The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
fE:om our regular Correspoadent.)
WASHINGTON. Sept. Sth, 1898.

White House, where he had been in
vited to attend a conference, lis not
~preludlced against those democrats
who are opposed To his financial poll
cy as far as it has been announced:
end he is fully aware of the extent of
this opposition in the west and south.
He believes that the wisdom of first
repeating the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, which has been
so greatly denounced by the business
mer of this country, and which was
explicitly promised By the Chicago
platform, will be so apparent after the
entire financial policy of his admins
traitor shall have been made public
that all divisions will soon be forgot
ten. The first step to be taken is. in
his opinion, to stop the purchase Of
silver; but lie bears no ill-will to-
wards those who differ with him, be-
llevlng that they are rs honest IN their
belief as he is in his. The only rea
son that he has not announced the f.
nanclal policy of his administration is
that it is not yet fully determined up
on. Mind you, it is no task of a day,
a week, or a month to reconstruct the
financial system of a country of Co.
100000 people, which has been grow
ing from bad to worse under republi-
a legislation, until it is TO-DAY as
bad as it conld well be, and financial
reform has become the most urgent
necessity OF the time. Grover Cleve-
land has proven himself to be a man
worthy to be trusted, and l can see no
reason why every democrat should not
repose the most implicit trust in him
In this emergency, even if their perso-
nal opinions do differ from his as to
the means to be used to reach the de-
sired end-the restoration of prosperi-
ty to the country at large, not to 4
few favored men, but to everybody.
l am, and have always been, what is
known as a silver man, but | shall un-
hesitatlngly vote for the unconditional
repeal OF the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law"
The House added amendment after
amendment to the new rules reported
by the committee OF Rules, until they
stand as adopted almost the same as
they were in the last House. Theo-
retlcally no democrat finds any fault
with the liherality with which the
rules treat the right of the minori-
ty, but there is reason to fear that
when the tariff bill, the bill for the re-
peal of the Federal election laws, and
other measures against which the re-
pubiicans will be disposed to fllibus-
ter, gets before the House, they will
be found too lenient for the minority.
1t Is an old and true maxim that 1.-The
devil must be fought with fire." and
many think that it would have been
wisdom to have followed the prece-
dent set by the republicans ia the Fiji
ty-ilrst Congress and have made the
rules stringent enough to control the
minority When it was so desired.
Much ado about nothing is all the
talk abont the votes in the Senate
this week. With twenty Senators alb
sent. the Senators defeated Senator
Noiiees OF W o propositions-one to
90 INTO executive session VIII lie Sena-
tor Stewart YVES making his long
speech, and the other to adjourn.
The votes have absolutely no signiti
canoe as far as the final result is con
cerned. The situation stands precise
ly as II did befOre-the bill will he
debated a reasonable time, until an
agreement is reached setting q time
to vote, and then an attempt will be
made to force a vote. To say how
that attempt will result is merely to
express an individual opinion or to
make a guess.
Since President Cleveland made an
address at the opening of the Pan
American Medical Congress, in
session, there has been a decided sslet
up" on the silly stories about his
being in bad health, stories which
neve had any better foundation than
the i~magiuatiOns of their dissemina-
tors.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, this
week introduced a concurrent resolu
tion for the appointment of a Joint
committee on finance. to be composed
of seven Senators and seven members
of the House, for the purpose of max
ing an examination into the financial
and monetary condition of the Govern
mont and people of the United States.
The resolution enumerates the follow
ing subjects to be investigated and
reported upon by the committee: The
full or partial demonstration of legal
tender silver coins; the ratio which
should be established between gold
and silver; laws relating to legal ten
der and for the prevention of unjust
discrimination in the several kinds Of
money; the repeal of the tax on State
bank currency the causes of the pres.
emf EN- barrassed condition of the peo-
pie and the national banks, and what
further legislation is necessary to pre-
vent national banks abusing theil
mower under the law. The last sub.