Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-28
Threatened bv n Crank.


or course, in these days Of public excite
ment over the financial question the crank is
abroad in the land. Congressman Forman
of Illinois has received the following timely
warning in his mail and announces he is
doing all in his power to obey the behests of
the writer:
wksHISGToS 10. O., Aug 26.-Conuressman
FOrman; wish for your sake, and many OF
your constituents, that you would try and
and silver ON par with gold, or settle the
business as the cx-secretary said, so you could
put the s50,ooo,o00 in circulation rs he said
hope there will not be any trouble, but am
afraid there Will be IL this business is not set
blowing up the capitol with dynamite. You
had better urge the democrats TO do oil they
can as there Il great deal OF talk amonE ~ n The
100000 men any day now. Take warning In
time. Your friend, WELLw1sHER.
Tariff Tlnkerlng.
The ways and means committee will meet
Tuesday, when course of procedure will
probably be decided on, including, such
matters as the appropriate date when a
tariff bill shall be reported, whether the
committed will give hearings to interested
persons or not, and other details relating to
the work with which it Is charged. Chair
man Wilson is reported to have prepared n
bill covering the subject of tariff revision in
general way which he will submit to the
committee
On the same day the committee on bank
ing and currency will meet with the expec-
tation of concluding report ON the bill of
Thomas M. johnson, providing for the ex-
change of national bonds for currency at the
demand of the holder The committee it is
believed, will favora bly, report the bill, with
an amendment inten led to protect the gold
OF the treasury from raids by those who re-
ceive currency for their bonds. 1t may
also take up the question OF repeating the 10
per cent on the circulation of state banks.
On this Chairman Springer is quoted as say
ing: 81 don't think the committee will
report bin in favor of a repeal of the tax.
don't believe III going back to the days of
the old state banking system and of being
compelled to have forty-four different kinds
of currency In this country, The removal of
the tax upon state banks and the re-estab-
lishment of the old system would be an OBJ
struction to business. | am against it and
do not think such bill can pass. favor
state currency, good alike in all states, ac-
cepted without question, everywhere one
familiar to the people and printed upon such
paper that counterfeits can be readily de-
tected. Any other currency is an obstruc-
tion to business and l shall oppose it,"
Lee Mantle's Case.
In the senate the week will probably begin
with the Mantle case in the foreground
There is an intimatiou that there has been u
change in the views OF some senators who
voted against Mr.. Mantles claims and some
of his friends are confident the decision will
be reversed.
Senator Wolcott announced his intention
of addressing the senate Wednesday on the
subject of silver
The national bank currency bill is TO be
taken up and pushed as fast as possible 1t
may be a vote can be reached on the Cock
rell amendment relating to the deposit of
bonds in the treasury early in the week. but
there still remains the formidable Butler
amendment repeating the state bank tax. If
this threatens to take an undue time it is
probable the bill will be siuetracked in order
to allow Mr.. Voorhees, TO forward discussion
and action upon the repeal bill. This result
may be hastened if The present plan of the
silver men takes shape. namely to try and
attach to the bank bill an amendment pro-
viding for the free coinage of silver.