The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-03-10
WASHINGTON LETrEa.

majority or minority in that body. but
to let them fight out among themselves
whether a free coinage bill shall DO
passed by the House. If this advice be
taken, and it is believed that with few
exceptions it will be, the passage OF the
Bland free coinage bill, which is to DO
called up under resolution from The
committee on rules just as coon as the
House puts itself on record in favor II
free trade by passing one Of the tariff
bills reported from the committee on
ways and means, is a certainty, although
it will not be accomplished without .
very bitter parliamentary fight. The
latest scheme Of Representative Harter,
of Ohio, who has made himself the leader |
OF the anti.silyer Democrats, to kill the |
effect Of free coinage, is to offer as an
amendment thereto q proviso that all
pensions shall be paid in gold; that de-
pc.itors in saving banks shall have the
l;ght 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 working for
wages, or who receives = yearly salary of
less than $500, shall have the right to
payment in gold. -....s
e Individually seven out of ten Senators
and Representatives will agree as to the
immediate and pressing necessity for .
new building for the government print.
ing office, and that Senator Challenger,
in his recent speech, did not exaggerate
the dangerto the health and lives Of Ito
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 Gallengar when he went
through the magnificent buildings erected
in our large cities for the use Of the big
daily newspapers, and contracted them.
in hi, mind. with the government print
ing Office building and yet collectively
Congress does nothing towards erecting q
new building. 1t will be much cheaper
to erect new and fiTst-class building
than it woeld be- to pay damages for
i, several hundred people killed or crippled
by an accident likely to occur at any
4 timein the building now in nse, as Con.
gless may some day learn.
Every day there i.a different bill an.
nounced as the one that is to be irst
called up in the House by the ways and
means committee. To-day it is the
Springer free wood bill, aud tomorrow
is the day set for It to be called up. II
the programme il carried out, there will
be about thee weeks devoted to tariff
spt eches before the bill is pressed to Q
vote.
The ie'o'ution offered in the House
from the committe on public buildings
aud grounds declaring ii to be unwiss
wise and iuexpedient to enter upon legis
-lation looking to the construction Of new
public building, because of the alleged
scarcity Of money in the treasury, is q,
arrant u bit of buncomb a. was ever at
t,mpt,d in congress, being part Of the
Democratic scheme 10 try TO bamboczle
the people by cutting down tine appro
priations at this session, in order to al
low the Democrats to pose as economist
IN the Presidential campaign. Thu
Dem ,cratic members representing dis
trlc,s in need Of public buildings are tolo
, to keep quiet until after the Pres,dentia
election, when their buildings will b
provided for; but it 10 difficult to keel
, Them quiet and row is pending owe
, the resolution.
{. Even the Democrats admit that th
President has by the unusually har
| work he has done this winter earned th
weeks rest he is now taking. with hi
family, III Virginia.
Secretary Noble preceded his evidenc
before the pension Office investigator
committee with statement Of his ha,
i"g come as willing witness, and nc
because Of any authority he recognize
IN the committe to compel lis attei
u dance, aud he closed by mailing tho'
y sand aud one lies" with these words:
: want to say one word which Is not in r.
Spouse to question, aud that is that
y regard General Rsum as an efficiei
~ commissioner Of pensions. I believe
u is conducting the pension bureau in
. proper aud businesa.like way"
jerry Simpson sppears to be SQUIRT
e. on the De nocrats, whom he has heret
s fore seemed inclined to favor. On Satu
d day, while the House was discussing N
a Bowers amendment to the Indian app,
al priation bill authorizing the President
he detail officers Of the army a. Indi,
IL agents, which after being amended wi
d a proviso that officers acting IS Indi
h agents shall be under the orders Of I
Ie Secretary Of the Interior. was passs
he MIR. Simpson said: a''I cannot see he
the Democrats can vote against u
amendment, unlessNit be that they q
~ ~ pect to control this political force in I
- future. But Ia view Of the dissension
" their ranks and their inability TO agl
:. on any economic policy, il is not clear
W me that they will have chance to &C
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