Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom Our Regular Correspondent

an order setting time for a vote. =
Drs Cleveland, Carlisle and Springer
refuse to believe that the corpse ID
quite dead. and are still trying to re-
cusitate the deceased. There will be
no funeral ceremonies, for the very
good reason that there are not enough
mourners to form a respectable gath
ering. The blow which killed the I'M.
mourned measure drove home the
wedge that split the democratic party
in twain, and there seems little proba.
bility that the two wings will ever
again be found united upon anything.
for Which the country has every reason
to give thanks.
The administration did everything
in its power TO save the currency bill,
even going to the extent of threaten
ing to put the country on silver ba-
sis If it was not passed, by refusing to
pay gold for Treasury notes presented
for redemption, but II. was no use; the
country had condemned the measure
MS bad, and a majority of the House
thought it better, safer and wiser to
please the country than to please the
administration.
1t being now certain that no fnan-
cial legislation either good or bad can
be expected from this Congress. the
belief is general, both in and out of
| Congress, that an early session of the
Fifty-fourth Congress will be called to
consider financial legislation. 1t Is no
longer question of what Mr.. Cleve.
land wants, or what the democratic
party wants; but what is necessary TO
maintain the credit of the Govern
ment, which takes precedence of all
other questions. The democrats hav-
ing proved their incompetence. the
republicans must be asked to come to
the rescue.
Ex-Speaker Reeds ankle is not en-
tirely we'll, but he returned to his con-
gressional duties this week, in order
to be on hand when the House knock
ed ont the Carlisle currency bill. He
lmps little, but Enthusiastically
refuses to make use of cratch or cane.
Level-headed republicans are glad
that Representative Sibley. of Penn,
who this week made one of the most
disgraceful personal attacks upon the
President, ever heard upon the floor
of the House, claims allegiance to the
democratic party. Republicans do
not admire Mr.. Cleveland-few people
do, or can-but in crticising his pub
lie acts they never allow themselves
to forget that he is President. Mr..
Sibley's speech wus sprinkl-d with
coarse language. which should never
have been allowed to be uttered on
the floor of the House, or anywhere
else ia the presence of gentlemen, but
for some unexplained reason no mem
Der called him to order and he kept
on until his time had expired, altho'
there was no indication that his sup
ply of billingsgate was exhausted. -
Think of n member of Congress refer
ring to the President as combination
of "brains. belly and BRASS" and as
hog" and "buzzard'. If the House
did the right thing it would expel him
from membership. as warning to fu-
ture blackguards who may by accident
get elected to Congress.
The Court of Appeals of the Dist.
Of Columbia, the three justices of
which were appointed by Mr.. Cleve-
land. has affirmed the decision of the
lower court, refusing to grant a man
damus compelling Secretary Carlisle TO
take steps towards the payment of the
bounty on sugar partly produced at
the time the repeal of the sugar boun
ty went into effect, and two out of the
three justices went further and declar-
ed that, in their opinion, the sugar
bounty was nncoD Institutional, and the
third--the Chief Justice-declined to
express an opinion as to the constitu-
tionality of the sugar bounty. 1t is a
question that never will be settled I'M
til it has been passed upon by the US,
Supreme Court, where it will eventu-
ally be carried.
Still another message on Hawaiian
matters was this week transmitted to
Congress by Mr.. Cleveland, accompa-
MED by a batch of correspondence
from Mr.. Willis, U. y. Minister to Ha-
wall. Great Britain wishes to lease an
island belonging TO Hawaii, to be used
as station for a submarine cable
from Canada to Australia, and the
Hawaiian government wishes to lease
the island, but cannot do SO without
the consent of the United States, ow-
ing to the clause in the reciprocity
treaty with this government. The
President refers the request of Hawaii
for modification of the treaty 40 the
lease can be made to Congress without
positive recommendation, but il is ca
silly inferred from his language that he
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