The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-03-08
From our Regular Correspondent.

N1S-l iNoiONhN DNNNNhoOh - -
mild hammered gentleman as ever
presided over the U. S. Senate, but
he this week demonstrated to the Sen
ate as well as the public that there is
a gulf between mildness and weakness.
When the excitement, which has been
a marked feature in the Senate all the
week, eliminated in the greatest up
roar ever remembered to have been
seen on the floor of the Senate,
brought on by the attempt to prevent
the German amendment, authorizing
the Secretary Of the Treasury to issue
4 per cent. loan certificates whenever
ready money was needed, being laid
before the Senate, he proved himself
equal to the occasion, by ordering 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 by SO doing. He even went
further, by refusing to allow business
to be resumed until perfect order was
restored, and then to add force to the
object lesson in good manners that he
was giving to unruly Senators he di,
rected the Sergeant alarms to insist
upon order being maintained and to
place sufficient number Of assistants
upon the floor to enforce the order.
Then when you might have heard a
pin drop the Vice President calmly
said: "The Senator from Maryland
will now proceed" Afterwards the
German amendment was Withdrawn
to prevent the Sundry Civil appropria.
ton bill being talked to death
1t will not be positively known un-
til the Fifty.third Congress dies by
limitation, next Monday, whether
failure of one or more appropriation
bills will force the calling of an early
extra session. There is little doubt
that the appropriation bills can be
put through in time by hard work, but
there are several pending amendments
among them that repeating all laws
for the issue of bonds either Of which
will bring out Presidential veto, if
they are not dropped
New stories of the reign Of Gar
Reed over the House are scarce, but
Representative Grain, Of Texas, tells
one that is new, at least in Washing.
ton. He says the following converse.
tion occurred in one of the House
Galleries while Mr.. Reed was speaker,
between precocious boy and his
father who had brought him to the
Capitol to see Congress: Boy
"Who are all those men down there,
writing and reading newspapers ?
Father Those are the speakers of
the House of Representatives, my
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 unmerci-
fully guyed FOR attempting to secure
an appropriation from Congress of
$Ioo, 900 for experimenting in aerial
machines, but the Senator insists that
the wheels in his head haven't slipped
any cogs, and further that the govern
ment ought to assist in Fastening the
era of aerial navigation, which is
bound to come sooner OF later.
Representative Bailey, of Texas, is
as good a silver man as Representa-
tive Bryan, of Nebraska, but he de.
clines to sign the letter addressed to
the public, which Mr.. Bryan is circu
lating among democratic members,
and he gives his reasons for declining
as follows "Bryan's idea leans more
to what is expedient and further from
what is democratic than l want to 20.
1t is his desire to pronounce solely for
free silver 70 to I and stop. Not
word of tariff, nothing of state banks.
No announcement Of any further
principles of government which should
guide party. A party cannot sue
ceed with naught but silver Man
cannot live by bread alone. Bryan's
idea is practically only for day. He
believes in using all the silver forces
democratic, republican and populst.
believe in being democrat and in
having party of democrats. If popu,
lists and republicans aiming at free
silver and act with us, | would be
among the first to welcome them.
But I can't surrender my party's
faith to gain temporary aid. 1t might
do for the present, but would waste
the party and wreck the country in
the future. | look on populism as an
equal public threat with republican
ism. Garry republican doctrines to
their ultimate working out, and a few
men would own all the property OF
the country, and the rest would be
beggars. Garry populsm to its ut
most expression and nobody would
have any property at all. I'm against
both"
The House has had time to kill
this week. while WAITING for the Sen