Telegram-herald., 1891-12-28
SILVER WILL NOT DOWN
Affairs at the National Capital
Are Waxing Warm.
CONGRESSMAN BURROWS OPIyIos
I've Hsssieas In he Hsoss Have swors
Leaders IN Cleveland ~na MIN of Ssv
yosk- Republicans We'll Pleased
With Developments rhus Far.

WAsHiSeToS, Dec. 26.-The people
who are hest sAtisfied with the commit
toe distributions in the house are the
republicans. They are sitting baTk
hugging themselves and enjoying the
situation. OF course. il Was to be ex-
pected that there would b. some kick
ing and dissatisfaction. but 1t Is OF \
kind that means more than the usual
ssries Of complaints which follow the
announcement Of the house commit
tees. As telegraphed on the day the
committee was announced, the make
up of the leading committee shows
pretty clearly that the chances are
nine out of ten in favor of constant
war between the factions. created by
the recent speakershlp contest. Mr.
Mills laid down clearly, IN interviews
and newspaper publications and in
talks with members OF the house, his
policy during the campaign of the
speakcrship. II was the same that ex-
President Cleveland has urged--of put
ting the silver question aside for the
present snd making = square tight on
the tariff. Speaker Crisp's policy M
indicated by his appointment OF the
committees is evidently going to be
just the reverse Of tue Miils-Cleveland
policy. Mr.. Springer has SO
often expressed himself in print as
Against General Agitation
of the tariff question at present, it Is
very clear that the ways and means
committee, of which he is the head
will not report general tariff bill he
tween this and the presidential cleo
ton. In an interview few hours be-
fore his chairmanship was officially an
nounced, he said: al propose. if am
appointed chairman Of the ways and
means committee, to do everything in
my power to help the democratic party
| TO success next year, and not lnjure IT
by going TO work and antagonizing the
business interests of the country. lam
opposed tn any revision of the tariff on
the eve of . presidential election. 1t
has never yet Q n tried without bring
ing disaster TO the party attempting it.
On the silver question the issue is just
as distinctly made. For while Mr..
Mills and the people whom he repre-
scnts repeatedly declare themselves
| against agitation of the silver question,
the makeup of the coinage committee
of the house shows that it is formed Tor
the special purpcse of reporting free
coinage bill. There can be no doubt
from the record of members of that
committee that 1T is overwhelmingly q
free-colnage committee.
| Two Leading l~sues.
So. on the two leading Issues, the
| tariff and the silver, which are to cut
q figure in, the next campaign, the
Crisp and Mill factions of the Demo.
cratic party. or rather il might be said
the Cleveland and Hill factions, are an-
parently getting wider and wider apar,
every day. Already faithful Demo.
Gratis are shaking their heads gravely
ane say that 1t means the defeat of the
Democratic party in the next cam.
paign.
I'VE are entirely satisfied with the
situation" said Congressman Burrows
to your correspondent yesterday. "Ii
is quite evident that all we have TO dc
is to sit quietly back and let these fel
lows tear themselves to pieces. They
have got into q general tangle, the
Democrats mean, and it is easy to See
that they are going to quarrel among
themselves straight ahead. Every in
cident thus far III the house has shown
that. And every objection or criticism
which has been offered has come from
the Mills faction. We Republicans
have no occasion 10 say anything a
present, for the other fellows are doing
more TO injure themselves than we
could possibly do. The makeup ol
the committees must not only be dis
pleasing to the Mills people, throug!
his treatment of them personally
but more especially because it shows
that the policy Of the Crisp peo
Mills Followers Displcased.
pie are TO be opposed to that which the
Mills people and the other followers ol
Cleveland have laid down"
There can be no doubt, can there
of the passage OF free coinage bill by
the house?"
apparently not. The committed
seems to be unquestionably a free coin
age committee, that there is ever,
reason to suppose that II will report 9
free coinage bill, very soon."
"And as to the house?"
"There can he no doubt Of its passage
by the house il the bill CONES up fol
consideration. There is every reason
to believe that very large majority o.
the democrats will vote tor free com
age bill il il comes before them"
"ABd as To the Senster'
"i am not sure about the senate. q
course the senate was strongly IN fayo
Of free coinage in the las. congr-es- /
is probable that It - not so much 9
now and am not ut all certain that
free coinage bill cosld pass there. Bin
that ~ n matter of really no great coa
sequence. for II il does pass there. j
will find an immovahle oi stacle whsr
il reaches the president. who would b
sure 10 intcrpose veto"
Then that would hring the issu'
just about where the republicans wan
IT, would il not7'
"Undouhtedly We welcome the Jssu'
both as 10 free coinage and tsria re
| ductlon."
lyon think that the development
IN the past thirty days. then. hav'
been favorable 10 the republicans
| 'tndoabss dly very favorable. Tn
hrescb which nas made Its apDesra1e'
IN the democratic ranks between th
two factions, beaded hy the proasiFeFs
pre- ssGsnfai candidates of that parry
cannot bat he very helpfultothe repueli
cans, especially now that II lsey'den
from the developments IN the mons
that il is to continue and probsbl.
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