Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-23
senator Vance's Letter.


The letter OF Senator VANCE which we
published yesterday proves the truth OF
what we have constantly endeavored TO
impress upon the minds OF our readers as
10 the business TO be expected TO be done
by Congress at it's extra session OF next
month-nameIy, that you may leao
horse TO the water, but you cannot make
him drink. In other words, the members
Of Congress are so many Of them like Gov
ernor yANcE-men having the courage OF
their convictions and believing that they
know better what they ought to do than
the men who attempt TO instruct tcem In
their duty-tbat it will be exceedingly IN
wise for any assumed experts 10 hnance,
or in banking. or In the natural laws OF
commerce to undertake TO force through
Congress measures which shall not COM
mend themselves to the approoatory
Judgment of the congressman themselves.
II might be inferred from the tone OF
Senator VAScE's letter that there Is danger
of discussions in the Democratic party IL
the President shall employ the patronage
of the government to force through Con-
eress any measure whatever. We said the
other day that wo could not foresee the
pnth in which Speaker CRISP would
have 10 walk during the next month or
two. How he can steer his vessel clear OF
the breakers wo cannot imagine. Mr..
BLAND. of Missouri. the chairman of the
Committee on Coinage, Weights. and Mea-
sures in the last House of Representatives,
cannot be Displaced by Speaker CRISP
without evoking strong protests against
such course from all the men in the two
houses of Congress who concur in Sena-
tor VANCE's views. Will not Senator
VANcE's letter crystalline the opposition in
Congress TO the unconditional repeal of
the SHERMAN law? By the way. Congress
men JONES and EpEs, of Virginia, were
ahead of Senator VANCE in announcing
publicly that they were still silverites,
Senator VANCE says-what We do not
ourselves concede to be the fact-that
tariff repeal" formed the chief issue OF
the last presidential campaign. Anyhow.
he complains that that issue is soon TO be
overslaughed. Nevertheless, Governor
VANcK's followers on this question will not
DC low. AL biS NOh-AtooihOH IL S'NASA
house who have not decided opinions on
the SILVER problem and other purely finan-
cial questions will fall in behind Governor
VANCE and demand tariff repeal, hoping
that tho way will ere long be open for
them 70 march out of their present I'M
comfortable environment into O condition
of things which Will afford them On oppor-
tunity to please themselves and their con-
stituents as we'll "a tho President OF the
United States.
If the tnrif is the most important ques-
ton TO come before the next Congress,
then Speaker CRISP ought SO to constl-
tute the Committee on Ways and Means
as to make that the most important COM
mlttee in the House of Representatives.
as indeed 1t is always supposed to be.
All the committees cannot, however, DO
made the leading committees. The Com
mittee on Banking and Currency ia an
other one that must be conceded to be q
leading one Just now; or at any rate ought
| to be.
These are few thoughts suggested to
us by the perusal of Senator VAScE's let
ter. Its appearance did not surprise US in
the least.
Once moro We repeat. There are lively
times ahead of us"-just little ahead OF