Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-11-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL ooRREstosDENcE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Nou. IS, 1895.


the assembling of congress only two
weeks off, but it isn't. In the years
when a new congress assemblies Wash
ington is usually in turmoil for sew
eral weeks before congress meets, ow
ing to the campaign for the nomina-
ton of Speaker Of the House. This
year there is no speakership cam
paign. 1t was settled when the votes
cast at the congressional election, last
November, were counted that Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, should
again be speaker of the House. There
remains only the minor Offices of the
House to be determined upon, and al
though the friends OF the several gen
tlemen who are candidates for each
of those offices are greatly interested,
there is no national interest felt in
the good natured contest they are
waging. So it is easy to understand
why so few members of the House are
in town and why everything is so quiz
ct.
Senator Baker, of Kansas, wishing
to familiarize himself a little with
Washington life and surroundings be-
fore entering upon his senatorial ca
reer, has dropped in a couple of weeks
ahead of time. Although not dispos-
ed to push them forward, Senator Ba-
ker has opinions of his own, land, when
asked. does not hesitate to express
no hn fhnnOht
the republicans ought to do at the
coming session of congress, he said:
s'The most important question will be
to provide the government the mon
ey it needs to pay its expenses. see
only two ways in which it can be done.
One is to increase the duty on a num-
Der of articles which, like wool, for
instance, are now admitted free, or
upon which the duty was radically
lowered by the democratic tariff law.
/ think we should give the president
an opportunity to act upon bill OF
this sort, although do not believe he
will sign anything we send him. That
method of raising revenue failing, the
next thing to do would be to repeal
the law under which he claims author
ity to issue bonds in denominations OF
$50 and 800, which ought to be made
legal tender and to draw about two
per cent interest. These bonds would
be taken up by the people with great
rapidity and held, but their legal ten
der quality would make them availa-
BILE for the payment Of debts. 1t might
be claimed that this would be an in
f1ation of the currency, but certainly
no harm would result, even If some Of
the bonds passed as money"
Here is a nut for the free trade dem
ocrats to crack. Senator German fur
nished it, when in the course OF an
explanation of why the republicans
carried Maryland, he said: ''The fact
is that the protection sentiment IN
the state has largely increased. In
my own county, for example, we
have a number of WOODEN mills. I'm
til very recently they have been run
upon a rough and cheap class of
goods. In the last two or three years,
however, they have undertaken
higher grade of work, and in order to
do it they have been obliged to i'm
port large number Of skilled labor
ers from Massachusetts and other
New England states. Most of these
men are republicans. A like condition
exists in other counties. There has
been a change, too, among democrats
who are naturally inclined toward
protection. and who believe that re-
publican supremacy will more certain
ly insure a permanent protective pol
lev. There is no question that the
protection sentiment among all class
es is now very strong, and many who
believe in the doctrine have been dis
gusted by the business depression of
the last two years. Naturally they
turn to the party which is not in pow
er for relief, especially lin view of the
fact that that party has consistent
protection record"
Indications of another bond issue IN
the very near future are daily becom-
ing more numerous, and if the demand
upon the Treasury for gold continues,
it may take place before congress
meets, although tits supposed that
Mr.. Cleveland would prefer putting it
off until after congress meets, so as to
make it appear that congress is partly
responsible for it.
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