The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-03-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Notes Of Interest Gathered from About
the National Canjt9l,

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Senator Voorhees, ought to he rood
authority on what the Senate finance
committee will do with the Bland bill
for the coinage of the seignioragc.
which was passed by the House last
week. He says that the committee
Will not report the bill to the Sc nate
until after the tariff bill shall have
oeen disposed Of. In that case one Of
the principal objects or the originaturS
Of the bill will be defeated. Thas is,
to furnish the Treasury with money
that will soon be needed, thus avoiding
an excuse for another bond issue. If
the bill is not TO be even reported to
the senate until after the tariff bill IS
disposed Of, there is no telling when it
will get there. a. the tariff bin is not
yet before the Senate and no Senator
seems willing to say when it will be.
There are lots OF rumor5 about the
intention of the silver Senator's 10 at
! tach free coinage amendment to the
seigniorage bill, but the closest IN
quirv among those gentlemen has fail
ed to discovered any substantial lOtn-
datiOn for any Of them. BY tho way.
some Of the anti-silver men in the
House are saying some very silly
| thing about this bill FOl. instance.
that on q full vote of the House it
would have been defeated. and that it
only passed by q majority of SO. BE-
cause they did not have time TO get the
opposing votes here, They had nearly
three weeks, which should have been
time enough for every Congressman to
have gotten here. The bill passed be-
fore it was favored by a majority:
that's all, and it would have passed
had every member of the House voted.
Women are accused Of being more
changeable than men, but if there is Il
woman in eXistance who can change
/ faster or Oftener than the Senators
who are trying to fix up the tariff bill
so that it can command votes enog.dh
to pass the Senate, she should be eX-
hibited rs the greatest living CURIOSITY.
I six different times the bill has been
printed and each time it was supposed
to have been comolete, but it is not
yet complete, unless il has been com.
lplcted within the last three hours.
The trouble seems TO b. that when an
! item is changed TO meet the demand
OF one Senator it just as like as not Of
tends another Senator and eopardizes
his vote. SO it goes. OF course some
sort of tariff bill is going to be passed,
but he is q daring or a foolish man
who assumes vt this time to tell It's ey-
act nature.
The testimony Of Hon. Josiah Onin,
cy, eX-Assistant Secretary OF State be-
fore the Senate committee on printing.
which is Investigating the giving ont
of the contract for printing the Patent
Office Gaz3tte,' was of sensational ma.
ture, although Mr.. Quincy did not
seem to think 50, and there was much
surprise at that portion OF it where be
told OF having Endorsed a note of the
National Economist Publishing Co..
for 5000. That revived rilmors fife
during the last Presidential campaipn.
of the National Economist" being
controlled by the Democratic Natjoan-
'mmittee, and added additional inter-
ests to the testimony. Mr.. Quincy adj
mltted that the present contractors
owed him considerable money and that
he had procured The contract for them
and aided them in keeping il when
fault was. found with the work, but DE-
nled that there was anything under.
handed or improper in what he dio.
Senator German seems disposed to act
with Senator Henderson. the Reppbli-
can member Of the committee. in get
ting at the bottom of the whole blIsi
ness. 1t may be all right, but things
have quite an ugly look for Mr.. Quincy
! and some ofba rlpor,In nj 1, bio4 ;,n< t,l