Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-15
REED AS A FINANCIER.
HE SOLVES THE WHOLE QUES-
TON OFF.HAND.

A Surplus of Revenue for the Year
1s9o-APProPriation for Scctar-
Ian schools Will Not he Made
The Grade of Lieutenant General
Restored.
Regular Correspondence of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. s, 1895.
Neither President Cleveland nor
Secretary Carlisle was surprised at the
action of the House on the financial
bill. They were kept thoroughly
posted on the sentiment OF the Demo-
Gratis of the House, but there was an
element OF doubt as to how the Re-
publicans would vote, even after ex-
speaker and Presidential candidate
Reed made his great combination bid
for the support of the silver men of
the west and the gold men of the east,
by offering a substitute, which he was
pleased to call non-partisan COM
promise, and to close his speech adj
vocating it by asking the following
Solomon-like questions: "Now, why
is it not that the solution of our prob
lem, without raising vexed questions
which we know cannot be solved?
Why is it not suitable in every way?"
The lack Of egotism and gall will never
keep that man Reed out Of anything.
Nobody ever knew until he made that
speech that he had in addition to his
great literary and parliamentary &C
cOmplishments found time to com.
pletely master the complicated science
of finance, and the House refused to
believe it even after he said 80.
Some Senators-not all or them Re.
publicans, neither-were very much
disappointment at Secretary Carlisle's
answer to the Senate resolution, ask
ing whether there would be deficiency
in the estimated revenues of the
government for the year ending
December 81, 1895. Secretary Carlisle's
answer was plain and flatfooted-there
will be comfortable surplus in the
Treasury at the end of the year. Some
of the Republicans are still saying that
it is the lack of revenue that is caus.
ing the depletion of the gold in the
Treasury probably following the
rascally political axiom "a lie we'll
stuck to is as good as the truth"
The Senate can act quick enough
when disposed. An instance of this
promptness was given when the
ratification of the Japanese treaty was
re-considered and the treaty amended
in accordance with Secretary Gresham's
request. The Senate had amended
the treaty so as to give either nation
the right to abrogate it after one years
notice. The Japanese Minister said
his country would object to that
clause, because it gave this country
an opportunity, if SO disposed, to alb
rogate the treaty before il was even
put into operation. The treaty does
not 60 into effect until 1899. Secretary
Gresham and the Senators thought
the objection we'll founded; hence the
last amendment, which gives either
country the right to abrogate the
tready by one years notice, after the
tready has gone into operation.
The subcommittee of the Senate
which is in charge of the Indian ap-
preparation bill has had no end OF
trouble about appropriations for Sec
tartan schools. The Catholics claimed
that the Lincoln Institution at Phila.
delphia, and the Hampton Institute
a. Hampton, Va, for both of which
specific appropriations were made by
the bill as it passed the House, are
sectarian schools, one Episcopalian
and the other Congregational, and
asked that specific appropriations for
some of their schools be added to the
bill. The subcommittee settled the
! matter by Atriking Qua all spacific APP
pvopriations for denominatio schools
and leaving the question of sending
Indian children to any of them
discretionary with the Secretary Of the
Interior. In other words, for him to
spend the money appropriation for the
education of the Indians as he may
think best.
More Hawaii. It seems to be a
veritable old man of the sea saddled
upon the back OF Congress, and it is
certainly becoming tiresome. This
time the amendment to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill au.
thorizing the President to enter into
u contract for the laying OF cable to
Honolulu was the text upon which
the Hswaiimsniacs preached, but they
by no means confined themselves to
the text. The whole field had to be
gone over, including Ills abdication
to save her head.
President Cleveland promptly nom.
mated Gen. Schofeld to be Lieutenant
General, on the same day that he
signed the bill restoring that grade to
the army. Gen. Schofeld, who is de-
servedly popular. is being overwhelmed
with congratulations.
One OF the bills pending in Congress
that is almost certain to become q law
is that providing for the retirement on
account of bad health of Justice Jack
son, of the U. s. Supreme Court. 1t
is not believed by those who know his
present condition that he will ever
be able to resume his duties again.
Not since the war has there been 80
many changes in the personnel of the
House during a single Congress as
have taken place in the present one.
Thirty OF the members elected thereto
are now out OF it, eleven of them hav.
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