Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WGshingtee, Dec. 81, 1894.

Wdshingtess, Dec. 81, 1894.
The extra session bugaboo was rails
ed by the administrator democrats to
brighten hesitating democrats into
supporting the Carlisle currency bill
and to deter republicans from placing
obstacles in the way of any legislation
approved by the administration; but
now, like the genii released from the
bottle, the bugaboo has grown SO
great that it threatens to overshadow
everything else. The question of the
calling of an extra session of congress
which was first considered merely in
a Raight have to be light, has now
nearly reached the must be stage. If
something is not done by this con-
gress to stop the drain Of gold from
the treasury, sand there isn't one
chance in a thousand that anything
will be done, it will not be a matter of
choice with Mr.. Cleveland. He will
have to call the republican congress
together in order to get something
done.
Very little hope is now entertained
by any democrat that the Carlisle cur
rency bill will be passed by the House
in it's present shape, and none what
ever that it WILDE passed by the sem
ate But the ablesU fnanciers in con-
gress agreeAin saying that if the cur
rency bill were to become law to-
morrow it would do the treasury more
harm than good. Even Secretary
Carlisle, who is willing to pose as au-
thor of the bill, admits that it would
not help the treasury for sometime to
come and that he is not altogether
certain that it ever would. Mean
while the drain on the gold in the
treasury continues and the receipts Of
the government to be much less than
its expenditures. These facts have
aroused the republicans to the neces-
sity of formulating plan for legisla-
ton at the extra session, if one be
called. They don't want an extra
session; would much prefer having
until next December to think about
legislation, but true to the traditions
of the party they will be found ready
to do their duty whenever called
upon.
It can be stated on high authority
that the republicans in the senate
have no idea of shielding the demo-
Gratis from any of the popular disap-
proval they have earned since they
controlled all branches of the govern
ment. Several republican senators
may when the urgency appropriation
bill gets before the senate, seek to
have the appropriation for the collec-
ton Of the income tax struck out Of
that bill, but they will not be support
ed by any considerable number of re-
publicans. Nothing would please the
democrats who have realized what a
mistake the income tax was, chief of
whom is Mr.. Cleveland, more than to
have Republican Senators defeat the
appropriation for the collection Of
that tax. That would enable the dem
ocratic party to play it's favorite and
usual double-face role in another
campaign-in states where the in
come tax is popular it would claim to
have imposed the tax and would
charge the republicans with having
prevented it's being collected, and in
States where the tax was unpopular
it would point out the failure to ap
propriate money to enforce the law
as its own act. These are some of the
reasons why republicans will aid in
getting that appropriation through,
rather than join in putting obstruc-
tions in it's way.
The troubles growing out of the
repeal of the reciprocity clause of the
Mckinley tariff law have only just
begun, as the administration is now
finding out. e France and Austria have
I'M officially intimated their intention
to follow the example of Spain and
retaliate upon the United States if
some modification of the sugar sched-
ule of the tariff law cannot be Sc
cured. AS there isn't the slightest
probabilityithat any modification can
be gotten through Congress at this
session the outlook for more retalia-
ton is promising, entirely too prom
Using.
January 9Th has been set for the
hearing of arguments on the demur
rer filed by theiDepartment of Justice
in the suit brought to test constitu-
tionality of the income tax. If the
demurrer be sustained and the suit be
thrown out on the technicalities
raised, steps for the beginning of "a
new suit against which those techni-
calities will not count. will at once be