The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-26

give to any body of men coming here here,
and no unusual preparations have.oeeh
made MAJ e. in ! the expectation of trouble trouble
simply because no trouble is cSpec,cut :.
I am aware that this differs widely
from the sensational statement sent
out. but it is simply the plaln' IN" N,
vanished truth. Coxey's army VIII
not be- welcome, but it will not be inter
fered with, unless its mem oers v'o'''o
TIE law. -,
Readers of this correspondence Will
remember a paragraph concerning q
proposition before Congress for the
purchase of portrait Of Dolly Mad, !,
ison for 1000, which I characterized
as extravaganza, Well, evidently
the shot went home as now propose,
ton has been made andthe price scaled
down to $4,000. It is too high yet
when the status of the artist is con-
sidercd; that is what makes the price
for private buyers of paintings.
The strength of the home rule sen
timant in the Senate was whown by
the vote on the nomination OF Z. IL
j. Taylor, for Kansas, be Recorder Of
Deeds for the District of Columbia
- ,1o So,o+o n G. Committee. Only
two Senators-Martin, of Kansas
and Harris, of Tcnnessec-voted lol
favorable report. while eight eena-
tors-Faulkner Of ". Va: Hunton
of Virginia; Gibson, of Maryland
Mcmillan, of Michigan; Galliger, Of
New Hampshire, Proctor, of Yer
mont; Wolcott, Of Colorado, anc
Hansbrough, of North Dakota
voted for an unfavorable report. HIS
rejection is now certain.
Thore is going to be somo lively
legislation of record on silver as
soon as the House can get the regu
lar appropriation bills out of the
way. There are number of mem
bers in the House who voted last
August for the repeal Of the pur.
chasing clause of the Sherman silver
llaw who arc anxious to put them
selves on record before the Congress
sional nominating conventions arc
held in their districts by voting for q
straight free coinage bill land, strange
to say, the men who stuck to the sill
YER in the memorable fight at the
extra session are going to help them
to do it. The present programc is
to report free coinage bill to the
House as soon as the appropriations
are disposed of and to rush it through
with as little talk as possible. Oh
course everybody knows that no bill
favorable to silver can become law
while Mr.. Cleveland is President, I'M
less it can get a twothirds vote in
the House and Senate, but a vote for
free coinage bill will square a
great many Representatives with
their silver constituents, and that is
all that is expected to come out q
this programme.
Senator Gordon's resolution in
structing the Senate Committee on
Finance to report bill for the re-
peal of the tax OH State bank cur
rcncy must also be classed as a play
for record. as Mr. Gordon knew
when it was offered that it would be
referred to the Finance Committee, a
majority of the members Of which
are opposed to repeating this tax,
unless some Of them have undergone
a recent change Of mind on the sub
.jcct, which isn't probable.
Representative Straus, of New
York, has introduced one of those
bills which sound so nice and which
everybody knows would not be prac-
ticabla, even if enacted into law,
which this one will never be. 1t pro-
hibits personal applications for feder-
al positions either to any Senators
and Representatives or federal official
Senators and Representatives are very
fond Of complaining of the number OF
applications made to them for help to
get positions, bnt it is doubtful
whether twenty Of the whole four
hundrsd-odd of them would willingly
give up their supposed "pull'-it's
considerable stretch of the imagi-
nation to even suppose it of some of
them-upon the officials who dis
|pense patronage. because it is their
principle hold upon the party ma
chine upon which they rely to send
them back to Congress.