The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-17
LODGE WON OVER.
Silver Men Pleased at His Silver
Views.
They Think That He Has Out
SteWarted Stewart
MIR. SIMPSONS FRIENDS
The Kansas Man Very Popular
With His Fellows.

WASHINGTON, May Especial -
81 have taken this Coxey business as a
sort Of test case, - said Congressman Liv-
ingston, lin judging how far the people
would go and how much foolishness they
would stand Here is a law, and a per
fectly reasonable ONE, that the front of
this capitol shall be reserved for specific
uses and no professions or mass meetings
allowed there. These men came with ex-
pressed intent to violate the law and did
violate it so far as they could, and the law
must be enforced no matter what it costs
The thing to notice is how many people
there are i'll the country who will take up
this cry that Coxey and Browne have been
oppressed. - This was directed to Colonel
Redstone who had made his usual address
to a group of members in the house just
after adjournment There was and IS
general agreement that the law should be
enforced, but it is easy to see that each
members views of CoxeyisIn are more or
less tinctured by his politics.
Symptoms of Disease.
All agree however, that the various
movements are symptoms of a deep seated
disease. As each day brings its quota of
news as to the troubles the other industri-
ais are having, the officials of this city as
well as the railroad men smile significant
1y and say that those troubles and hin
ORANGES will steadily increase as the detach-
ments draw nearer to Washington. Every
day we are assured that no more of them
can get here unless they come individual
", AS other trampS do. for railroads will
not transport them at less than regular
rates, communities will not feed them, and
local officials will hinder them in every
lawful way. So far these statements seem
to be true and the result very likely to
turn out as predicted
If the weather had been made to order,
it could not have better suited the various
social and Official arrangements for mid
die May Death, however, has contin-
ued his work and added one more to the
already very long roll OF changes in the
Eifty-third congress Even before the
death of Representative Brattan the
changes in membership had been greater
in this house than in any previous one, and
only little over one-half of its life has
yet passed
Senator Lodge on Silver.
The house has had it's fun with the ma
val appropriation bill and is about finish
ing that sort of business in which such
latitude of discussion is allowed, and the
next great excitement, the old heads say
will be over the new silver bill. As to Mr..
Hatch's bills for holding up agriculture by
the tail, they do not excite so much inter
est as was expected. 1t would seem that
there is no end to surprises and new turns
on the silver question, and Senator Lodge
has furnished the latest He has come out
squarely with the avowal of statements in
regard to the relations of deprecated sill
yer and declining prices of farm products
which were thought to be utterly wild
when uttered by Mr.. Stewart and Mr..
Wolcott a few months ago. His speech in
support of his proposed amendment to the
tariff bill is the greatest comfort to the sill
verites they have received for many a day,
and they say that millions of copies of it
they seldom used any figures less than
millions-will be distributed as campaign
documents. The Lodge amendment pro-
vided that on all goods imported from
British countries a double tariff should be
collected and 35 per cent on goods admit
ted free from other countries until Great
Britain should consent to join with us in
remonetizing silver 1t was in support Of
this amendment that Mr.. Lodge out
Stewarted Stewart and made a stronger
silver speech than LATE Pence.
Silver Men Pleased.
The silver men are particularly delight
ed with these sentences from bis address:
Il believe shat the condition of the
worlds business and the decline in the
general level of prices, accompanied by
corresponding appreciation of the debts of
the world, are due to the enormous cur
rency contraction which has been forced
upon the world by the legislation which
has thrown silver out of use and closed the
minis of the world to it. Gladstone
avowed that the gold standard favored
England because she was a creditor nation
stantly approaching, and for 81, 600 that
England loans today she expects after col
Letting the interest annually to take back
in 10 or 3 or 20 years, under the effects of
legislation which contracts the worlds
currency, So, 900 when the bond calls for
but 81, OO0- Our agricultural products have
been brought very low in the worlds mar
kets by England's forcing down the prices
in gold.''
Senator Platt followed, substantially in
dOrsing this view. Our western friends
are in high glee over these admissions and
tell us that these sentences will be printed
large and plaearded on every barn door and
the walls of every place of public resort
between the Mississippi and Pacific as the
confession of Massachusetts, the iniqui-
ty of characterization Some of the more \
radical prophesy that the Lodge speech
will be in the coming campaign what
Burchard's rum, Ronanism and rebel
lion" was in that of 1884 1t certainly
looks that way if one may judge from the
glee of the radical silverites.
After the silver bill and few minor
matters are disposed of the house will real
ly have little or nothing to do until the
tariff bill comes back from the senate.
And already there is much discussion as
TO what action will be taken on that bill
Political Matters.
In the present luu in the house the MEM
bers are attending to their political fences
at home with unusual diligence and the
prospects in every state are figured down
fine From all the gulf states-in fact
from nearly all the southern states-come
assurances that the populace have weak
ened, and the Democrats win stand about
as usual in the next house. From all the
northeast Of the Mississippi landslide is
expected and pretty generally admitted
II Is IN the new west that all is chaos.