The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
From our Regular Correspondent.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. 1895.
/ The Democrats have since the defeat of
Secretary Carisle's crazy quilt currency bill
In the House about given up hope ofsecuring
any financial Legislation at this session with
out the aid of the Republicans. Although
they are running hither and thither and hold
ing hourly conferences they are accomplishing
nothing, and they privately admit it, A
definite appeal has been made by Democrats
friendly to the administration to Senators
sherman and Allison, asking them to cone to
the rescue OF the Treasury and to prepare II
compromise nOn-partisan financial bill. 1t
is not at all probable that those Senators will
prepare IL bill, but they, and other Republic
cans, have told the Democrats ta..t in their
opinion, what the Treasurer most needs is
more revenue, and that bill to increase the
revenues of the government. either 10y an in
crease in the tariff on all dutiable artcl $, or
by increasing the internal revenue tax upon
special articles beer, for iHs,it "r would re-
ceve the votes of the Republicans in both
House and Senate.
For the Democrats to accept this hin
would he to confess to the country what is
already plain to all except those who refuse
to see-that the Democratic tariff policy il
II failure and is at bottom responsible for all
the troubles of the Treasury and of the
country but there are Democrats who do not
hesitate to advocate that the confession be
made, and while such action can hardly be
said to be probable, it is quite as much SO us
that any financial hill will become law at
this session.
Representative Hit, who was chairman of
of the House committee on FOryein Affairs in
the last Republican House and who will al
most certainly occupy the same position in
the next House, is strongly opposed to the
recommendation of Mr.. Cleveland. that the
United States should agree to give up the
advantage it now holds under the rectpro"i'v
treaty with Hawaii, and agree to modii-
cation of that treaty which would allow Great
Britain to lease one of the smallest of the
Hawaiian Island to be used as Il station
for II proposed submarine cable between
Canada and Australia. While Mr.. Hit ad-
mits that cable communication with Hawaii
would be very desirable, both for that country
and the United States, he insists that this
country should control such cable not only
rs a matter of business saSacity but as a pre-
caution III cas-" of war. This is no new posi-
ton for Mr.. Hit. As long ago us the Fifty
first Congress he tried to have the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill amended so
as to provide for the survey of "A cable route
between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Mr. James j. Hill, the northwestern rail-
road man and tlnancier who is at present in
Washington, says of the financial situations:
Its har. to say what should be done by
Congress in the way of financial legislation
1t seems to me that it would be II good idea
to leave it to Il commission to frame bill
Take two Of the abest Republicans in Con-
grcSs, two Democrats, and then appoint
John Sherman chairman of the commission
1t would be safe to wager ten thousand
dollars against cent that such Il body of
men would originate a plan of currency re-
lief that would settle this veXed question for
the next twenty years.
Senator Teller, in replying to Senator
Hills attack on the income tax. did some
plain talking, as he usually does when he
speaks upon any subject. He said that any
| proposition for the repeal of the income tax
must be accompanied by one to raise AS much
money owing to the very pronounced need
of the Treasury for money. He called
attention to the fact that if the present
monthly deficit was kept up the deficit for the
year would reach 100000, 900; also, that the
proceeds of 800, 900 900 in bonds had already
been swallowed up by the deficit under the
Cleveland Administration and that the gold
reserve fund was down to ST. ,000,0 600 and
was still rapidly falling. ''What the country
is suffering from particularly he continued,
is lack of revenue. not a lack of gold in the
Treasury. II the revenue was ample there
would be no difficulty in acquiring gold, and
no question of maintaining the parity between
different kinds of money! He paid his re-
spects to the administration thusly: "When-
ever member of the executive department
appeals to the legislative department to do
something, and has not IA plan to present, it
is good evidence that the executive branch Of
the government is in the wrong hands,
| 1t Will Pay you to take Hoods Sarsapa-
/ rilla With purp blood Won paa1 NOT fanr ha