Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-11
IN STATU QUO.
CURRENCY REFORM STILL AN
OPEN QUESTION.
Prospects Good for the Carlisle Bill
A Compliment to the Admins.
tratiOn ON its Indian Service
Democratic Prospects In wiscon-

Democratic Prospects In wiscOn-
| sin.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. 4, 1895.
President Cleveland has not fully
decided to send special message to
Congress urging the necessity for
financial legislation at this session,
but he has had the subject under
consideration and will gladly send in
q special message if he thinks it will
aid the cause OF currency reform. As
there are a considerable number Of
Democratic members of the House
who have not yet returned to Wash
ington, it is probable that the decision
as to the proposed Democratic caucus
on the Carlisle currency reform bill
will go over to next week, general de-
bate on the bill continuing mean
while in the House.
The idea of the Democratic leaders
in the House is to try to meet oil rea-
sonable objections to the Carlisle bill
by amendments and then to put the
bill through the House by majority
so large that the Senate will be com.
PEELED by public opinion to act upon
the measure. They wish to get the
fullest possible attendance at the eau
Gus and to have every objection to the
bill frankly stated. There is no de-
sire to muzzle anybody. or to ask any
one to vote for the bill who cannot be
convinced that it is at least q step
towards relief.
| Notwithstanding all the wild talk
about Democratic opposition to the
Carlisle bill, your correspondent I'M
hesitatingly predicts that when the
bill is put upon its final passage in the
House there will not be % Democratic
votes recorded against it. But the
bill may be considerably changed by
amendments before it is voted upon.
Whatever is done with it, it should in
the end be passed (even if it did not
deserve to be ON its merits), as vote
of confidence by Democratic Con-
gress in Democratic administration.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Smith have a right to feel proud of a
compliment paid them by Capt. P. H.
Ray, U. S. A, who is ct present in
Washington. Capt. Ray has done
duty among the Indians for thirty
years and who is at the present time
in charge of the Shoshone and Arap-
pahoe Indian agency in Wyoming,
said during a conversation in which he
expressed the unqualified belief that
the Indians could be made a self-sup.
porting and self-respecting citizen
"During all my experience in the
West / have never known an admin.
istration that has dealt with the Indians
in IS clear and conscientious q way as
the present. The Secretary OF the
Interior has. without any partisan
bias, done in ever instance his best to
promote the interest OF the tribes and
the government, and from my own
observation think that he has thus
far been very successful"
Representative Brickner, Of Wis
consin, is never.say-die sort of a
Democrat. He says: Wisconsin
has two Democratic Senators now, and
it is by no means certain that she will
have any less two years from now. 1t
is true that about one-half of the
present Senate will hold over and that
a majority of them are Republicans,
but if the Democrats in Wisconsin
pull themselves together and start out
with q new organization l see no
reason why we should not elect Dem
ocratic legislature in 1896" Speaking
of the outlook for legislation by this
Congress Mr.. Brickner said: "The
Democrats can pass a financial bill un.
less the Republicans in the Senate in
terpose dilatory tactics and prevent ac-
ton. II nothing is done in the Senate
the responsibility will rest with the Re
publicans, and then if an extra session
is the result the country will speedily
understand who is TO blame. The
pathway ahead for the Republicans is
by no means free from thorns."
Secretary Carlisle very properly de-
clines To discuss the absurd story that
Mr.. PierpOnt Morgan had been sent To
President Cleveland by a syndicate oil
bankers to ask that the Secretary o.
the Treasury be removed. A more
preposterous story than that was never
started upon its rounds. 1t is alto
gether probable that any man who pre-