The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-03-08
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON. n. c, March ,, 1895 -
Vice President Stevenson Is as mild
hammered gentleman as ever presided
over the United States senate, but ne
this week demonstrated to the senate as
we'll as the public that there Il "a wide
gulf between mildneSs and weakness
When the excitement, which has been a
marked feature in the senate All the
week, eliminated in the greatest uproar
ever remembered to- have D., eu seen on
tie floor oftne senate, brou-h, ON b. The
attempt to prevent the Gou..un amends
ment, authorizing the secretary Of the
treasury to issue : per cent. loan certIh-
Gates whenever ready money WAS needed,
belng1iaId before the senate, he proved
himself equa! to the occasion. by order
ing the sergeant at arms to restore order,
although he must have seen from the
faces Of the older senators that he was
tramplIng upon tradition and dignity 10y
so doing. He even went further, 10y re
fuSing to allow business to toe resumed
until pefeCt order was restored, and then
to add force to the object lesson IN good
manners that he was giving to unruly
senators he directed the sergeant at arms
to insist upon order being maintained
and to place a sufficient number Of as
sistants upon the floor 10 enforce the
order. Then when you might have
heard a pin drop the vice president
calmly said: The senator from Mary
land will now proceed Afterwards the
German amendment was Withdrawn to
prevent the suudry civil appropriation
bill being talked 10 death.
1t will not be positively known until
the Fifty~thIrd congress dies by limIta
ton. next Monday. whether failure of
one or more appropriation bills Will force
the calling of an extra session. There Is
little doubt that the appropriation bills
can be put through in time by nard
work, but there are several pending
amendments-among them that repea.
ing all laws for the issue OF bonds
either of which Will bring out Il prc~l-
Dental veto, if they are not dropped.
New stories of the reign of Car Reed
over the house are scarce, but RepreSen-
taviye Grain, of Texas, tells one that Is
new, at least in Washington. He says
the following conversation occurred in
one of the house galleries while Mr.
Reed was speaker, between precocious
boy and his father who had brought him
.'Who are all those men down there.
writing and reading newspapers"
Father Those are the speakers of the
house of representatives., nay son. -
Boy-"WhO Is that great big fat man
in the chair under the American flag"
Father-''That, my son, Is the House
of representatives..
Senator Brice has been unmercifuIlv
guyed for attempting to secure an ap-
preparation from congress Of 500, 600
for experimenting in aerial machines,
but the senator insists that the wheels
in his head haven't slipped any cogs.
and further that the government ought
20 assist in Fastening the areiaI naviga-
ton, which Is bound to come sooner or
later.
Representative Bailey, of Texas, is as
good silver man as Representative
Bryan, of Nebraska, but he declines to
sign the letter addressed to the public.
which Mr.. Bryan Is circulating among
Democratic members, and he gives his
reasons for declining as follows:
Bryan idea leans more to what Is ex-
pedient and further from what Is Demo
cratic than | want to 90. 1t IL his de
sire to pronounce solely for free silver e
to one and stop. Not a word of tariff.
nothing Of state banks. No announce
ment which should guide a party. A
party cannot succeed with naught but
silver. Man cannot live by bread alone
Bryan's idea is practically only for dav.
He believes in trusting all the silver
forces; Democratic, Republican and Pop
uIist. l believe in being a Democrat
and in having party of Democrats. If
PoDulists and Republicans aiming at free
silver can act with US, | would be eamong
the first to welcome them. But | cant
surrender my party's faith to gain tenn
pOrary aid. 1t tmight do for the present.
but would waste the party and wreck the
country in the future. | look on Popu-
ism as an equal public threat with Re
publican doctrines to their ultimate work
ing out, and a few men would own all
the property OF the country, and the
rest would be beggars. Carry popuIism
to Its utmost expression and nobody
would have any iprOperty at all I'm
against both"
The house has had time to kill this
week, while waiting for the senate to
action the appropriation bills 1t passed
the bill authorizing an arbitration com
mission to settle disputes between inter
state common carriers and their en-
ployes and number Of unirnportant
measures.
President Cleveland made a hit in
choosing a successor to Postmaster Gen
eral Bissell, who retired this week. NJ.