Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-03-17
ABSOLUTELY PURE

tariff Mr.. Dingley. of Maine, in his
reply easily demolished the free trade
champion.
Representative Harter, of Ohio, is
about the only man in Congress who
expresses any doubt of the House pass
ing the Bland free coinage bill by
majority anywhere from 30 to IS when
it is taken up under tho resolution
adopted on Monday last. Mr.. Harter
believes, or processes to believe, that
between now and the % inst, be can
convince enough democrats of the dan
ger attending the passage of the free
coinage bill to defeat it.
The democrats are getting seriously
alarmed over the outlook for their party
in the next House of Representatives,
which some of them acknowledge to be
anything else but encouraging. In
spite of their big majority in the present
House they see defeat staring them in
the face, in the next Congressional
election. Representative McCreary.
who wants to be chairman of the Con-
gressIonal campaign committee, has
obtained enough signatures TO have a
democratic caucus called FOR the pur-
pose of naming the House members of
that committee, and it will be issued at
once.
Ex Speaker Reed was given a grand
reception on Tuesday evening by the
National Republican Auxiliary Associ-
alton, an organization composed Of
representatives of the various State
associations existing here, and more
enthusiastic crowd has never assent led
in Washington. The ex-Speaker re-
sponded to congratulatory address
delivered by Representatives Burrows,
of Michigan, in his best vein, not for
getting the shortcomings of the demo-
cratic majority in the present House,
Including their economizing by cutting
down the appropriation fer school books
for the poor children in the District of
Columbia public schools, and closing
with: meanwhile the republican
party, emerging from its temporary
disaster, turns its shining face to the
future. now as ever, the one hope of
progress of the people of the United
States.
The Commissioner of Patents, has
issued the following circular letter to
all having business before or with that
office: 1.-The Patent Office regrets that,
in consequence of want of room for the
storage and arrangement of printed
copies of patents, it will he impossible
t. fill your order in current issues until
additional room is provided by the
proper authorities. This will entail
great hardship on thousands of man
ufacturers, inventors and overs of
patents and create much confusion.
Congress has persistently neglected to
appropriate the money for the necessary
room for the United States Patent Office
in the face of the fact that the Patent
Office has S4,000,O00 of its own earn
ings lying idle in the public Treasury.
One fourth of that amount would pro-
vide ample accommodations.
The Senate has passed the Paddock
Pure Food bill without division.
The retrer chment ideas of the demo.
Gratis on the House River and Harbor
committee have been stamped by out
side pressure and it is now conceded
that the river and harbor bill soon to be
reported will carry more than $4,000
600.
Representative Harter. who has be-
come conspicuous on account of his
opposition t. free coinage, is now after
Senator Hill, having written an open
letter to Hill asking him to state his
position on free coinage, etc.
THE CENTURY.