The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Corrsss ondence OF TEE RECORD.


Does ting sticky trail of the sugar scandal
lead to the White House? Statements made
by Democrats mind you, not Republicans,
first indicated that it did, and the action OF
the investigating committee, in pretending
to be greatly exercised because three news
paper correspondents, one of them Demo.
crat and Senator Murphys private secretary,
have declined to give the names Of those
who gave them information, has not weak.
ened 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 not a newspaper correspondent
in Washington who would not go 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 belief 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 &C.
tions of the committee confirm the impress.
ion of those who predicted from the first
that the whole investigation would be as
great tzzle as that part Of it which dealt
with the alleged attempt to bride Senators.
Several votes in the Senate having dem.
onstrated 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 going to get their votes,
it is probable although not yet certain, that
the Republicans will in a 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 on effort will be made to up.
set it, but for the reasons set forth above it
will hardly succeed.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt has
got his lighting blood up. During the de.
bate which preceded the Democratic attempt
to drop the appropriation for the Civil
Service Commission, Representatives Pen
dleton, of w. Va, Enloe of Tenn. and
Stocksdale and Williams, of Miss, made
statements rejecting upon the integrity OF
the commission, and accusing it Of always
favoring Republicans. Mr. Roosevelt sent
communication to Representative De
Forest, chairman of the House Committee
on reform in the Civil Service, branding
each and every statement made by the four
Representatives as unquali6edly false, and
daring them to attempt to prove them in an
investigation, which he suggests be made.
There is no likelihood of an investigation, as
1t is we'll understood that the statements
we're made largely to placate disappoint
ed 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 thi;
administration. At least, it gets away from
it quite fast. Notwithstanding the $50,
900, 900, in gold received from the late bono
} issue, the gold 10 the Treasury is to-day be.
low $50, 900, 900, and according to thu
opinion Of many Of the shrewdest observers
in Congress, including friends as well al
enemies Of the administration, another bono
issue i. only question of time, and if Their
is not decided let up in the drain on tn
Treasury it will be very short time, AL
the prophecies Of Mr.. Cleveland aud Secre
tary Carlisle concerning the return Of gold
from Europe have proven false. Should tn
tariff bill become law by the first of July
which the Democrats claim, but the Repub
licans do not concede. there will be an i'm
mediate and immense drain on the remain
ing gold in the Treasury, as the importer
will want it to send to Europe to pay for tn
goods which European manufacturers hsv
been pling upto food the American marke
: with as soon as the Democratic tariff goe
o into effect. Secretary Carlisle is doing at
o solutely nothing to protect the gold in tn
K Treasury, although his experience in placin
: the last bonds ought to have warned him {
the difficulty he may have in fioatin
another issue of bonds at the same rate.
Democratic Senator was heard to expres
;. the opinion that the administration coul
A not place another Issue Of bonds for less tina
i four per cent and that he would not be su
a prised if they had to make it Ave per cent
!. 1t was never more apparent than now thu
n Secretary Carlisle is not financier.
!. If there were no such thing as treaty obi
cations the bill fathered by Representa-,
Bryan of Nebraska, providing for the iss'
> ing oil $40, 900, 900 of greenbacks, to be use
% by the Government in purchasing control
u ing interest in the Nicaragua Canal and
= building the same. now before the Hou
y Commerce committee, might be more ser
- ously considered than it is.
The long deferred 6ght over the repeal
the State bank currency tax has began
the House.
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