Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-02-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular corresp, ndent
Washington. Feb. %, 1892

Delaying the role Of the "artful
dodeer" is nothing new to Demo-
cratic leaders, and whatever may
be the end of the farce comedy in
which they are now engaged, the
audience, which includes the en-
tire country, will get lots of
amusement out of it. The pro-
gram as arranged by stage man
ager Crisp, was to have a COM
mittee on Coinage and that on
Ways and Means have pretended
struggle for the right OF way in
the House for their bills-free
coinage and the tariff--which was
to be kept up long enough to
make it certain that the free coiE-
age bill would be thrown over to
the next session, thus allowing
the democrats to ask the votes of
the free coinage men because of
their intention to pass the bill,
and the votes of the anti-silver
men because of their intention to
defeat it.
The first act went according to
programme, but after the curtain
fell it was discovered that actor
Bland proposed making the strug-
gle real and insisting upon the
passage of his free coinage bill,
and to the CONSERVATION of the
stage manager and his assistants
it was found that he had a major
ity of the democrats of the House
with him, in black and white
Then Mr.. Catchings was sent
away, SO as to prevent the CON-
mittee on Rules holding meet
ing, and as soon as he returned
Speaker Crisp went to Fortress
Monroe, where he now is, and
where the opponents of free sill
yer wish to keep him until Bland
and his followers can be persuad-
ed to carry out the original pro-
gramme.
Mr.. Bland is obstreporous. He
says: "We do not intend that q
minority shall run overa majority
in that way, and we have major
ity in favor of the silver bill. The
silver bill will not be kept down
by the tariff bill, and if any such
attempt is made we will talk sill
yer Oh every bill that comes be-
fore the House, and offer the sill
yer bill as an amendment to every
bill taken up. They can't pad
lock n mans mouth or prevent
bringing up the question of free
silver, and il they try it they will
make silver the biggest issue of
all" The "they' constantly re-
ferred TO by Mr.. Bland are the
ninety anJi-silver democrats, who
wants silver to 90 over in the in
terest of Cieveland's candidacy.
The anti-silver democrats, having
secured more than the requisite
number of signatures to call for
a caucus have requested Mr.. Hol-
mar to Issue the call and he has
promised to do so this week, but
hat will not help the matter any
more than the caucus held by the
silver men several weeks ago, as
neither side will be bound by p
caucus, at least that is what they
say.
The bill passed by the Senate
extending the present laws against
Chinese immigration for ten years
from next May, also contains a
provision to enable the Treasury
department to get around the re-
cent judicial decisions concerning
the country from which the Chi
nese immigrants come, aid TO re-
turn them to China, instead of to
the last country from which they
came, as it has recently been com
PEELED to do under the aforesaid
decisions. The bill also provides
several penalties for the return OF
ChiDamen once sent cut OF the
United States.
| Whatever may have been the
prospect of Utah for getting into
the Union, at the beginning of this
session of Congress, it is not now
regarded as having any at all
Three delegations, each pulling
in different direction, are large
ly, if not wholly responsible for
this.
Representatives. Enloe and Coop.
er have requested that the COM
mittee postpone its Investigation
of the Pension Office, to allow
them time to collect evidence.
That's queer, IS they have been
claiming all along to have plenty
of every evidence.
IN THE SUNNY SOUTH LAND.