The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-01-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

AohiiNOlON ~. O.s JAIL. IL.
Drop all the administration in
fuence in the congressional slot
and see a currency bill passed is
the game of the hour. 1t does
not seem to make much difference
to those engaged in the game
what sort of a currency bill it is.
Every energy is bent towards
getting a bill passed. tits even
stated by friends of President
Cleveland that he will approve a
bill with an amendment provid-
ing for the coinage of the silver
seigniorage, and Senator Hill,
who is now helping the admins
tration in its efforts to pass a
bill, says that amendment will
carry the bill through the sen
ate. Senator Hill is a very
shrewd politician, and some of
his predictions, including that of
the late defeat of himself and his
party, have proven true, but
many think him rash in predict
ing what the senate will do with
a bill when neither he nor any
other man knows what sort of a
bill the house is going to send to
the senate, assuming that the
house will pass a currency bill,
which now seems probable, but
which the talk at today's Demo
cratic caucus did not make a GER
tainty. 1t is supposed, but is
not yet certain, that the house
will vote on the Carlisle currency
bill and the proposed amend
ments and substitutes the latter
part of this week or the first of
next, and the general expecta-
ton is that some kind of a cur
rency bill be passed, but Senator
Hill is the only man who has yet
predicted that any sort of a cur
rency bill would or could be pas
sed by the senate this session.
Representative Phillips, of Fa.,
is so certain that the labor com
mission proposed by his bill
would be beneficial to the coun-
try that he has offered to donate
$3.50, 900 of his own money to
pay the necessary expenses of
the commission. The bill is in
the hands of a special committee
of the house, which will grant
public hearings for and against
it, il it decides, that there is time
to act upon it at this session.
Senator Stewart had a some
what costly experience with
Chicago diplomates, who for a
number of years occupied his
house. locally known as ''Stew-
arts Castle" and that may have
made him doubtful of statments
made by those who follow dip
o
lomacy as a profession. At any
rate he introduced a 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 Jap
an, and, Notwithstanding the
statement of Senator 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 Secre-
tary of State. AS if to accentu-
ate his doubt Senator Stewart
said he was aware that Mr.. Eos
ter had publicly stated that he
had no official connection with
the U. S. Government.
Realizing that the money esti-
mated to come in from the in
come tax will be needed by the
government this year, those who
are seeking to Indirectly kill the
income tax by striking out the
appropriation to put it into effect
which is contained in the emer
gency appropriation bill passed
bv the house before the recess