Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-02-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Ts.s5.AL ooasas,oSDss7E OF rzs MoFiToa'l
Washington, Feb. 4, 1898

taQa. took the Oabn O O1iCO 0AN
cratic majority of the Senate dlSaP
peared-let US hope never TO come
back again. The Senate now consists
of as members. 43 democrats, IS re-
publicans and populists. Wnen the
republican Senators from "yohillis
and Washington take their seats Ihe
Senate will be full for the first Time
for several years, and 40 will be a
majority. The only change made oy
the accessions to the Senate, from a
financial point of view, is to strength
an the silver men, who already had a
majority. AS an answer to Appeals
which have been made to them 10 JOIN
hands with the administrator anu
mass a financial bill, several repuolI-
can Senators have made a careful
canvass OF the Senate and the result
is that At Senators are for the nee
coinage of silver and 80 against IT,
The free coinage men VIII nave ~
votes when the Washington and wy
oring Senators arrive.
There is a hitch IN the adm1nlstra-
toms programme for the new issue
of bonds. While it is given out tna1
the administration is waiting to see Ii
Congress will act upon Mr.. CIeVe-
lands gold bond recommendation, 1t
Is we'll known that the delay has been
caused by new bonds. Orders nave
been issued to the Bureau OF EngfaV-
ing and Printing to print $500, OOo,OOO
of 4 per cent thirty year bonds author
lied by the specie resumption act OF
1875. but what amount will be issued
is not vet known. Mr.. Cleveland is
said to favor advertising for bids with
out stating any specified amount and
accepting all satisfactory bids, but the
Cabinet is understood to be divided
on that idea. The question may be
settled at the Cabinet meeting to be
held to morrow.
Through the instrumentality Of Sen
ators Frye, of Maine, and Dubois, Of
Idaho, Senators Chandler and Gall
niger, of New Hampshire, have re-
other, much to the qualification of
their republican colleagues. Previous
to their reconciliation the two Sen
ators had not spoken to each other for
some years.
IF the generally accepted version Of
the cause Of the resignation of Solici-
tor General Maxwell, that he resented
being censured by Attorney General
Olney for having consented to getting
the case involving the constitutional
ty of the income tax advanced by the
Supreme Court, be true, the Attor-
ney Generals resignation ought to
quickly follow. The people do not
understand that it is the duty of the
Department of Justice to throw OBJ
stacles in the way of getting speedy
decisions upon any question involv-
ing the constitutionality oflaw, when
ever the Attorney General shall be
afraid that the decision will iniure his
political party. On the contrary they
expect, as they have right to, that
this department shall, as the late So
hcitor General did, use all due dill
gence to expedite such decisions, re-
CARELESS of effect Or feared effect. To
carry out the Attorney Generals ideas
would be an attempt by the executive
branch of the government to encroach
upon the prerogatives of the judicial
branch. The failure of it's numerous
recent attempts to control the legis-
lative branch should be warning
enough.
The House will this week decide /
what shall be done with the Cleveland /.
gold bond bill, the committee on Rules /
having decided to report an order
setting aside Tuesday, Wednesday and
for its consideration. If |
this order is adopted by the House /
the final vote will be taken next I
Thursday, but there seems a probable
lty, Notwithstanding the extraordi-
nary efforts of the administration to
prevent 1t that the order may meet +
the same fate as the order for the
consideration Of the Carlisle currency
b1ll-be rejected by the House. So |
far as the final result is concerned it
does not make the slightest difference
what disposition the House makes of /
either the order or the bill, as the lat
ter cannot possibly get reported to
the Senate, even should it pass the
House.
The House sent the Reilly Pacific
railroad funding bill back to commit
tee by vote of lit to 100. Opponents
OF the bill say that, instead of making
votes against it, the circulars sent to
Washington by Mayor Sutro, of San
francisco, charging the Huntington
lobby with buying votes for $40, 900
each, made votes for the bill.
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