Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-06-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Mag %, 1894.
s.PRoIAL CORRESPONDENCE THE MONITOR

Several votes in the Senate having
demonstrated that the last bargain
took in all of the democrats, except
Hill, as we'll as the populists, and that
the tariff bill as bargained for is 60
ing to get their votes, it is probable
although not yet certain, that the re-
publicans will in few days agree to
the setting of a day for the final vote
on the bill. The sugar schedule will
be reached this week and an effort
will be made to upset it, but for the
reasons set forth above it will hardly
succeed.
Civil Service Commissioner Roose-
welt has got his fighting blood up.
During the debate which preceded
the democratic attempt to drop the
appropriation for the Civil Service
Commission, representatives Pendle-
ton, of w. Va; Enloe of Tenn. and
Stocksdale and Williams of Miss,
made statements rejecting upon the
integrity of the commission, and &C
cusing it of always favoring republi-
cans. Mr.. Roosevelt sent commu
nication to Representative DeForest,
chairman of the House committee on
Reform in the Civil Service, branding
the four Representatives as unquali-
fiedly false, and daring them to at
tempt to prove them in an investiga-
ton, as it is well under .tood that the
statements were made largely to pla-
cate disappointed constituents who
had not been provided for and who
might be disposed to make trouble in
nominating conventions.
Gold, like everything else, is afraid
of this administration. At least, it
gets away from it quite fast Not
withstanding the 100000 in gold
received from the late bond issue, the
gold in the Treasury is to- day below
$50, COO, 600, and according to the opin-
ion of many of the shrewdest observ-
ers in Congress, including friends as
well as enemies of the administration,
another bond issue is only question
of time, and if there is not decided
sslet up'' in the drain on the Treasury
it will be a very short time. All of
the prophecies of Mr.. Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle concerning the re-
turn of gold from Europe have prov
en- false. Should the tariff bill be-
come a law by the first Of July, which
the democrats claim, but the republi-
cans do not concede, there will be an
immediate and immense drain on the
remaining gold in the Treasury as the
importers will want it to send to Eu
rope to pay for the goods which Eu-
ropean manufacturers have been pill
ing up to food the American market
with, as soon as the democratic tariff
goes into effect. Sec. Carlisle is do
ing absolutely nothing to protect the
gold in the Treasury, although his ex-
perience in placing the last bonds,
ought to have warned him of the diff
Guilty he may have in floating another
issue of bonds at the same rate. A
democratic Senator was heard to ex-
press the opinion that the admins
tration could not place another issue
of bonds for less than four per cent
and that he would not be surprised if
they had to make it five per ce..t. Il
was never more apparent than now
that Sec. Carlisle is not financi-r.
If there were no such thing as treaty
obligations the bill fathered by Rep
resentative Bryan of Neb., providing
for the issuing of $40, 600, 900 of green
backs, to be used by the government
in purchasing a controlling interest in
the Nicaragua Canal and in building
the same, now before the House Com
merce committee, might be more seri-
ously consider ed than it is.
The long deferred fight over the re-
peal of the state bank currency tax
has begun in the House.