Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-04-06
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE VETO OF THE BLAND SElGN-
forage BILL.
Representative Democrats In Wash.
ingtOn Continuing ApprOPria.
lions to He stopped The Near.
aqua Canal--The Chinese Treaty.
From Our Regular Cnrresnon dent.

aqua Canal The Chinese Treaty,
From Our Regular Cnrresnon dent.
WASHINGTON, March 80, 1894.
President Cleveland, after hearing
everything that could be said on every
side OF the question, and after deeper
study than he has given to any Single
measure passed by this Congress, has
finally disposed of the Bland bill fol
the coinage OF the seigniorage. His
disposition of the bill is necessarily I'm.
satisfactory to many prominent and
influential members Of the party
That could not have been avoided. II
would have been precisely the same
only It would have been different sci
OF Democrats who would have been
disappointed, had his action been
reversed. The situation was not un'
like that which preceded Mr.. Cleve.
lands celebrated tariff reform message
and he acted just as he did then, tax
ing the course he believed to he right
and proper, believing that time will, as
it did with the tariff, bring the dis.
satisfied Democrats around to his way
of thinking. Some Democrats in
Congress are allowing their disap-
pOintment to run away with their
discretion, and are saying what they
will regret when they see their words
used by Republicans against the Dem
ocratic party.
Probably no more representative
gathering OF prominent Democrats ever
assembled in Washington than that
which attended the hOusewarming oil
the Democratic Congressional Cam.
paign Committee, held in their new
headquarters this week. The Com
mittee which received the guests was
composed of Senator Faulkner, Chair.
man of the Congressional Committee
Hon. w. F. Harrity, Chairman of the
National Committee; Hon. Chauncey
F. Black, President of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Democratic Clubs, and Mr.
Lawrence Gardner, Secretary of the
Congressional Committee. The COM
mittee is now ready for business, and
quorum of the executive committee
will be at headquarters daily until the
close of the Congressional campaign.
Representative Sayers, of Texas, be.
lieves with his great Democratic
predecessor at the head of the House
Committee on Appropriations, the late
Samuel ]. Randall, that the system oil
permanent or continuing appropria
tons is wrong and should be done
away with, leaving all appropriations
to be made annually, and his bill pro.
viding for the change will probably be
favorably reported to the House at an
early day, and he believes it will pass
The late Samuel J. Randall introduced
a similar bill in the Forty-seventh
Congress, and it passed the House, bu,
not the Senate. The amount OF these
continuing appropriations over which
Congress can, under the present sys
tenn. exercise no detailed supervision
is $3.50, OO0. 600 a year. Some of these
continuing appropriations are nearly
century old and are senseless and in
some cases wasteful. Chairman
Sayers' bill is thoroughly Democratic
and ought to become . law. 1t will
save money and reform bad system.
Senator Morgan believes that his
Nicaragua Canal bill will become Law
and that the canal will be well under
way before the close OF the Fifty-third
Congress. The bill is now being con.
sidered by the Senate Committee or
Foreign Relations. Itprovides for the
guaranteeing of the bonds of the CANA
company to the extent of 100000,
GOO and gives this government
practically the control OF the canal
both while being built and after it il
in operation.
The opposition to the new treaty with
China, this week favorably reported
without amendment by the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, has
been greatly exaggerated. No Dem
ocrat 80 far as known has any serious
objections to the treaty, except several
from the Pacific coast, and they say
that with slight modification the treaty
would be acceptable to them.
The Pollard Breckenridge trial reach
ed its dirtiest stage this week, and not
withstanding the request of the Judge
that the filthy details be suppressed
several of the local papers published
| them in full. The end of the trial il
not vet in sight.
The seat in the Senate chamber
that was occupied by the late Senator
Colquit is still draped in mourning
Not much interest is expressed in who
will fill out his unexpired term, be
cause the new Senator will have les
than a year to serve and it is under
stood that neither of the gentlemen
known to be candidates for the full
term-there are at least two in the
House-will be appointed by the
Governor OF Georgia to the vacancy
Although it could hardly be consider
ed in tile light of promotion, Speaker
Crisp's friends are urging him to de-
clare himself a candidate. Repre-
sentative Turner is understood tc
have entered the race.
The unexpected resignation of Sixth
Auditor Brawley, of the Treasury de-
partment, to take effect upon the ap.
pointment of his successor, has made 6
lot of gossip. The position is an i'm.
portant one, and Mr.. Brawley has held
it less than year. Dem.