The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-06-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Senator Palmer, of Illinois, is in
Washington. The principal purpose of
his visit being to inform Mr.. Cleveland |
Of the total collapse Of the administra-
tion campaign against free silver in that
State, which was inaugurated by Mr.. |
Cleveland's letter to the alleged non.
partisan Chicago committee. Incident.
ally Senator Palmer took occasion to ex.
press his opinion of two prominent Illi.
nois Democrats he accuses of straddling
the silver question, in the following
language "Nobody expected anything
else of Vice President Stevenson be.
cause it is we'll known that if any ques-
ton has two sides to it Stevenson will
have no opinion on it. Bill Morrison.
however, 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 committal
position. 1t will give him more influence
when the real fighting begins, if it ever
does. Speaking of the coming Demo.
cratic convention in Illinois, Senator
Palmer made these psradoxical remarks
1.-THE convention was called for the pur-
pose of endorsing free silver, and the
programme will be carried out to the
letter. There will be large amount of
superhuous enthusiasm, of the manufac.
tured kind, but it will count for nothing.
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 ad.
ministrstion Democrat who has just re.
turned from Kentucky, where he went
for the purpose Of investigating the free
silver strength among the Democrats,
says 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 convention
as certainty. He says also that it
would not surprise him to see the Re.
publicans elect a majority to the legisla.
ture and a successor to Senator Black.
burn. If the administration can control
enough votes to prevent, Blackburn will
not be reelected, even should the Demo.
Gratis succeed in retaining control of the
legislature.
The administration is now pinning it's
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 bnbble
kind as those recently held concerning
the defeat OF the silver Democrats in
Illinois and Kentucky.
Appropriations are to be withheld
whenever possible, in order to prevent
the calling of an extra session of Con-
gress, which Mr.. Cleveland acknowl-
edges himself to be afraid Of At the
last session of Congress $5,OOO,OOO was
appropriated to pay deferred sugar boun-
ties. Not one cent of this money has
been paid out, and there is little proba.
bility that it will be fYr some time. 1t
is the came with numerous 9th ar appro.
priatiops.
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 ol
the present fiscal year and to prevent 9
similar deficit during the next fiscal year
A number of ways to do this have al
eady been suggested, but it will not be
surprising if the Republicans in Con
gress decide that the best way to raise
the money and at the same time boom
American industries will be to raise the
tariff duties upon all articles competing
with the products Of the United States
That the administration fears this course
will be taken is shown by the assertions
of its friends that Mr.. Cleveland viii
never sign bill increasing the tariff
duties. OF course they are bluffing, anG
the bluff will probably be kept up to the
last minute for the purpose of influenc
ing the extent to which duties might be
raised, but the administration is bounG
to have more money and it cannot get il
without Congress. 1t is probable thai
Mr.. Cleveland will sign any revenue bill
that passes Congress, although he would
do SO very unwillingly if it carried {
raise, however slight, of tariff duti ss
He will have his hands full to pull the
government through without having tc
call an extra session, and by the time
the regular session meets he will be glad
to accept almost anything that promises
to raise the money needed for the ex
penses OF the government.