The Progress., 1893-03-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Notes Of Interest Ga hGTGd from About
The NaIiODal Capital,
wAsmSoroS. d. C., Feb. 2S, Is93

wheels. For instance, the Demo
cratic senators were a few weeks ago
practically unanimous for the al
mission OF Arizora, New Mexico, Ok
lahoma and Utah, and The Republi-
can senatorial caucus declared ia ia
vor of their admission. 70 day it is
practically settled that they will not
get in, unless thcy do So by some
Legislative scratch" in the closing
hours Of the session. Ono word tells
the story Of the change in senatorial
sentiment silver. IL is generally
known, that whatever might be the
the politics of the senators sent from
these territories, If they were States,
they would be man, be in favor of
the free coinage of silver 1t is un-
derstood that Mr.. Cleveland was the
first to raise this objection to their
admission. but the anti-silver Repub-
lican senators gladly fell in with it.
There is just this about the matter;
if this objection has sufficient weight
to keep them out Of the Union now
il will do the same thing in the next
Congress, when Mr.. CIeveland's in
Huence will necessarily be greater
than it is now
Representatives Jerry Simpson and
Tom Watson are TO head fight
which is to be made by the house 10y
free coinage men against the Sher-
man bond amendment to the Sundry
Civil appropriation bill, which has
Just passed the senate. They claim
to have sufficient strength to defeat
the bill by fllibustering; if they do
an extra session will have to be call
ed, because there are appropriations
in this bill that carnot be done with
out Speaking Of the issue Of bonds,
Gen. A. j. Warner, president of the
Bimetallic League, now holding a
convention here, says that no bonds
can be issued under existing laws
and that any secretary of the treas
ury who did il would be liable to i'm
peachment. Gen. Warmers opinion
on this subject differs FIR r)m that held
by members of the present as well as
the coming administration, and 10y
Congressman generally.
Among the prominent populists in
town to attend meetings Of the Bime-
tallic League, the reform press asso
citation, and the Industrial Legion,
held this week, are Weaver and Field,
late national candidates of that party
The populis all express themselves
enthusiastically concerning the fnt
ure of the party. They claim tha
MIR. Cleveland's war on silver. whic'
has been such an promineat featui,
of this session of Congress. aud which
promises to be even more prominent
at the next session, whether IT be ex-
ira or regular, viii result in making
populists of a very large perceutag,
of free silver men in both the Dom
ocratic aud Republican parties.
Another question that will go ovci
TO the next Congress is the selection
of site for government printing
Office, the senate having refused t.
agree to the sites offered. 1t begins
to look as though the Fifty-th;rd
Congress might be kept so busy with
leftover matters that it will have lit
tie time TO tackle new ones.
The Washington newspapers are
always extremely obliging in sup
Nressing unpleasant news concerning
the prominent or wealthy. A strik
ing instance of this was given this
week when the news was. received
that Mr.. w. n. Roach, who was a
dozen or so years ago well known in
Washington as cashier OF national
bank, had been elected United States
Senator by the North Dakota legisla-
ture. Only one paper said why Mr..
Roach quit the banking business and
gone West to start fresh, and that
paper said il was on account OF mis-
understanding about some of MIR.
Roach's outside speculations, which
was true as far as it went. The misund-
. e:standing was with the directors Of
the bank, who discovered shortage
in Mr. Roach's accounts Of something
like $4,000, and it would have re-
suited disatrously for Mr.. Roach had
not rich father-in-law gone down in
his pocket and squared the banks