Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-01
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.
Special Correspor denee.

Senator Palmer of Illinois, Is IN
Washington. The principal purpose of
his visit being to inform Mr.. Cleveland
OF the total collapse of the admit is,ra
tion campaign against free silver in that
state, which was inaugurated by Mr..
Cleveland's letter to that alleged non.
partisan Chicago committee, Incident
ally Senator Palmer took occasion to ex-
press his opinion of two promine"t Ill
inois democrats he accuses of straddling
the silver question, in the following Ian
guage: Nobody expected anything
else of Vice President Stevenson, because
it is we'll known that if any question has
two sides to it Mr. Stevenson will have
no opinion on it, Bill Morrison, how
eyer, is not usually so modest, and his
position IN the beginning was rather
surprising, although | think, as affairs
are shaping themselves. he was wise IN
taking conservative and non commlttal
position. 1t will give BIN more inHu
ence when the real fighting begins If 1t
ever does" Speaking of the coming
democratic convention In Illinois Sena-
tor Palmer made these paradoXica re-
marks: "rhe convention was called for
the purpose of endorsing free silver, and
the program will be carried out to the
letter There will be a large amount of
superAuous enthusiasm, of the manu-
featured kind, but it will count for moth
ing. The silver craze is subsiding, and
it will continue to subsIde,"
Mr.. Cleveland's reports from Ken
lucky are no more encouraging than
those from Illinois. A prominent adj |
minlstration democrat who has just re-
turned from Kentucky, where he went
for the purpose of instigating he free
silver strength among the democrats,
saws there isn't the slightest doubt of
the failure of Secretary Carlisle to stem
the silver food in the party, and that
he regards the adoption of 16 to | free
coinage platform by the state conven-
ton as certainty He says also tlat
it would not surprise him to see tie re-
publicans elect a majority of the legis-
lature and a successor to Senator Black
burn. If the administration can con
troll enough votes to prevent, Blackburn
will not be elected, even should the
democrats succeed in retaining control
of the legislature.
The administration Is now pinning its
hopes to the effects of the Memphis
"Sound Money" convention, held this
week. upon the southern democrats, but
it remains to be seen whether these hopes
are not of the same soap bubble kind as
those recently held concerning the defeat
OF the silver democrats in Illinois and
Kentucky.
Appropriations are to be withheld
whenever p )ssible, in order to prevent
the calling of an extra session oe con
gress, which Mr.. Cleveland acknowl
edges himself to be afraid of. At the
last session of congress $5O00,OO0 was
appropriated to pay deferred sugar boun-
ties. Not one cent of this money has
been paid out, and tire is little proba-
biitv that it will be for some time. 1t
is the same with numerous other appro-
priations.
The annulment of the income tax by
the decision of the supreme court has
added to the certainty that the next
congress will be called upon to provide
for additional revenue, in order to fur
nish the money to meet the enormous
deficit which will exist at the close of
the present fiscal year. A number of
WAYS to do this have already been sug-
gested, but it will not be surprising if
the republicans in congress decide that
the best way to raise the money and at
the same time boom American industries
will be to raise the tariff dut es upon all
articles competing with the products of
the United States. That the admins.
tration fears this course will be taken is
shown bv the assertions of its friends
that Mr., Cleveland will never sign bill
increasing the tariff duties, OF course