Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-09-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Sam is feeling the money squeeze, just
like the rest of us. Instead of the pros
porous business year he expected it is now
certain, unless there is radical improve
meRt, or legislation of some sort to add to
his revenues, that at the end Of the
present fiscal year-June 80, le94-his
balance sheet will show deficit of from
$50, 900 900 to 500, OOO,OOO The admin
istratiOn had hoped to keep this matter
away from Congress until after the silver
bill was disposed of by the Senate,
because of desire not to add any new
complications to those already existing
in the Senate, but the regular monthly
Treasury statement contained enough to
show those familiar with national finances
just how things stood, and now the
matter is talked of everywhere that Con-
Pressmen congregate. There is no
probability Of any increase IN the revenue
from customs duties until after the Few
tariff is ready to go into effect, aud if it
shall seem probable from the tariff bill
which will be reported to the House that
the cuts Will be many and deep, there
will be still further falling off, as i'm
porters will all wait for the new tariff
Il is not probable that any action viii
be taken in Congress to help the Treasury
until after the President shall have madt
known his wishes, either ly a special
message or through the leaders Of biz
party, although several propositions have
already been made in both Houses anc
Senate with that end in view.
The House has adjourned until Wed
nesdav, when it Will resume the debate
on the proposed new rules. AS a whole
this talk has been dry and uninterestinG,
but there have been several exciting
episodes and the majority of the House
has shown its independence by changing
several of the rules proposed by the
committee. 1t is expected that the rules
as finally adopted will differ little from
those of the last House, and that the
debate will end this week, but Congress
lonal expectations are Ofttner disappoin
ted than realized.
What will tie House committee on
Coinage do with Its newly-acQuired
right to report bills at any time That
question has been asked many times
since the rules of the House we're amended
giving it and the Banking and Currency
committee that right, which has hereto
fore been vested 10 only two committees
Appropriation and Ways and Means
and your correspondent asked 1t OF
member of the committee. ave Will USE
it," was his reply, ''tO report free silver
bill, in order to give those members who
talked SO nice about what they would be
willing to do for silver in the future,
when declaring their intentions to vote
tor the Wilson repeal bill, chance &c
vote as they talked; but we do not
propose TO add 70 existing financial
unrest by reporting such a bill at this
time. We Will wait a while" As this
committee is controlled by silver men
it can, under its new authority, report
bill whenever so disposed
Everybody now seems to he agreed
that Congress will keep right along at
work, with the possibility of a short re-
cess of couple of weeks in October to
give the members chance to visit the
Worlds Fair before its close. but somehow
the manner which the committees on the
Senate side are acting, or rather, not
acting, indicates that the Senators have
a doubt about it. At any rate the Senate
committees are doing nothing. Those OF
the House with the exception of ways
aud Means and Banking and Currency
have had nothing to act upon yet, but
they will be overrun with bills as soon
as the rules of the House are adopted
and the regular introduction of bills
begins. The ways and means committee
is already heels over head in the prepare
ton of the tariff bill. Two weeks, begin
ming today, are to be given up to public
hearings By the committee. TIE Bank
ing & Currency committee has been
considering the johnson inconvertible
bo1d bill, and proposition to repeal the
tax on State bank currency, but has
arrived at no definite conclusion con-
corning either.
The silver situation IN the Senate has
materially changed in the last three OF
four days. For the first time there is a
perceptible wavering in the heretofore
solid line of the silver Senators and
several of them have practically admitted
in their speeches that the repeal bill
would be passed, even while declaring
their purpose to fight it to the last ditch
and to die lighting against allowing a
vote 10 be taken upon it, It is ne longer
denied that the repealers have majority
of the Senate ; il is now only a question
of whether the repealers can bring the
bill to a vote. A number of the Southern
Senators have stated that they will not
fllibuster to prevent vote, and the
populist Senators are also opposed to
illbusterDg, Senator PETER having SO
stated on the floor of the Senate. Not
[ withstandiDg all. OF this. the Senators
from the Northwest are still confident OF
their ability to prevent a vote. The
test is likely to be made inside of two OF
three weeks. Then we shall know who
wins.
President Cleveland certainly does not
look like a sick man now; bis eyes are
clear and blight and his movements quick
aud elastic, and he has, since his return
to Washington, done an amount of work
that DO sick man could have pei formed.
Still, his physlcian-Dr. BryaDt-is a
guest Q: the White House. Why
Five Persons Bitten by Dogs.