Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
SENATE COMMITTEES.
REPUBLICANS MUST ASSUME THE
WHOLE RESPONSIBILITY.

WHOLE RESPONSIBILITY.
The Finance Committee VIII Tn.
doubleday Favor SiIver-OfficiaI
Delinquency will Not He Con.
doned In the Treasury Depart.
ment-The Income Tax Decision
Unsatisfactory.
Regular Correspondence Of the standard.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April l., 1895.
Democratic Senators are as a rule
in favor of the Republicans reorganiz.
ing the Senate committees and taking
the responsibility for legislation at the
next session Of Congress, but they dc
not favor the proposal which has been
informally made to ignore the righ. oi
Senator Morrill,, OF VT, to become
Chairman of the Finance Committee
in order to give that place TO Senator
/ Sherman. Senator Voorhees,, the
present chairman of that committee,
having said that he expected to turn
the committee over to Senator Morrill,
at the beginning OF the next session,
was asked is he thought Senator Nor
rill would relinquish his claim to the
Craftsmanship in order to give it to
Sherman. He replied: al certainly
do not. Why should he? He is as
vigorous as many younger men, and
any effort to displace him would be
shameful, after his many years of ser.
vice on the committee. | should per.
sonally resent a movement Of that
character"
So much has been said about what
the Finance Committee of the Senate
may do at the next session of Con-
gress that Senator Voorhees, diagnosis
of that committee is interesting as
well as valuable. He says: at is a
silver committee now, and it will con-
tinue to be silver committee regard.
less of the views of the addition which
the Republicans may make 10 it. Mr..
Mcpherson, Democrat, is the only
member of the committee as at pres
ent organized who will not be men,
Der of the next Congress, and he il
the only Democratic member who is
opposed to silver. The other five
Democratic members will, with Sena-
tor Jones, of Nevada, constitute a
quorum Of the committee, even if the
vacancy should be filled by the ap-
pointment OF an anti-silver Republi-
can, but if the silver Republicans
should succeed in getting one of their
own number on the committee the
silver majority will be just that much
more pronounced"
No official under the Treasury de-
partment who may hereafter get into
trouble through any sort of delinquency
or misconduct will be allowed to resign
Secretary Carlisle has issued an order
to all the chiefs of bureaux, that in
such cases recommendation for the re-
moval of the offending person must be
made to him. This may appear to be
a small matter, but it is really an i'm.
portant reform. 1t has been the
custom for many years to allow en-
ployes detected in some dishonorable
transaction to retire from office by the
resignation route, leaving nothing
upon the records to indicate that the
retirement has been under cloud,
and complaints have been made by
those who have afterwards lost money
by surprising these men to be honor
able because OF their department rec
ord. The record will in future show
these things as they really are.
Senator Lindsay, OF Kentucky, who
arrived in Washington this week, di
rect from home. where he has been
since the adjournment of Congress
says the Kentucky campaign appear.
to him to be up to this time more
talked about in Washington than in
Kentucky.
Hon. E. C. Wall. the Wisconsin
member of the National Democratic
committee, is in Washington. He ex
pressed himself as follows about the
calling of thtt silver convention b,
the Illinois Democracy: l don't see
what they are driving at or what gooc
can be accomplished by such action
1t occurs to me that it is premature
and unnecessary. Speaking for wha
I believe to be the sentiment OF the
Democratic party in Wisconsin, haV,
no hesitation in saying that the frs
silver craze has no following with us
and it is not probable that it will eve
have. Our people. and especially thu
German element, are dead set agains
all financial heresies."
Probably the busiest official il
Washington just now is Interna
Revenue Commissioner Miller, who i
engaged in making the instruction
for the collection Of the income ia!
conform to the decision OF the Supreme
Court. He has the benefit of the al
vice of President Cleveland and all tn
members of the cabinet, but it ia har,
task all the same.
II there was ever more unpOpula
decision OF the Supreme Court hande'
down than that declaring income
derived from rents and State an,
municipal bonds constitutionally ex
empt from Federal taxation, nobod
, in Washington remembers it. Tn
question of the constitutiOnality OF til
remainder OF the income tax was no
decided, the court standing 4 to 4 wit
Justice Jackson absent on account c
sickness. This leaves the decision G
the lower court, affirming the con
stitutionality of the law, in force, bu
it also leaves a cloud over the law tina
will remain until the question is dc
cided by the Supreme Court, with
full bench sitting. Dem.
House Moving Extraordinary.