Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wdshin atom, Jan. II, 1895.
Is 'soIAL oosR ssPoN DENcE OF THE MONITOR

currency bill IN the House about CIV
en- up hope of securing any financia
legislation at this session without the
aid of the republicans. Although they
are running hither and thither an6
holding hourly conferences they are
accomplishing nothing, and they pri-
vately admit it. A definitive appeal
has been made by democrats friend
ly to the administration to Senators
Sherman and Allison, asking them to
come to the rescue of the Treasury
and to prepare compromise non
partisan financial bill. 1t is not at all
probable that these Senators will pre-
pare bill, but they, and other re-
publicans, have told the democrats
that, in their opinion, what the Treas
ury most needs is more revenue, and
that a bill to increase the revenues Of
the government, either by increase
in the tariff on all dutiable articles, or
by increasing the internal revenue
tax upon special articles-beer for in
stance would receive the votes Of
the republicans in both House and
Senate.
For the democrats to accept this
hint would be to confess to the coun
try-what is already plain to all ex
cept those who refuse to see-that
the democratic tariff policy is fail
ure and is at bottom responsible for
all the troubles of the Treasury and
of the country, but there are demo
Gratis who do not hesitate to advocate
that the confession be made, and
while such action can hardly be said
to be propable, it is quite as much SO
as that any financial bill will become
a law at this session.
Representative Hit, who was chair
man of the House committee on Fo-
reign Affairs in the last republican
House and who will almost certainly
occupy the same position in the next
House, is strongly opposed to the rec
concentration of Mr.. Cleveland, that
the United States should agree to
give up the advantage it now holds
under the reciprocity treaty with Ha-
waiian islands to be used as a station
for a proposed submarine cable be-
tween Canada and Australia. While
Mr.. Hit admits that cable communi
cation with Hawaii would be very de-
sirable, both for that country and the
United States, he insists that this
country should control such cable, not
only as matter of business sagacity
hnt q T1snaontinT1 n of
This is no new position for Mr.. Hit.
AS long ago as the Fifty first Congress
he tried to have the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill amended
so as to provide for the survey of a
cable route between San Francisco
and Honolulu.
Mr.. James J. Hill, the northwestern
railroad man and financier who is at
present in Washington, says of the
financial situation ''It's hard to
say what should be done by Congress
in the way of financial legislation. It
seems to me that it would be a good
idea to leave it to a commission to
frame bill. Take two of the ablest
republicans in Congress, two demo
Gratis, and then appoint John Sherman
chairman of the commission. 1t
would be safer to wager ten thousand
dollars against a cent that such a body
of men would originate plan of cur
rency relief that would settle this
vexed question for the next twenty
years."
Senator Teller, in replying to Sena-
tor Hill's attack on the income tax
did some plain talking, as he usually
does when he speaks upon any sub
ject. He said that any proposition
for the repeal of the income tax must
be accompanied by one to raise as
much money, owing to the very pro-
nounced need of the Treasury for
money. He called attention to the
fact that if the present monthly def
cit was kept up the deficit for the
year would reach 800, OOO,O 900; also,
that the proceeds of 100000 900 in
bonds had already been swallowed up
by the deficit under Cleveland Ad-
ministration and that the gold reserve
fund was down to 100000 and was
still rapidly falling. If the revenue
was ample there would be no difficult
ty in acquiring gold, and no question
of maintaining the parity between
different kinds of money" He paid
his respects to- the administration
thusly: "Whenever member of the
executive department appeals to the
legislature department to do some-
thing, and has not plan to present,
it is good evidence that the executive
branch of the government is in the