Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-05-30
i DOINGS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, May p. 1925.

Washington, May "a, 1925.
Senator Palmer. OF Illinois, is in
Washington. The principal purpose
of his visit being to inform Mr.. Cleve-
land of the total collapse of the al
ministration campaign against free
silver in that state, which was inaug-
ursted by Mr.. Cleveland's letter TO
that alleged non-partisan chicago
committee. Incidentally Senator
Palmer took occasion to express his
opinion of two prominent Illinois de-
mocrats he accuses of straddling the
silver question, in the following lam
guage: Nobody expected anything
else of Vice President Stevenson, be-
cause it is well known that if auv
question has two sides to it Stevenson
will have no opinion on it. Bill Nor
rison, however, is not usually so
modest, and his position in the be-
ginning was rather surprising, all
| though think, as affairs are shaping
themselves, he was wise in taking a
conservative and non-committa, posi-
ton. 1t will give him more influence
when the fighting begins, if it eyer
does.n Speaking of the coming demo-
cratic convention in Illinois. senator
Palmer made these paradoxial remarks
The convention was called for tue
purpose of endorsing free silver. and
the programme will be carried out to
the letter. There will be a large
amount of superfious enthusiasm, Of
the manufactured kind; but it will
, count nothing. The silver craze is
subsiding, and it viii continue to sub
side. -
Mr.. Cleveland's reports from Kan
lucky are no more encouraging than
those from Illinois. A prominent
administration democrat who has Just
returned from Kentucky. where he
went for the purpose of inve stig ting
the free silver strength among the
democrats, says there isn't the slight
est doubt of the failure of Secretary
Carlisle to stem the silver flood in the
party, and that he regards the adop-
ton of a 16 to free coinage platform
by the state convention:as certainty
He says also that it would not sur
prise him to see the republicans elect
a majority of the legislature and sue
cessor to Senator Blackburn. ii the
administration can control en- ,ugh
votes to prevent. Blackburn will not
be reelected, even should the demo-
Gratis succeed in retaining control of
the legislature.
The administration is now pinning
its hopes to the effect of the Mem Oh
''Sound Money" convention, held
this week, upon the southern demo-
Gratis, but it remains to be seen wheth-
er these hopes are not of the sam
soap bubble kind as those recently
held concerning the defeat of the
silver democrats in Illi-
nois and Kentucky.
Appropriations are to be withheld
whenever possible, in order to pre-
vent the calling of an extra session of
Congress, which Mr.. Clevelanl ack-
nowledges himself to be afraid Of At
the last session ofCongress 5000, 900
was appropriated to pay deferred
sugar bounties. Not one cent OF his
money has been paid out, AMI there
is little probability that it will be for
some time. 1t is thesame with mum ar-
Gus other appropriations.
The annulment of the income tax by
the decision of the Supreme Court has
added to the certainty that the next
congress will be called upon to provide
for additional revenue, in order to fur
nish the money to meet the enorm )us
deficit which will exist at the close Of
the present fiscal year and to prevent
similar deficit during the next fiscal
year. A number of ways to do this
have already been suggested, but it
would not be surprising if the repub-
licans in congress decide that the best
way to raise the money and at the
same time boom American industries
Will be to raise the tariff duties upon
all articles competing with the pro-
ducts OF the United States. That the
administration fears this course will be
| taken is shown by the assertions of its
friends that MIR. Cleveland will never
sign bill increasing the tariff duties.
sOf course they are bluffing, and the
bluff will probably be kept up to the
last minute TOR the purpose of influence
ing the extent to which duties might
be raised, but the administration is
bound to have more money and it can
not get it without Congress. II is
probable that Mr., Cleveland will sign
any revenue bill that passes Congress
although he would do so very unwill-
ingly if it carried a raise, however
slight, of tariff duties. He will have
his hands full to pull the government
through without having to call an ex-
ira session, and by the time the regular
session meets he will be glad to ac-
cept almost anything that promises
to raise the money needed for the ex-
penses of the government,
Justice jackson WASH the umpire.
after all, in that income tax game, al
though everybody, himself included,
thought he would be when the rehear-
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