Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-12-21
through the House this week, un-

many are lnCllncu TO tnlnk tnau III
is, that the administration is en-
couraging the withdrawal of gold
from the treasury, in order to
frighten objecting democrats into
the support of the currency bill.
which as a sop to the overwhelm-
ing vanity of Representative
Springer, chairman of the commit
tee on Banking and Currency, has
been -christened, the springer
Bill" but those who are unqueS-
tionably authorized to speak for
the administration are presenting
some arguments to secure votes
for the bill that arc certainly
questionable. The democrat who
Expresses an objection to the bill
and nearly all of them do, is told
that the bill has not the slightest
chance to become a law. but that
it is merely intended to convince
the country that the administra
| ton and the majority of the House
are anxious to do something, and
that its passage by the House will
throw the responsibility for the
failure of financial Legislation up
on the already unpopular Senate.
1t is not necessary to have an
extra good memory to recall that
similar arguments were used to
rush the Wilson tariff bill through
the House in a crude form. 1t is
well known that many of the Sen
ate amendments to the tariff bill
, were begged for by democratic
members of the House who lacked
the courage to either propose them
, or to vote for them in an open,
manly way, but were willing to
! beg for them secretly, and then
to pose as having been compelled,
against their wills, to accept the
Senate bill. amendments and all.
That is the sort of business which
. disguised the people and brought
, about the democratic defeat of last
month. There has not been a
single important piece of legisla-
ton before Congress since it was
5 controlled by the democrats, into
which this sort of tactics was not
introduced to greater or lesser
} extent. To put it plainly if not
elegantly, the democrats in Con,
u gress have played, and in spite Of
{ their bitter experience, are trying
to play the people for fools.
Even the tottering, God-forsak
!. en- government of Turkey, which
exists merely by the sufferance O
70 the great powers of Europe, doe!
If not hesitate to snub this admins
IS tration. 1t has refused to allow
l. the U. S. Consul designated fol
IS that duty by Secretary Gresham tt
= accompany the commission, com
e posed of representative of Russis
il and Great Britain, which will in
o vestigate the massacre of Christian
n Armenians by Turkish troops. L
Secretary Gresham had not blum,
dered from the start he would moi
- be in his present humiliating posi-
ton He has already been taken
:. to task by Congress for several OF
4 his blunders, and this last one will
certainly be heard from.
:. General Slckles, of New York
is one of the few democrats in the
House who has a brilliant Union
Army record, and almost the only
Democrat who has had the
courage to openly antagonize the
pension policy of this administra-
ton. His latest remarks. made
just previous to the passing of the
pension appropriation bill by the
House, are alike creditable to him
and to every eX- Union soldier. He
said: ~ want to say right here to-
day, for it may be the last oppor-
tunity | shall have to say it here,
in vindication of my comrades,
that that roll of a million names,
with so few instances of fraud, is a
monument of honor to Ameri-
can soldiers only less admira-
bic than the heroic services
they performed in the preserva-
ton of this Union. for which ser
vices their pensions are awarded"
Nr. Cleveland is still making
extensions CT the classified civil