The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, August 25th, 1898.

son, of West Virginia, chairman of that
committee. Mr. Wilson's free trade
sentiments are well known and he says
the committee viii at once begin work
on tariff bill 1t does not, however,
necessarily follow that the free trade
bill to be prepared by the House Com
mittee will become law. 1t may get
through the House, as the Democratic
majority in that body is so large that a
few dissenters cannot materially affect
the final result, but in the Senate things
are different. The Democratic majority
is small, and some of the Democratic
Senators have privately informed Re.
publicans that they will not support
bill making radical cuts in the tariff.
The silver speech of Senator Voorhees,
has been much talked about since it was
delivered. 1t was in some respects one
of the most remarkable heard in Con.
gress for long time, as well as one OF
the most dangerous. While protesting
the greatest admiration for the admins
tration, the Indiana Senator denounced
the administrations pension policy and
advocated the widest sort of financial
imitation, going further in some partic-
ulars than the Populists, and advocating
the overthrow of the national banking
system and the putting of wildcat State
banks in its place. He also advocates
an income tax. If that speech was in.
tended to be friendly to the administra.
ton Mr.. Cleveland may well be excused
for exclaiming "Save me from my
friends" 1t is said that Senator Vorhees
purposely made his speech radical in
order to influence certain Southern Sen.
ators to vote for the unconditional re.
peal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, and it is said further
that several of them have agreed to vote
for the repeal bill upon the promise of
Senator Vorhees that their views should
be met in financial bill to be reported
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
Commissioner under the Harrison ad-
ministration, proposes to carry the mat
ter to the courts. Col. Lincoln is law
Ger of ability and he believes that the
law is being violated by the administra-
tion and that the court will upon proper
presentation OF the question grant an in.
junction restraining Secretary Hoke
Smith from making further suspensions,
except in cases where fraud is proven.
No fraud is even alleged in the suspeD-
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
question by attempting in an Interrupt
zion of Mr.. Hepburn to drag ex- Secretary
Fosters personal financial troubles into
the debate. MIR. Hepburn merely said /:
THAT is very unkind reference to a
friend of yours and friend of mine"
1t was enough, Cultivate blushed and
sat down amid a storm of well deserved
Kisses from the floor and the galleries.
Those interested in the navy are pleas
ed at the selection of Representative
Amos Cummings, OF New York City, to
be chairman of the House Committee on
naval affairs. Although Tammany
Democrat, Mr.. Cummings earned the
right during the Fifty First and Fifty
Second Congresses to be classed as man
OF broad guage ideas upon all matters
concerning our navy and our ocean com.
merce.
Those Democrats who have been &C
customed 10 accusing the Republican
party of Sectionalism should look at the
organization of the House-the Speaker
and nearly two-thirds of the committee
chairmen, including most OF the import
ant ones, from the Southland forever
keep silent.
Senator Hill evidently intends to dis
pute Senator Germans right to tn,
Democratic leadership of the Senate
This disposition was first publicly showI
on Wednesday when Mr.. Hill sharpl.
replied to Mr.. Germans argument il
favor of referring Senator Peffer's reso
luton, calling upon the Secretary of tn
Treasury for information as to whethe
certain national banks were violating
the law in refusing to promptly pa.
checks of depositors, to the Financ
Committee, instead Of voting upon it q