Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-03-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Is''S1t>L I,tIsseoSOESCE OF THE MONITOR i
WASHINGTON. Feb. .25 1895.

companions and got a ducking from
them He thought the republicans
in Congress would be frightened out
of their wits when he trotted out his
extra session ghost. Well, the extra
session ghost was duly trOtted out,
Mr. Cleveland having caused his
friends to give it out as coming
straight from him, that if the Hawaii
an cable amendment was not struck
from the Diplomatic and Consular APP
preparation bill, he would veto the bill;
that if the Mills amendment to the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, re-
pealing all laws for the issue of bonds
or any other financial amendment OBJ
jectionable to him was put upon that
or any other bill he would veto it, and
that he had almost made up his mind
to call an extra session anyway. In
stead of being frightened at the pros
pect, Senator Chandler, speaking for
his republican colleagues, said that an
extra session ought to be called any
way, so that Congress might have an
opportunity to investigate that re-
markable bond contract, negotiated
by Mr.. Cleveland's former law part
ner, which gave European syndicate
an immediate profit Of 100000 on
an investment of about $65, 900 600,
not to mention interest $16,000,0 600 in
excess of what is paid by bonds issued
by even such insignificant countries
L hot
please the republicans more than to
have it called early.
1t is more than doubtful whether
Mr.. Cleveland ever really wished that
Congress would do or leave something
undone to make an extra session nee
essary, and it is certain that his
wishes have been directly contrary
since Senator Chambers plain speech.
He realizes that with the present state
of feeling against him an early extra
session, with the House overwhelm-
ingly republican and the Senate anti
Cleveland, might result in his i'm
parchment, and if an extra session
will have to be called he would like
to put it off as long as possible, to
give the people chance to forget this
disgraceful bond contract.
There will be some very interesting
debate in the Senate this week upon
the numerous financial amendments
to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
among which are the German amend
ment authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue per cent loan cer
tificates to meet the deficit, which |
Secretary Carlisle insists will not |
exist the Mills amendment repeating
all laws for the issue of bonds ; the
Wolcott amendment authorizing the
President upon the request of one or
more European nations to appoint
three commissioners to an interna-
tional monetary conference, the
House and Senate each to designate a
like number, and the amendment
providing for the payment of the I'M
paid sugar bounty on the crop of 1898
and for the payment of eight-tenths
of one cent pound on the crop of
1894. If the Mills amendment isn't
dOOPGOd ~ Will OOCctu0O LILO LOPuO
licans will not allow it to be, notwith
standing the betrayal of the trust
which inspired the offering of the
amendment.
The one democratic Congressman
who can look back upon his record in
the present House with pride is Gen.
Daniel E. Sickles of New York. He
has by his voice and his vote proven
that man may call himself a demo-
crat and still be a patriotic American
in every sense of the word. He has
been too good patriot to follow his
party leaders in their i'll treatment of
American industries and of his old
comrades in arms or in the endorse
ment of the shameful Hawaiian policy
of the administration. After the fourth
of March he will retire to private life,
and he will carry with him the good
wishes of all true patriots.
Hon. Chester I. Long, the man who
defeated Jerry Simpson for Congress,
is spending his honeymoon in Wash
ington and is regular in his attendance
upon the sittings of the House. He
says he wishes to familiarize himself
with the routine of his future duties
When Mr.. Cleveland nominated
Senator Ransom to be minister to
Mexico he disappointed many mem
bers of the soon to be ''exfamily." AS
usual when Senators are nominated
for other offices Mr.. Ransom's nomi-
nation was confirmed without the
formality of committee reference.
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