Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-01-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
written and compiled for tie HERALD

I Written and compiled for tie HERALD
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 25.-An-
other brilliant democratic scheme has
come to grief. 1t was asserted by mem.
bers of that party that the Treasury vas
becoming so depleted of cash that If
would be necessary to so amend the Me
Kinley law as to bring in larger income
from customs duties, and to provo this
the Ways and Means committee
adopted a resolution calling upon the
Secretary of the Treasury to appear be-
fore it and declare the present aud pros
pectiye condition of the Treasury, Secre-
tary Foster beng absent in search OF
health, Assistant Secretary SpauldlDg APP
peared before the committee, and by
short, business like statement rented
every charge that the democrats had made
so conclusiyely that they are probably
sorry they adopted the resolution. lie
said that the actual receipts of the govern
ment for the frs. SIX months of the pres
ent fiscal year were $l74, l51 600 and the
expenditures sl67 ,O7l,OO0 aud that the es-
timated expenditures for the entire fiscal
year were $685., 100000. or just $4,000, COO
less than the estimated receipts, $780,
coo. OOO. Besides, there is ct present on
hand IN cash $780, 72s, coo, which added
to the estimated surplus which will exist
on the 3Oth of juno next viii give the
Treasury on that date total s0rpl0s OF
s153, Sq3, 900. Nothing very depleted about
that Treasury, eh'
Mr.. Mills has blood in his eye and 1t IL
bad Texas blood. He is still sore over his
defeat, aud he does not care continental
who knows 1t. He intimates, and some
of his hot headed friends bodily declare
that be intends to lead revolt against
the Crisp gang when the first tariff bill IS
reported to the House from the Ways and
Means committee. Mills also swears ven
geance against the Presidential aspiration
of Senator Hill, and says be shall never
get single vote from Texas.
The Hill. German Brice Tammany COM
bination is ruling the democratic party
with a rod of iron, in spite OF the sqnirming
of the kickers. 1t owns the democratic
national committee, as fully proven last
week; it owns the Speaker Of the House
and it intends to dictate the Presidential
ticket ard the platform upon which the
democrats will make theil national cam
paign this year.
The funerals of the late Justice Bradley,
of the Supreme Court, for he had t@o, one
here yesterday, and one at Newark, New
Jersey, where the interment IS to take
place, were by his requests strictly pri-
vate, being attended only by his family,
intimate friends, and the Justices,
and Officers of the Supreme Court
He was appointed a member Of the
Supreme Court by General Grant in
March, 1870, and during his SER
vices on the bench he has made a reputa'
ton that is part of the history of that
tribunal. He was known to his colleagues
az the hardest worker and most scholarly
man on the bench. Much interest is al
ready expressed in the appointment of
his successor.
The democrats IN this last Congress
spent a goodly portion OF their time in
denounclug the code of rules adopted by
the republicans of the House, particular
" that portion of them which curtailed
the privilege of the majority to fillibuster
indefinitely, and now they have incOrpo-
rated in the rules they have prepared for
the present Honse precisely the same
idea, the only difference being that they
delegate the authority to close debate TO
the committee on Rules, instead of TO the
Speaker. That some such rule is, and has
been BececcarY, in order to allow the ma
ority of the House to control, every tair
minded man familiar with congressional
will concede, and IN following
The lead of the republicans the democrats
have only done what they always do
They denounce everything originated by
republicans, and afterwards adopted the
very things denounced as their own.