The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-02
WASHINGTON CITY,

SItiNlng contrast WIN Jne honest
and manly courage OF the republi-
cans in the last congress. And the
gall" displayed by the alleged dem
o;ratic leaders, when they found
that they had lost control of the
majority ofthe democratic mem bers
az the House, was wonderful, not to
say lu1icr0us. They actually tried
t. get the republicans of the House
t. promise to help them out of Their
dilemma, promise they did
not get. Early ia the week it was
a-certained that the free silver men
had succeeded in obtaining the sig
natures of more than majority of
the democratic members of the
House to petition asking the COM
mittee on Rules to set date for the
consideration of the Bland free coin
age bill, already on the calendar
1t was plain that this petition could
not be ignored, so in order to gain
little time Speaker Crisp took day
of, "by order of his physician, and
Mr.Catchings, one of the other dem
ocratic members of the committee
on Rules was suddenly called to
Boston son urgent private business"
and, Of course, the remaining dem
Ocratic member of the committe,
on Rules could. not call a
meeting of that Committee.
II was at this time that republicans
We're approached with statement
that if they would promise to vote
with the anti-silver democrats
against the Bland bill it would be
defeated by a mojOrity of five or six,
even allowing that those republicans
who were committed in favor of the
bill should vote for it. The republic
c9n,leaders are far too smart to tell
the democrats in advance what
they VII do when the silver
bill comes up, but the chances
are that they will allow the demo-
Gratis to fight it out among themsel-
vcs,
Many Senators believe that the
inve8at ig,sltion Of the introduction of
typhus fever into New York and
brooklyn by Russian, Hebrew i'm
migrants, authorized by joint reso-
luton Of the Senate and House, will
result in areport showing the ne
ce8%ity Of making a radical change
in our migration laws,
Behring's Sea matters and Cana
dian reciprocity were discussed at
cabinet meeting this week in
general way. The hardness of the
Behring's Sea commission, now in
ee3sion here, in reaching a decision
as to what questions are to be sub
lnitted to arbitration is far from
satisfactory, and the situation is not
improved by reports that the delay
is intentional on the part of the
British Commissioners, in order to
prevent renewal of the modus vi
Ve0di before the opening of the
seal season. On Canadian reciproc-
ity there is but one opinion. When
Canada wishes to enter into an
agreement that will be Just and
equitable to both countries, the Uni
ted States is ready to meet her half
way, but it is useless for her to
waste time in making such one-si-
ded propositions as that submitted
by her representatives here, the
other day.
Even democrats are becoming
Disguised with the big democratic
majority in the House that does not
dare to do whatitreally wants to do
Representative DUNCAN, democrat
from Ohio says of his party Collea-
CUES. 81 am becoming convinced
that this is cowardly Congress. 1t
is becori ing very tiresome to me.
1t ought to get up and do what the
people expect it to do, and not be
afraid of its shadow. The only
difference between Mr.. DUNCAN and
the unpreiudiced observer of the
present House is that while he is
just becoming convinced" and
"tired", the observer has been both
for sometime.
The President has promised to
review parade of veteran fireman
on the 22nd inst.
The democrats of the House this
week for the second time defeated
the Senate resolution authorizing
the Secretary Of the Navy to char
tr vessel to carry the fool to the
starving Russians which has been
contributed by big hearted Ameri.
cans, which has been lying on the
Speakers table, under a motion to
reconsider, since it was first defeat
ed. 1t matters little, so far as the