The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-03-07
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Little That Is Good Can be said
of the Recently Deceased
Congress-.
The Expiring Hours Were Not
Markedly Amy Extraordin-
airy Event.
The silver Craze Does Not TAX e
a Firm Hold of the I'm.
huential.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
There's death at hand,
But stead of the funeral bell.
There's joyful shout all over the land:
Ills we'll Iis well.
If the adage "only speak we'll of che
dead" were literally followed it would
be impossible to speak at all of the
Fifty-third Congress, which drew it's
last gasp at noon today. About the
best that can be said of the defunct
congress is that it did not do all the
harm it might have done, and the DEM
ocratic majority should receive no
credit for that, as their intentions were
to do ali the harm possible, it was only
by the alertness of the republicans that
they were prevented from carrying them
all out.
About the only mourners in the con-
gressional house of death are the ex-
members who know that their public
careers are ended for good and all, and
the capital employees who only receive
pay while congress is in session.
Ex-speaker Reed uttered a few wo rds
whit the house was discussing under a
suspension of the rules bill appropriate
ing SIT 500 to reimburse Washington
and Lee University, OF Virginia, for the
injuries sustained during the war, which
were as sound in principle as the founda
ton of the common law. After pro lest
ing against the bill becoming considered
on sentimental grounds instead of the
grounds of reason and wisdom, Mr..
Reed said: Whoever provokes war
must take the consequences, 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 Eek" was
was attacached at noon today-tried to
accomplish what would have been a
real reform just before completing his
senatorial career. He failed, but tina
should not prevent his receiving due
credit for having made the attempt.
Senator Henderson offered an amend
ment to the general deficiency appro-
priation bill, providing that the wives and
daughters of senators and representa-
tives should not be borne on the rolls as
clerks, but the senate promptly laid it on
the table, and the wives and daught ers
of certain senator's and representa- tives
will continue to draw 500 a mon tn for
work which, with rare exceptions, they
do not perform, and people elsewhere
will continue to wonder why is so diff
cult to get Washington jury to con-
vict those who rob the government.
Senator Manderson's amendment should
have become law, and its provisions
should have extended to cover the sons
as we'll as the wives and daughters; also
newspaper correspondents, and to EN-
brace all government employment.
Senator Morgan wasn't mealy-
mouthed about the reported intention of
the British government to pay the dam
ages allowed by Secretary Gresham to
Canadian sealers in Boring Sea. He
said in a speech in the senate: "Sir
George Baden-Powell says that they
want to pay tine, Canadians and the
recalcitrant and rascally Americans who
hired themselves out under the British
flag to rob the government ofthe United
States, violate its law, and dishonor the
country-and pay them in advance, so
as to have moral claim agains the
United States, for this $425, 900, not
one shilling of which was due-nst one
shilling. propose that the committee
on foreign relations shall investigate
that matter. There has been enough OF
falsehovd and Misrepresentation about
this in official documents and in the
newspapers to require, TOR the vindica-
ton of the honor of the country. that
this Investigation shall be made" Mr..
Morgan was one OF the Bering Sea ar
bitratrators, and knows this subject
this subject thoroughly.
The silver program, which was to
commit the democratic party to free
coinage at a ratio of 16 to slzzled out
withot making as much blaze as a par
lor match would have done. The
scheme had its origin in the fertile brain
OF Mr.. Bland. OF Mo-, who today re-
tired to private life, involuntarily after
a long career as member OF the house.
Mr.. Bland very shrewdly allowed Mr..
Bryan of Nebraska, another gentleman
who has dropped from Uncle Sans
pay roll today, to take the manage
ment vi the affair and to circulate the
manifesto which was Intended to force
Mr.. Cleveland and the other "gold
bugs" out of the democratic party as
soon as it had been signed by nine
tenths of the democrats in congress. The
manifesto might have had that effect
had all the expected signers material
lied, but they didn't. In fact so few
democrats signed the manifesto that
none of the signers' names were made
public with the manifesto. The other
scheme, fathered by some of the men,
bers CT the Bi-Metalic League with dem
ocratic proclivities, to start silver
party and put up at once presidential
ticket, is still in the incubator with the
chances against it's being Matched out IN
healthy condition.
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