The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


Washington, February IA, 1895.
1t has been limited more than once during
the present session Of Congress that Presi.
dent Cleveland did not want any financial
legislation, unless it met his own ideas en-.
tirely. Now it isn't limited, it is plainly
spoken that he does not Since the sending
OF his special message to Congress, announc-
ing that he had negotiated the sale of S62,
400, 900 in thirty-year per cent bonds, at
price making the interest 3 and per cent
and giving Congress the option of authoriz-
ing within ten days an issue of per cent
gold bonds, which he says the purchasers
will take in preference to the 3 and per
cent coin bonds, there has not been the
slightest doubt about his position. He
wants gold bonds and nothing else All
talk about the President meeting the Silver
men half way in some compromise measure
Is now ended and the issue squarelv made,
gold bonds or nothing. 1t will be nothing.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Cleveland's statement
that gold bonds would save the government
sl6'oOO,0OO in the interest on these thirty.
year bonds, no gold bond bill can possibly
become law The silver men do not re.
gard this as question of interest, but of
principle, involving values besides which
SIG, 600, 900 would be mere bagatelle, and
as they absolutely control the Senate, they
will kill any gold bond bill, even if the
House does not, and besides, they may do
some plain talking about the President sell
ing bonds to private foreign syndicate
which bear 3 and per cent interest when
ne could easily have sold per cent bond
at home, thus, as they claim, wasting SIG.
900, 900.
The impossible task of getting a thirty
year per cent gold bond through the
House has been assigned to Mr.. Wilson,
chairman of the Ways and Means committee
and he discovered as soon as he called the
committee together, if he did not know it
before, that it would be no small task to
even get such bill reported to the House
The Republicans and Populists all oppose it
and more than half of the Democrats,
Few people knew, until the Senate de.
clined to receive the petition asking for
legislation looking towards international
arbitration, which was signed by 1856 mem
bers OF the British Parliament and brougt to
Washington by one Of them, Mr.. Cremer
that there was rule against receiving peti.
tons from aliens, except through the min
lister or other official representative of the
country in which the signers reside, and
then 1t must be presented to the Secretary
OF the State and not directly to Congress.
1t can readily be seen that it is a good rule
too.
OF far more direct interest to the people
OF the United States than the Nicaragua
Canal scheme proposed in Senate amend.
ment to the Sundry Civil appropriation bill.
This amendment authorizes the President
to appoint commission of three persons to
confer with like commission to be named
by Great Britain and Canada on the feast.
billty of building such canals as will enable
vessels engaged in the ocean commerce to
pass to and fro between the great lakes and
the Atlantic ocean with an adequate and
comfortable supply of water at all times.