Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspe ndent
Mash;ncton. Feb. 90. lS9:

Washington, Feb. 20, 1892.
Ex-Speaker Reed and other
long headed Representatives have
advised their republican col
lepgues in the House not to extend
a helping hand to either the
democratic majority or minority
IN that BODY, but to let them fight
it out among themselves whether
a free coinage bill 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 under
a resolution from the Committee
on Rules just as soon as the
House puts itself on record in
favor of free trade by passing one
of the tariff bills reported from the
Committee on Ways aud Means,
is certainty, although it will not
be accomplished without a very
bitter parliamentary fight. The
latest scheme of Representative
Harter, of Ohio, who has made
himself the leader of the anti
silver democrats, to kill the effec-
of free coinage, is to offer as
amendment thereto a proviso that
all pensions shall be paid in gold;
that depositors 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 receive
salary of less than $500 shall
have the right to payment in gold,
Individually seven out of the
ten senators and representatives
will agree as to the Immediate and
pressing necessity for building
for the Government Printing office
and that Senator Gallinger,
in his recent speech, did not
exaggerate the danger to the
health and lives of the nearly
thre. thousand men and women
who work in the rickety old build
ing at present occupied by that
office; they will acknowledge that
they share the shame felt by Sen
ator Gailinger when he went
through the magnificent buildings
erected in our large cities for the
use of the big daily newspapers
and contrasted them, in the mind,
with the Government Printing
office building, and yet collective
ly, Congress doessuothing toward
erecting a new building. 1t will
be much cheaper to erect new
and frst-class building than it,
would be to pay damages for sew
eral hundred people killed or
crippled by sn 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 announced as the one that is
to be first called up in the house
by the Ways and Means Commit
tee. To-day it is the springer
free wool bill, and tomorrow is
the day set for it to be called up.
If the programme is carried out
there will be about three weeks
devoted 10 tariff speeches before
the bill is pressed to vote.
Jerry Simpson appears to be
souring Oh the democrats whom he
has heretofore seemed inclined to
favor. On Saturday, while the
House was discussing Mr.. Bow
ers' amendment to the Indian ap-
preparation bill authorizing the
President to detail officers OF the
army as Indian agents, which at
ter being amended with a proviso
that officers acting as Indian
agents shall be under the orders
Of the Secretary Of the Interior, |
vas passed, Mr.. Simpson said:
Il cannot see how the democrats
can vote against this amendment. |
unless it be that they expect to
control this political force in the
future. But in view of the die
sension in their ranks and their
inability to agree on any encomic
policy it is not clear to me that
they will have chance to contro!
it."