Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Dec. 10, 1894.

jealousy and bad feelings between tn
friends of those republicans who ar
prominently mentioned as presiden
tial possibilities, by distorting thei
replies to questions and in some case
by actually putting words into thei
mouths which they never thought O
using. Representative Boutelle O.
Maine rightly calls this ''an old trick
of the democracy to invent a phrase
or catch word which they seek to
make odious by iteratation, and ther
to use it as bugaboo with which to
scare timid and feather Drained re-
publicans" The trick consists in
asking some unsuspicious republican
whether the party will re- enact the
Mckinley tariff law, when it returns
to power. If he answers in substance,
that changed conditions may make
some changes necessary, as most
sensible men are apt to do, he will
find his remarks distorted and pub
lished under a scare head, tMcKiuley-
ism is Dead" or something with a
similar meaning. The object is so
plain that republicans in congress
smile at the attempts, but this men
ton is made to put republicans in
your vicinity on their guard against
accepting as true any interview pur-
porting to have been held with any
republican senator or representative,
in which protection is slightingly
spoken of. There have been no such
interviews. If there is republican
in either the senate or the house who
is not protectionist, he is not known
to the leaders of the party.
Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary Car
Isle have apparently captured the
democratic members of the house
committee on banking and currency.
Ten days ago Chairman Springer, OF
that committee, publicly declared
that it would be impossible for the
committee to agree upon any curren-
cy bill; to-day, he says the committee
will before the holidays report cur
rency bill to the house, and that it
will be along the line proposed by
Secretary Carlisle, Controller Eckels
and number Of bankers. Secretary
Carlisle has at the request OF the COM
mittee submitted a rough draft of the
bill, giving his ideas of what it ought
to be in order to carry out his recon-
Whether this bill can
pass the house after it is reported
will depend largely upon the attitude
of Speaker Crisp, who dominates the
on rules, which must re-
port an order limiting debate thereon.
If it is to have any chance for getting
through, Mr.. Catchings of Mississippi,
is the only member of the committee /
on rules who has publicly committed |
to the Carlisle Cleveland plan.
The caucus of democratic senators
included "currency bill''in its direc-
lions to the steering committee to
provide an order of business for the |
session, but that is long ways from
an indication that the democratic sem
ators are ready to accept whatever
currency bill the House may pass and
send over. Those who are disposed |
to believe that the senate will pass
house currency bill without amend
ment should turn their memory back
to the Wilson tariff bill for a few min
1tes. But even if the democrats were
willing to accept no difference in the
result. The decision not to change
the rules of the senate leaves the de-
cision as to what bills shall pass the
senate in the hands of the republican
senator's, who are not likely to favor
hurried legislation on such an import
ant question as the currency of the
country. The other bills named by
the democratic caucus were those for
5he admission of Arizona and New
Mexico; Nicaragua Canal; Bank
-uptcy, and the Indian Territory bill.
The administration is pulling all the
wires at its disposal to force the free
ship bill through congress. 1t would
throttle another American industry
1t is claimed by the
friends of the bill, who consist mostly
Of misguided democrats and the paid
of the English ship
that it will certainly be pass
ed by the house at this session; but
that claim is at best very doubtful
one. If, however, the bill should get
5he support of the committee on
rules, which it must have to get pass
I'd by the house, there is not the
slightest possibility that it can get
through the senate. Just why Mr..
Cleveland and his administration
should have lent themselves to the
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