Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-21

men have made more friends, or, as ex'
Speaker Reed APPLY put it, observed
more" His health has been bad for
some time and in a fit of dependency
following hemorrhage of the lungs he
shot himself.
The Coxey bill providing for the
building of roads by the issue of non
interest bearing bonds by the govern
ment has been introduced in both
branches of Congress-in the Senate
by Mr.. PETER, Of Kans.. and in the
House by Mr.. Geary, Of Cal.-and
Coxey and Carl Brown have been
granted hearings by the Senate commit
tee on Education and Labor, but their
arguments made so little impression on
the Senators that they now speak Of
the Senate as the twelfth juror does Of
the obstinate eleven. The supply Of
food at the camp Of the Coxeyites is
once more short-very Shorthand APP
peals to the public for contributions are
being made. These appeals bring In
less aud less each time, and it requires
no prophet to predict that the time will
soon come when they will bring in
nothing, and the men will be compelled
to scatter in order to obtain sustenance.
Even those who are in sympathy with
the objects sought now say that nothing
can be gained by keeping several hun
bred idle men camped IN the suburbs
of Washington. If anything can be
accomplished anywhere it is in the
Congressional campaign and elections,
and not in Washington, that it can be
done. Galyinn's men have made
leisurely start on foot for the Pacific
coast.
The sub committee of FIVE selected
by the House committee on Banking
and Currency to prepare bill provid-
inc for new National banking coinage
and currency system, to be reported
early next week, are hard at work on
the bill. It is given out that this bill
is to be as nearly free from partisan
politics as it can be make. 1t seems
that there is a possibility that the bill
will, instead Of providing for new sys.
tenn, merely provide for the formation
of non-partisan currency commission
to devote the rest of this year to an in
vestigation and the study OF the ques-
ton and then report the result to Con-
gress. Representative Coombs, of N.
Y, introduced bill providing for such
a commission sometime ago and Treas
ury officials haye been urging the &C
ceptance of the idea. The silver men.
while not objecting to the idea, regard
it as an attempt to head off any silver
legislation at the present session of
Congress.
Well, that everlasting and tlresome
tariff bill has not yet been voted upon
in the Senate, and there is no probable
ity that it will be during the present
week. The wool schedule has been al
ready worked for nearly a week and
although an attempt is being made to
force it to vote there is no certainty
that 1t Is going to succeed. There is
no indication that the delay is going
to be favorable to the sugar trust. On
the contrary; the final adoption of the
sugar schedule appears to be daily grow
ing more doubtful, as the sentiment Of
the people in all sections of the country
becomes better known here. AS straw
showing the effect of this sentiment it
may be mentioned that proposition
has been made by one of the majority
Senators to AVOID the humiliation of
having the House smash the whole
schedule by modifying it before the bill
leaves the Senate. The free sugar sen.
timent is apparently stronger than eyer
in the House.
She Couldn't Wait.
I,adv-WI want to sit for q nictllre"