Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, March 80, 1894.


Washington, March 80, 1894.
President Cleveland, after hearing
everything that could be said on every
side of the question, and after deeper
study than he has given to any single
measure passed by this congress, has
finally disposed of the Bland bill for the
coinage of the seigniorage. His disposi-
ton of the bill is necessarily unsatis-
factory to many prominent and infuen-
tial members of the party. That could
not have been avoided. 1t would have
been precisely the same, only it would
have been different set of Democrats
who would have been disappointed, had
his action been reversed. The situation
was not unlike that which preceded Mr.
Cleveland's celebrated tariff reform
message, and he acted just as he did
then, taking the course he believed to
be right and proper, believing that time
will, as it did with the tariff, bring the
dissatisfied Democrats around to his way
of thinking. Some Democrats in CON
gress are allowing their disappointment
to run away with their discretion, and
are saying things that they will regret
when they see their words used by Re-
publicans against the Democratic party.
Representative Sayers, of Texas, be-
lieves with his great Democratic prede-
cessor at the head of the house commit
tee on appropriations, the late Samuel
}. Randall, that the system of perma-
nent or continuing appropriations is all
wrong and should be done away with,
leaving all appropriations to be made
annually, and his bill providing for the
change will probably be favorably re-
ported to the house at an early day, and
he believes it will pass. The late Sam
uel j. Randall introduced similar bill
in the forty-seventh congress, and it pas
sed the house, but not the senate. The
amount of these continuing appropria-
tions, over which congress can, under
the present system, exercise no detailed
supervision, is $3.50, 100000 a year.
Some of these continuing appropriations
are nearly a century old and are sense
less and in some cases wasteful. Chair
man Sayers' bill is thoroughly Demo-
cratic and ought to become a law. 1t
will save money and reform a bad sys
TEN.
Probably no more representative
gathering of prominent Democrats ever
assembled in Washington than that
which attended the housewarming of
the Democratic congressional campain
committee, held in their new head
quarters this week. The committes
which received the guests was composed
of Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
committee; Hon. w. f. |
Harrity, chairman of the national COM
mittee; Hon. Chauncey f. ack, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Democratic Clubs, and Mr.. Lawrence
Gardner, secretary of the congressional |
The committee is now
ready for business, and quorum of the |
executive committee will be at head |
quarters daily until the close of the con-
gressional campaign.
Senator Morgan believes that his
Nicaragua canal bill will become law
and that the canal will be- well under
way before the close of the fifty-third |
congress. The bill is ;Iow being consid- |
cred by the senate committee on foreign
relations. 1t provides for the guarantee
ing of the bonds of the canal company
to the extent of Sl00,000,000 and gives
this government practically the control
of the canal, both while it is being built
and after it is in operation.
The opposition to the new treaty with |
China, this week favoraby reported
without amendment by the senate com |
mittee on foreign relations, has been
greatly exaggerated. No Democrat so
far as known has any serious objections
to the treaty, except several from the
= "N'"S Nc''Hpi anu thty say UDaL with /
slight modification the treaty would be
to them.
The unexpected resignation of Sixth
Auditor Brawley, of the treasury DEPART
ment, to take effect upon the appoint.
ment of his successor, has made lot of
gossip The position is an important
one, and Mr.. Brawley has held it less
than year.
The announcement last evening that
Governor Northen, of Georgia, had an
pointed Speaker Crisp to the vacancy in
the senate made by the recent death of
Senator Colquitt was surprise, not only
to Mr.. Crisp's most intimate friends, but
to that gentlemen himself. The appoint
ment is for the unexpired term, less
than year, and the speakers name
mad not been mentioned formally to
the governor, although it was known