Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-15
FOUND A MASTER.
The VICE PRESIDENT WILL NOT
TOLERATE DISORDER.

The senate Must Live Up TO L.
Rules-A Good story on Reed-Sen
tor BrIce Wants to FIy-The Sill
yer Plank Not Broad Enough fOl
Whole Democratic Platform, n
/ the Opinion of Some PrOmimen
/ Democrats.
/ Regular Correspondence of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, March |, 1894.
Vice President Stevenson is as mild
hammered a gentleman as ever presid
ed over the u. :. Senate, but he thil
week demonstrated to the Senate al
we'll as the public that there-is a wids
gulf between mildneSs and weakness
When the excitement. which has beer
marked feature in the Senate all tho
week, eliminated in the greatest up
roar ever remembered to have beer
seen on the floor of the Senate, brought
on by the attempt to prevent the Cor
man amendment, authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue three
per cent. loan certificates whenever
ready money was needed, being laid
before the Senate, he proved himself
equal to the occasion, by ordering the
Sergeant-at-arms to restore order, al.
though he must have seen from the
faces of the older Senators that he was
trampling upon tradition and dignity
by so doing. He even went further
by refusing to allow business to be re.
sumed until perfect order was re-
stored, and then to add force to the
object lesson in good manners that he
was giving to unrnly Senators he di.
rected the Sergeant-at-arms to insist
upon order being maintained and to
place a sufficient number OF assistants
upon the floor to enforce the order
Then when you might have heard a
pin drop, the Vice President calmly
said: "The Senator from Maryland
will now proceed" Afterwards the
German amendment was withdrawn to
prevent the Sundry Civil appropria
ton bill being talked to death.
1t will not be positively known un.
til the fifty-third Congress dies by
limitation, next Monday, whether
failure of one or more appropriation
bills will force the calling of an early
extra session. There is little doubt
that the appropriation bills can be put
through in time by hard work, but
there are several pending amend.
ments-anong them that repeating
all laws for the issue of bonds-either
OF which will bring out a Presidential
veto, if they are not dropped.
New stories of the reign of Car
Reed over the House are scarce, but
Representative Grain, of Texas, tells
one that is new, at least in Washing
ton. He says the following conversa-
ton occurred in one of the House
galleries while Mr.. Reed was speaker
between precOcious boy and his
father who had brought him to the
Capitol to see Congress: Boy" Who
are all those men down there, writing
and reading newspapers?" Father
"Those are the Speakers of the House
of Representatives, my son." Boy
"Who is that great big fat man in the
chair under the American flag"
Father" That, my son. is the House
OF Representatives."
Senator Brice has been numerically
guyed for attempting to secure an ap-
preparation from Congress of $l00,OO
for experimenting in aerial machines,
but the Senator insists that the wheels
in his head haven't slipped any cogs,
and further that the government
ought to assist in Fastening the era oil
aerial navigation, which is bound to
come sooner or later.
Representative Bailey, OF Texas, is
rs good silver man as Representative
Bryan, of Nebraska, but he declines
to sign the letter addressed to the
public, which Mr.. Bryan is circulating
among Democratic members, and he
gives his reasons for declining as
follows: Organs idea leans more to
what is expedient and further from
what is Democratic than l want to go.
1t is his desire to pronounce solely for
free silver 16 to and stop. Not a
word of tariff, nothing OF state banks.
No announcement of any further
principles OF government which should
guide a party. A party cannot sue
ceed with naught but silver. Man
cannot live by bread alone. Bryan's
idea is practically only for one day.
He believes in fusing all the silver
forces: Democratic, Republican and
Populist. believe in being a Demo
crat and in having party of Demo
Gratis. If Populist and Republicans
aiming at free silver can act with u.s.
I would be among the first to welcome
them. But l cannot surrender my
party's faith to gain temporary aid.
1t might do for the present, but would
waste the party and wreck the coun-
try in the future. l look on Populism
as an equal public threat with Repub
lican doctrines which carried to their
ultimate working out and few men
would own all the property Of the
country, and the rest would be beggars
Garry Populism to its utmost expires.
sion and nobody would have any
property at all. I'm against both"
The House has had time to kill thi.
week, while waiting for the Senate tc
act on the appropriation bills. II
passed the bill authorizing an arbitra
ton commission to settle disputes be
tween interstate common carriers and
their employees and number of un.