Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Jan. z, 1895.

Washington, Jan. z, 1895.
Anything, SO it is a currency bill, is
now the cry of the administration to
the House. Just why Mr.. Cleveland
should be SO anxious to have the
House pass q currency bill of some
sort, when he must know, as every
body else does, that no currency bill
that can be put through the House
will stand even the ghost of a show to
get through the Senate, is not appar-
emit; but the fact remains that he is.
1t was this anxiety that caused him to
make friends with Senator Hill, who
is now using his influence with demo
Gratis of the House to get bill passed
going so far as to tell the silver mem
bers tn at the Senate will pass the bill
and return it to the House with an
amendment providing for the coinage
of seignorage on the silver bullion
now in the Treasury. The democratic
House caucus this afternoon settled
nothing, because it was agreed before
hand that it should take no action
that would be binding upon anybody,
but it begins to look as though the
House would pass a bill. No man is
in position however, to say exactly
what it's nature will be or whether it
will be the Carlisle bill or one Of the
several substitutes that will be offered
in the House.
The administration is beginning to
realize what a serious mistake Secre
tary Gresham made when he wrote
that official letter saying that the diff
ferential duty imposed on sugar from
countries paying an export bounty on
sugar, was a treaty violation. The
representative of all the continental
European nations are using that let
ter as a basis for their protests and
threats Of retaliation, and there is no
hope from Congress.
Complaints against the postage |
stamps turned out by the Bureau of |
Engraving and Printing continue to |
pour into the Post Office Department.. |
These complaints are now mostly |
against the stamps of higher denomi
nation than two cents, and include
imperfect perforation, poor finish and
inferior designs. Millions of the two
cent Stamps had to be destroyed be-
cause of inferior cumming before that
demo mination became fairly satisfac-
tory. Whether any of the stamps of
higher denomination, against which
the present complaints are directed
will have to be destroyed, is a ques-
ton not yet decided by the Depart
ment. p t 4-.'':~E~7 e.5A ~ -
The promotion Of Hon. J. g. Bur
rows to the Senate by the republican
ture of Michigan, gave his
friends in Congress much personal
pleasure, but viewed from a strictly
party point ofview, the gap his de-
parture from the House will leave in
the front rank of the heaviest fighters,
is not specially pleasing to republi
cans, although there are plenty of
men more anxious to take his place.
Overtures have been made by
friends of the administration to re-
publican Senators, to ascertain how
much support can be obtained on the
side Of the Senate for the
attempt to kill the income tax by
Withholding the appropriation to put
it into effect. Nearly all the republi-
can Senators would vote to repeal the
income tax, but unless there is great
change, very few of them will vote
to withhold the appropriation. 1t is
believed that their mutual opposition
to the income tax was one of the fac
tors which brought about the recent
between Mr.. Cleveland
and Senator Hill.
''Uncle Joe" Cannon, of ILL.,, has a
way of stating things in a nutshell
that has always made his opinion va
liable to his colleagues in the House.
He said of the present financial sit
uation: "All this talk about gold dis
appearance is merely cover for the
fact that the revenues of the govern
ment are not sufficient to meet the
expenditures. If Congress will pro-
vide sufficient revenue there will be
no trouble about the currency
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