the care of the Indians to the la
u ter department.
Extra session talk is again preva
e, emit, and the chances now certainl
~ favor one.
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