Middletown transcript., 1894-12-22

who were heard, either in person or by
letter, by the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee, were unit in con-
demning, either the whole or a part of
Secretary Carlisle's misnamed plan of
currency reform, the bill drawn up by
Secretary Carlisle is to be railr0aded
through the House this week, unless
Democratic plans miscarry.
1t may not be true, although many
are inclined to think that it is, that
the administration is encouraging the
withdrawal of gold from the treasury,
in order TO frighten objecting Demo-
Gratis into the support Of the currency
bill, which as sop to the overwhelm-
ing vanity of Representative Springer,
chairman or the committee on Banking
and Currency, has been re-christened,
the "Springer Bill" but those who are
unquestionably authorized to speak for
the administration are presenting some
arguments to secure votes for the bill
that are certainly questionable. The
Democrat who expresses an objection
to the bill, and nearly all Of them do, is
told that the bill has not the slightest
chance to become law, but that it is
merely intended to convince the country
that the administration and the
majority of the House are anxious to do
something, and that its passage by the
House will throw the responsibility for
the failure of financial legislation upon
the already unpopular Senate.
1t is not necessary to have an extra
good memory to recall that similar
arguments were used to rush the Will
son tariff bill through the House in
crude form. 1t is we'll known that
many of the Senate amenements to the
tariff bill were begged for by Demo-
cratic members of the House who
lacked the courage to either propose
then or to vote for them in an open,
manly way, but were willing to beg for
them secretly, and then to pose as hav-
ing been compelled, against their wills,
to accept the Senate bill, amendments
and all. That is the sort of business
which disgusted the people and brought
about the Democratic defeat of last
month. There has not been single
important piece Of legislation before
Congress since it was controlled by the
Democrats, into which this sort of
tactics was not introduced to greater
or lesser extent. To put it plainly, if
not elegantly, the Democrats in Con-
gress have played, and in spite of their
better experience, are continuing to
play the people FOR fools.
Even fhe tottering, God forsaken
government of Turkey, which exists
merely by the sufferance of the great
aitowers of Europe, does not hesitate
ies snub this administration. 1t has
rr,sfused to allow the U. s. Consul desig-
mated for that duty by Secretary Gres-
ham to accompany the Commission,
composed of representatives of Russia
and Great Britain, which will investi
gate the massacre of Christian Armen-
ians by Turkish troops. If Secretary
Gresham had not blundered from the
start he would not be in his present
humiliating position. He has already
been taken to task by Congress for
several of his blunders, and this last
one will certainly be heard from.
The Senate will do nothing in the
way Of political legislation at this
session, there is still much talk about
cloture rule, but not as much as there
was when the silver repeal bill was
pending. Bluffs will be made at the
sugar schedule of the tariff law from
time to time, but they will have a
speculative, not legislative object.
General Sickles, of New York, is.
one of the few Democrats in the House
who has brilliant Union Army record,
and almost the only Democrat who has
had the courage to openly antagonize
the pension policy of this administra-
tion. His latest remarks, made just
previous to the passing of the pension
appropriation bill by the House, are
alike creditable to him and TO every
ex-Union soldier. He said 81 want
to say right here to-day, for it may be
the last opportunity shall have to say
it bere, in vindication of my comrades,
that that roll OF million names, with
so few instances of fraud, is monu-
ment- of honor 10 American soldiers
only less worthy, only less admirable
than the heroic services they performed
in the preservation of this Union, for
which services their pensions are
awarded.
Mr.. Cleveland is still making extern
sions Of the classified civil service.
The civil service reform professions of
the administration would be entitled
to mtr, respect If less were known of
the methods in vogue in the depart
ments to get big salaries for Democrats
at the expense of good clerks, women
as we'll as men. For instance, a S14OO
woman clerk was compelled to ex.
change salaries with 5000 Democrat,
and they both do the same work they
did before the exchange.
Specimen Cases,
s. III. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis.
was troubled with Neuralgia and