Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-01-10
WASHINGTON Letter
FROM OUR REGULAR CoRPEsroNDENT'

FROM OUR REGULAR CoRrEsroNDENT'
WASHINGTON, D. c. January, 9th, 1895.
Drop all the administration influence
in the Congressional slot and see cur
rency bill passed, is the game OF the
hour. 1t does not seem to make much
difference to those engaged in the game
what sort ola curreny bill it is. Every
energy is bent towards getting u bill
passed. It is even stated by friends Of
President Cleveland that he will ap
prove a bill with an amendment pro-
viding for the coinage Of the silver
seigniorage. and Senator Hill, who is
now helping the administration in it's
efforts to pass bill, says that amend
ment will carry the bill through the
Senate. Senator Hill is a very shrewd
politician, and some Of his predictions,
including that Of the late defeat Of him
self and his party, haye been proven
true, but many think him rash in pre-
dieting what the Senate will do with a
bill when neither he nor any other man
knows what sort of bill the House
is going to send to the Senate, assum-
ing that the House will pass currency
bill, which now seems probable, but
which the talk at to-day's democratic
caucus did not make certainty. 1t is
supposed, but is not vet certain, that
the House will vote on the Carlisle cur
rency bill and the proposed amendments
and substitutes the latter part of this
week or the first of next. and the gen
eral expectation is that some kind CT
currency bill will be passed, but Sen
ator Hill is the only man who has yet
predicted that any sort of currency
hill would or could be passed by the
Senate at this session.
Representative Phillips. of Pa, is so
certain that the labor commission pro-
posed by his bill would be beneficial to
the country that he has offered to do
nate $250,O00 of his own money to pay
the necessary expenses of the commits
sion, if Congress will pass his bill pro-
yiding for the commission. The bill
is in the hands of a special committee
of the House, which will grant public
hearings for and against it, lift decides
that there is time to act upon it at this
session.
Senator Stewart had somewhat cost.
ly experience with Chinese diplomates,
who for a number of years occupied his
house, locally known as "Stewarts Cas-
tle," and that may haye made him
doubtful of statements made by those
who follow diplomacy as a profession.
At any rate he introduced resolution
in the Senate enquiring Of the Secretary
of State whether Mr.. John w. Foster
is in any way officially connected with
the United States government while on
his mission to China and Japan. and,
Notwithstanding the statement of Sen
ator Morgan, that Mr.. Foster had no
official connection with the United
States government, he said that he
wished that statement to come officially
from the Secretary OF State. As if to
accentuate his doubt Senator Stewart
said he was aware that Mr.. Foste, had
said publicly that be had no official con
nectlon with the U. s. Government.
Realizing that the money estimated
to come in from the income tax will be
needed by the government this year,
those who are seeking to indirectly kill
the income tax by striking out the ap-
preparation to put it into effect, which
is contained in the emergency appro-
priation bill passed by the House before
the recess and now in the hands Of the
Senate Committee on Appropriations
are proposing that 81 barrel be added
to the tax on beer and that the old tax
of 2 cents on bank checks be revived
in order to replace the money that would
be lost to the Treasury by failure to
provide for the collection of the income