Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-08-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
What is Being Done by the Extra
Session.
Republican Patriotism Against Demo.
cratic Twaddle.
From our Regular Correspondent


mains TO be seen, however, whether
anything practical will come out Of
these meetings. In other words whether
financial bill will be reported thai
will meet the views of a majority OF
the Senate and at the same time be OF
such nature as to meet the President ',
approval. Indiscreet friends of Mr.
Cleveland are adding to the difficulty
by stating it to be Mr.. Cleveland 8 in
tention to veto any bill to which il
attached any conditions to the repea
of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man law. If they really speak for Mr.
Cleveland he would better have left
the extra session uncalled.
The first bill passed by the Senate
was one appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of site and the erection of a
fire proof building for the storage OF
the public records which now crowd
the corridors of most of the depart.
ment buildings. 1t was passed without
a division.
The general impression here is that
the United States gets what was most
desired out of the Behring's Sea arbi-
tration, notwithstanding the main de
cision was against us. Canadian seal.
ers will be the only sufferers, and that
is but justice, as they alone have for
years stood in the way of an agreement
that would have made arbitration un
necessary.
Senator Vest is said to have sworn
mighty Missouri oath of enmity to Mr..
Cleveland because he lately said of
Vest: "Oh, little patronage is all
that Vest wants to make him vote all
right" The language was reported to
Vest and is said to have been the NOV
ing cause of his speech attacking Mr..
Cleveland for the financial position
taken in his message.
There is more in the continued delay
on the part of Speaker Crisp in announ
cling the House committee assignments
than appears on the surface, and when
the announcements are made they will
have plain meaning to many students
of the undercurrents of politics. For
instance, Mr.. Springer's chances for
again being made Chairman of the
Ways aad Means committee have
improved as the doubt of any
real action being taken by the present
House on the tariff has increased.
Now, if Springer is again put at the
head of that committee it will mean
that little or nothing will be done with
the tariff by that committee, as he is
not a man of action, but one of his
great pretenses being to craftsmanship
ABOUT what General Mcclellan was to
war. On the other hand, if Wilson, of
West Virginia, be made chairman Of
the committee it will mean that free
trade tariff bill will be reported from
the committee at the earliest possible
moment, as Wilson is nervous and
energetic little man, crammed to the
neck with bookish freee trade theories
which he is anxious to see tried upon
the people of the United States.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has been
credited with being level headed man.
and yet he fathered a bill introduced
in the Senate this week to suspend the
ten per cent tax on State bank currency
for six months, bill that would, if a
law, probably ca use more mischief
than even the permanent repeal of that
tax. Statesmen are mighty few and
far between on the Democratic side OF
the Senate.
Senator Hill made his first bid for
the southern support in 1896 when he
introduced bill in the Senate this
week for the repeal of the Federal elec.
ton laws. He had previously intro.
duced resolution to confine the legis.
lation of the extra session to matters
relating directly to the finances of the
country.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina
has offered resolution instructing the
Senate committee on finance to report
blanket bill, providing for the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man silver law, the free coinage of sill
yer ut ratio to be hereafter determ
ined, and for the repeal of the tax on
State bank currency, the bill to be
voted on not later than August 90.
Whatever may be done no such bill az
that will never pass the Senate. 1t pro-
vides for too much.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,, has
come to the front unusually early for a
new senator, and his speech this week
urging immediate action on financial
matters, has attracted, as it deserved
much attention. He truly said: "What
the people want above everything is to
see action-some sort of action by Con
gress. If the country is to have fire..
coinage, let the country know it: il /,
is to have limited coinage, let the peo
pie know it, and if there is 10 be an
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
act let the country know it,"
Senator Hoar also made strong and
patriotic speech, urging the Senator,
to drop partisanship and deal with tn,
money question intelligently.