The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


Senator Hill has been strikingly unfortu.
] nate in his attempts to assume the role of
mediator between the silver and the anti
/ silver men in the Senate, but he stated
! truth which is patent to all men when he
said that on general financial questions Con
/ gress was further apart now than it was six
months ago, and to prove his assertion cited
the proposition to issue gold bonds, which
although twice defeated in the House is still
upheld in the Senate by a few men, on the
one hand and the bill for the unlimited coin
age of silver favorably reported from the
Senate Finance committee, on the other.
No proof was needed. The division is APP
parent to all the world.
1t was proposed last week that the Senate
should this week pass the bill for the un.
limited coinage of silver, its opponents hav-
ing partially agreed to allow vote to be
taken, after day or two of speech making
but nothing is now certain except the speech
making, certain Senators with Presidential
aspirations being dubious about allowing
vote to be reached.
Longing eyes are being cast towards the
very uncomfortable vacancy left by the
death of Hon. Isaac P. Gray, L. s. Minister
to Mexico, by number of gentlemen who
will retire from the Senate and House after
the fourth of next month. 1t isn't consud.
cred desirable mission but the Sl7, 800
year attached to it must appear very desir.
able to those who are about to have their
names erased from the public payroll. If
the Senate were on better terms with Presi.
dent Cleveland, Senator Ransom would stand
good chance to catch the plum as he has
been endorsed by nearly the entire Senate.
Senator Hill had an amendment tackled
on to the joint resolution, extending from
March LIST to April 18th the time for max
ing returns under the income tax law, which
may defeat the resolution if the Senate in.
sists upon the Hill amendment According
to Commissioner Miller of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, some of the questions
which officials are forbidden by the Hill
Amendment to ask are absolutely essential,
and he has appealed to members of the
House to either get the Hill amendment
struck out or to kill the entire resolution
As usual in the last weeks of every Con-
gress, committees are beginning to report
bills which their members appear to be ex-
ceedlngly. anxious to have passed, when
they know that they have not one chance
out of thousand to get voted upon There
are always bills affecting the laboring inter
ests among those so delayed and this year
is no exception. The arbitration bill might
have been acted upon long ago by the House
but it hasn't been and now it is in the
caldron with other delayed legislation, with
no prospect of becoming law, even if it
should by some chance effort get passed by
the House, not because of any open opposi-
ton to the bill in the Senate, but because of
lack of time. Besides, the Senate has
another arbitration BILL which has been ia
vorably reported from the Committee on
Education and Labor. 1t was introduced
by Senator Perkins, of California, and pro-
vides for the creation of an arbitration com.
mission of twenty -one persons, to settle all
disputes between labor and capital The re.
port accompanying this bill estimates that
the loss by strikes in this country during
the six years just passed has been $685. $50.
$50. A new bill has just been introduced
by Representative McEttrick, of Mass,
making employers engaged in Interstate and
foreign commerce liable for injuries received
by their employees while on duty. If asked
to guess what would come of these measures
there is not and intelligent man in Congress
who would not make the same reply
nothing.
1t is on the programme for feint to be
be made of trying to get vote in the Senate
on the bills admitting Arizona and New
Mexico, but it is perfectly well understood
that neither will be acted upon. Utah was
fortunate. If she had not been admitted at
the last she would not be at this session.