The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-04-19
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April IS, 1895.

the responsibility for legislation at the
next session of Congress, but they do
not favor the proposal which has been
informally made to ignore the right Of
Senator Morrill,, of VT, to become
chairman of the Finance committee
in order to give that place to Senator
Sherman. Senator Voorhees,. the pre-
sent 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 if he thought Senator
Morrill, would relinquish his claim to
the chairmanship in order to give it to
Sherman. He replied 81 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
service on the committee. l should
personally 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, diagno-
sis of that committee is interesting as
well as valuable. He says: eft 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 to it. Mr..
Mcpherson, democrat, is the only
member of the committee as at pre-
sent organized who will not be a men,
Der of the next Congress, and he is
the only democratic member who is
opposed to silver. The other FIVE
democratic members will, with Sena-
tor Jones, of Nevada, constitute
quorum of the committee, even if the
vacancy should be filled by the APP
pointmeut cf an anti.silver republican,
but if the silver republican 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 delinquin.
cy 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 removal of the offending per-
son must be made to him. This may
appear TO be small matter, but it is
really an important reform. 1t has
been the custom for many years to
allow employees detected in some dis
honorable 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 supposing these men to
be honorable because of their depart.
ment record. The record will in fut-
ure 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 appears
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 that silver convention by
the Illinois democracy this summer to
consider the silver question II don't
see what they are driving at or what
good can be accomplished by such
action. 1t occurs to me that it is
premature and unnecessary. Speak
ing for what believe to be the senti
ment of the democratic party in Wis
consln, have no hesitation in saying
that the first silver craze has no follow
ing with us, and it is not probable that
it will ever have. Our people, and
the German element, are
dead set against all financial heresies."
Probably the busiest official in
just now is Internal
Revenue Commissioner Miller, who
is engaged in making the instructions
for the collection of the income tax
conform to the decision OF the Su-
preme Court. He has the benefit of
the advice of President Cleveland and
all the members of the cabinet, but it
is hard task all the same.
If there was ever more unpopular
decision of the Supreme Court hand
ed down than that declaring incomes
derived from rents and state and
bonds constitutionally ex-
empt from Federal taxation nobody in
Washington remembers it. The ques-
lion of the constitutionality of the re.
of the income tax was not
decided, the court standing 4 to with
Justice Jackson absent on account of
sickness. This leaves the decision of