Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-15
A DEMOCRATIC BUdABoo.
The Cleveland Carlisle Currency Com.
binafion.
From our regular eorrespondeni.l


r From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. Io.-The mos
striking thing of the first week 0
Congress has been the apparently con
certed effort of the Democrats arc
Mugwumps to stir up jealousy anS
bad feeling between the friends o
those Republicans who are prominent.
ly mentioned as Presidential possibili.
ties. by distorting their replies to
questions and in some cases By actu.
ally putting words into their mouths
which they never thought of using.
Representative Boutelle. Of Maine,
rightly calls this IAN old trick of the
democracy to invent phrase or catch,
word which they seek to make odious
by iteration, and then to use it as a
bug abco with which to scare tinid and
teather-brained Republicans. " The
trick consists in asking some unsus-
picious Republican whether the party
will re-enact the Mckinley law. when
it returns to power. If he answers III
substance, that changed conditions
may make some changes necessary,
as most sensible men are apt to do,
he will find his remarks distorted and
published under a seare-head, "AIc-
kinleyism is dead, or something
with similar meaning The object
is SO plain that Republicans in Con-
gress smile at the attempt, but this
mention 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 slightly spoken
OF. There has been no such inter
views. If there is a Republican in
either the Senate or the House who is
not a Protectionist he is not known 10
eAS iSdutio VI TIC 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 COM
mittee to agree upon any currency
bill; today. he says the committee will !
before the holidays report currency
bill to the House. and that it will be 1
along the line proposed by Secretary
Carlisle and endorsed by Mr.. Cleve.
land. This week is to be devoted by
the committee to hearings, the list in
Guiding Secretary Carlisle, Controller
Eckels and number of bankers.
Secretary Carlisle has at the request
OF the committee submitted a rough
draft of the bill giving his ideas Of
what it ought to be in order to carry
out his recommendation Whether
this bill can pass the House after il is
reported will depend largely upon the
attitude of Speaker Crisp who domi-
mates the Committee OH Rules, which
must report an order limiting debate
thereon. if it is to have any chance
fol- getting through. Mr.. Catchings,
of Mississippi, is the only member Of
the Committee on Rules who has pub
licly committed himself to the Car
lisle-Cleveland plan.
The caucus Of Democratic Senators
included a currency bill' in its di.
rections to the steering committee to 4
provide an order Of business for the !
session, but that is a long ways from
an indication that the Democratic Sen /
ators are ready toaecept whatever cur
rency bill the House may pass and /
send over. Those who aredisposed 10
believe that the Senate will pass
House currency bill without amend
ment should turn their memory back /
to the Wilson tariff bill for few
minutes. But even if the Democrats |
were willing to accept House bill |
that would make no difference in the |
result The decision not to change
the Rules of the Senate leaves the de- I
cision as to what bills shall pass the |
Senate in the hands of the Republi. /
can Senators, who are not likely to |
favor hurried legislation on such an
important question as the currency Of
the country. The other bills named
by the Democratic caucus were those
for the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico; Nicaragua Canal; Bankrupt
cy, and the Indian Territory bill
The administration is pulling all
the wires at its disposal to force the |
free ship bill through Congress. II
would throttle another American in
dustry-shipEuilding. 1t is claimed
by the friends of the bill, who consist
mostly of misg uided Democrats and
the paid representatives Of the English
shipbuilders. that it will certainly be
passed by the House at this session;
but that claim is at best very doubt
full one. II, however. the bill should
get the support Of the Committee on
Rules, which it must have to get
passed by the House. there is not tie
slightest possibility that it can get
through the Senate. Just why Mr.
Cleveland and his administration
should have lent themselves to the
support of this bill is one of the num-
erous things which are difficult to un-
derstand. assuming them to be emit
tied to the honesty and patriotism they
claim.
The attorneys of II. L. Preston, pub
Usher of Kansas City paper &c. L.
Trevitt, Of Washington, and IL. l..
Strohm, Of Kansas City,, have filed