New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-10
THE CONG RESSIONAL OUTLOOK.

The Presidents team Of wild horses was hard
to drive Il year ago. as he found l" his cost
But they are harder by far this year. deie''
having made many of them desperate. tine a'i-
vantage the President has. for many "f the h'
fcated members are in the market. waiting 1or
fat or honorable offices and Wiling I" I"rSc'
what their constituents want if they can please
the man who holds the appointing power. h"'
there are other defeated members. ana not II
few. who feel that the President is the cause
Of their disaster. and long To make him suffer
In return. Then there are many DINERS WHO
have conceived that Popust notions will soon
CAPTURE most Of the Democratic voters. at least
in the West and South. and will therefore trim
their course TO please the Populists rather 'hah
the President.
No action on the tariff question seems prob
able. There is an ugly revolt against the Dem
ocratic caucus. no doubt. and some members
are lust in the humor TO make trouble Tor VT.
German if they can. But the organization Will
probably be able To control the more Important
committees. and thus the order Of business
and in the Senate Il few members can r'h-
der any action impossible. The power Of the
sugar and the coal and iron Senators IL not less
but decidedly greater than II was last year. ne
cause the results Of elections in the Inherent
States have shown that their protest against
the Wilson bill aud the course advocated by
the President were in line with the popular
feeling The resistance. which was iacu"ns
and mutinou> last summer. in the estimation
of MANY Democrats they can Justify now as
absolutely necessary to save their party Ill the
States they represent
President Clcvcland's State bank scheme has
not achieved the success he anticipated. II -
roundly condemned by the Populists. ana me
more money" fanatics Of the West ana Sou'h'
on the ground that. although II Will provide
for an indefinite increase of currency. II VIII
give ii all 10 bankers 10 be- loaned at interest,".
The Populist notion is that the money should
somehow be placed in their pockets by the Gov
eminent without payment of INTEREST," 10 anybody.
ON the other hand. solvent business men AMI
sound bankers condemn the plan, because they
perceive il would produce an Indefinite issue "f
paper currency. and would put into circna-
ton as many different kinds Of money rs there
NAV be different State bank loans. For such
a varegated and uncertain currency they hav"
no liking. and they perceive only too clearly
that the Presidents scheme would force out
Of circulation the uniform and absolutely re-
liable notes Of the National banks.
Mr. Bland predicts that free-silver bill VIII
90 through both houses. and that the President
will be compelled 10 choose between signature
and a veto But the silver men have nothing
TO gain by that course The President could
not he more thoroughly committed against their
theories than he is already by his past declnra-
tons. and by the veto OF The bill 10 coin the
selgniorage Nothing would be accomplished by
obliging him 10 repeat once more his Well
known ideas 1t j. probable. too, that vote
would disclose less strength. and not greater,
than the silver men have exhibited in previous
contests. in part because public opinion has
been changing. and not in their favor, ana In
part because the Presidents influence with the
large body of defeated members will he greater
than before
1t is likely 10 be barren session fruiil"ss OF
good. and not productive Of much mischief.
The only measures which seem Ia have much
steam behind them are measures which would
do HARM and these can be- successfully resisted
IL the Republicans make full Use Of their OPP
pOriuntics II might be good thing Tor me
country il the failure Of Democrats 10 make
necessary provision for the Government should
compel an extra session Of the next Congress
in March, but on partisan grounds such result
is by no means 10 be desired.