The Coconino weekly sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1896, 1893-08-10
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular correspondento


and one schemes, new aud old, to cur
tail the number of bills introduced in
congress, and it is again seriously pro-
posed that tie house have special
committee, the approval Of which shall
have been received before Il bill can be
introduced At first glance one is apt
to regard the proposition as good
one, aud in the line of needed reform;
there is certainly Il lot of time and
money wasted on bills that are utterly
absurd. But little consideration will
convince most people that committee
entrusted with the power of deciding
what bills shall aud shall not be intro
duced would be u much greater and
more dangerous evil than the shower
of bills now poured upon congress.
Such a committee would always be
controlled by partisans, and there is
already entirely too much par,isauship
in congressional legislation. @..1@
The unusually larg. number Of iinan-
cial bills that win be. INTRODUCED. :. rs
soon as congress gets downt To business
will not be IN unmixcd evil. Every
bill will contain an idea, good, bad, or
Indifferent, and careful study of all
those ideas may bring forth something
in the shape of a financial bill that will
meet the approval Of Il majority of con-
grcss and Of the people, regardless of
politics. II ever there was Il time
when politics could be profit IDLY laid
aside for II while, that time Is right
now.
The positive statement is now made
by those who ought to know, that in
addition to Recommending the repeal
of the Sherman law, President Clcve.
lands message to congress will outline
II substitute, The enactment Vf winch
will be recommended. But the nature
Of that substitute, if one has rcall,
been agreed upon, is still kept II pro!
found secret. IL is said to have been
originally suggested by Secretary Car
isle, and To have hppn sumesfhat mod,
itied by MI. Cleveland
The telegraph companies wouldha
been out u gmnl round sum nf cash, il
Secretary Carlisle had made known a
few days before his departure his in.
tcntion to 20 to Buzzard's Bay 10 con.
suit with President Cleveland, upon
the invitation of the latter, aud the
readers Of the metropolitan press
would haNg missed all of tho scns;t.
tiUnal stuff sent ont from " ashinglul
relating TO the failure uf the president
to recognize the claims of The secretary
Of the treasury 10 be consulted upon
such an important financial document
rs his message to congress. Mcssrs.
Cleveland aud Carlisle may MT agree
in some things, but il is safe 10 81,
that they agree in enjoling the discom.
Iilurc Of the scnsativn-mUngors in this
: ease. They will return 10 Washington
together, tomorrow,
Senator tiopnqp, VIM probably
knows, if any body does, says no radi.
cal tariff bill will be passcdb by the Fifty.
third congress, because Of the belief OF
50 many business mcp that il wppld BE-
Il most dangerous experiment to max,
at this time, owing to the financial
stringeucr and business depression ui,,
der which the cpuntry Is already stag.
gcring According to Alr. German the
most that will be done will be To revise
the Mckinley tariff, slightly lowering
the ,nties ~ spph articles Us have had
placed upon them ontrageQuSly high
duties for no better reason than to p,,
money into the pockets Of y few men
already rich, at The expense of the con
sumers. Other members of his party
do not agree with Senator Gorman, hui
his opinion Is nevertheless entitled L,
great weight.
1t is now stated tha; Rrprescntativ,
. Bland is 10 be rendered the chairman
ship of the coinage p1mmillee nj Ih,
house, with n string tied to 1t In ih,
shape Of the information that u majority
of the committee will be anti.silvel
men. This information is expected /,
lead to his declining the chairmanship
Us his friends haye stated that h,
would not cgrf to be chairman of lh,
COMMITTEES witha majorityof It's mem
bcrs opposed tohim. There may be q
surprise to somrbo'ly in This case.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, SAYS th,
repeal of the sherman silver law viii
afford no relief tp the pquutry, and
that if il he repealed it will rcpur,
more months than some seem to imag
ine weeks necessary to accomplish it,
The senator does not believe that it is
possiblefor congress to afford any re-.
lief, because the buse of the trouble
lies in the fear of the people which is
causing them TO hoard money. While