Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-03-09
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Morgan Opposed Gresham's Gift ito
to / Party a FizzIe,
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON Mar 4

If the adage "only speak well of the
dead" were literally followed it would
be impossible to speak at all of the
Fifty-third Congress. which drew its
last gasp at noon today About the
best thing that can be said of the de-
tunct Congress is that it did not do all
the harm it might have done, and the
Democratic majority should receive no
credit for that, as their intentions were
to do all the harm possible and it was
only by the alertness of the Republi-
cans that they were prevented from
carrying them all out
About the only mourners in the
Congressional house of death are the
ex-members who know that their pub
lie careers are ended for good and all,
and the Capitol employees who only
receive pay while Congress is in ses-
sion
ExSpeaker Reed uttered few
words while the House was discussing,
under suspension of the rules, bill
appropriating sly, 500 to reimburse
Washington and Lee university, of
Virginia, tor injuries sustained during
the war, which were as sound in prin-
ciple as the foundation of common
law. After protesting against the bill
being considered on sentimental
grounds instead of the ground of rea-
son and wisdom, Mr. Reed said: "Who-
ever provokes war must take the con-
sequences, even of lawlessness, which
destroys institutions of learning. No
nation can afford to adopt the doctrine
that all injuries to such institutions
shall be paid after the war is over"
Ex-senator Manderson-the Tex"
was attached at noon today-tried to
accomplish what would have been a
real reform just before completing his
Senatorial career He failed, but that
should not prevent his receiving due
credit for having made the attempt
Senator Henderson offered an amend
ment to the general deficiency APP
preparation bill, providing that the
wives and daughters of Senators and
Representatives should not be borne
on the rolls as clerks, but the Senate
promptly laid it on the table, and the
wives and daughters of certain Sena-
tors and Representatives will continue
to draw SIoo a month for work which
with rare exceptions, they do not per
form, and people elsewhere will con
tinue to wonder why it is so difficult
to get Washington jury to convict
those who rob the Government. Sen
ator Henderson s amendment should
have become law, and its provision:
should have extended to cover the
sons as we'll as the wives and daughters
also newspaper correspondents, and tc
embrace all Government employment
Senator Morgan wasn't mealy
mouthed about the reported intention
of the British government to pay thu
damages allowed by Secretary Ores
ham to Canadian sealers in Berins
Sea. He said in speech in the Sen
ate: "Sir George Baden Powell say
that they want to pay the Canadian
and the recalcitrant and rascal,
Americans who hired themselves on
under the British flag to rob the gov
eminent of the United States, violat
its law, and dishonor the country
and to pay them in advance, so as t
have moral claim against the Unite'
States for this S425, 600, not one shil
ling of which is due-not a shilling
| propose that the committee on Fol-
eign Relations shall investigate thi
matter. There has been enough c
felsehood and misrepresentation abou
this in official documents and in tn
newspapers to require, for the vindi
cation of the honor of the country
that this investigation shall be made.
Mr.. Morgan was one ofthe Boring Sc
arbitrator, and knows this subjec
thoroughly.
The silver programme, which wa
to commit the Democratic party {
free coinage at a ratio of 10 to 1 si2
zled out without making as nue.
blaze as parlor match would hav
done. The scheme had its origin in tn
fertile brain of Mr.. Bland, of Missouri
who today retired to private life, in
voluntarily, after a long career as
member of the House. Mr.. Blanc
very shrewdiy allowed Mr.. Bryan, o
Nebraska, another gentleman who
was dropped from Uncle Sans pay
roll today, to take the management o
the affair and to circulate the mani
festo which was intended to force Mr.
Cleveland and the other "gold bugs
out of the Democratic party as soon a:
it had been signed by nine-tenths o
the Democrats in Congress. The man
ifesto might have had that effect hat
all the expected signers materialized
but they didn't. In fact so few Dem
Ccrats signed the manifesto that none
of the signers' names were made pub
lie with the manifesto. The Other
scheme, feathered by those members
of the Bi-Metallic League with Dem
ocratic proclivities, to start a silver
party and put up at once a Presiden-
tiai ticket, is still in the incubator
with the chances against its being
Matched out in healthy condition.
Profit $SS.2s the First Three Days.
A few weeks ago l read in your pa
per how Mrs. Griffith made great deal
of money selling a new method of put
ting up fruit Here is what | did witt
an Old Reliable Platter. The first three