The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-04-17
NOT 4 PARTY Issue.

A dispatch from Washington city 10 the
Chicago zdmts saysi
There has been q good deal ofcensuIling
going on between eastern and western
democrats touching the silver policy to be
pursued In the neat house Of representa-
tlyea, and. while there has been some dIf-
ference of views, u has been practically
settled that Tree coinage viii not be made
party measure In the next house; that no
caucus will be held to bind Individual
membersj that free coinage bill win be
passed by combination Of democratic
farmers alliance, and probably Of repub-
lican votes also and sent 10 the senate car
y ln the session. II has bern ascertalned,
however, that Il IL by no means certain
that such bill will pass the nexi senate,
although that body has been re enforced
BY new silver senators. Several Of the
democratic senators who voted fur free
coinage last winter are dubious now a. TO
the polisy they then voted for. They cay
that the financial panic had the effect TO
stampede the country on the currency
question, and that the dire consequences
predicted as certain to occur In case free
coinage Was refused have not naierallxed.
twas said recently by prominent re-
publican senator that the silver question
would be settled 50 FAR as the republican
party was concerned long before the meet.
Ing Of the sos convention by The adoption
Of policy something like that proposed
BY Tie late Secretary Window. only that
the present volume Of coinage would not
be Increased. but that silver certificates
~onld be lssued as agalns. all silver bear !.
Ing the stamp OF Americas producllon
thst might be offered a, The treasury.
Congressman Dewitt Warner Of The
Reform club Il ono Of the few democrats
who look upon the silver question as dan
gefous 10 democratic success. Mr Warner
expresses the opinion that with free coin.
sgv candidate on free-coInage platform
the democrats would not carry single
Eastern state. Mr. Warner says that II IL
not cnly the moneyed men of the east sho
arc against iree coinage but the iaboring
men a. well, who. he says, know By ex-
perienee some Of them at icasi--.has an
inflated currency viii not increase the
wages Of Iabor 10 the extent II increases
the nominal price OF the necessaries Of
life, and consequently that the purehaslng
power OF their wages would be less than
now. The opinion is shared by a large
and influential number of eastern demo-
Gratis, especially In New York, Connect
cut, and Massachusetts.
n straw which may show the direction
Of the wlnd at this time Ii n remark aitrI-
.dused 10 Senator German who when asked
Il an snii-iree- coinage democrat could be
elected on trse-coinage platform said that
IL was yet too carly TO lay down the issues
for iS9s and that the silver question might
be pra .iically settled by that time.
Ex-senator John d Henderson, Of ST.
Louis, who was the permanent chairman
oi the republican national convention Of
1854 and has lately been prominent as
one Of Biaine's pan-Americans, recently
sail: As a republican think the exiray-
agance of the congress just adjourned was
an outrage upon The party and the people.
However the appropriations may be jusii
fled. the fact that they reach 81 900 o,ooo. 900
is Of itself appalling. No such enormity of
appropriations has been voted since the
war, and occurring In . time of profound
peace Us this Il and when the greatest
economy wax demanded, no excuse can be
offered for the extravagancs. The repab.
lIcans In congress must have proceeded
upon the theory that they were not COM
Ing into power again for about 400 years.
Their closing days reminded me very
forcibiy of the closing days of the demo-
cratic congress which went out March 4,
1861. As republican feel that the com.
parison Is odious, but In mos. respects II
ID JUS. hope that II We have another re-
publican congress soon II viii devote itself
to the methods of economy different from
those observed by the Fifty-frst congress-