The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsnlNnroN. Oct. le. IS0


tionally or not can not say, practically
made the question of whether free coin.
age bill shall be passed by the coming
House of Representatives an issue in the
Speakership campaign"
How 2" he was asked.
"Why, by stating that he had become
convinced that nothing practical in the
way Of silver legislation could be accom-
plished by the next Congress. That state
ment / take to mean that Mr.. Mills has
made up his mind that in the event of
his being elected Speaker of the House,
he will so make up the membership of
the House Coinage committee that no
free coinage bill can be reported to the
House. This statement may gain Mr..
Mills some votes, but, mark my words,
unless he repudiates it before the Demo.
cratic caucus is held, he will certainly
be defeated for the Speakership nomina-
ton"
The impression seems tn be that the
result of the Ohio election will determine
the position of all the Speakership can
didates on the free coinage question, the
belief being tnat If Campbell is elected
it will mean triumph for free coinage
and that all of the candidates will prom
ise to assist in having free coinage bill
passed by the House. On the other hand
should Campbell be defeated, free coin
age Is to be put aside by them all for the
time being, on the ground that it can
wait. Mr.. Mills, who has just returned
from Ohio, where he made speeches for
his party, which is running on free
coinage platform, is now preparing to go
to Massachusetts, to speak for his party.
which is there running on an anti.free
coinage platform. Verify politics is a
queer trade,
Fred Douglass, ex.Minister to Hayti,
has given the politicians something to
talk about. 1t had been assumed ever
since Douglass retired from the diplo.
matte service under circumstances which
made it fair to infer that he did so under
that he was against Harri-
Son, and some people had gone so far MS
to say that he was to lead the negro OPP
position which was to brighten the Re-
publican National convention into drop.
ping Harrison, If he did not voluntarily
retire from the race before the conven
ton met. Now Douglass has, in the
course of IL lecture on Hayti, taken occa.
sion to announce that he is for Harrison's
denomination, and in the same lecture
he limited that it was in his power to
show the Mole st. Nicholas affair in
light that would reflect no credit upon
Mr.. Blaine. The politicians are asking
each other what this means.
Although the committee which passed
upon the credentials of the delegates to
the Methodist Ecumenical conference
now in session acre did not admit a single
woman, il was made evident in a discus
sion of the subject, Woman's Work i'm
the Church." that the almost unanimous
sentiment of that body is in favor of let
ting woman occupy whatever field in the
church, even to the pulpit itself, that
she may prove herself capable of filling.
As the conference has no legislative fun,-
tons this sentiment will not affect the
present status of women in the Methods
church, although its moral effect may be-
come apparent in this country later on.
Reciprocity is enjoying another big
boom, it being stated here that an agree
ment has been reached with the govern
ment of Germany whereby American
wheat is To be given free entry into that
country in return for our receiving Ger
many's beet sugar free of duty. The
sugar already comes in free, but under
the reciprocity clause of the Mckinley
tariff act the President is given authority
to restore the duty which existed before
the passage of that act upon the products
Of any country which failed to enter into
a reciprocity agreement admitting some
American product or products free of
duty. 1t was to escape this danger that
Germany has agreed To admit our wheat
free, although the failure of her own
grain crop and the desire TO make Amer
lean wheat as cheap as possible TO the
of that country doubtless also
had great weight with the German off.