The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-01-25
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL
Y TASIIINGTON, D. c., Jan.
Nkx 18th, 1S95--The silver men
" in congress are masters of

" i'll congress are masters of
the financial situation to the extent of
being able to prevent legislation they
do not want, but there is little proba-
bility of their power extending any
further: hence, the certainty that there
Will be no financial legislation at this
session. There is scheme on foot to
let the whole question rest until few
days before the close of the session
and then to attempt to rush the bill
through the house and the senate
authorizing the issue of bonds at the
discretion of the secretary of the treas
ury. This scheme is the result Of IL
combination of those democrats and
republicans who think nearly alike
upon financial questions, and will, us
matter of course, be opposed by the
silver men.
Somebody was either very shrewd OF
very careless. 1t has just become
known that clause in the bill regula-
ting the publication and distribution
of public documents, known before
congress as the printing bill," which
this week received tile presidents
signature and went into affect as a
law partially revives the franklng
priviledge. The Vice president and
members and members-elect Of cong
ress being allOwe to frank letters not
exceeding one ounce in weight. Not
a word WAS said about this clause
when the bill was before the houae Or
senate, and every senator o. represen-
tative whose attention has been called
to it processes ignorance of its having
been i'll the bill, but it is not likely
that any of them Will Oh that account
fail to take advantage Of it.
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Senator Morgan made speech at
the seventy-eigth annual meeting of
the American Colonization Society
that has attracted considerable atten-
ton, in view of his position in Ala
bama, where many have insisted that
the negro labOrors were a necessity.
Senator Morgan advanced the opinion
in his speech that the most beneficial
s 'lution of the negro problem, SO far
as the negro himself is concerned, is
to lie found i'll their emigration to
Africa, which lie declared to be the
richest country, III resources, Oh the
face Of the earth. The Senator urged
the formation by negroes of line of
steamships to run between Charleston
or New Orleans and Africa, and
pledged himself If that were done to
secure commercial treaties will, Siberia
and the Free Congo State allowing
free trade between them and the
United States.
1t is said that more Pullman ca1
passes have been distributed in Con-
gress during the present session than
| ever before. 1t is not surprising that
people should connect this liberality
with the proposal to put Legislative
| restrictions on the charges made by
sleeping and parlor car companies; also
with the failure to push those proposed
legislative restrictions.
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| If Senator German is correct ir
saying that only oLce in the history OF
the senate has bill having a majority
in its favor-in 1850, when Robert
Tombs, of Georgia, defeated an appro
priatiOn bill by holding the foo
during the last two hours of the sea
slon-been defeated by failure to reacI
| Il vote on it, some mistakes have beer
made by those who have assumed to sa,
in advance how all the senators woult
vote. Measures have certainly failet
to reach vote which were supposed
by the public to be favored by major
ity; but. of course, Senator Gormar
ought to know more about it than tn,
public.
The House judiciary cnmmitte ha
decided by a vote Off to to repor
a resolution of impeachment agains
Judge Kicks, of Ohio. The seve
, votes for impeachment were all cas-
10y democrats. except one, Represents
tive Updegraff, of Iowa, who is a REP
ublican, and the six votes against in
parchment were all cast by republican,
except that Of Representative Goot
night. of Kentucky, who is democra
Representative Baily. of Texas, WI
draw up the resolution of impeael
ment.
1t begins to look as if the Nicaragr
canal bill is dead SO far as this sessiC
of congress is concerned. The bill Iii