Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-22
ANOTHER oBJECT-LESSON.

PHILLIPS BROOKS.
ANOTHER OBJECT-LESSON.
Depending Upon the Senate to Protect
the Country.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Adj
ninistration and the Democratic lead
ers of the House are. by their attitude
on the currency question, giving the
country another instructive object.les-
son, showing the Democratic idea of
craftsmanship. Notwithstanding that
those fnanciers of reputation who
were heard, either in person or by
letter, by the House Blinking and
Currency Committee, were a unit in
condemning, either the whole or a
part of Secretary Carlisle's misnamed
plan of currency reform. the bill drawn
up by Secretary Carlisle is to be rail-
roaded through the House this week,
unless Democratic plans miscarry.
1t may not be true, although many
are inclined to think that it is, that
the Administration is encouraging
the withdrawal of gold from the Treas
ury, in order to frighten Directing
Democrats into the support of the cur
rency bill, which as a sop to the
overwhelming vanity of Representa-
tive Springer, chairman of the COM
mittee on Banking ard Currency, has
been re-christened, the Springer
Bill, but those who are unquestion-
ably authorized to speak for the Ad-
ministration are presenting some ar
guments to secure votes for the bill
that are certainly questionable. The
Democrat who expresses an objection
to the bill, and nearly all of them do
is told that the bill has not the slight
est chance to become law, but that
it is merely intended to convince the
country that the Administration and
the majority of the House are anxious
to do something, and that its passage
by the House will throw the respon-
sibility for the failure of financial leg
islation upon the already unpopular
Senate.
1t is not necessary to have an extra
good memory to recall that similar
arguments were used to rush the Will
son tariff bill through the House in a
crude form. 1t is we'll known that
many of the Senate amendments to
the tariff bill were begged for by Derr-
ocratic members of the House who
lacked the courage to either propose
them or to vote for them in an open,
manly way, but were willing to beg
for them secretly, and then to pose as
having been compelled, against their
wills, to accept the Senate bill, amend
ments and all That is the sort Of
business which disguised the people
and brought about the Democratic
defeat of last month. There has
not been single important piece
of legislation before Congress since ii
was controlled by the Democrats, into
which this sort Of tactics was not in
troduced to greater or lesser extent.
To put it plainly, if not elegantly, the
Democrats in Congress have played,
and in spite of their bitter experience,
are continuing to play the people for
fools
Even the lettering. God-forsaken
government of Turkey, which exists
merely By the sufferanee oil the great
powers of Europe, does not hesitat. &c
suub this Administration. 1t has re-
fused to allow the L. S. Consul de-
signated for that duty by Secretary
Gresham to accompany the Commits
sion, composed of representatives o.
Russia and Great Britain, which will
investigate the massacre Of Christian
Armenians by Turkish troops. I
Secretary Gresham had not blundereC
from the start he would not be in hi.
present humiliatiug position. He ha.
already been taken to task BY Con
gress for several OF his blunders. ant
this last one will certainly be hear
from.
The Senate will do nothing in tn
way of political legislation at thi
session, although there is still mucl
talk about cloture rule, but not a
much as there was when the silver re
peal was pending. Bluffs will b
made at the sugar schedule of TIL
tariff law from time to time, but the
will have a speculative, not legisla
tive object.
General Sickles, of New York,
one of the few Democrats in the Hous
who has a brilliant Union Army re
cord, and almost the only Democra
who has had the courage to opeul
antagonize the pension policy OF thi
administration. His latest remarks
made just previous to the passing {
the pension appropriation bill by th
House, are alike credisable to him an
to every ex-Union soldier. He SAID
81 want to say right here today. fc
it may be the last opportunity sba
have to say it here, in vindication G
my comrades, that that roll of mi
. lion names, with so few instances {
| fraud. is a monument of honor {
American soldiers only less worthy
only less admirable than the heroic Sc
vices they performed in the preserv;
ton Of this Union. for which service
j their pensions were awarded"
: Mr.. Cleveland is still making e,
tensions Of the classified civil servic'
The civil service reform professions
the Administration would be entitle
: to more respect if less were known
A the methods in vogue in the depar
r nients to get big salaries for Dem