The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-09-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4, '93

played his great ability as ready
deb ter and an able, exponent of
parliamentary law and precedent
than during the debate on the new
rules. now going on in the House.
The "kicking" Democrats. of whom
there are quite number, have
gladly followed his leadership, in
exposing the weak points IN the
proposed rules, which he has been
merciless in dong. The "ring
Democrats, as several of the
CHECKERS" have called those who
unquestionably follow Speaker
Crisp, have no man to pit against
the cx-Speaker in debate, and since
the bitter experience of Speaker
Crisp when he left the chair and at
tempted to comb t Mr.. Reed, they
no longer try, contenting them
selves with out-votlne him and his
followers, and upon several occa-
sions they have found that very diff
ficult to do. The administrator is
in no hurry for the House to adopt
its new rules; hence the adjourn.
ment from Saturday until Wednes-
day. The Ways and Means com,
mittee is Mt work on the tariff bill
fourteen days of public hearings
began to-day-and Mr.. Cleveland
has no other work cut out for the
House just vet and he is not anxious
for it to strike out at go-as YOU
please gait.
History is repeating itself in the
silver fight in the Senate. The
Southern Senators who have been
relied upon by the silver men from
the Northwest to aid them in pre-
venting vote upon the uncondl-
rional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the silver law are slowly
but surely going over to the admin
istration, and during the last two
or three days the prospect for an
early vote has b en- very much i'm.
proved, although the thick and thin
silver men still say they will fight
to the last, but it is plain to be seen
that they are no longer confident of
success, as they were but few days
ago. Space forbids mention of the
Numerous causes assigned for this
change, although IA vigorous WELD
ing of the party whip by Senators
VOORHEES, and German and some
judicious promises of patronage on
the part of Mr.. Cleveland cannot
be overlooked as factors The pop
ullst Senators are also regarded as
doubtful by the silver men, Senator
PETER having publicly stated that
while he would vote against uncon-
dit,onal repeal he would not take
part in or aid in any effort to pre-
vent vote by fillibustering. The
populists privately say that they ex-
pect the passing of the bill by the
Senate 70 greatly increase their
party in the South and Northwest,
because of their belief that all of the
free-silver voters will join them.
Senator Hansbrough, of North Da-
kota, has proposed an amendment,
which he thinks would satisfy the
silver men and not be vetoed by the
President. II provides for the re-
tirement of all paper money of a
less denomination than $40 and of
all gold coins less than $40, iuclud-
ing national bank currency, and
the issuing of silver certificates
therefor, to be based upon silver
purchased at the market price and
coined into standard silver dollars
as fast as the currency is retired.
That amendment is now in the
hands of the Finance committe.
Several special trains left here
yesterday for the encampment at
Indianapolis, filled with G. A. r.
men and their families. The fact
that the tickets included visit to
the Worlds Fair largely increased
the crowd from Washington.
No more complete breakdown was
ever made by member OF any
Presidents cabinet than that of
Hoke Smith on the pension suspen-
sions which have been such a
marked feature of the democratic
administration. The public reason
given for the back down is far from
the real cause of it. 1t gradually
entered the mind Of Mr.. Cleveland,
who was the originator of the whole
sale pension suspension system, that
the statements of such Democrats
as Senators German, VOORHEES, and
Palmer, and Representative Hol-
man, as to the certainty of the
wreck of the Democratic party if
the administration policy was con-
tlnued, were worth thinking about,
and while he was thinking about it
he heard from numerous other men
who had been Democrats but had