Fair play., 1893-11-04
WASHINGTON Letter.
lFrofl our Il galar Correspond-ntI

Z ftit-NHt4 i'li ifilI'lifll tlitO Iilt >Ilu.
ton the vicious purchasing clause O
the Sherman silver law, for which 10
one word of praise or defense ha
been uttered during the long an,
memorable silver debate in th
Senate, will be wiped from the Siatut
books within less than "a week. Til
SILVER Senators, after making a
strong fight ns was ever made il
Congress~.or anything, to get the bll
amended so rs to continue the coinag
Of silver, found that it was impossible
to agree upon any amendment tha
could be passed, aud once realizir:
that they announced their willingness
to allow vote TO be taken after til,
proposed amendments shall have beer
debated and voted upon. The-
a'n";'',nnn's rcprrarn: about all of tlI,
financial ideas and each of them vii
have special defenders and will secure
some votes, but it will not be surpris
my if after having put themselves OF
record by casting their votes fol
what they consider would have I'M
proved The bill, four fifths of TIA,
Senate should, Oh the final vote, sup
port the VOORHEES, bill. Ny reaso,
for expecting such large vote foi
the bill is that nearly every Senator
who spoke expressed the opinion that
the purchasin" law should be repealed
Already there are Indications on TIA,
part of the republican Senators t.
make trouble. Senator Sherma L
while protesting to be a strong uncon-
ditional repeater is busy trying to
complicatc matters by getting sup
porters for an amendment providing
for an issue of bonds. Inasmuch a
Senator Voorhees, had told MIR. Sher.
man that he considered it unwise to
nleiject the bond issue, which is op-
posed hy many democratic Senators.
into the question, it looks AS though
Senator Sherman was trying to create
democratic disseuIion rather than to
secure repeal.
Many outrageous misreprcsenta-
tiOns have been sent out from Wash
ingion concerning the attitude of
democratic Senators towards Presi-
dent Cleveland, on account of the
failure of the compromise proposed
by committee of democratic Sena-
tors. President Cleycland has been
consistent al! through the long con
test. lie has always bei:eyed that the
Voorhees, bill would il the end be
passed and has at no time even init
mated that he would endorse or in
anyway help to bring about com
promise. Ali statements to the con
trary are purely imaginary. The
democratic Senators who proposed
the compromise were equally honest :;
they thought that the President would
sign compromise measure if it re-
ceived the vote of every democratic
Senator, aud there is little doubt that
he would have done SO, but none OF
them ever claimed that the President
had told them so. The compromise
was not endorsed by all of the demo-
cratic Senators aud it was abandoned
That is the whole story without
coloriDg.
Representative Turpin, of Alabama,
and Black, OF Illinois, are working
hard to get report from the House
committee on BanKing and Currency
in favor of the bill introduced by the
former to repeal the law prohibiting
the loaning of money on real estate
by the National banks. and they are
hopeful of success. Mr.. Turpin says
English and Scotch financial syndi-
Gates now mouopolize the loaning of
money of real estate in his section be-
cause of the existence of this law and
that his people think it would be
much better TO keep the interest
money at home The bill will have
Il hard road TO travel even if it gets
favorably reported to the House.
Reform is the watchword of the
democrats in the IIou-e. This week
they passed the public printing bill
which is the result of long and
careful investigation by the Printing
committee ani reforms. not single
abuse, but II large number of them
connected with the printing and dis
tributiom of public documents. The
bill. ii it becomes a law, as it proba-
blv viii. will make u material re''uc
ton in the cost of certain lines of
public printing sin. .'ly by shutting of
the waste.
The officials of the Nltionql Ass"
CATION vi Democratic Clubs have Sc
cured reduced railroad rates for demo
cratic voters in the States ot New
York. Ohio, Pennsylvania, MaS-achn
sets, New Jersey. Virginia and Mary
land who are temporarily residing
in Washington aud will use their ut
most efforts 10 see that they all 60
home To vote Vt the coming State
elections.