Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-20
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 20, 1894.
Congress.

One week from next Monday the two
houses Of Congress will assemble In regu-
lar session. But the circumstances under
which they will assemble are so different
from those under which they adjourned
that the members cannot but experience
new sensations and wonder what 1t VIII
all end in. They will feel all the time
that their successors are not only walt
ing for them to vacate their seats, but
look upon many OF them as "cumberers OF
the ground"
What will be the result Of the new
condition OF things? VIII the Republicans
be more aggressive and the Democrats
more cautious? Certain 1t is that the
cranks are not going to allow themselves
TO be silenced by what the Republicans
may declare TO be the "voce of the peo-
pie" Leaving the cranks out OF the
question, we may indulge in guesses as
10 how the Congress whose life VIII end
on the Sd of March next VIII be affected
by the results OF the elections of this
month.
The President Of the United States Will
time been diligently engaged in preparing
work for Congress TO do, and especially
In studying the financial question. 1t is
a pity that ne will have to address bis
arguments TO men who are in no humor
to turn listening ear TO him. But what
ever the members of the existing Con-
gress may think as TO his financial no
lions. they cannot but concede that he
has consistently adhered TO them through
evil and through good report. The Re
publcans Will be compelled BY the cir
cumstances of the case to ponder well
what he has 10 say on the financial ques-
ton. He has already announced that Mr.
Carlisle will formulate financial
scheme and he will endorse II. This new
scheme will have merits. But will 1t be
acceptable to the present Congress? we
fear that we must answer this question
I'm the negative Success at the polls VIII
induce the Republicans TO desire to settle
the financial question themselves. Defeat
at the polls will not induce the Democrats
IN stand by the financial recommenda-
tons of the President.
TO the features of the scheme which the
Secretary of the Treasury will recon-
mend to Congress- The public will not ask
for o. clue His record testiiies that he
will not favor fiat money of any sort
We suppose we should not do him IN
Justice if we were TO class him with the
monometallst Bostonians and New
hA
party.
One proposed measure seems to be al
most universally popular IN the South
and TO have many advocates in the North
ern States. We aliude TO the bill to re-
neal the 10 per cent. tax upon the issues
of state banks. But we suppose 1t Is not
so much that tax itself which these mono
metallists desire to get rid of as govern
ment control Of the supplying of the
currency. They wish the currency OF
the country to be supplied by the banks
and not by the government. But the
House OF Representatives at It's last
session voted down the proposition to
repeal the government tax, and II Is
not likely that the President or Mr.
Carlisle will take up this discarded
moasure--unless they have devised a
scheme for issuing State-bank notes.
which will make those notes as good as
the notes we now have.
If the existing Congress shall decide
to turn all financial questions over TO
the next Congress then the Nicaragua
canal project and the Hawaiian question
hah decision
out delay. And there are various other
matters which will claim the attention
of Congress this winter. The work OF
Congress is always beginning and never
ending.