The Progress., 1893-09-30
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Notes Of Interest Gathered from About
The National CAPITAL.

W ashington. September II.

Special Correspondence 20 The Progress:
Il is now plain to everybody that tn
silver Senators were not idly boastin9
when they SAID that no vote could be
reached on the Voorhees, repeal bill
without their consent. Senator Noor-
hees himself has practically recognized
the fact by cessation of his efforts to
force vote, just as some of his poorly
informed followers were shouting from
the house tops that the process of wear
ing out the silver men had begun not to
be stopped until a vote was reached.
Senator Voorhees, agreed to a prOlong-
alton of the debate until twelve Sena-
tors whose names were given him shall
have made speeche;-. will not
average more than one day---and the
silver men agreed that the Senate
should sit seven hours--frOm eleven to
six o'cfock--each week day. Twistand
turn this as you please it is a victory for
the silver men. If vote cannot be
forced now a vote cannot be forced two
weeks hence. As the thing now stands
the Voorhees, bill cannot BE- passed
without the adoption of a clOture rule,
and to do that there would have to be
such a reversing Ot records as was never
before seen in the Senate. Without
clOture the repealers will have their
choice of two ways out---abandOn the
bill or accept a compromise. 1t is hard
ly fair to repeat the ugly rumOrS con
Meeting President Clevelands name
with the threatened intention of the
financial magnates to put the country
through another financial squeeze in
order to bring the silver Senators to
to time, but they are being talked about
in Washington: hence this mention OF
them.
a graduated income tax bill Is TO be
passed by the House, if Representative
Bynum, of Indiana, author of the bill
and man of influences with the major
ity Of the House, can have his way. 1t
will, of course, have 10 have the en-
1orsement Of the leaders of the Demo |
cratic party, in and out OF Congress, /
before it stands any show Of becoming /
4 law.
''Straws show the way the wind
blows" and it is fair to assume by the
with which the House
ldopted the resolution offered by Rep
Loud, of California. calling
IpOn the Attorney General and Secre-
airy of the Treasury for copies of all
Instructions issued by them concerning l
he enforcement of the Geary Chinese [
Xclusion law, that the House does not
together approve OF the way the adj
has handled this matter.
t is expected that the House commit ,
ee on Foreign Affairs will this week
gree TO report Chairman McCreary's
i'll, which is intended as aubslitute
n the Geary law, and which will give
ne Chinese already in the United [
tates another chance to remain here
! complying with the provisions there a
!.
Representative Holman may not have I
ad any particular politician in mind
hen he introduced his anti-bribery
N, but it strikes lot of them very =.
ard all the same, and should il become !,
law might prove very troublesome TO
le politicians, if not specially bene- =
,ial to the pubic at large. 1t would q
'mpel every man elected or appointed )
Federal Office, from the President o
,wn to the humblest fourth-class post Il
aster, TO make oath that he had made a
} promises of patronage or used di- 81
city or Indirectly money or any other s
ing of value to secure his election or L
pointment The bill has been re- d