Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-02-07
From our regular correspondent
wAsHIN0fos. D. c.. Feb. 1. lso.

5ulecu III ally Hhdncldt leglklatlOD a,
the present session. He sent tba.
message with a twofold purpose bn,
securing immediate Legislation was
not one of them. His first and mar
purpose was to impress the eountrv
with the idea that If congress wonla
not act there was nothing left for tha
administration but another Issue i,
bonds under the act of 1875. This,
this was a bit of deceit is shown IL
the fact that he had fully decided
upon another issue Of bonds before
his message was sent to congress. ana
had so Uniformed Mr.. August Belmont
the New York banker and agent fr
Rothschilds. His second plrnose
was in sense political. He desired
| if possible, to commit the republicans
in congress to financial legislation
believing that by SO doing he would
place the party in aposition where it
could not consistently decline to pass
financial bill should an extra session
be called, and it is considered well.
nigh certain that one will be called
1t was in pursuance of the latter pnr.
pose that thedemocrats on the hopsa
banking and currency committee
have agreed to every amendment ia
the new financial bill proposed by
the republican members of thatcom.
mittee, and that it has been openly
understood that Mr.. Cleveland de-
sired the bin amended in anyway
that will get it the support Of the re-
publican members Of the house
There is radical difference in the
opinions entertained by Senator
Voorhees,, chairman OF the senate
finance committee, and Represent
ative Wilson. chairman of the house
committee on ways and means, as to
the future condition of the L. S.
Treasury. The latter gentleman be-
lieyes, or rather he said in speech
on the bill for the repeal of the diff
ferential sugar duty, which this week
passed the house, that he believed
the treasury would very soon have
comfortable surplus, while the for
mer uses the following language in
financial bill that he submitted to
his committee: "Be it enacted ETC.,
that to enable the secretary of the
treasury to provide for and to MAIN
tain the redemption of United States
notes, and also to enable him to pay
current DEFICIENCIES in the revenue,
he is authorized etc. 1t is needless
to tell the intelligent reader that the
view Of Senator Voorhees, is the cor
rect one, and that the treasury, sur
plus is so far as can be seen at this
time merely a Pigment of Mr.. Viii
sons imagination and his hope.
The big republican majority in the
next house has been having mark
ed influence upon the actions of the.
democrats of the present house. A
case in point was the unanimous de-
cision of the committee on elections
that Representative Childs, of the
eighth Ill. district, whose seat was
contested, is entitled to the seat he
now holds. This leniency would be
remarkable if there were not so
many democrats whose seats will be
contested in the next house.
We'll" growled a well-known
southern senator, II wonder who will
give Gresham and Cleveland their
next snubbing. 1t would seem that
the bottom of the ditch of degre-
dation had been reached when Mexi-
can greasers can with impunty snub
the United States government The
irate senator was referring to the
curt mo" with which the Mexican
government met Cleveland's offer to
mediate between Mexico and Gnate-
mala.
The noted pension case OF Judge
Long, Of Michigan, which has been
in Washington courts for some
months, was last week decided in.
Judge Longs favor, the court holding
in long and elaborate opinion that
Commissioner Lochren had no right
to reduce the amount of the pension
1t is said that the administration
proposes having the case appealed TO
the supreme court. Meanwhile MI
Lochren, who having been a judge
himself ought to know better, is talk
ing in a way that may yet gel
him charged with contempt of court
For instance he said: 1.-THE only way
that Judge Long could be restored
to his former rating is through
new certificate, to be signed by the
secretary of the interior and also
by the commissioner of pensions
How Judge Bradley twho deliyered
the decision) expects me to restoie
the pension if the secretary does no'
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