The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-01-17
WASHINGTON.
BRICE CALLED TO THE WHITE
HOUSE.
The President Got What He Was
After, Some solid Advice on FL
nance-Still We Don't Know What
That Advice was-Our Washington
COrrespondent Give Pointers.
speclal to NewsDemocrnt by IN. A.

That Advice was-Our Washington
Correspondent Give Pointers.
Special to News Democrat by II. A.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Jan. 14.--It is an in.
teresting fact that during the chaos in which
the financial condition appears to be that more
men are turning TO Senator Brce for advice
than TO any other man either in the Senate or
House. 1t seems that the Democrats have
reached point where they want a practical
man of business to talk to them and tell them
what should be done. 1t was in this same
kind Of an emergency that the Democrats of
the Senate turned 10 Senator Brice in the sum
mer when all hope of tariff legislation seemed
gone. As he was the practical man of affairs
then who could give advice and point the way
out of the difficulty. So now, when the party
is in the worst slough of despond it has ever
encountered since the House sent the half
formed Wilson bill to the Senate, the Demo-
Gratis are turning to man of practical affairs
in the hope that he may outline plain propo-
sitior of finance which will restore confidence
in the country, relieve the treasury of q strain
Il seems unable to bear, and to makeit possible
for the Democratic party to surrender absolute
power with credit.
Senator Brice is not a man to give attention
to details of legislation, and he may not now
undertake to sketch plan of salvation for
those who have been fOundeTing in the mud
on the House side, but at the same time IL is TO
tration and its friends turn for that guidance
they have been unable TO find among chosen
friends Senator Brice was first called to the
White House to talk with the President.
While the papers were ringing with the an.
nouncement that Hill had been chosen to lead
the Cleveland forces to financial victory in
the Senate, because the President had invited
him to state dinner, the President had sent
for Senator Brice to talk finance, and had
chosen him because he wanted a man whose
judgment was formed by contact with the
business interests of the country, and who
understood the problems before the country.
Mr.. Cleveland was seeking information and he
got it, He probably got more practical infor-
nation of the affairs that confront the country,
in the two hours he was closeted with the
Ohio Senator, than in all the conferences he
has held with the men who have been trying
to pass the Carlisle bill.
While there had been talk of financial legis-
latiOn in the Senate before the reverse in the
House, II had not assumed definite action in
the way of really doing something until after
the conference of Senator Brice with the Presi-
dent. There were then men who thought that
II was possible that something might be done
if the President was to throw his influence in
the practical channels suggested TO him.
Whether or not Senator Brice will undertake
TO draw a bill in accordance with what he be-
lieves, is not yet known. 1t is probable that
he will not do so. A bill may be drawn by
some member of the Finance Committee at
his suggestion which will meet the difficulties
hecountry is labOring under. This is more
in the line of the way Senator Brice works.
Perhaps many of the details may not be his,
but if its general features meet his approval
he may devote himself to securing such legis-
lation. But it is doubtful if he will make any
such effort unless there is fair prospect Ofsuc-
cess.
He is not man to butt against stone wall,
or TO try and force through at the short session
of Congress measure that would not command
good working support 1t is this ground
that the Ohio Senator has been surveying with
view to ascertaining what first can be done.
Then if success is probable he then may outline
his plan.
There is no doubt but what any plan with
which he may be connected will from the first
receive the support of a large number of Sena-
tors who now come to regard him as one of the
big men not only of the Senate but of the
country. So far he has not talked of any plan.
He has not considered it necessary as long as
majority seemed determined to accent nothing
Lately 1t has been observed that extremists
differing with Senator Brice widely on financial
questions, have expressed willingness TO sac
ritce great deal of their belief in order to
reach some common ground.
1t is understood that the sO-called common
ground" is not far distant from that occupied
by the Ohio Senator, who believes that bust
ness principles and common sense should
govern all legislation. If the pressure
on the treasury becomes so great that
remedial legislation becomes imperative, short
session or no short session, il is possible that
many of the Senators who depended upon
Senator Brice in the tariff fight, will find that
common ground and with him work to secure
necessary laws for the preservation of the
governments finances.