The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsnINerox, ID. c., AprilI, 90.
ON Our Regular Correspondent

From Our Regular Correspondent
Senator Stewart. of Nevada, proposes
doing all in his power To transfer the fire.,
coinage fight, which petered out 50 oddly
! in the House this week, 10 the Senate
although he admits that the same inhu.
ences which downed the silver men in
the House will he powerfully exercised
in the Senate. lie gave notice early this
week that he would next Monday call up
his bill for the free coinage of silver, and
he says he intends pushing it to vote,
as he wishes to put the Senators on rec
ord whether the bill is passed or not.
| Ii is evident that the outcome of the
silver fight in the House has left much
bad blood. Representative Watson, of
Georgia, who is the leader of the third
party members, says of it: at is the
death knell of the old Democratic organ.
ization. Many thousands of southern
voters have felt that the Democratic party
would give them financial reliefif it had
the chance. With majority Of l4S in
the House it had the chance, but IL did
not accept it. 1t was only by the help of
nine Peoples party members and eleven
Republicans that the immense Demo
cratic majority escaped Waterloo. No
power on earth can now prevent the cleo.
toral vote of Georgia being cast for the
Peoples party, and believe other South
ern States will do the same
Representative Bland, author of the
bill, SAYS: "a cannot say what will be
done. II all depends upon the attitude
of the Speaker and his immediate advis.
ers which does not appear at present TO
be in favor of the bill"
Representative Washington, of Ten
nessee, Il prominent free coinage Demo
crat, says: "The Speaker is pledged to
do the will of n majority of the party.
The majority is on record against gag
rule, and even for the silver bill, which
we want passed. we cannot afford to re.
verse our position upon that question.
Ii is unfortunate that the situation is
what it is, but anything is better than
the adoption of gag rule"
The usual talk which is always heard
at or about this stage Of the long sessions,
of an early nd journment of Congress, is |
now on deck, and new members are nc.
tually naming rs early a date rs June |, |
for adjournment, but the veterans like |
Holman and Burrows, who have been |
through the mill often enough to know |
how futile such talk is, will tell YOU that |
an adjournment before the middle of |
July or the first Of August is not at all |
probable, much ~ il may be desired by |
either party. Congress has now been in
session four months, and even elimina.
ting silver from the programme mapped
nut by the majority of the House at the
start, not half of the work has been done.
The immigration investigation now be.
ing conducted by the joint House and
Senate Committees, has unearthed a big
scandal, which would, OF
course, bad To come out soon. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Nettleton. nc
uses Immigration Commissioner Owen
If being an unfit person u fiji a respon.
'ihle public position. and has filed bill
,f particulars with Secretary Foster, in
he shape of formal charges, the counts
VI which embrace incompetency, untrust-
vorthiness and lack of intcgrity--not
much left To the Imagination either. Mr..
owen denies, but the explanation he has
made OF one Of the charges is not very
lear in its vindicatiOn of him, aud the
IMPRESSION here is that he will have to go.
However, he has big friends, among them
resident Harrison, and ii he wishes To
make fight TO stay, he can make n strong
ne.
General debate on the free wool bill
: to be closed this week, and the bill il
D b. passed under suspension of the
ulcs next Monday.
The ending of the dispute with Great .
britain has given general satisfaction I
ere, and the unanimous vote by which [
he Senate ratified the arbitration treaty
hows that Lord Salisbury's last commu. {
ication had n most soothing effect upon y
he bellicose Senators. c
There seems little doubt that President c
harrison has told friends that unless il is \
pparent before the assembling of the =
Convention that he can be- ]
without struggle, be will j
Ut allow his name 10 go before that Con. q
rntion at all. L
The Cleveland Democrats have made s
10 most Of the tracking Of the silver q
i'll in the House, which they claim has
realty increased Mr.. Cleveland's chances
getting the Democratic nomination.
has certainly given him temporary b
pom here, ms IL is generally recognized n
lat he Is closely allied with the interests "
hich were from the first working against
le free coinage bill. |,
IL is Senator Mills now, as that gentle. =,
an was duly sworn in rs Senator on q
'cdnesday. b
The House Committee 10 investigate Ct
le expenditures of the Board of Control ii
the Worlds Fair has gone Ia Chicago. d
Minnesota Democracy. n
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