The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-02-15
Prom our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, February n.

Neither rreSlOent Cleveland nor
Secretary Carlisle was surprised at the
action of the House on the financial
bill. They were kept thoroughly
posted on the sentiment of the demo
Gratis Of the House, but there was an
element of doubt as to how the re.
publicans would vote, even after ex-
speaker and Presidential candidate
Reed made his great combination bid
for the support of the silver men of
the west and the gold men of the east,
by offering substitute, which ne was
pleased to call partisan com.
promise, and to close his speech advo.
eating it by asking the following
Solomon-like questions -" Now, why
is not that the solution of our problem,
without raising vexed questions Which
we know cannot be solved ? Why is
it not a practical solution of our
i1ouble1 Why is it not suitable in
every wayp" The lack Of egotlsm and
gall will never keep that man Reed
out of anything. Nobody ever knew
until he made that speech that he had
in addition to his great literary and
parliamentary accomplishments found
time to completely master the COM
plicatel science of finance, and the
House refused to believe it even after
he said so.
Some Senators mot all of them
republicans, either-were much disap
pointed at Secretary Carlisle's answer
to the Senate resolution, asking
whether there would be deficiency
in the estimated revenues of the
government for the year ending DE
cember 81, 1895. Secretary Carlisle's
answer was plain and fiatfooted-there
will be comfortable surplus in the
Treasury at the end of the year. Some
of the republicans are still saying that
it is the lack ofrevenue that is causing
the depletion of the gold In the
Treasury probably following the
rascally political axiom ga lie well
stuck to is as good as the truth"
The Senate can act quick enough
when so disposed. An instance of
this promptness was given when the
ratification of the Japanese treaty
was re-consldered and the treaty
amended in accordance with Secretary
Gresham's request. The Senate had
amended the treaty so as to give either
nation the right to aorogate it after
one years notice. The Japanese
Minister said his country would OBJ.
ject to that clause, because it gave
this country an opportunity, if SO dis.
posed, to abrogate the treaty before
1t was even put into operation. The
treaty does not 60 into effect until
1899. Secretary Gresham and the
Senators thought the objection well
founded hence the last amendment,
which gives either country the right
to abrogate the treaty by one years
notice, after the treaty has gone into
operation,
The subcommittee of the Senate
which is in charge of the Indian ap-
preparation bill has had no end Of
trouble about appropriations for
sectarian schools. The Catholics
claimed that the Lincoln Institute at
Philadelphia, and the Hampton Insti-
tnte at Hampton, Va, for both of
which specific appropriations were
made by the bill as it passed the
House, are sectarian schools, one
Ep'scopalian and the other Congrega-
tional, and asked that specific appro-
priations for some of their schools be
added to the bill. The subcommittee
settled the matter by striking out all
specific appropriations for denomina
tional schools, and leaving the ques-
ton of sending Indian children to any
OF them discretionary with the Secre
taIy of the Interior In other words,
Tor him to spend the money appropri
ated for the education Of the Indians
as he may think best.
More Hawaii 1t seems to be
veritable old man of the sea saddled
upon the back of Congress, and it is
certainly becoming tiresome. This
time the amendment to the diplomat
&c and consular appropriation bill
authorizing the President to enter in
to contract for the laying of cable
to Honolulu was text upon which the
Hawamaniacs preached, but they by
no means confined themselves to the
text. The whole field had to be gone
over, including Lil's abdication to
save her head.
President Cleveland promptly nomi-
mated Gen. Schofeld to be It. Gener-
al. on the same day that he signed
The bill restoring that grade to the
army. General Schoheld, who is
deservedly popular, is being over
whelmed with congratulations.
One of the bills pending in Con
gress that is almost certain to become
lawis that providing for the retire.