The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-10
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opened with a resolution offered by Bynum,
setting forth desire for speedy agreement,
and for joint caucus on Friday, lift should
not have been reached by that time. Chair
man Wilson told the caucus that the house
conferees, II left unhampered, would, he
hoped, reach an agreement, and Speaker
Crisp was applauded to an echo when he said
to the caucus that for his part he would re-
main here for week or two weeks, or what
ever time was necessary, to secure an agree
ment. After Wilson and Crisp had spoken it
was SO evident that the great majority were
| with them that Bynum was glad to with
draw, and the caucus adjourned without ac-
| ton. Wilson was given an enthusiastic re-
| ception, and everything said in his support
was heartily appauded. Cooper of Indiana.
the personal friend of Voorhees,, made the hit
OF the day in two-minute speech in which
he said that senators were beginning to Ike
scorched by fires at home and that it was a.
mere question of time when they would have
to yield.
resolution for an investigation of the Domin-
ion Coal Company and the connection of
American politicians with it,
Representative McEttrick of Boston is max
ing an active fight for the establishment o.
new cabinet office, the department of COM
merce. 1t is to include some 10 or dozen
divisions and bureaus of the treasury depart
ment, and the interstate commerce commits
sion, the Pacific railroad commission, the
bureau of American republics aud the river
and harbor Improvement work now done by
the war department. It would make the cen
sus bureau permanent one.
The President has approved the naval, d.
plOmatic and consular and military academy
appropriation bills.
Senator Allen of Nebraska has Introduce
bill to prevent lobbying by making TIN
practise punishable with fine.
Dockery made II strong and imprisoned
speech in the house Tuesday ppealing to it to-
stay its reckless extravaganza in apprOpria-
tions for public buildings.
The house judiciary committee Tuesday
discussed and ordered adversely reported the
bill of Mr.. Everett DEM, of Massachusetts,
to enable persons of japanese descent to be
naturalized.
The senate Tuesday passed. as a substitute
for Il similar measure sent over from the
house, bill, introduced by Hill of New
York. to prevent the admission of alien
anarchists to United States ports, and provid-
ing that persons of this class, after fair and
proper investigation, shall not be allowed to
become citizens and shall be sent out of the
country. The measure seems to be good
one as far as it goes. But unless laws rigdly
enforced, provide for the proper inspection
abroad of emigrants intending to locate here
and for excluding the vicious, the lawless and
the paupers, the anti-anarchist act will be Of
little benefit.
Bland made some luminous suggestions
about sugar resolutions and he introduced
them in the House Wednesday adding another
volley to the breaking senatorial combine.
The House has done one creditable job in
beating the Senate proposition in the agricul-
tural appropriation bill to appropriate 81.
900 900 to drive out the Russian thistle from
the DakOtas and neighboring states 1t was
a downright imposition. and was so charact-
erized by Secretary Morton in communities
ton to Congress.
The treasIlry's gold reserve is now down
to S52 900 900 though Secretary Carlisle and
the treasury officials are confident that it will
not 90 much lower, because they believe the
outward movement of gold is at an end and
that the treasury receipts of the ycIlo" metal
will now rapidly increase, after the tariff bill
passes. About $1,000 was taken at the New
York custom house last week, an amount,
small as it is, several times larger than for
many weeks previous. Secretary Carlisle
will not issue any more bonds at present. He
tells iinanciers who have been urging it that it
would be useless because the gold to pay for
the bonds would be substantially drawn from
the treasury.
The senate Saturday passed the house bill
providing that national bank notes and legal
tender notes or greenbacks shall hereafter be
subject to taxation under the laws of the states
the same as other forms of money. The
United States legal tender notes have hithurtu
been free from liability to local taxation on
the ground that they represent government
debt and should therefore be classed with the
bonds. People disposed to
lodge taxes have thus found greenbacks a fa-
;orite form into which to Temporarily con
,ert some of their taxable property about the
ime of the annual assessment.
The senate adopted a resolution Tuesday,
equiring the president to investigate into the
Imprisonment without trial of Americans in
]uban jails.
Boutec of Maine introduced resolutions in
he house last week for the recognition of the
Hawaiian republic. They were an exact copy
f those by which Chairman McCreary Sc
Ired the recognition of Brazil. But the fact
adj been forgotten and the Democrats made
rather ridiculous by opposing
lem.
The deficiency bill passed the senate Friday.
The Fithian ''free ship bill has been aban-
)ned for this session.
The house conferrees on the River and
arbor bill have had to back down on IL good
any points but they have succeeded i'm
few of the grabs which were
in the bill by the courtesy of
e senate" when demanded by individual
embers. The bill as reported to the two
fuses, will make an aggregate appropriation
about 81 100000. which is more than Il
illiOn dollars less than was proposed by the
nate. Large provisions for contract work,
oreover, which were injected into the bill in
e senate, have been stricken out and APP
OPERATIONS made only for the current fiscal
ar. The house conferrees had to fight like
,ers to secure these concessions. The eNas-
perating thing to the Democrats in many of
g jobs was the fact that they were granted
the demand of Republicans with the
owed object of promoting their reelection.
lie house conferrees felt that a Democratic
late might at least draw the line at grabs
members of the majority, but the close
rporation system which exists in the senate
lde the conferrees on behalf of that DO ~ as
enuous for Republican grabs as for Demo-
ltic ones.