Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-10-26

follow your example, but will give you
d manly No"
We must decide this silver question
one way or other If you cannot 10 it
and will retire from the Senate cham
Der we Will fix it on this side Of the
chamber. and do the best we can with
our silver friends who belong IL us and
who are blood of our blood and bone Of
our bone. Butyours is the proper duty;
and, therefore, beg of YOU, not in re-
proach or anger, to perform it. You
have the supreme honor Of being able
to settle this question now; and you
ought to DO it. That is all that ! can
say"
The silver democratic Senators
thought Senator Sh3rman's advice to
''meet together good, and prepared q
call for a democratic caucus binding
every signer to abide by the caucus de-
cision The administration Senators
mostly refused to sign, knowing that q
majority OF the democratic Senators are
opposed 10 the Voorhees, bill and that
the caucns decision would consequently
be against that bill, but a sufficient
number Of signatures were secured to
compel Senator German, who IS chair
man of the caucus committee, to call
caucus But there can ba nothing def
mite about its action, because the dem
ocrats who do not attend will not be
bound Itmay however result in get
ting the silver democrats to agree upon
some sort of compromise, which they
have not vet done.
If Mr.. Cleveland had not called off the
administration Senators a compromise
would hsve been reached early this
week. How this affected the silver
democrats may be judged by Senator
Morgan's criticism Of him in speech.
He said Il am disposed to say to the
President. When you leave the execu-
tive mansion ia come here to guide US
in legislation, you must not feel at all
aflrouted if we take Up the veto power
and use it on YOU You shall not in.
terfere with Us. How the two wings
Of the democratic party can be got to-
gether is not II this time apparent,
Many people have been puzzled st
the non. action the Senate Judiciary
committee GA the nomination Of Mr..
Horablower to the Supreme Court va
caucy. which has been costly and in
convenient to law ers and litigants in
eases which the Chief Justice insists
shall only be heard by full bench but
/ the secret is now out II is another
case Of Senator Hills peanut politics.
Mr.. Hornbower was ons of the demo-
cratic lawyers Of New York who open
/ " condemned the criminal acts Of Judge
Maynard, who heads the recently nom
mated democratic state ticket, and Sen
ator Hill is a member of the Senate
judiciary committee to which Horn
blower nomination was referred. The
i New York boss thought be saw an op-
portuui'y for revenge, both on Horn
blower and on the administration, by
hanging up the nomination and making
pretence of being able to defeat it.
He then sent word to deputy President
Dan Lamont, that if the administration
would in some public way endorse the
candidacy of Judge Maynard he would
withdraw his opposition to Hornblow-
er's confirmation. That's the whole
story as far as it has gone.
The democratic members of the House
Ways and Means committee say that
the imposition of an income tax has
been decided upon and that it only re-
mains to determine where it shall be-
gin-the lowest income that shall be
taxed-w hat the rate of taxation shall
be and how il shall be collected.
Slowly but surely the democrats are
carrying out the threat of Senator
Blackburn, to repeal every yestige of
war legislation. The House this week
passed bill amending the Revised
Statutes SO that proof of loyalty shall
nos be necessary in any application for
bounty land where the proof otherwise
shows that the applicant is entitled
/ thereto.