Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

From Or Regular 2 rc1poHefHL
The opening of now Congress
always brings to the front n thousand
and ono schemes new and old 10 cur.
tall the number Of bills introduced Ia
Congress, and II Is again seriously pro.
posed that tho House have a specill
committee, the approval Of which
shall DO received before the bill eau be
introduced. At first glance ono ia apt
to regard the proposition NJ good one
and In tile line OF needed reform;
there 10 certainly a lot OF time aud
money wasted ON bills that are utterly
absurd. But little consideration will
convince most people that committee
entrusted with this power Of deciding
what bills shall and shall not be intro.
duced would be "a much greater and
more dangerous evil than the shower
OF bills now poured upon COngtess.
Such committee would always 10
controlled by partissns, aud there is
already entirely too much par,izsnship
In Congressional legislation.
The usually large number Of finan-
cial bills chat will DO introduced as
soon M Congress gets down 10 business
will not be AN unmixed evil. Every
bill will contain AN idea, good, bad or
Indifferent, ana careful study Of all
those ideas may bring forth something
In the shape q u financial bill that will
meet the approval Of "A majority Of Con.
gTess ami OF the people, regardless Of
politics. II ever there was time
when politics could be proiitably laid
aside for a while that time Is hight
now.
The positive statement Ia now made
by those who ought 10 know that "a
addition 10 recommending the repeal
OF the Sherman law, President Cieve-
lands message 10 Congress Will outline
a substitute, tho enactment OF which
will be- recommended. Hut the nature
OF that substitute, " one has really been
agreed upon, IL still kept profound
secret. IL Is said " have been origin.
ally suggested by Secretary Carlisle
and TO have been somewhat modified
by Mr.. Cleveland.
The Telegraph companies would
have been out a good round sum Of
cash, II Secretary Carlisle had made
known u few days before his departure
his Intention 10 10 10 BuZEtrd's Bay TO
consult with President Cleveland, upon
tue invitation OF the latter, and tho
readers Of the metropolitan press would
have messed all Of the sensational stun
sent from Washington relating 10 tho
failure Of the President to recognise
the claims Of the secretary Of the
treasury 10 be consulted upon such an
important financial document "a his
mtrsage 10 Congress. Messrs. Cleys-
land uni CaGlislu may not agree In
some thinRH, but II Ia safe 10 say that
they agree In enjoying the discom.
fIute OF the sensation mongers In this
case, They Will return to Washing.
ton together tomorrow.
Senator German, who probably
knows, II any uody does, snys no radi-
cal tarln bill will be- passed by the
Fiily.ilifd Congress, because ut the
belief OF 70 many business men that Il
would be u most daugefour experiment
to make ut this time, owing 10 the
financial sttlugenvy anu business DO.
| preston under which the county h
already staggering. According to MIR.
Gorman the most that will be done
viii be 10 revise the Mckinley tann,
slightly lowering the duties On such
articles ~ have had placed upon them
OutTage0usly higE duties Tor no better
reason than to put money into the
pockets Of few men, already rich, nt
the expense Of the consumers. Other
memhcrs OF his party DO not agree with
Senator German, but his OpiniOu
10 nevertheless entitled tOgteat weight.
IL IL now stated that Representative
Bland h 10 be- rendered the chairman.
ship OF the coinage committee OF the
Houso with string tied To II In the
shape Of the information that the ma
JOrity Of the committee will be anti.
silver men. This Information IL ex.