The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-16
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WASHINGTON LETTER.

during the present session OF congress
that President Cleveland did not want
any financial legislation. unless 1t met
his own ideas entirely. Now it isn't
limited, IL is plainly spoken that he dses
not. Since the sending OF his special
message TO congress, announcing that
he had negotiated the ale OF S62, 400, 900
in thirtyyear -four per cent bonds, AT d
cent, and giving congress the option OF
authorizing within ten days an issue of
5 per cent gold bonds, which he says the
purchasers will take in preferences to
33i per cent coin bonds, there has not
been the slightest doubt about his post
tion. lie wants gods bond and nothing
else. All talk about the president meet
ing the silver men half way in some com
promise measure is now ended and the
! Issue Squarely made, gold bonds or moth
ing. IL will be nothing. NotwIthstand-
ing Mr.. CIev Glands statement that gold
bonds would save the government SlG,-
900, 600 IN the interest on these thirty
year bonds, no gold bond bills can pos
sibly become law. The silver men do
not regard this as a question of interest,
but OF principle, involving values be-
side which SIG, 900, 900 would be a mere
bagatelle, and as they absolutely con-
troll the senate, they will kill any gold
bond bill, even II the house does not, and
besides, they may do some plain talking
about the president selling bonds to
private foreign syndicate which bear
| 3% per cent interest when he could
easily have sold Il per cent bond at
home, thus, as they claim, wasting SIG
600, 900,
The impossible task Of getting a
thrty-year three per cent gold bond
through the house has been assigned to
Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the ways and
means committee, and he dis
covered as soon as he called the com
mittee together, IL he did not know il
before. that IL would be no small task to
house. The republicans and popuists
all oppose it and more than half OF the
democrats.
Few people knew, NATL the senate de-
clined to receive the petition asking for
legislation looking towards international
arbitration, which was signed by 1876
mem ers OF the British parliament and
brought 20 Washington by one OF them,
Mr.. Cremer, that there was rule against
receiving petitions from aliens, except
through the minister or other official
representative of the country in which
the signers reside, and then it must be
presented TO the secretary OF state and
not directly to- congress. 1t can readily
be seen that il is good rule, too. !
or far more direct interest to the peo-
Pile of the United States than the Near
aqua canal scheme, is the canal scheme
Ia Il senate amendment to the
snndry civil appropriation bill. This
authorizes the president to
appoint a commission OF three persons
TO confer with like commission to be-
named 10y Great Britain and Canada on
the feasibility OF building such canals as
viii enable vessels engaged in ocean
to pass TO and fro between the
great lakes and the Atlantic ocean with
an adequate and comfortable supply OF
water at all times.
Whether the senate will take up and
pass the railroad pooling bill, is still a
matter OF doubt with the chances some
what against the bill. A member OF the
OF Indiana--s responsible
for the following language: "rhe senate
can do this country a service by not TAX
Ing up the pool bill. That measure was
lobbied through the house by the liberal
use OF railroad passes and generous
employment of railroad attorneys, and
deserves to be killed In the senate"
The Hawaiian cable amendment to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill went through the senate easily, 1--WE
democrats voting with the republicans
and popuists for IL, and one republican
-Pcttigrcw---witht the democrats against
1t. 1t authorizes the president to make
u contract for laying the cable and APP
propriates 100000 to begin the work.
There are just three weeks remaining
OF this session of congress and six OF the
regular appropriation bills arc yet to be
acted upon by the senate. This Of itself
would be sufficient to make the fate OF
all other legislation doubtful; but In adj
dition. republican senators are now
openly saying that 1t is their intention
to block any legislation OF Importance
except the appropriation bills. Senators
do not always mean what they say about
their intentions, but there are numerous
indications that this time they do, and |
II they do they certainly have the power
TO do so.
Washington was for time cut off |
from ~" ,">' ~ III" world on account OF
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