People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

viii be reported to the house BY the
ways and means committee before
about the middle Of January.
John Sherman, United States SEN
ator and attorney for the Bank Of
England. made a very exhaustive
speech in the senate Aug. 80. To carry
out his suggestions will exhaust the
resources Of the United States in be-
half OF Great Britain.
Speaker Crisp and ex-Speaker Reed
had little set-to in the house IN re-
gard to the adoption sf some Of the
rules OF the Flfty-fiist congress, but
the country still survives
one OF the most amusing incidents
OF the silver discussion was the humor.
Gus speech Of Congressman Laie Pence
OF Colorado, in which he exposed By.
mum OF Indiana, who had modified"
his views on the silver question. It
provoked hearty laughter in the house
and exposed the inconsistency Of Mr..
Bynum that was anything but credita.
BILE to that gentleman.
Just what congress is going TO do
next is very uncertain. 1t may adj
Journ and go fishing. ltmay stay and
indulge in more speech making. II
may raise the tariff or it may lower Ii
a little In view of its recent action
there is no one who cares TO hazard
their reputation by venturing to pre-
dict what 1t will do.
The democrats are under great obi
cations TO the republicans for their
assistance in striking down silver.
The democratic party could not have
done it alone. They, however, fur.
nished ia of the 927 votes that did it.
The republicans furnished the other
lib. There were l24 votes for freq
silver.
John Sherman made big speech in
the senate few days ago. 1t was
considered the great event of the sill.
yer discussion. 1t is now IN order for
the Bank of England to paste under
his portrait the words: well done
thou good and faithful servant" John
is great fnancier. He is also a
great political lumber.
The house has had its innings on
the silver question. Whatever dispo-
sition the senate may make OF it, the
issue will go back to the people for
settlement in 1894.
There were just 100 democrats, out
OF PA, that voted for silver at the ratio
Of l6 to /. Eleven populists and 10
republicans also voted for the same
measure. The total vote stood POT
against free silver and 12i for it.
1t is not expected that the President
will stop fishing at this time Of year
to assist in detarifizing the Mckinley
bill, but congress might take the mat
ter up and bore a hole or two in II.
1t has recently been discovered by
some enterprising person that the
President had the toothache about two
months ago, and the newspapers are
indulging in a variety Of predictions as
to how soon he will die, or whether he
will die at all or not. The public ia
more concerned u know whether the
report is true that Els friends recently
hustled him away from Washington
because he was drunk.
Uncle Sam has just finished count
ing his cash. He has en- hand s74O.-
100000, besides some odd dollars and
cents. 1t required sixty experts two
months to count it. The weight of
this cash is over 5000 tons.
The democrats had the help of
twenty-three republicans and eleven
populists in the fight for free silver
yet with their 100 majority they failed
to redeem the pledge of their party.
Out of 12i republican votes lOl were
cast against free silver, while out of
pa democratic votes l3S voted against
free silver, or for the repeal of the
purchasing clause in the Sherman law.
The eleven populist votes went solid
for free silver.
Mr.. Bland is reported as "still being
DEMOCRAT" Certainly no one sup
posed for an instant that he meant
what he said when he threatened to
not let the democratic party live if it
voted down free silver.
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