The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-02-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
Notes Of Interest Gathered from About
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@ Washington. D. G., February Il, IS


plo call the gentleman frora Missouri
who iS:hairman of the House con1nit-
tee on coinagc,o is about the happiest
man in Congress. Hls bill for the
coinage of the seignoraSo in the Treas
ury o. going to be- pissed by tho House.
Notwithstanding the stubborn efforts
made by the Rnti-silvcr mon to defeat :
it. or dcsttsy its effects by amending It,
The opponents of tho bill say the ad-
ministration Is opposed to 10 and that
Mr.. Cleveland will vt, it if it passes
h,t its friends point out tho faGJ that
Secretary Carlisle has gone down the
river on plcasltse trip, knowing that
tho bill would be passed by the House
before his return, and snys that II the
administration was0pposed to it Secre-
tary Carlisle would have remained
here in order6 to usO his influence
against it. There are reasons 'orS-j
believing that Secretary Carlisle IS per
sonalv in favor OF the nll5 and tha'
President q Clovclar& is personally
opposed to it, Still it may be voted
because it may D, excepted by NJ.
Cleveland as a bar 20 free coinage Iof
several years to coma, vt least Us II
will keep the miHt, 3'EIe o
B The most notable thing about the
silver disccj:ssion in the House mas Dech
the alacrity displayed by many OF cilo'c
who voted for tho r9Roal OF the puFcha'-
inc clause 6 the Sherman silver lpw I"
nut themselves on Sccord as favorlng
the Bland bill. o. course the fact thai
Congressional elections are to bo hGiu
this year may have hnd nothing to 40
Wis, this, but it is q queer colhcldence
that these gentlemen all represent
dissricts known to b9 strong IN silver
sentiment. Speaker Crisp took occN-
sion early in the contest to record MN
sci! in favor of the bill. .05here Is
another thing connected with THIS pli'
which has caused ce1nmcnt. AS soon
AS it became apparent that the Dill
would pass Representative Hailey' Vi
Texas, ceased to show any disposition
to press his resolution declaring 1t tc
be the opinion of the House that the
Secretary of the Treasury mas III
authority to use the money received
from the sale OF bonds for any othel
ourpose than that specially dellncc
in tbe net for the resumption
of specie payment, and now IL II
stated that his resolution Will not o'
voted upon at all, although it ha
been favorably reported to the House
This does not necessarily mean thai
compromise has been made under "h'''
the resolution is to be dropped IN re
turn for the Secretary,s keeping al
hands off the Bland bill, but there ar
] people who place that constrnc1lo
0 upon it.
Members of the House judiciary CON
mittee SEEM to bo afraid OF ., TIE De-, r9s
= olution OF Representative McGanh'
Illinois, providing for an investigator
q Of the conduct of Judge jenkins,
= order. to ascertain whether or nc nc
there are sufficient grounds Tor d
impeachment in connection with ID
Injunction he issued concerning tn
i right of certain labor organizations
|. strike. The resolution was referred
~ q subcommittee consisting OF Boatne
l. of La. Terry, OF Ark, and w. q
q Stone, of Pa, but the sub-committt
j. renorted back that it could not agrt
and asked that the full commltle d
o. eide what should be done. This u
"a full committee declined to do. 80 u
$. subcommittee will again try to decl'
70 what ought to be done with the res
re luton.
The majority of the Senate flnan
,e committic will certainly not be oharg
u. .h,e with any unnecessary delay
their present tariff programme
he carried out, by reporting tee amend
., tariff hill to the Senate this week.
It's is stated, unellicially of course, that
duty Is to be placed on sugar and CO.
on and that a number of other chang
D. which will make the bill get the vol
nd If all the democratic Senators ha
g. been agreed urol. The income
of is not to be disturbed by the cqmmlttl
The Moody and Sankey revival me
mos are attracting more local attentl
than Congress. They are held in c.
vention hall, which seats about s.
u" people. but every night it has been II
lta essary to hold overflow meetings
Ell near by churches. The meetings beg
last week and are to continue for Il
~. weeks A monster choir OF 1900 vol
= leads The singing which is grand
- we'll as sublime. As The Romans u
10 say. The voice OF the people Is