The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-08-31
WASHINGTON LETrER.
From Our Regular Correspondent


WASHINGTON I%ETrER.
From Our Regular Corespondent.I
Washington, Aug. IS, 1898.
Speaker Crisp has settled the nature Of
the tariff bill that win be reported from
the house committee on ways and means
by the appointment Of Wilson, of West
Virginia. chairman of that committee.
Mr.. Wilson's free trade sentiments are
well known and he says the committee.
will at once begin work on tariff bill.
It does not. however, necessarily follow
that the free trade bill to be prepared by
the house committee will become law.
It may get through the house, as the
democratic majority in that body is so
large that a few dissenters cannot ma
terially effect the final result, but in the
senate things are different. The demo-
cratic majority is small, and some Of the
democratic senator's have privately in
formed republicans that they will sup
port bill making radical cuts in the
tariff.
The silver speech OF Senator VOORHEES,
has been much talked about since it was
delivered. It was in some respects one
of the most remarkable heard in congress
for long time, as well as one of the
most dangerous, While processing the
greatest admiration for the administra-
ton the Indiana senator denounced the
Administrations pension policy and adj
vocated the widest sort of financial in
fation, going further in some particulars
than the populists, and advocating the
overthrow Of the national banking sys-
tenn and the putting of wildcat state
banks in its place. He also advocates
an income tax. II that speech was in
tended to be friendly to the admlnistra-
tion Mr.. Cleveland may well be excused
for exclaiming "Save me from my
frierds." It is said that Senator Voor-
hees purposely made his speech radical,
in order to influence certain southern
senator's to vote for the unconditional
repeal Of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, and tits said fur
Their that several OF them have agreed to
vote for the repeal bill upon the promise
of Senator VOORHEES, that their views
should be met in financial bill to be re-
ported from the senate finance committee
at an early day.
In addition to the investigation pro-
posed by Senator Gallinger's resolution
of the pension suspensions now being
made by the administration, Col. Chas.
P. Lincoln, who was deputy pension COM
missioner under the Harrison admins
tration. proposes to carry the matter TO
the courts. Col. Lincoln is lawyer of
sbility, and he believes that the law IS
being violated by the. administration
and that the court will upon proper pre-
sentation of the question grant an
Injunction restraining Secretary Hoke
Smith from making further suspensions,
except in cases where fraud is proven.
No fraud is even alleged in the suspen-
sions now being made. Soon after the
present administration came into power
a ruling was made by Hoke Smith that
reversed the construction put upon the
act of 1890 by the republican admins
tration, and under that ruling the sus-
pensions are being made, a procedure
which it is believed the courts will de
clare illegal.
Representative Cultivate, of Ohio,
was guilty of very unmanly act, while
Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, was
speaking in the house on the silver ques-
ton, by attempting in an interruption
of Mr.. Hepburn to drag ex-Secretary
Fosters personal financial troubles into
the debate. Mr.. Hepburn merely said:
THAT is very unkind reference to
friend of yours and friend of mine.
It was enough. Cultivate blushed and
SAT- down, amid storm of well deserved
misses from the floor and the galleries.
Those democrats who have been ac-
customed to accusing the republican
party of sect;onalism should look at the
organization of the house-the speaker
and nearly two-thirds of the committee
chairmen, including most OF the import
ant enes, from the southland forever
keep silent.
Senator Hill evidently intends to dis
pute 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 promptly pay
checks of depositors, to the finance COM
mittee. instead of voting upon it at
once; and again today when he made
speech in favor of the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause OF the silver law.
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