Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-12-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
~ .a,tIknrnx n T. hoe II 1904

from our regular correspondent
wAsn,sGros. D. c.. Dee. IL 1924
The administration, following the
example Of a certain king of France,
is now engaged in marching up the
hill with its currency plan. Later,
it will, following the same example,
march down again. The field COM
mander Of the marching army Is
General Carlisle, the cammander-in-
chief of the forces contenting him.
self with remaining in the white
house, surrounded by a Gordon Of
sentinels and giving orders. The
tomtoms are keeping up a terrific
beating, while the house committee
on banking and currency is getting
the opinions Of ffnanciers on the
proposed plan, in order to create the
impression that the democrats Of the
house are enthusiastically in favor
of that plan. As a matter Of cold,
hard fact they are nothing Of the
kind. There may be enough of them
vote for the bill, which the members
of the committee say they will soon
report to the house, to pass it; but 1t
will not be because they consider it
good, but because not knowing any
thing about it they will be willing to
chance it, hoping that it may turn
out to be as good as Secretary Car
Isle claims it to be.
Representative Dingley, of Maine,
who has been quoted as being favor
ably impressed with the ideas of Sec
rotary Carlisle, says: "'rhe fatal de-
feet Of Mr.. Carlisle's plan Is that 1t
undertakes to unite state bank with
national bank circulation, and even
discrininates against national bank
circulation by providing for a tax up
on the notes issued by national banks
and eXempting notes issued by state
banks from any such tax, or from
any supervision by national author
ity.n Mr.. Geo. G. Butter, a Connecti-
cut flnancier, told the house COM
mittee that tho banks would never
accept the unknown responsibility
imposed by that portion Of Secretary
Carllsle's plan requiring all national
banks to guarantee the circulation
of each bank.
Representative Hit, Of Illinois, the
ranking republican member of the
house committee on foreign affairs,
who Is one OF the best posted men in
congress ON International affairs
which relate to the United States, is
after Secretary Gresham with a sharp
stick. Mr.. Hit wants to know all
about Secretary Gresham's offer of
$4,000 rs compensation for Canadian
sealers seized in the Behring Sea,
and has offered a resolution calling
for the correspondence which led to
that extraordinary offer.
Notwithstanding the charge that
the railroad pooling bill is entirely
in the interest Of the corporations
the house passed it by the decisive
vote Of 1865 10 10. Some Of the ablest
men in the house declared that the
bill, If it became il law, will be Of di-
rect benefit to small shippers as we'll
rs 10 the smaller railroads. The bill
proposes TO restore To the railroads
the freight privileges they had pre-
yious TO the enactment of the inter-
state commerce law.
1t required a vote Of the senate to
convince certain senators that no
tariff tinkering would be allowed at
the present session, and ii was
promptly given when Senator Gray,
OF Delaware, moved to take up the
sugar bill, which was reported from
the senate finance committee, at the
last session, as a substitute for the
house popgun sugar bill. The mo-
ton was defeated by vote Of Y to
%, tho popnlists and Senators Blanch-
ard Martin and Roach voting with
the republicans against the motion,
and number of democrats includ-
ing Brice, German. Irby and Smith,
who would have voted against the
motion had their votes been neces-
sary to defeat it, did not vote.