The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-02-28
ONE MORE
Congress Far Behind With the Appro.
priation Bills.
International Monetary Conference Look
ing to the Enlarged Use of silver ~
Money Favored by senators-silver
Men Ridicule Such an Idea.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-If all the ap-
preparations are to be passed by this
congress business will have to be
rushed faster the coming week than
has been the case before fer years.
Not within recent memory has there
been SO formidable an accumulation of
unavoidable work in the closing days
of session. and that, too, in spite of
the fact that congress has been david
ling for two years in almost continu-
Gus session.
The most important of the appropri-
alton bills have not been passed. The
sundry civil bill, containing provisions
for carrying on greater variety of
public enterprises than almost all the
other bills put together, has not yet
been touched, although, in addition to
the usual provisions, there are clauses
which relate to the finances, and
which, under ordinary conditions,
would call for days of debate.
If the consideration of this bill is to
occupy its proportionate time, as COM
pared with the unimportant Indian
bill, which took up four days of the
week just passed, the 4th of March will
cut it through in the middle.
There are other bills, including the
naval bill, which will call for the most
careful consideration. The diplomatic
bill, containing the appropriation for
the Hawaiian cable, is still a bone of
contention between the two branches
of congress and there is no indication
that it will be any nearer harmonious
settlement week from now. The
week will be marked by tremendous
pressure and there will be many lively
encounters
The action of the senate Saturday in
shutting out the pooling bill deter
mines the programme for the remain
der of the session. The pooling bill
has more powerful friends than any
other measure of general legislation
before the senate, and if it is unable to
muster more than a third of the senate
in opposition to comparatively unim-
portant appropriation bill, no other
measure stands any chance among the
essential appropriations which still re-
main to be considered.
The only case in which the senate
may allow change in this programme
is in that bill-or the resolution intro
duced Saturday by Senator Wolcott,
authorizing the president to accept any
invitation which may be extended by
any other nation to attend an interna-
tional monetary conference.
Every member of the senate so far
as known is in favor of an internation-
al conference, if there seem to be the
slightest possibility of action by such
meeting, looking to the enlarged use
no opposition therefore to letting the
| resolution come to a vote.
The significance of the resolution Of
fered at this time is that it comes from
a radical free-silver senator. The
friends of free silver have been in
clined to sneer at those who advocated
an international agreement. but who
refused to vote effectually for bimetal-
lism.
They ridiculed the possibility of an
international agreement, and described
it as an ignis fatus behind which pro-
fessed friends of bimetallism were
trailing into the morass of a single
gold standard. But the developments
of the last fortnight in Germany and
England have changed the sentiment
of Senator Wolcott and those who think
with him.
They now look forward with consid-
erable hope to the possibility of action
by Germany, at least, in the way of in
ternational arrangement, and there is
strong feeling that the United States
may join with Germany, France and
other silver using countries in reci-
procal treaties which will take no ac-
count of the position of England.
Not much reliance is placed on the
movement in the English parliament
for bimetallism, but is thought that a
general understanding among other
nations may in time bring Great Brit.
ain to q realization of the force of the
silver sentiment as to give the bimet.
allists there the superiority.
TERRIBLY TORTURED,