The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-24
Cor Of The Democrat
WAsHISoToS. Aug q. 1893.
Speaker Crisp has completed the

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have been introduced in the House
| ~ith the exception Of that for the re-
peal Of the purchasing clause OF the
| Sherman law, which was taken up Tor
| consideration under an agreement, with
| out having been referred to a commit
tee. but a flood Of them are ready to be
| introduced as soon as the committees
are ready for them.
No speech made in the silver debate
| in the House, which is now drawing t.
close, was more carefully listened to
than that of Representative McCreary,
Of Ky Coy. McCreaIy is good talk
er upon almost any subject and the
knowledge gained as one of the [. )
delegates to the international monetary
confidence added to the interest OF
what he had to say about silver. He
! began by stating that he voted against
the Sherman law which had been a
/ failure and colossal curse. and that
| he favored tie uncOndlt onal repeal of
| its purchasing clause and the adoption
OF other legislation afterwards IN a sep
arate bill and he impressed it upon
friend Of silver and not as its enemy
He said he favored international blme-
tallism and believed the repeal bill the
best way to bring it about. and that the
only safe path to free coinage was
through an international agreement.
In reply to a question from Mr.. Bland.
he stated that he was as much in favor
Of silver as that gentleman was. He
also stated that to change the ratio
would &c to destroy every prospect OF
an international agreement. 1t was
plain to all that the speech made an
IMPRESSION on the members. Tie gen
cral belief here, even among the radl-
cal silver men, is that the repeal bill
viii pass he House. although opinion
differs as 70 The majority it viii get.
II any orc has he idea thai PIesi-
dent Cleveland is idle while at Gray
Gables an carly morning visit to the Of
fee of his private secretary, III tie
White House. vii show bow erroneous
,stci ST. iuea =. Is regular as the
esormla. mail comes big batch of Of
fetal documents, representing the Pres
dent, work OF he day before, and just
as regularly does private secretary
Thurber send a big package to the
President
Everybody is laughing at the neat
manner in which Senator German sat
down upon the representative of a New
York paper which, has lately been very
bitter in its abuse Of him for no better
apparent reason than that he declined
TO take the aforesaid paper into bis con-
iidoncc. The other day, just after an
unusually bitter criticism of the Sena-
tor had been printed under a Washing
ton date line, the Washington cores
pendent of the paper sent a man to ask
Senator German if he had any answer
10 make to the TRADE. Really" re-
piled the Senator, with one Of his most
beaming smiles, Il seldom see that pa
per and | have not heard of the article
you refer to- With some confusion
the mar began to explain the nature
of the az lie. but he was interrupted
by Mr.. German who earelessly remark
ed as he turned to speak to one of his
colleagues The matter is not of the
slightest Importance, l assure YOU" 1t
is needless to say that the interview
with Mr.. German was not wired to his
paper.
Neither Secretary Hoke Smith nor
Commissioner Lochlen are worrying !
themselves even bit over the resolu-
ton introduced into the Senate by Mr. |
Gallinger, OF n. H., providing for an /
investigation OF the legality Of their ac-
tions IL suspending pensioners shown
by the records not to be entitled to the |
pensions they have been drawing IN |
fact, an Investigation will be welcome, /
and the more thorough it is made the |
better it will be liked Meanwhile the |
suspensions continue ut an average of t
about 80 . dav At the close Of bust
acss Saturday he total number Ct pen |
sioner5 who had been suspended was
8 ,25t.
The report OF a bill from the Senate
committee on Finance for the uncol-
ditional repeal OF the purchasing clause
OF the sherman law put a stop to the
silly talk about that committee inten-
tionally delaying a report on the bill.
:EH minority Of the committee report
"a a substitute bill, providing for the
free coinage of silver at a ratio of 20 to
l.
The bill authorizing the National
banks to increase their circulation is
having many amendments offered to it
II the Senate. One of them by Air.
+, If lnr Of S0rlth Cnrolir,a IL fn,. bo re |