The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-22
wAsHINeToN LETTER.
tFrom our regular corr ispondentl.
 WASHINGTON ID. O.. Nny

l ne new Dond issue, which was officially announced within twenty four hours of Seci,tary Carlsle's posi- tive statement that no immediate issue of bonds was contemplated, has snc- ceeded tho elections as conversa7 tional topic.
 In Washington Secretary Carlisle has reputation for truthfulness that is not excclled by any man in public life. For that reason it is inferred by many that there is truth in the talk about President Cleveland having made arrangements for the bond issue with Wall street bankers without con- sulting Secretary Carlisle. although the President himself has denied that he did. The puzzling thing about that theory is that Secretary Carlisle should be willing to remain in the cabinet after such an humiliation. It IS very positively asserted by some that Secretary Carlisle will resign as soon as he completes his annual report to congress. upon which he is now working.
 Just why these bonds should be issued at this time is not apparent. The gold reserve is Sl2,000.000 more than it was several months ago, and although the receipts of the govern meut from customs duties are less than they were expected to be many, even among the bond advocates, re- gard the issue of bonds as premature. It was quite fully proven by the last bond issue that it was merely pleas ing fiction to suppose that tho money received from the sale of bonds added that much to the gold reserve fund. Theoretically it does, but practically it didn't. The government required that gold should be paid for the bonds, and the gold was paid, but the purchasers of the Ionds in many instances im- mediately presented treasury notes and got their gold back for them, and there is no reason for supposing that purchasers of the present issue of bonds will not do likewise. All these things and more will be heard from as soon as congress meets, as there has been no indication of my change in the marked anti-bond feeling which was shown at the last sessiou.
 The report of the strike commission which investigated tie Chicago rail. way strikes is being very harshly criti- cised by extremists ol the side of both
 labor and capital, but it seems to strike the masses as very fair and conscrv- ativa document, recognizing the rights of labor to organize for self.protection and also its right t. demand and get from the corporations recognition of committees from its organizations in | all negotiations aif,scting the welfare If the employees of said corporations
 There is, of course, n wide difference of opinion as to the wisdom of accept iug the commissions recommends tions for permanent strike commits sion and for state boards of arbitra- tion.
 | According to current talk Senator German has advised Senator Ransom to persuade the democratic leaders of North Carolina to resort 10 trickery to defeat the will of majority of the voters as recently expressed by the election of legislature, and Senator Ransom has accepted the advice. The trick is that the governor shall call an extra session of the legislature, which expires by limitation December 3lst, next, and that this legislature shall elect successor to the late Senator Vance, whose term expires March 3, 1897, and also successor to Senator Ransom, whose term expires March 8, 1895, he resigning so as to make va cancy. Such proceeding would meet the condemnation of conservative men everywhere. During the recent cam paign every voter in North Carolina knew that he was to vote for members of legislature which would haze the election of two United States senators, and those who would attempt to gain , a temporary benefit by any such trick cry as that mentioned would in the end find it dearly bought. It is not be- lieved in Washington that the governor will give his aid to such trick. There is large element on both the republican and democratic sides of the