Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-03-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Last of Luckless Congress Failure
of the Silver Scheme.
From our regular correspondent

/ There's q anath at hand,
But stead of the fuucraf bell,
1 There's joyful shout all over the land:
I lis eli, las we'll
/ If the adage "only speak we'll OF the
dead" were literally followed 1t would be
! impossible to speak at all OF the ooa
I Congress, which drew its last gasp at
noon today About the best that can be
said of the defunct Congress is that 1t did
not do all the harm it might have done,
and the democratic majority should re-
eeive no credit for that, as their inten-
| tions were to do all the harm possible,
and il was only by the alertness OF the
republicans that they were prevented
from carrying them all out.
About the only mourners in the con-
gressional house of death are the ex-
members who know that their pubic
careers are ended for good and all, and the
capitol employees who only receive pay
while Congress is in session.
Ex-Speaker Reed uttered few words
| while the House WAS discussing under
a suspension of he rules bill appropria-
ting ST. 800 to reimburse Washington ana
Lee university, of Virginia, for injuries
sustained during the war, which were as
sound in principle as the foundation OF
common law. After protesting against
the bill being considered on sentimental
grounds instead of the grounds of reason
and wisdom, Mr.. Reed said: Nv hoover
proyokes war must take The consequences,
even of lawlessness, which destroys III
situations OF learning. No nation can
afford To adopt the doctrine that all in
iuries to such institutions shall be paid
after the war Is over.
Ex-senator Henderson the lex WAS
attached at noon to-day-tried TO ac-
eomplish what would have been real
reform Just before completing his sena-
torial career He failed, but that should
not prevent his receiving due credit for
having made the attempt. Senator Man
derson offered an amendment to the gen
eral deficiency appropriation bill, provld-
ing that the wives and daughters Of SEN
ators and representatives should not be
borne on the rolls as clerks, but the
Senate promptly laid it on the table, and
the wives and daugh ters of certain sena-
tors and representatives will continue to
draw 800 month for work which, with
rare exceptions, they do not perform, and
people elsew here will continue to wonder
why it is SO difficult to get Washington
jury to convict those who rob the govern
ment Senator Manderson's amendment
should have become law. and its provls-
tod ~
sons as well as the wives and daughters;
also newspaper correspondents, ana to
embrace all government employment.
Senator Morgan wasn't mealy- mouthed
about he reported intention OF the Brit
ish government to pay the damages al
lowed by Secretary Gresham 10 CaAad ian
sealers in Bering Sea. He said in speech
in the Senate: Sir George Baden Powell
says hat they want to pay the Canadians
and the recalcitrant and rascailN Amerl-
cans who hired themselves out undsr the
British flag to rob the government II he
United States, V olate its laws, and DIS
honor the eouutry-and to pay them
/ in advance, so a. to have a moral claim
against the United States for this s425.000,
. SAN ny. propose that he committee
54} sr=it9 relations snail inv-e isate
/ .hAt inat.e- There has ben enough If
f=t4-ea5od an misrepfe-eataz 54sE 4he+It
MS n otfrl.l documents and iii tine
ne.l =; a aers to require, for he vindieation
of the honor OF the country, that this in
vest igation shall be made. Mr.. Morgan
al :.
and knows thi. subject thoroughly.
The silver programme, which Was TO
commit the democratic party To free
coinage at a ratio Of 16 to /, sizzled out
without max ing as much blaze parlor
match would have done. The scheme
! had its origin in the fertile brain Of Mr..
Bland, of Montana, who to-day retired
TO private life, involuntarily, after long
career as member of the House. Mr.
Bland very shrewdly allowed Mr.. Bryan
of Nebraska. anot her gentleman who was
dropped from Uncle Sans pay roll to-
day, to take the management of the
affair and to circulate the manifesto
which was intended to force Mr.. Cieve-
land and the other gold bugs out OF
the deuOtTdt4C party MS 9ooi a. IL Aae
been signed by nine-tenths of the demo
Gratis in Congress.
The manifesto might have had that
effect had all the expected signers mate
rallied, but they didn't. In fact so few
democrats signed the manifesto that none
of the signers' names We're made public
with the manifesto. The other scheme
l., k,1r = 10 y,
tallic league with democratic proelivities
to start a silver party and put up at once
Presidential ticket, is still in the incu-
bator, with the chances against its being
Matched out in healthy condition.
It's Dangerous Ground
that you stand on-with cough cold, ant
your blood impure. Out of just these conditions