Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-07-26
roIIrIcAL ronEoAsr.
Our Washington Correspondents Pre- diction as to " hat Congress Will Do.

cussed the more apparent it be-
 comes that the fight is to be hard
 one and is likely to awaken many
 hostilties. What the result wilt
 be nobody can more than guess and
 very few are even willing to venture
 a prediction. Out of the 2ll Dom
 ocrats who voted in the last house
 on the silver question only about
 one-half arc to be iu this congress.
 So it k impossible tu form any ac-
 curate estimate of what the senti-
 meHt Of the house Is to be, Only
 about one-half Of the membership
 of the house has any record on the
 silver question. or the ll4 Demo |
 crats who voted with the silver men, !
 or were paired in favor of free sil-
 yer in the vote of last February, l
 only 69 are in this congress, and of |
 the los who went on record as l
 against silver at that time, only 54 |
 are in this congress. So nobody l
 can form any accurate estimate of l
 the House. Nothing IS known Co |
 warrant the belief, however, that l
 the House will pass bill repeal l
 ing the Sherman law. Whet her |
 any other legislation will be attach |
 ed to it cannot, of course, be accu- l
 ratelv foretold. The silver men arc i
 good fighters, ana will insist upon |
 substituting some other favorable |
 legislation before the repeal Of the |
 Sherman law. but whether they will |
 be able to enforce that demand can
 not be told until the house meets
 and is organized and adopts rules
 and some test of the strength of the
 various propositions are made.
 It Is to the Senate then, that most of the silver mon look for encour-
 agement in their belief that they
 will be able to prevent the repeal of
 the Sherman law. Not that they
 are attached to the Sherman law
 itself. They would be willing to i give 1t up fl they could have fnsc
 coinage, for instance, in its place,
 and it will be to that eud that they will work. Those who are silver
 men in theory and who favor silver
 simply because they feel that there
 should be larger amount of cur
 rency would be willing to increase
 the ratio so that a silver dollar
 would contain about a dollars
 worth of silver The mine owners, who are the greatest strength m he fight, oppose that because it would reduce largely the value of their productions, but the record
 of its members of the sil-
 yer question would seem Co warrant A F.. ha.f |ssaV ! a repeal of the Sherman law can
 pass that body unless something ,, more favorable to silver accompa-
 mes it as a substitute.
 The last vote in the Senate on the silver question was n. February last, [ few days before the adjournment a of congress. There were sixty i've [ votes east on that occasion and siX- ( teen other senators were paired. 2 Forty-two senators voted against ! taking up the bill which proposed s to repeal the sherman law, and { eight others were paired against it. il CT the fifty senators who thus ex- q pressed themselves and put them n selves on record as avcrse tO repeating ! i, the Sherman law at that time forty a four are now members ol the seu-
 ate and will be when It assemblies ., month hence. Thirty-oue senators
 put themselves on record before that time either by their vote or pairs against silver and in favor U U of the sherman law; ofthese thirty one there are twenty-eight now m II the senate. In other words, forty b four of the men who are now in the " Senate voted less than five mont hs q ago against a bill' proposing to re- u peal the Sherman law, while only twenty-eight voted for 1t. Two or three of the men who then voted | against taking up the bill for it's II repeal have expressed them " selves of late in favor of the III repeal of the Sherman law, but o' they couple that assertion with the statement that something equally W favorable to silver must take it's m place. It is thus apparent that SO b, far as the Senate is concerned it Is ti as favorable to silver as it Q, eyer was. About the only thing m that can be predicted in regard to th the silver struggle is that 1t will be in l glorious fight for the onlookers lo The Republican leaders are pre-
 pairing to sit quietly back and see ,., he fun. Not that they lack inter ~ st or views. but the fact that the - Democratic party has assumed ul ,harge of every branch of the gov ~ ,rnmert and that they are in a go helpless minority. will cause them D' O sit quietly back and enjoy the ni' party struggles and strife which the ye liscussion of the silver question is lo' ure to bring Tho Democrats are N' ust about evenly divided in both
 Iouse and Senate on the silver
 uestion. The nearer the approach of the pr xtra session the more the anxiety er rhich has been felt all along aud He istrust seems to take possession of is he leaders of the Democratic party htt nth reference to the tariff. They to, ave promised so much and find in, so incapable of redeem vc lg the promises which they dared niC D make to the people last fall. af, hey see that any considerable re- ,b; uction of the tariff will bring the La' avenue down below the amount i bsolutely required to meet the W .ie inning expenses of the government. ''ii' ut for the fact that our imports aii' his year have been much larger s"' nan ever before we should not hei ave collected enough to meet the day inning expenses of the government
 uring the year This Is extremely
 scouraging to the Democrats who I ld promised so much in the way pee tariff reduction. The result is tioI lat they are casting about for mo 'me means of increasing the re- pos 'ipts from other sources. Yet they on 'knowledge great difficulty in do- ivol z this. In order to reduce the skin riff even one-half what they
 they must increase taxa VI on elsewhere. Probably the n q opposition which meets with the con ost favor is to put tax again on seo gar. Yet this proposition to tax on . e poor mans breakfast table just ~ out as largely as that of the rich S''.: S~: m to sustain the government '''''i 'ets with strong opposition from TT ose whose chief hobby is legisla- win, m for the benefit of the masses. chic
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