The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-06-16

GQaG all the amendments VIII 10
adopted, and the tariff bill passed
by the close of next week, and Re-
publican Senators privately admit
as much.
The southern Democrats in the
House were doubly disappointed
by the defeat of the bill for the re-
peal of the tax on State bank cur
rency. They had confidently ex-
pected lao votes in favor of the bill,
but it only received l02, while the
opposition mustered ITO. They
claim that men who had allowed
themselves to be counted in favor
of the bill voted against it.
Secretary Carlisle waited until
the fake story that he was prepar-
ing for another issue of bonds had
advanced to the stage of pretend
ing to give all the details down to
the exact amount of bonds to be
issued, before he took the trouble
to undo the work of the gifted
writer's of Washington fairy tales
by officially announcing that be
was not preparing to issue bonds,
had not considered it at this time
or in the immediate future. Secre-
tary Carlisle has been during his
entire public life known as a man
who believes in the open and above
board method of doing things, and
the public may rest assured that
should the necessity for another
issue of bonds arise it will be duly
and officially announced by the
fake newspapers. It is not believ-
ed that it will be necessary to is
sue more bonds, as there is no prob
ability of the cash, in the Treasury
reaching any embarrassingly low
condition before August, and by
that time the increase in the Gov
eminent receipts under the new
tariff law will probably be great
enough to furnish relief.
Nothing startling was brought
out this week by the Senate CON-
mittee that is investigating the
charges concerning the alleged
sugar trust Scandal. The more
testimony the committee takes the
more apparent it becomes these
charges were based upon the finn
siest of foundations, helped out by
conjecture and partisan politics.
The Senate will have a select
committee of five to give hearings
to the representatives of all the
industrial armies" and other
cranks who have wild schemes to
air, resolution to that effect hav-
ing this week been adopted.
The House committee on Naval
Affairs has begun the investigation
of the Carnegie arrnor plate con-
tracts, authorized by the resolution
this week adopted by the House.
It will probably be a long one, as
it covers all the armor made by the
Carnegie companies from the be-
ginning of their contracts with the
government.
Senator Walsh, of Georgia, was
naturally very much surprised when
he learned that the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers regarded
his bill against any stoppage or in
reference with trains carrying
mails as being aimed against them,
and, after telling the Senate that as
q siourneyman printer his sympa-
thies were and always had been
with the laborine men of the coun-
try, of whom he was proud to be
one, he introduced an amended bill,
which he thinks cannot possibly be
misconstrued by anybody. The IL
tie of the bill is ITO protect the
United States Mails" and it pro-
vides that any person who shall rob
or attempt to rob or maliciously
obstruct or retard for the purpose
of robbery the passage of any rail-
road train on which the mails are
carried shall be punished by i'm
prisonment at hard labor not less
than one nor more than twenty
years. Washington Letter.
A Household Treasure.
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