Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-04-14
From our regular Correspondent.
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., Apr 4, 1892.
There is no longer room for doubt that
the,at the time. seemingly unexpected term
lnation of the silver battle in the House was
but the carrying ont of a carefully prear-
| ranged plan on the part Of certain Demo
cratic leaders who did not wish their party
committed on this question at the opening
of the Presidential campaign. They wish
to leave the way open for the Democratic
party to pose as fayorng free coinage in
States where 1t will be beneficial to do 50.
| and as opposing 1t in other States, just as
| that party has always done in other Presl-
DENTAL elections, on most questions Of
national Importance. The small fry were
not let in the scheme, or Representative
Bland would not have blackguarded
Speaker Crisp In such savage way, aud
then had to eat ais words afterwards
when he was told why Speaker Crisp had
seemingly betrayed the ultra free silver
men; but they all now know the meaning
Of the whole business, and about eighty
or ninety of them are trying To hatch up
some scheme of revenge, and if they only
had nervy leader they might accomplish
something, as with the present average
attendance in the House that many mem
bers, If properly handled. could easily tie
their purpose was accomplished. A. yet
they only threaten. and those who threaten
seldom fight
1t is not regarded as probable that the
silver campaign opened in the Senate by |
the debate on Mr. Morgan's resolution Will |
result in any detnlte action by that body |
on the actual question Of free coinage,
although the dodgers like Hill are in state
of trrpidation on account of 1t, aud NAV be !
forced TO define their position
The first free trade measure-the Spring
er free wool bill-wll be put through the .
House this week, but there Is not the re
notes, probability of its getting through /
the Senate.
The Alliance men in Congress have .
adopted a new financial fad. +" and To hear
them discuss it one would suppose that /
they actually expected the bill authorizing /
il to pass It is tor the Secretary Of the /
Treasury to issue on demand Of the several .
States, legal tender Treasury notes, similar /
10 those now In general circulation, in any .
amount desired up to $50 per capita taking
the population as given in the last census.
The States are to deposit as security,
twenty year bonds, bearing interest At the |
rate OF one per cent per auuum. The bill |
says nothing Of how The States are u re-
deem these bonds at the expiration of |
twenty years, although il authorizes the /
legislatures 10 distribute the money al their /
discretion Like the sub-treasury scheme, /
1t looks well on paper, and would be /
equally Impossible to put into practical !
operation.
Not single Democratic member Of the .
Senate committee on the District Of CUlum- .
bia, voted for senator McMillans bill to /
appropriate SO 900 towards entertaining /
the member, Of the q. A X. who will at
tend the encampment in this city, which /
that committee by the vote Of Rtpubli- |!
cans, has favorably reported to the SEN
ate. The original bill was for $40, 900. |
but upon consultation with the local com
mlttee 1t was reduced, and prov,o in !
serted that $50 900 should be raised by |
private contributions and spent before any
of the Congressional appropriation can be |
used. If the Democratic Representatives I
are as hostile as these Democratic Sena-
tors have shown themselves To be- the bill /
will never get through the House
Representative Miller, of Wisconsin,
was right when he denounced the present
rules Of the House, as worse than no rules
at all, aud said that the time of the House
had been spent in doing nothing or worse
than nothing on account of those rules.
The House still keeps up the farce Of
holding one evening session each week to
consider private pension bills, but a quo
rum is never present and the point Of mo
quorum" is invariably made by some Dem
ocrat, that nothing is ever done at
those sessions. At the last one Repre-
sentative Htmphill, of South Carolina.
numerically scored his party for what he
termed its "chld's play" in holding these
sessions, and pretending to do what it had
no idea of doing.
All the good things said about the Dem
ocratic members of the House committee
on Elections, because of their votes to pu.
Rockwell out of the seat to which his
Republican opponent-Col Noyes- was
really elected, Will have been said in vain,
If it shall turn out to be true, as now re-
ported, that Senator Hill has secured
pledges from majority of the Democratic
members of the House to vote to retain
Rockwell, notwithstanding the report of
the committee.
Superintendent Porter of the Census
Bureau, says he welcomes the investiga-
ton of the bureau ordered by the House,
and that the more thorough the investi-
CATION is the better he will like it, as in
no other way, can the important and ex-
cellent work done by that bureau be so
effectually brought to the attention of the
country. If the Democrats get no more
out of it than they are getting out of the
Pension office investigation, the Republi
cans will certainly have no reason to COM
plain.
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