The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, March 7, 1895.

Inc record IS maze and tne ntty-tnlru
Congress, has passed into history, which
impartially judge its acts, good and bad.
1t will be several days before the full effects
Of the legislation during its last two days OF
life, can be put in shape as to be aggregated
and fully digested, although it is already
known that much Of it was unwise and
more for the good Of individuals than for the
good of the country. 1t has become GUS
tom to force Presidents to accept vicious
legislation at the close of every Congress as
amendments to appropriation bills, because
the sponsors for this class of legislation
know that the amounts are seldom large
enough in single bill for the President to
veto an appropriation bill and entail the
expense OF an extra session of Congress
upon the country. The custom is bad one
and should be broken up, but that is diff
cult to do. The easiest way to do it would
be to follow the recommendations of several
Presidents and give the President authority
to veto separate clauses of BILL but that
authority can only be given by Congress.
Senator Henderson accomplished one real
reform during the last week of his service in
the Senate. The time wasted at every
session of Congress by the delivery of eulo.
gies on deceased members averages from one
to ten days in both House and Senate.
This time will no longer be wasted in the
Senate, nor will the memory OF deceased
Senators be neglected, or their virtues or
supposed virtues fail to be recorded. In
accordance with resolution offered by SEN
ator Henderson and adopted by the Senate
there will be no more spoken eulogies of
Senators. When Senator dies his life and
services will be duly recorded, all his collea-
CUES having chance to contribute, in a
printed volume, and the farce OF speaking
the eulogies to empty chairs and wasting
the time of the Senate will be seen no more.
The following words of Sir Charles Hunt,
OF England, whs is at present in Washing.
ton and who is known at home as an expert
financier, are timely and interesting: 81
have studied the money question in India,
in Europe and in America and though
haven't the slightest interest in silver as a
producer or owner, believe that its de-
monetization has been the cause of the great
depression that exists in trade in every
civilized country to-day. The masses are
just beginning to see this, but they will
learn very rapidly henceforth, and in the
next general elections in England and in the
United States we shall have popular YER
dict in favor of bimetallism. My own
belief is that we shall never have any per-
manent prosperity until the great nations of
the word come together and fix an agree
ment chat will rehablitate silver as a money
metal. | wish that the United States were
do it without the help of other govern
ments."
The silver men who stood so close to-.
gether during the greater part of the live Of
Congress just closed, seem within the last
few days to have forgotten the trite maxim
united we stand divided we fall" and to
have split up into factions. An attempt
was made by one of these factions to secure
the signatures of sufficient number of
Democratic Senators and Representatives to
commit the Democratic party to free coin
age at ratio of l6 to /. 1t was failure
and the address to the Democratic party
was published with no signatures, because
not enough were obtained to make respect.
able showing Bryan of Nebraska, and
Bland of Mo-, were the principals in the
movement. Another faction of silver men
composed largely if not entirely, of members
OF the B-Metallic League are now working
on scheme for the formation of national
party on single platform of the free coin
age of silver and for tho beginning of the
Presidential campaign at once by the nomi-
nation of national ticket.
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A portion of the force of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing are working night
and day to get the new bonds ready for de-.
livery.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
King is the richest man in the country.
His fortune has now reached the gigantic
figure of Sl45, 900, 900.