Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-08-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Aug. d, 1898.

Carlisle and Lamont will return to
Washington tomorrow, and it is I'M
derstood that they will bring with
them a definite financial policy.
One is certainly needed by their
party for more utterly bewildered
crowd than the democratic Con-
gressmen are has never been seen in
Washington. Nlne-tenths of them
openly acknowledge that they are
cropping in the dark, and haven't the
slightest idea of what they are going
to do, or even of what they want to
do.
Senator Teller has some very de-
cided opinions OH the situation, and
he does not hesitate to express them.
He does not believe that Congress
can do anything to relieve the finan-
cial condition, and says the repeal of
the Sherman law, even if it can be
accomplished, will do no good. He
says the people are not afraid of our
currency, but of Investments, and
cites as proof that money is being
boarded, whereas if it were the cur
rency they are afraid of they would
be investing it in land and other
stable property instead of piling it
up in safe deposit vaults or putting
it away in their houses.
Judging from the talk of Congress-
men some of the widest financial
theories ever heard of will be sprung
on the country as soon as the Con-
gressional machine gets into working
order.
The administration determined
sometime ago that it would be unwise
to have its pension policy veted upon
by Congress, and, in accordance with
that determination, word has been
passed to the democratic Congress
men as they arrived to let the pen
sion laws alone and leave to the ex-
ecutive branch of the government
the business of reducing the number
of pensioners by its construction of
present laws, rather than take the
chance of having proposed amend
ments defeated. But there are some
vigorous kickers among the demo-
Gratis. Such men as Representatives
Tarsney, of Mo, Sayers, of Texas,
and Erloe, of Tennessee, are full to
the neck of schemes to reduce the
amount paid for pensions by amend
ing the present laws, and unless they
change their minds will introduce
them in the House, notwithstanding
the expressed wishes of the admin
istration. The republicans will be
glad to get an opportunity to put the
democrats in Congress on record on
the pension policy of the admins
tration and will lose no opportunity
to get vote upon any bill that prom
Uses to have that result.
Senator German spent the larger
portion of this week at the capitol,
but he was much more intent upon
capturing the lions share of the
places under the new Democratic
officials of the Senate, who will as
sumo office Monday, in accordance
with the agreement under which
they were elected at the March extra
session of the Senate, than upon
helping his party to formulate
financial program. One of his per
sonal friends said of him once: "Gor-
mans idea of the greatest statesman
is, the man who can get the best and
tho largest number of offices for those
who do his political work" He isn't
the only man i'll Coneaess, by large
number, who appears to have adopted
that definition of craftsmanship, but
he is credited with getting more
small offices than any other single
Democrat.
There has been considerable ad-
verse comment on the appointment
of Chas. b. Morton, of Maine, to be
Fourth Auditor of the Treasury,
which was made this week, and it
has not all come from Republicans.
Morton was lntrumental in making
the scandalous attack upon Mr.. and
Mrs. Blaine during the campaign of
"a, and was charged with chipping
the date of death and birth from the
tombstone of Mr.. Blaine's eldest
child, i'll the cemetery at Augusta,
Maine, in order that doubt might
be cast upon the legitimacy of the