Middletown transcript., 1895-02-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.


in several years, and As will be a major
ity. The only change made by the ac-
cessions to the Senate, from d financial
point of view, is to straighten the sill
yer men, who already had majority.
AS an answer to appeals which have
been made to them to join hands with
the administration and pass financial
bill, several Republican Senators have
made careful canvas of thu Senate
and the result is that Al Senators are
for the free coinage of silver and SO
against it. The free coinage men will
have 40 votes when the Washington
and Wyoming Senators arrive.
There is hitch in the administra-
tion's programme for the new issue of
bonds. While it is given out at the
administration is waiting to see if
Congress will act upon Mr.. Cleveland IS
gold bond recommendation, it is well
known that the delay has been caused
by the demands Of the capitalists who
are expected to subscribe for the new
bonds. Orders have been issued to
the Bureau Engraving and Printing
to print $500,0O0,O00 of 4 per cent
thirty year bonds authorized by the
specie resumption act of 1875, but
what amount will be issued is not yet
known. Mr.. Cleveland is said to favor
advertising for bids without stating
any specified amount and accepting all
satisfactory bids but the Cabinet is un-
ders.ood to be divided on that idea.
Through the instrumentality of Sena-
tors Frye, of Maine, and Dubois, of
Idaho, Senators Chandler and Calm
ger, of New Hampshire, have resumed
amicable relations with each other,
much to the qualification of their Re-
publican colleagues. Previous to their
reconciliation the two Senators had
not spoken to each other for some
years.
If the generally accepted version of
the cause of the resignation Of SOlici-
tor General Maxwell, that he resented
bling censured by Attorney General
Olney for having consented to getting
the case involving the constitutionality
of the income tax advanced by the
Supreme Court, be true, the Attorney
Generals resignation ought to quickly
follow. The people do not under
stand that it is the duty of the De-
partment of Justice to throw obstacles
in the way of getting speedy decisions
upon any question involving constitu-
tionality of law, whenever the Attor-
ney General shall be afraid that the
decision will injure his political party.
| On the contrary. they expect. as they
have right to, that this department
shall as the late Solicitor General did,
use all due diligence 10 expedite such
decisions, regardless of effect or feared
effect. To carry out the Attorney
Generals ideas would be an attemp by
the executive branch of the govern
ment to enroach upon the prerogatives
of the judicial brauch. The failure of
its numerous recent attemps, to con-
troll the legislative branch should be
warning enough.
The most disgraceful personal en-
counter of the present session-the
only one, in fact-was that in which
two Observation-Disclosures of KY,
and Heard of Mo-, were the principals.
There would have been a regular
rough and tumble fight on the floor of
the House had nobody interfered. The
epithets sliar" and ''contemptible
scoundrel" were exchanged, and then;
as usual, apologies were offered and
and the House gave its consent to
striking the whole business from the
record.
The House will this week decide
what shall be done with the Cleveland
gold bond bill, the committe on Rules
having decided to report an order set
ting aside Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday for its consideration. If
this order adopted by the House the
financial vote will be taken next Thurs
day, but there seems probability,
Notwithstanding the extraordinary eff
forts of the administration to prevent
it, that the order may meet the same
fase as the order for the consideration
of the Carlisle currency bill-be re-
jected by the House. So far as the
final result is concerned it does make
the slightest difference what dispose
ttion the House makes of either the
order or the bill, as the latter cannot
possibly get reported t. the Senate,
even should it pass the House.
The House sent the Reilly Pacific
railroad funding bill back to COM
mittee by vote of 1T to LOG. Oppo-
nents of the bill say that, instead of
making votes against it, the circulars
sent to Washington by Mayor Sutro,
of San Francisco, charging the Hunt
ington lobby with buying votes for
$40, 900, each, made votes for the bill.
Poor Digestion
Leads to nervousness, fretfulness, peev-
iskness, chronic Dyspepsia and great
misery. Hood s Sarsaparilla is the rem
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