The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-24
WASHINGTON TIE
M orr Regular CORRESPONDENT.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th, 1894.
The democratic Senators and Representatives
who have been in Washington since the cleo
ton have with one or two exceptions talked III
II manner that indicated the proper spirit.
Their greatest desire, they have said. is to al
low the past to rest, and to have the demo
cratic party take Il fresh start by getting to-
getller in Congress and adopting some legisla-
ton that will help the country, and Incidental
ly the democratic party in 1896. Just what leg
islatiOn shall be acted upon is q question that
will determine very soon how deep this anX-
iety for party harmony goes. Tie IDEA l have
heard most generally expressed by democrats
is that Senators and Representatives. should
not commit themselves to the support OF any
particular tariff or financial legislation until
after the recommendations on those subjects
contained III the Presidents annual message to
Congress are made public. That would leave
them free to accept the Presidents recOmmen-
datiOns, should they be of such q nature as to
be acceptable to the democratic party as a
whole, which they are almOS certain to be.
With the democrats in Senate and House acting
in harmony much can be accomplished in a
legislative way during the three months of the
short session without harmonny there is no
hope OF accomplishing anything and would not
be even If the session We're to be three times
three months long.
Since President Cleveland announced that
his annual message to Congress would contain
up11 secf5t!fe aeHffsEs annual report, demo-
ciSts have been greatly interested in learning
liz htttl u EtNittdIa IL" . Sl'Ai, buO II
IS as yet Il secret, confined to those who have
promised to keep it until the report and the
Presidents message are made public. 1t Is
said that the system proposed will supply the
elasticity so badly needed i'll our present fina1-
cial system. Although Secretary Carlisle has
always been known as a friend to silver no one,
who will tell, has found out what part silver is
to play in the proposed new system.
There is little danger that the republicans or
the next House will carry out the threat made
by some members of their Congressional cam
paign committee, to throw out the entire Viz
ginia delegation. which is sOlidly democratic.
The Democrats would not ask anything better
than such action by the republican House. 1t
would not only keep Virginia solidly democratic
but it would bring ont thousands of democratic
voters in other States. The leaders of the re-
publican parry are too shrewd TO put such
q club as that would be in the hands OF the
democrats, however much the republican con-
%testants from the Virginia Districts may beg.
Speaking of the bond issue, present indica-
lions are that the amount to be sued-$ ,OOO,-
O06-will be subscribed for two or three times
over. This is gratifying to democrats, whether
they approve Of the issue of bonds or not, as it
indicates i'll an indlsputable manner the conf
dence felt by capitalists in the administration.
Some democratic members of the HOuse-nota-
bly, Hooker, of Miss, and Bailey, of TeNas-are
criticising the administration for issuing bonds,
but the general impression is that no formal
action VIII be taken on the subject by Congress.