Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1892-12-09
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BUSlNE SIS.

BUSlNE IS.
utHtd Economy To ,iark the Begin
n1na AZ Income TaN Probable
,has. o.. IaIrcbiId the Probabie
Secretary Of the Treasury -fataI-
~, In ,he Harrison Fnmiiy-Thc
tttrS session.
The work Of the toconl session OF
th, tiiiy--ccuud Compress really began
TIN. week. although there is not a
lIu..um nf either House or Senate
SIT "a town. ami ia, formal opening
will not take place ur al next Monday.
Tho work which was tins week AS
airurd 10 suh-commlttcCs ut a tull
meeting ~ the House committee on
appropriations J., the most important
that will come before tin, Congress In
IT. bearing upon the immediate future
a. r'csrdcut-clect ClcScland's admins
tratipn and OF the Democratic party
thls preparation OF the regular appro-
pthiion bills that are to he passed at
tins session for their support OF the
government for the year beginning
luly | 1888. Representative Holman,
chairman Of the committee, urged
upor his colleagues the necessity for
the most careful scrutiny of every
& Ill
ruth o-s cutting out of every dollar
not absolutely necessary TO keep the
government wheels running. The I'M
certainty about the condition the
Republicans will leave the treasury in
when they retire next year adds to
the necessity for the most careful
work on the part of these sub COM
mittHcs.
Aside from the regular appropria-
tionr there is a difference of opinion
as to what, il any, other important
legislation will be taken up in the
House. Some Democrats think that
tho free coinage bill which was passed
10y the Senate at the last session and
which il now on the House calendar,
hat whore II cannot be reached with
out the reporting of n special order by
the committee on rules, should be
taken up and passed; Others who at
one time favored free coinage say now
that it woIld not he wise TO adopt any
financial legislation until after the
tariff has been revised and its effect
upon Our finances and business shall
have been carefully observed.
There j. such n decided sentiment
among Democrats in favor of an in
come tax that unless it shall be
drought good policy TO let it go over
until the meeting of the Fifty-third
Congress, i is altogether probable that
the House will pass bill providing
for graduated tax or all annual in
comes in excess Of 5000. No one ex-
poets that the present Senate will
agree TO an income hx-it contains
too many rich Republicans-but those
who think il should be- passed at this
session believe that il would result in
making its popularity so plain that it
would Ice certain Of passing the next
Congress, and of becoming law, al.
though il is said that while Mr.. Cleve.
land does not now exactly oppose the
idea. he has not made up his mind in
favor OF it.
There may be very exciting time
over this Panama business, in both
House and Senate, whether it shall
prove 20 be as many now believe that
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
is trying To make use Of the Monroe
Doctrine and the power of the United
States Government to put money in
iis purse, or in reality an infringement
of American rights by nm agent Of the
French Government. IL is expected
that Congress will thoroughly sift the
matter. and il IL does, look out, that's
all.
IL is stated here, on what appears to
lie good authority that Hon. Charles
\. Fairchild, Of New York, who was
Mr.. Clsvelsnd's Secretary of the
Treasury, has consented to fill the
same position under the coming adj
ministration, the tender of the port
folio having been made to him imme-
diately after the election. Mr.. Fair
child made an excellent Secretary of
the Treasury before, and in view of the
expected deficit in the Treasury and
other financial complications certain
to arise early in Mr.. Cleveland's ad.
ministration, his selection is regarded
here as wise one. although there were
political reasons against it.
Superstitious people are asking each
other In whispers whether it is the
White House or the Harrison family
which has passed under the
baleful influence OF death hoodoo."
The death of DIR. Scott, Mr.. Harrison's
fatherin.law, whose funeral was held
in the White House yesterday after
noon, makes tho ninth death in the
families of those Connected with the
White House since Mr.. Harrison be-
came President, besides Secretary
rracey's wife and daughter, whose
funerals were held there. The death
Of DR. Scott was particularly trying to
Mr.. Harrison who was already nearly
broken down with grief for his wife
and the long hours he has been putting
in nc work on his annual message to
Congress, which will be sent in next
Tuesday. The sympathy for him is
universal.
In addition TO the many other argu-
ments for holding an extra session OF the
fifty.seco Congress it is now urged
that an extra sess on would enable the
new committees TO be announced and
10 put in all next summer at work
periecting bills TO be introduced at
the regular session. and that it could
admit Arizona and New Mexico as
States, thus making Democratic con-
troll OF the Senate actual, instead OF be-
ing dependent on the whims OF third
party Senators. DEN.
"Turnsrs English Girls"