Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-22

extra issue to be subject to a heavy tax, which would insure its retirement as soon as the emergency passed and tho rate of interest became normal. I must admit, however, that this is mero theory, for there is so much cowarIlioe among public men at present. consider this us one of those periods in which legislators should lead public opinion or even resolutely defy it instead of following it. Congress ought to follow the light of experience and sound science, and adopt the best plan, even if the people were opposed to it, and then go out and persuade the people to indorse it. A funny illustration of the general scare is found in the published figures on the gold available and the statements made about it in congress. They talk about there being 5000, GOO, GOO in the country, tut my opinion Is that a universal search warrant would not discover more than $325, 1000, 900.
 Varied Plans.
 Tho country has heard enough of the Baltimore plan, tho Carlisle bill, the Springer substitute for the Carlisle bill, the Bland substitute, tho Walker substi ute, the Walker amendments to the Walker substitute and the Springer amendments to the Springer substitute for the Carlisle bill as well as the Sperry substitute for all the other substitutes and bills. It would fatigue the memory to even name the minor subdivisions of opinion on all these measures, and in this chaotic con ditiOn the house drifted toward q vote, the Populists being the only really happy fel- lows in tho business. Tho first day after the holiday recess, but One-fourth of the members being present, tho debate was a trihe dull, the speakers being Messrs Black of Georgia and McCreary and Beck ner of Kentucky for the bill, and Messrs. A I sylvania against 1t.
 Jerry Simpson injected n little fun by asking how the people of the United States had lost SEQ. GOO, 900 by the decline in the price of coal, as Mir. Adams had stated. The latter answered according to the nd vice of the old lawyer to abuse the plain tiff's attorney, " and then I.afe Pence came in with some evidence about the foreign born miners of Pennsylvania, which stirred up feeling and made the debate almost i'm teresting On the second day, however, Mir. Hendrix of Brooklyn said in sub stance: ThCrc is too much paper money. If We are to maintain the gold basis-and do it we must-we must fund the whole S6jO, OOO, 900 of government paper in bonds and then uncounted millions of gold now waiting to see what we will do will flow in upon us from Europe. Now is the golden 
 money than it can use. beg of you strike while tho iron is hot, while the great pools of capital in Franco and Germany and England arc waiting simply for the signal that tho United States is once moro all right and intends to keep all right, tO lcl | their PactOlian stream come over and flow through all the veins of our commerce.. ' Sensational Speech.
 The sensation of the day, however, was the speech of Hon. William Peters Hep burn of Iowa, who spoke but I5 minutes, | but every sentence was n snapper. He Was for high tariff, more silver. a subsidy tC shipping until We do all our own carrying, and for several other things selected from | the measures advocated by various parties. Consider this sentence But am as firm. ly convinced as that am alive that, il tho sCcrctary of tho trcasury was now tC exercise discretion, paying out gold when | legitimate rcIlcmptiOn Is demanded and refusing to pay it cut when tho sole and ! only purpose is to dcplctC the treasury Oi | this country, when the desire is for ship ment abroad, tho evils that We suffer from | would cease to exist The gem of his | speech, however, was in the few sentence: l with which he cut the balance of trade theory into giblCtS. He asserted, and soma | think he proved, that the balance of tradC l has nCTcr been in favor Of this country 1T the last 90 years. His demand for mon silver money, coming from an Iowa Re publican. was highly significant. The si | lencc On that point of Mir, Dingley, who followed, was equally significant. It Wa: the opening of the rift in that party core spending with the somewhat bigger rift 1T the other, and as the debate went on il | seemed to grow
 I fs1 yTfF iFaFs was BOurke Cochran. The temper of tn, house may bc judged by the fact tha when hc declared in an eloquent periOC that the financial question should not bi political there was q smile if not a snick | CT. This proposition to make every i'm | pOrtant question nonpolitical has become | such a chestnut" And during all thu week here briefly outlined there were nevel | at one time l2O members in the house anC very seldom more than so.
 Talk of nm Extra Session.
 Those who ought to know insist tha thcre will be an extra session of the Fifty fourth congress, and some go so far as tC name the datC-the second week in April On the assurance that therc will be a sur plus the naval committee wants $S, GOO. 900 for three new battleshipS, l2 torpedo boats and several other things, but mos I or tnlS money WOulu not Dc spent llll icSh Both houses arc tolerably liberal at pres ent, and the appropriation bills are doing quite as well as could be expected. Tn, silver men swear that Cleveland is merely trying to scare them with the threat O an extra session, and that they don scar, worth a cent They like tho prospect They are perfectly confident that any cur rency bill that can be passed on presen lines will be a failure, and tEey very nat urally want the Repub jeans and gold bugs to bear the burden of it. There Is heap of human nature in n man if he is silver Democrat Outside of congress ther, has been q very singular change for th' worse. Only three weeks ago the charita ble societies were rejoicing that their worl would be light this winter, and desker said that :he Christmas trade in sIial articles was large, The poor people mus have spent all their money then, for nov the most appalling accounts of sufferin. arc heard from every side, and there hav actually been several deaths from wan and cold. Today, unless all the witnesse are mistaken, the local situation is as bal as a year ago. J. B. PARKE.
 Men of Genius.
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