Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Written and compiled for the HERALD
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb, 29.-Ex
Speaker Reed and other long-beaded Rep
resentatives have advised their Republi.
can colleagues in the House not to extend
a helping hand to either the Democratic
majority or minority in that body, but to
let them fight ont among themselves
whether free coinage shall be passed by
the House. If this advice be taken, and
it is believed that with a few exceptions
it will be, the passage of the Bland free
coinage bill which is to be called up III
der a resolution from the Committee on
Rules Just as soon as the House pits itself
on record In favor of free trade by passing
one of the tariff bills reported from the
Committee on Ways and Means, IS GER
tainty, although it Will not be accom-
plished without very bitter parliamenta-
~ fight. The latest scheme of Representa-
tive Harter, of Ohio, who has made him.
self the leader of the anti-silger Demo
Gratis, to kill the effect of free coinage. Is
to offer as an amendment thereto proviso
that all pensions shall be paid in gold I;
that depostors in saving banks shall
have the right to demand payment in
gold that all holders Of life insurance
policies shall be entitled to gold payments,
and that every man, woman or child work
ing for wages, or who receives yearly
salary of less than $500 shall have the
right to payment in gold.
Individually seven out of ten Senators
and Representatives will agree as to the
immediate and pressing necessity for
new building tor the Government Print
| ing Office, aud that Senator Gallnger, in
his recent speech, did not exaggerate the
danger 10 the health and lives of the
nearly three thousand men and women
| who work in the rickety old building at
present occupied by that Office they will
acknowledge that they share the shame
| felt by Senator Gallinger when he went
through the magnificent buildings erected
| in our large cities for the use of big daily
newspapers and contrasted them, in his
mind, with the Government Printing
Office building, and yet collectively,
Congress does nothing towards erecting
new building. 1t will be much cheaper
to erect a new and first-class building
than it would be to pay damages for sew
eral hundred people killed or crippled by
an accident likely to occur at any time in
the building now in use, as Congress may
some day learn.
Every day there Is a different bill an =
nounced as the one that is to be first call
ed up in the House by the Ways and
Means Committee. Today 1t is the Spring
er free wool bill, and tomorrow is the day
set for it to be called up. If the pro
gramme Is carried out there will be about
three weeks devoted to tariff speeches be-
fore the bill is pressed to vote.
The resolution offered in the House
from the committee on Public Buildings
and Grounds declaring 1t to be ''unwise
and expediert to enter upon legislation
looking to the construction of new public
buildings" because of the alleged act OF
money in the Treasury, is as arrant a Bit
of buncomb as was ever attempted IN
Congress, being a part of the Democratic
scheme to try to bambOozle the people by
cutting down the appropriations at this
session, in order to allow the Democrats
to pose as economists in the Presidential
ca mpaign. The Democratic members
representing districts N need of public
buildings are told to keep quiet until af-
ter the Presidential election when their
buildings will be provided for; but it Is
difficult to keep them quiet ana 1o". f.
pending oyer the resolution.
Even the Democrats admit that the
President has by the unusually hard work
he has done this winter earned the weeks
rest he is now taking. with his family. IN
Virginia.
Secretary Noble preceded his evidence
before the Pension Office investigating
committee with a statement of his baving
come as a willing witness, and not be-
cause of any authority he recognized IN
the committee to compel his attendance,
aud he closed by "nailing thousand and
one lies, >" with these words: 81 want to
say one word which is not in response to
a nuestion. and that il fiat regard Gen.