The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-03-02
WASUINGTOy LETTER.
from oar regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22na., 1895.

Whether Intentionally or not mat
4ers little. hut that President Cleve-
land hat, hy Il tex remarks made to
several gentlemen who called at the
White Honse to pay him their respects,
badly frightened the republican lead.
Ars III Congress is certain. The callers
in question were Represtntatiyes.esec
Smith and CorliSs of Michigan, and
Towne. Of Minnesota. After chatting
awhile the President Significantly said:
'sHow would you gentlemen like to
begin your CONGRESSIONAL duties as
early as March Is g'. They declared
they we're perfectly willing to wait
until December, and were told by the
President that conditions and not
personal considerations must deter
mine the time of the meeting Of Con
gress. Within an hour the yer
ton was known at the Capitol, and the
republican leaders in both Senate and
House had their heads together. Al
though they have piofessed indiffer-
ence, it is known that they dread an
extra session beyond everything. rs 1t
Will quickly demonstrate their inabill-
ty to legislate upo. financial subjects.
They have been hoping that the gold
received for the last issue Of bonds,
which they have SO loudly and hypo-
critically denounced. would enable
the Treasury to pull through without
an extra session aud that by next
December there would not be such
pressing need for legislation. This
scare is having one good effect. 1t is
making the republicans assist in push
ing the appropriation bills through,
because they have an idea that the
President would not object to Congress
forcing an extra session by failure to
pass them all.
The man who COLLECTS IS now in
his glory in both House and Senate.
He a block small legislation at will,
as unanimous consent is needed to get
action upon any bill not having the
right of way under the rules. There
is little probability of any more impor-
tant legislation, except the a%ppropria-
ton bills.
Senator Villas. Of Wisconsin,, who
made one of the greatest speeches of
his life-he spoke nearly four hours.-in
reply to the unjust aud anpatriotic
carping and in%sinuations of the repnb-
lican and popnlist Senators concerning
the C .ntract made by Secretary Car
Isle to st cure gold Tor bonds, refuted
in detail every l%nsiDuatinp that has
been made, and made it plain to every
uuprejudiced mind that Secretary |
Carlisle, acting in concert with Presi-
dent Cleveland. had availed himself
OF every possible means to make as
favorable IA bargain as possible and
that no one else could have secured
better terms from the men who con-
trOlled the gold wanted. Senator Al,
dricli. of Rhode Island, who persisted
in i%nterrupting Mr.. Villas to say direct
~. or to intimate that he could have
got the gold cheaper, was well answer
ed, and the answer applies to all the
other fault finders, when Mr.. Villas
said "If the Senator from Rhode |
Island. instead of standing here to carp
at a transaction already accomplished
and finished, had put himself at one
end OF the Atlantic cable, as the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury did, and with the
aid OF the greatest bankers of New
York. had cabled, as :le Secretary did. |
to every money market of the world
trying in every way possible to get a
reduction of the rate OF interest, he
would lave had a different opinion as
to the possibility of getting gold at
such a prlce he waited
There was no uncertain sound about
Secretary Carllsle's answer to the Sem
ate resolution of inquiry as to the ne.
cessity for legislation authorizing the
issue of Treasury certificates to meet
a deficit in the revenues, Which all of
the republicans and a few of the dem
Ocrats il Congress haze insisted would
have to be met. and which had even
been provided for in an amendment to
an appropriation bill. authorizing the
issue OF 5 per cent loan certificates to
the amoHnt of$lO0, 000, 900. Secretary
Carlisle SAID 1T is my opinion that |
the Secretary of the Treasury ought to
be permanently invested with author
lty to issue aud sell short time bonds |
or other obligations or the government
for the purpose OF raising money to |
meet such deficiencies in the ordinary
as may occur from time to time : but |
!, do not think that there is AIRY neces-
sity at the present time for the exer-
else of such authority, if it existed. 1t
is not probable that such deficiencies
will occur during the current fiscal
year as will exceed til. balance on
hand, and it is estimated that during
the next fiscal year the receipts will
exceed the expenditures surely that
ought to be sufficient to silence the
deficit cfoakeis.
The hlil for the unlimited coinage of |
silver did not reach ii vote in the Sen |