The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-01-11
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, January 7, 1895.

but he has had the subject under con
sideration and will gladly send in a
special message if he thinks 1t will
aid the cause of currency reform. AS
there are considerable number OF
democratic members of the House
who have not yet returned to Wash
ington, 1t is probable that the decision
as to the proposed democratic caucus
on the carlisle currency reform bill
Will go over to next week, general
debate on the bill continuing mean
while in the House.
The idea of the democratic leaders
in the House is to try to meet all
reasonable objections to the Carlisle
bill by amendments and then to put
the bill through the House by maj
ority so large that the Senate will be
compelled by public opinion to act
upon the measure. They wish to get
the fullest possible attendance at the
caucus and to have every objection
to the bill frankly stated. There is
no desire to muzzle anybody, or TO
ask anyone to vote for the bill who
cannot be convinced that it is at least
a step towards relief.
Notwithstanding all the wild talk
about democratic opposition to the
Carlisle bill, your correspondent un.
hesitatingly predicts that when the
oil is put upon Its final passage in
The House there will not be as demo
cratic votes recorded against it. But
the bill may be considerably changed
by amendments before it is voted up
on. Whatever is done with it, it should
in the end be passed (even if it did
not deserve TO be on its merits) as a
vote Of confidence by a democratic
Congress in democratic administra-
ton.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Smith have right to feel proud of a
compliment paid them by Capt. P. II.
Ray, U. S. A., who is at present in
Washington. Capt. Ray has done duty
among the Indians for thirty years
and who is at the present time In
harge of the Shoshone and Arappa-
hoe Indian agency in Wyoming, said
Turing a conversation in which he ex-
pressed the unqualified belief that the
Indian could be made self support
ing and self'respecting citizen
During all my experience in the
West have never known an admin.
stration that has dealt with the
Indians in as clear and conscientious
way as the present. The Secretary
| of the Interior has, without any parti-
san bias, done in every 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 a 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
majority OF them are republicans,
but If the democrats in Wisconsin pull
themselves together and start out with
new organization, see no reason
why we should not elect democratic
legislature in 1896" Speaking for
the outlook for legislation by this
Congress Mr.. Brickner said: "The
democrats can pass a financial bill
unless the republicans in tie Senate
nterpose dilatoty tactics and prevent
action. If nothing is done in the Sen
ate the responsibility will rest with the
republicans, and then if an extra ses
sion 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
clnes to discuss the absurd story that
MIR. J. Plerpont Morgan had been
sent to President Cleveland by a
syndicate Of bankers to ask that the
Secretary of the Treasury be removed.
a more preposterous story was never
started upon its rounds. 1t is al
together probable that any man who
presented request of that sort TO
President Cleveland would be, as he
would deserve to be, kicked out of
the executive Office. Such a request
would be an assumption that the fl.
nances OF the government must be adj.
mln'Stered to SUIT the bankers, regard
less OF everybody else, and such an
assumption would be personal in
suit to the President of the United
States.
Treasury officials now only await
the appropriation to start the machine
ry Tor the collection of the income
tax, and there is no doubt Of the final
passage of the bill containing that an
preparation by the Senate-lt has
already passed the House but it will
be delayed by some republican bnn.