The Canton times., 1895-01-03
Washington Letter.
{ From enr Regular corresroaaenf.

bers of the Ways and Means colhmitte,
Land compelled them to report two bill
prepared by him; one increasing tn,
tariff upon wool, woolens and lumbe
/, to co per cent of what isfwas in th,
Mckinley law, and. raising the tariff
upon everything. else, excepting sugar
Is per cent above present rates, and
the other providing for the issue ol
three per cent coin bonds 10 replenish
the gold reserve whenever the Secret
sry Of the Treasury deemsitnecessary,
and 81 s5O, 900, 900 in three pr cent O.
year Treasury certiicatesyor,so so much
thereof as the Secietaryof the Trea-
snry may need from time q time. lie
mnszled the obj.cting republicans who
wanted thu bills. submittedto 4 cancns
before being reported to- the House.
and lastly he muzzled the House and
had his bills passed, notwithstanding
that the democrats did all the protest.
ing they could under the Reed rules.
, against the railroading of snch import
mt legislation through the House with
put debate. When one of hisnwn party
went to Mr.. Reed and asked that
reasonable time be allowed for debate
on the bills before they wprc passed
Mr., Reed dismissed him by saying
sharply: "The House isn'ta debating
society,"" In fact, for all practical pur.
poses there is no House. Its powers
have all been usnrped by Mr.. Reed and
its only, important duties are to obey
his orders.
But there are neither Reed rnles nor
mcthads in the Senate, to which these
bills have now gone, and the co,lptry
may coant upon their being thorongh,y
debated beforesthey arc actedcnpon II is
doubtful whether either !of taem can
pass the Senate vt all, and certain that
neither can get through without being
materially amended. !!
The President tlris week formally
declined to accept the ram KatahdiH, !
built by the Bath Iron Works, because
of the failure of the vessel to make tue
speed stipulated in the contract The
rejection Is merely a technical one. /
as the administration and the naval
officers are entirely satisfied with the !,
boat and know that the failure to reach
the required speed was no fault Of the
builders who merely followed the
government plans in the construction /
of the vessel II would have set a !
precedent which might make trouble in
the future to accept the vessel after its
failure to make the speed named in the
so it was deemed best to re-
fuse. to accept. But the ADMINISTRATION
influence will be used 10 get the joint
resolution authorizing the President to i
accept the Katahdin, which has already
been introduced, adopted by Congress-,
20 there is little doubt that the Katah-
din will soon be a part of Uncle SANS
savy.
la creating three Election committe S
10 bounce those democrats whose seats
ire being contested by republisans& to
rive those republicans who are holding
,eats which are contested by democrats
! valid title TO their seats, Mr.. Reed
overlooked one thing that is already
making trou.le. The committees on
ELECTIONS has but one room, and each
II the three committees claim the
he right TO use it.
rhe union printers are not so glad
Ibout the extension of the Civil Service
ules TO the Government Printing /
)ffice as they were. Already four non
,nion printers have secured positions
n the building by passing the required
and there will be others.
Intil their puuber grows so great that |
he Office will. have 10 be classed as ,
os union. Il
The report. although not yet official q
v confirmed, that Russia has offered 4
o loan the United States $500, Ooo, 900 I
n gold, without interest. has probably 1
reated greater conservation among {
he European gold kings who have !
een squeezing enormous profits out q
4 the United States under our present !
sd financial system than did President q
bold announcement ia pe- =