The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-01-31
PlOCHE. NEVADA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 81 1895.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.



Although some of the members of the
House Pacific Railroads Committee say that
committee will report favorably bill for the
settlement of the debts due from those
companies, and that it will be alike salts
factory to the Government and the railroad
people, few believe that this Congress viii
legslate on the question, although the town
is full of people directly interested in it.
The decision of the House Judiciary Com.
mittee to reopen the case of Judge Kicks, of
Ohio, after having once ordered an impeach-
ment resolution to be reported to the House,
is regarded by nearly everybody as indicat-
ing that the committee will not report the
impeachment resolution at all. An enor.
nous amount of pressure has been and is
being brought to bear on members of the
committee in behalf Of Judge Kicks, and it
is said that Representative Bailey OF Texas,
who has been pushing the impeachment and
who is now very much disgusted, may make
some sensational disclosures on the floor of
the House concerning the matter
Many have been the attempts to formal
late a compromise financial bill that can
command a majority of both House and
Senate, but up to this time the would be
compromisers, or the pretended cOmpro-
misers, as many think them to be, have not
succeeded in producing a bill that could be
passed by either House or Senate. There is
IA suspicion, as yet not very clearly defined,
that some people are not near SO anxious
for financial legislation as they appear to be
unless they can get it just exactly as they
want it. In other words they are perfectly
willing to adopt a compromise measure if
the other fellows will give up all their de-
mands and not ask them to give up any
thing. Every body knows that sort of a
compromser, Senator Sherman calls his
bill for the issue of three per cent gold
bonds. upon which national banks may
issue circulation up to the par value, a com
promise measure, but it is not so regarded
even by members of his own party Repre-
sentative Walker, of Mass, who also has a
compromise bill, says the Sherman bill can
never pass, and calls attention to the fact
that for twenty years periodical attempts to
pass bill in the House, allowing national
banks to issue currency up to the par value
of bonds deposited by them, have been made
and that they have all failed. Mr.. Walkers
| bill ls the shortest yet introduced. II
simply gives the Secretary Of the Treasury
authority to issue three per cent short time
coin bonds to relieve the treasury. Tn,
Silver men will support no bill that does
not provide for unlimited coinage, and with
out their support no bill can pass
Delegate Flynn, OF Oklahoma, thinks tn,
half breeds are at the bottom of much of tn,
trouble of the Indians and he attempted tt
get the Indian Appropriation bill amended
so to provide that every person in th
Indian and Oklahoma territories, in whom
the white blood predominates, shall be con
sidered to be white person, become citi
zen of the United States, and be precludeC
from holding Office in any Indian Govern
ment; but the amendment was ruled out Oh
| n point of order