The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-04-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. April 18th. 1895.

IaNpf Oh the ffpubilcanS ~eOfganlZlng
the Senate committees and taking the
responsibility for legislation at the
next session of Congress, but they do
not favor tue proposal which has been
informally made to ignore the right Of
Senator Morrill,, of VT. to become
chairman of the Finance committee in
order to give that place to Senator
Sherman. Senator Voorhees,, the
present chairman of that committe,
having said that he expected to turn
the committee over to Senator Morrill,
at the beginning O: the next session,
was asked if he thought Senator Nor
riil would %relinquish his claim to the
craftsmanship i'll order to give it to
Sherman. He replied ii certainly
do not. Why shonli heg He is as
vigorous as many younger men, and
any effort t" di>piace him wunid be
shameful. after his many years of ser
vice on the committee. should per-
sonaiiv resent Il movement of that
ciiaractcr.7
Sn much has been ga q about what
the finance committee Of the Senate
ma, do at the next session Of Congress
that Senator Voorhees, diagnosis of
that committee is interesting rs well
as valuable. He says 1T is a silver
committee now, and it will continue
to lie a silver committee regardless of
the views of the addition which the
republicans may make to il. Mr..
Mcpherson, a democrat, Is the only
member Of the committee rs at present
organized who will not be Il member
of the next Congress, and lie is the
onlv democratic member who is OPP
posed to silver. The other five dem
ocratic members Will. with Senator
Jones, OF Nevada, constitute ii quorum
OF the committee. even if the
shoald he filled by the appointment of
an anti.silver republican. but if the
silver republicans should succeed in
getting one of theii own Number on
the committee the silver majority will
be just that much more pronounced"
No official under the Treasury De.
partment who may hereafter get into
trouble through any sort of delin-
quency or misconduct will be allowed
to resign. Secretary Carlisle has is
sued an order to all the chiefs of bu-
SbuAs t1oO III sui - IcCtbtltJtIl.
dation for the removal of the offending
person must be made to him. This
may appear to be Il small matter. but
1t is really an important reform. 1t
has been the custom for many years
to allow emplOye s detected in some
~dishonOrable transaction to retire from
office by the resignation route. leaving
nothing upon tue records to Indicate
that the retirement has been under Il
cloud. and complaints have been made
by those who have afterwards lost
money by surprising these mel to be
honorable because OF t;.eir department
record. The record will III the future
show these things as they really are.
Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, who
arrived in Washington this week d.
rect from home, where he has been
since the adjournment Of Congress,
says the Kentucky campaign appears
to him to be up to this time more
talked about in Washington than in
Kentucky.
Hon. E. C. Wall. the Wisconsin
member of the National Democratic !
committee, is in Washington. He ex-
pressed himself as follows about the
calling Of that silver Convention by
the Illinois democracy this summer to !
consider the silver question: Il don't
see what they are driving at or what
good can be accomplished by such ac-
ton. 1t occurs to me that it is prema-
ture aud unnecessary. Speaking for
what believe to be the sentiment of
the democratic party in Wisconsin,. | |
have 20 hesitation iii sayin. that the
fiat silver craze has no following with |
us, and it is mo- probable that it will
ever have. Our people. and especially
the German element. are dead set
against all financial lleiesies.r
Probably the busiest official in
Washington just now is Itterual Rev
enue Commissioner Miller. who is en-
gagged IN making the instructions tor
the collection OF the income tax con.
form to the decision of the Supfen,.
Court. He has the benefit OF the adj
vice of President Cleveland and all the
memtals of the cabinet. bnt it is y
hard task all the same.
Ii there was ever Il noIe unpopular
decision of the Supreme Court handed
than that declaring incomes de-
rived nom rents and state and MUM
cipal bonds constitutlnnaiiy exempt
from Federal taxation nnbody-in
Washington remembers THE ques-
ton OF the cOnstitutionality Of the re-
nlainder of the income tax was not de-
the court standing I to t with
Justice Jackson absent on account of
sickness. This leaves the decision of
the lower court, affirming the consti-
tutionality OF the law. in force. but it