The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-11-03
Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON. d. c., October %, 1898.
Senator VOORHEES, Is proud, as he has a
right TO be. of the great victory he has
won, and he is all the prouder that 1t
WAS won without the use of cloture.
Unless the Republican Senators shall
Introduce some new and unnecessary
complication into the situation the VI
cious purchasing clause of the Sherman
silver law, for which not one word of
praise or defense has been uttered during
the long and memorable silver debate in
the Senate, will be wiped from the
Statute books within less than a week.
The silver Senators, after making as
strong a fight As was ever made IN
Congress for anything, TO get the bill
amended So as To- continue the coinage
of silver, found that it was impossible to
agree upon any amendments that could
be passed. and once realizing that they
announced their willingness to allow a
"A vote to be taken after the purpOsed
amendments shall have been debated
and voted upon. These amendments
present about all of the financial ideas
and each of them will have special de
Tenders and will secure some votes, but
it will not be surprising if, after having
put themselves on record 10y casting
their votes for what they consider would
have improved the bill, four-tifths of
the Senate should, on the final vote,
support the Voorhees, bill. My reason
for expecting such a large vote for the
bill is that nearly every Senator who
spoke expressed the opinion that the
purchasing law should be repealed.
Already there are indications on the
part of the Republican Senators to
make trouble. Senator Sherman while
protesting to be strong unconditional
repeater Is busy trying to compHcate
matters by getting supporters for an
amendment providing for an issue
of bonds Inasmuch as Senator
VOORHEES, had told Mr.. sherman
| that he considered it unwise to interject
the bond issue, which Is opposed 10y
many Democratic Senators, into the
! question. it looks as though Senators,
were trying to create Democratic dis
| sention rather than to secure repeal.
Many outrageous misrepresentation
| have been sent out from Washington
| concerning the attitude of Democratic
| Senators towards President Cleveland,
on account of the failure ot the compro-
mise proposed by a committee Of Dem
| ocratic Senators President Cleveland
| has been consistent all through the long
contest. He has always believed that
| the Voorhees, bill would in the end Toe
passed and has at no time even intlmI-
mated that ne would endorse or in any
way help to bring about Il compromise.
| All statements to the contrary are pure
ly imaginary. The Democratic sena-
tors who proposed the compromise were
equally honest; they thought that the
President would sign a cOmprOmlSe
measure if it received the vote of every
Democratic Senator, and there Is little
doubt that he would have done so, but
none of them ever claimed that the
| President had told them so. The com
promise was not endorsed by all of the
| Democratic Senators and il was aban-
! doned. That is the whole story without
| cOloring.
| Representatives Turpin, of Alabama,
J and Black, of Illinois, are working hard
| to get report from the House Commit
| tee on banking and currency in favor of
the bill introduced 10y the former to re
peal the law prohibiting the loaning OF
money on real estate by the National
banks, and they are hopeful of success.
! Mr.. Turpin says English and Scotch
! financial syndicates now monOpolize the
| loaning of money of real estate in his
section because of the existence of this
law and that his people think it would
be much better to keep the interest mon
ey at home. The bill will have a hard
road to travel even if it gets favorably
reported to the House.
Reform is the watchword of the Dem
! ocrats in the House. This week they
passed the public printing bill which Is
the result of a long and careful inveSti-
| CATION by the printing committee and
reforms, not single abuse, but a large
number of them connected with the
| printing and distribution OF public doe
uments. This bill, if it becomes a law,
as it probably will, Will make material
reduction in the cost of certain lines OF
public printing simply by shutting off
| the waste.
! The officials of the National AsSocia
| ton of Democratic clubs have secured
reduced railroad rates for Democratic
voters in the states of New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jer,
sey, Virginia, and Maryland who are
| temporarily residing in Washington and
will use their utmost efforts to see that
| they all 90 home to vote at the coming
state elections. NJ.