Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(oUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT }

Statements made by Democrats,
mind YOU, moi Republicans. first
indicated that il did, and the ac
ton of the investigating committee.
in pretending to he greatly cNer
ciScd because three newspaper cor
reSpondentS-one of them Il demo
crat, and Senator Murphy's private
secretay-have declined to give
the names of those who gave them
information. has not weakened the
indications. The committee may
be perfectly honest in its attempt
to make the correspondents tell
the names of their informants, but
experience should warn them of
the time they are wasting. There
is probably nota newspaper cores
pondent in Washington who would
not 90 to Jail and stay there rather
than to tell the name of any man
who had given him information in
confidence, and nobody knows
this any better than the Senators
on this committee: hence the be-
lief that they are merely using the
correspondents in making a play
for time, instead of asking the men
whose names have been directly
connected with the scandal for the
information that will establish the
truth or falsity of the charge that
the sugar trust dictated the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill. The
present actions of the committee
confirm the impression of those
who predicted from the first that
the whole investigation would be
as great a fizzle as that part of it
which dealt with the alleged at
tempt TO bribe Senators.
Several votes in the Senate hav-
ing demonstrated that the last bar
gain took in all of the Democrats,
except Hill, as we'll as the popu-
lists. and the tariff bill as bar
gained for is going to get their
votes, it is probable although not
yet certain, that the republicans
Will in few days agree to the set
ting 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
Roosevelt has got his fighting
blood up. During the debate
which preceded the Democratic at
tempt to drop the appropriation
for the Civil Service Commission,
Representatives Pendleton, of W.
Va; Enloe, of Tenn, and Stocks
date and Williams, of Miss, made
statements rejecting upon the in
tegrity of the commission, and ac-
cusing it of always favoring Re
publicans. Mr.. Roosevelt sent a
communication to Representative
| DeForest, chairman of the House
committee on reform in the Civil
Service, branding each and every
statement made by the four Rep
resentatives as unqualifiedly false,
and daring them to attempt to
prove them in an investigation,
which he suggests be made. There
is no likelihood of au investigation,
for it is well understood that the
statements were made largely to
placate disappointed constituents
who had not been provided for and
who might be dismissed to make
trouble in nomination conventions.
Gold like everything else, is
afraid of this administration. At
least, it gets away from it quite
fast. Notwithstanding the S5O,-
900, 900, III gold received from the
late bond issue, the gold in the
Treasury is today below SS0,000,-
600, and according to the opinion
OF many of the shrewdest observers
in Congress, including friends as
well as enemies of the administra-
ton. another bond issue is only a
question of time, and if there is not
a decided "let up in the drain on
the Treasury ii will be very
short time. All of the prophecies
of Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle concerning the return of
gold from Europe have proven
false. Should the tariff bill be-
come law by the first of July,