Middletown transcript., 1894-04-14


to accept anything less than its defeat
at least not at this stage of the pro.
ceeds. 1t will be time enough t. talk
about compromises three or four
months from now, If In the meantime
the bill has not been absolutely beaten
or side tracked.
Ex-Speaker Reed has had lots OF
things in which he could take salts
faction brought out on the floor of the
House lately, but the acknowledge
ment he forced from Mr.. Sayers, chair
man of ihe House Appropriation COM
mittee, that the total deficiency caused
by insufficient appropriations by the
sod Congress will reach the enormous
amount of about S14, 900, 900, notwith-
standing the Saving" made by chang
ing up" old soldiers applications for
pensions, leaving them to starve while
the Administration keeps the money
appropriated for them by Congress to
use for other purposes at the end of the
fiscal year when it can be covered back
into the Treasury and be made avail
able to pay any existing claims against
he government, was probably the
greatest satisfaction he has had. 1t
proved the appropriations made by the
fifty second Congress, controlled by
Democrats, to have been many millions
greater than those mede by the much
abused "billion dollar" or Reed Con-
gress. Democratic economy is a thing
that plays big part in elections, but
some how it has never yet been put
into practical operation.
The local protestations against Mr..
Cleveland's nomination of the Kan
sas colored man-C. HI. J. Taylor
whom the Senate refused to confirm as
Minister to Bolivia to be Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia,
had been so general and so strong that
it is now almost certain that the Senate
will reject the nomination. Home rule
has always been strong in the Senate.
RepresentativeiCaldwe ,IofOhio, who
was elected Mayor of Cincinnati, the
other day, received an ovation when he
returned to Washington Saturday. He
will retain his seat in the House until
May 1st, but will probably resign the
Craftsmanship of the Republican Con-
gressional campaign committee this
week. His colleagues will be sorry to
have him leave Washington, but they
are confident that he will return some
day.
The Republicans of the House are
making it plain to the Democrats in
that body that it is needless for them
to attempt to do any political business
without quorum of their own. The
are not disposed to make
the point of no quorum agaist the re-
gular appropriation bills or other
necessary business but inasmuch as
there are 218 Democrats In the House
they will insist that 179 of them shall
vote when partisan.legislation is to be
taken up or passed.
The Democrats in the House have
been quarreling among themselves ever
since the beginning Of the extra session
about the repeal of the tax on state
bank currency. Springer, iof Illinois,
chairman of the committee of Banking
and Currency, is opposed to repeal,
and he succeeded some weeks ago in
killing it SO far as that committee was
Swanson, of Virginia,
polled the Democrats and claims that
129 of them favor unconditional repeal
The matter was submitted to a
Democratic caucus TIE day night,
but there is no more likelihood of it's
being definitely settled than that a
Democratic caucus could agree on a
silver bill.