Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1895-01-10

Washington, Jan. 10.-The Russian
thistle and the means of it's prevention
are discussed in the bulletin issued to day
by the agricultural department. The
bulletin was prepared by Assistant Bottom
lst l.. H. Dewey, who says that the thistle,
being already widely distributed east OF
the Rockies, makes its continuous pro-
gress in that region inevitable, but it
may yet be excluded from the Pacific
coast. If wherever found it should be
! killed before it produces seed during
three successive years the pest would in
all probability be completely exter-
minated.
| ADMINISTRATION STANDS FIRM.
Notwithstanding the reverses suffered
by the Carlisle currency bill in the house
Of representatives yesterday, there is to
be no abandonment of the effort to Sc
cure currency legislation. 1t is said a
new measure, having executive approval,
will be introduced in the house in about
two weeks. There will be no concessions
in the nature of surrender to the silver
element if they push their demands to
the point of remonetizing silver at a
ratio of 16 to 1. Senators Morrill,, Sher-
man, Allison and Aldrich, Republican
members of the finance committee, had a
conference to-day for the purpose of de-
Gliding upon line policy in case there
should be an effort to take up
THE CURRENCY QUESTION
in tho senate. This conference was de-
cided upon after Chairman Voorhees,
issued the call for meeting of the full
committee at 2 o'clock to-day. They
agreed that no definite and final conclu-
sion could be reached until some measure
haa been brought to their attention by
the Democratic members of the COM
mittee.
TRAVELLING MEN IN IT.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce has authorized favorable re-
port on the bill amending the interstate
commerce act SO as to permit the issuance
of joint interchangeable 5,OOO-miles
tickets with special privileges as to the
amount of free baggage that may be car
ried on mileage tickets of 1000 miles
or more. This is bill in which the COM
merclal travellers are especially interested,
and for which they have worked hard. It
has passed The house.
JONES ON SILVER.
Senator Jones (Ark.), member of the
finance committee, was asked if he was
not of the opinion that there was no pos
sibility of currency legislation. He
answered, II don't think there is any
probability of legislation. 1t is posi-
BILE, however, that conditions may arise
which may bring men of very diverse
views together on common ground and
that legislation without political or per-
eonal advantage, purely patriotic in it's
nature, might be enacted. But l do not
think this probable. For my own part,
I would sacrifice great deal to get on
tnat common ground"
"Even to the acceptance of a bond
issuef"
"What else would be necessarily"
"We would have to do something for
silver. We could not legislate on the
currency question without doing some
thing to silver"
"Do you consider the necessity great
for currency legislation?"
Most emphatically. The condition of
"Ao' - iAO"oVoAS AloJ AhouOO WIG oohouo
to do something-may induce the house
to accept something that will tide the
country over"
Senator Jones said this feeling was
shared by many other senators.
. SENATOR VESTS VIEWS.
Senator Vest says: "In my opinion
there is no possibility of passing any
financial bill in the senate. We have no
rsles, and five senators can prevent action
on any bill during this session. The only
hope for prompt and efficient action was
in the Democratic party, and we failed at
the outset of the session. Instead of
changing the senate rules so as to pro-
vide for stopping debate, and then reso
lutely taking up the financial question
and the tariff bills from the house, the
Democratic caucus of the senate deliber-
ately refused to do anything of the kind.
AS matters now are in the senate nothing
will be done except by unanimous con-
sent. If the ayes and nays could be called
on taking off the differential duties of
one-tenth and one-eighth on sugar the
ma jority would be for the removal"