Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-03-22
Washington News.

Washington News.
WARRINGTON, March 19.-The
President to-day nominated the
following postmasters; Virginia
George R. Nixon, Ashland; Frank
J. Norris, Leesburg. North Caro-
lina-Chas. M. Busbee, Raleigh,
South Carolina-Wm. Wallace,
Columbia, Mississippi E. P.
Thompson, Aberdeen. Alabama
Eugene L. Brown. Eufaula.
The Bland Seigniorage bill
reached the White House at half
past tw, o'clock to day, just five
minutes after the President had
gone driving with Mrs. Cleveland.
Representative Pearson. of Ohio,
who went to the trouble of taking
the bill in person TO the White
House, was much disappointed, At
he had hoped to put in a good word
tor the measure 10 delivering it
into the hands of the Executive.
He had voted against the Free
Coinage bill, and teit thai his re-
commeuda.ions would therefore
have weight.
The President will have until
afternoon of March 29ih to veto
the bill; otherwise at that time it
will become a law without his
acton. There is every reason to
believe, however, that he will dis"
pose of it one way or aoother with.
out delay. Both he and Secretary
Carlisle have been overrun with
Senatorial and Congressional
callers, urging the signing OF the
bill. The full Democratic ma.
j,risy of the bill. The full Demo-
cratic majority of the Coinage.
Weights and Measures Committee
OF the House in a body called on
Secretary Carlisle to-day at the
Treasury Department and urged
him to advise the President to sign
the bill as a measure of financial
rcli, and party exped;ency. Among
hose who called we're many of the
Congressman who last Fall voted
tor the repeal of the Sherman law.
They based their arguments on the
ground that the Democratic party
in it's national platform had prom.
ised financial relief to the people
of the country, that the present
measure was a step in that direc-
tioo; that the bill if carried into a
law, while not as much az the silver
people desired, would at least If.
ford some relief and show to their
constituents that the Democratic
administration at Washington was
not unfriendly to silver; and that
il no way would the measure seri-
ously or injuriously affect the fnan.
cisl prosperity of the country.
The President ls giving to this
questian of silver the most careful
and thorough investigation. He is
now and has beeu for the past two
or three days occupied most of his
time in reading the speeches made
in the House and in the Senate 10
favor of the Seigniorage Silver
bill, is obtaining also information
from the Treasury Department az
to the probable effect upon the
inarces of increasing the silver
circulation OF the country to the
extent of s55,ooo,ooo; is inform
ing himself from the best writer's
on finances as to the relation OF
silver to gold; the conditiont oil
gold countries as compared to sill
yer countries, and in a W ord il
giving the whole subject as com
pete investigation a. is p o sibl,
for him to make.
It is stated on semi-omcial au-
thority that the President viii
either sign or veto the coinage bill
and that he will not permit it t
become a law by the lapse Of
time. His Investigations hav,
progressed so far that the assertion
is made in administrative circle,
that if the President a be as
sured that the signing of thu
present Seigniorage bill will pu'
an end to silver legislation durin5
his present term, he will sign it
but unless such assurances are re
ceived he is inclined to veto it
Such assurances, it is said at tn,
Treasury department this after
noon, have been made to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury by promi
nent and Influential members o
the House Committee on coinage
weights and measures. They hav
stated in their official capacity a
members of this committee that i
the President will sign the presen
bill no free coinage measure b,
whomsoever introduced in tn
House of Representatives, vii
ever get out OF the Committee o.
Coinage, Weights and Measure
this session.
NOTES ON WIFE HUNTING.