Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-08-31

has been much talked about since It
was delivered. 1t was in some respects
one of the most remarkable heard in
Congress for long time. as well as one
of the most dangerous. While profess
ing the gre attest admiration for the
administration the Indiana Senator
denounced the administration pension
policy and advocated the widest sort of
financial initiation, going further in
some particulars than the populists,
and advocating the overthrow of the
National banking system and the putt
ing Of wildcat State Banks in lis place.
He also advocates an income tax If
that speech was intended TO be friendly
to the administration MIR. Cleveland
may well be excused for exclaiming
"Save me from my friends" 1t is said
that Senator Voorhees, purposely made
his speech radical, in order TO influence
certain Southern Senators to vote for
the unconditional repeal of the purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman Silver law,
and it is said further that several of
them have agreed to vote for the repeal
bill upon the promise of Senator Vor-
bees that their views should be met IN
financial bill to be reported from the
Senate Finance Committee at an early
day.
In addition TO the investigation pro-
proposed by Senator Galliuger's reso-
luton of the pension suspensions now
being made by the administration, Col.
Charles p. Lincoln, who was Deputy
Pension Commissioner under the Harri-
son administration, proposes to carry
the matter to the Courts Col. Lincoln
is lawyer of ability, and he believes
that the law is being violated by the
administration and that the Court will
upon proper presentation of the quos-
ton grant an Injunction restraining
Secretary Hoke Smith from making
further suspensions, except in eases
where fraud is proven. No fraud is
even alleged in the suspensions now
beng made Soon after the present
administration came into power ruling
was made by Hoke Smith that reversed
the construction put upon the act of
1890 by the republican administration.
and under that ruling the suspensions
are beng made, procedure which it is
believed the courts will declare illegal.
Representative Outwaite, of Ohic,
was guilty of a very unmanly act, while
Representative Hepburn, of Iowa. was
speaking in the house on the silver
question, by attempting in an Interrupt
ton of Mr. Hepburn to drag ex Sec
rotary Fosters personal financial
troubles into the debate. Mr. Hepburn
merely said: THAT is q very unkind
reference 10 friend Of yours and
friend OF mno" Il was enough
Outhwate blushed and sat down, amid
a storm of well deserved Kisses from the
floor and the galleries.
Those interested in the Navy are
/ pleased at the selection of Representa-
tive Amos Cummings, of New York
City to be chairman of the House Com
mittee ON Naval affairs. Although q
Tammany democrat, Mr.. Cummings
earned the right during the Fifty-iirst
and Fifty-second Congresses to be
classed as man OF broad-guage ideas
upon all matters concerning our navy
and our ocean commerce.
Those democrats who have been
accustomed to accusing the republican
party of Sectionalism should look at the
organization of the House-the Speaker
and nearly two thirds of the Committee
chairmen, including most of the impor-
tant ones, from the Southland forever
keep silent.
Senator Hill evidently intends to
dispute Senator Germans right to the
democratic leadership of the Senate.
This disposition was first publicly shown
on Wednesday when Mr.. Hill Sharply
replied to Mr.. Germans argument in
favor of referring Senator PETERS reso-
luton, calling upon the Secretary Of
the Treasury for information as to
whether certain National banks were
violating the law in refusing to prompt
" pay checks Of depositors, to the
Finance Committee, instead Of voting
upon it at once, and again to-day when
he made a speech in favor Of the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the silver
law