Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-03-08
WASHINGTON LETTER


terday was Sund /, but to resi-
exhausted humanity, has passed
into history, " hich will impartially
| Judge its acts, good and Dad. II
will he several days before the
| sull fleets of the legislation dur
Ing it's last two days If life
amendments to appropriation bills
etc.--can be put 10 such shape as
to he aggregated and fully digested
although it is already known that
much of it was unwIse and more
for the good If individuals than
for the good of the country, and
would have been promptly vetoed
| in separate bills. Bat that is
exactly why they we're not put
INTO separate bills. 1t has become
custom to force P.esiden to
accept vicious legislation at the
close OF every Congress as amend
ments to appropriation bills
because the sponsors tor this class
of legislation known that the
amounts are seldom large eaOugh
~ a single bill fer the President
TO vote an appropriation bill and
entail the expense of an extra
session If Congress upon the
country. The custom Is a bad one
and should be broken up, but that
is difficult to do. The easiest wav
to do it would be to follow The re
concentrations Of several Presl'
dents and give the President au-
thoriIy to veto separate causes OF
a bill, bat that authority can only
be gwen by Congress.
Numerous persons, in the Senate
as we'll as out, were disappointed
because none Of the proposed
political Investigations In the
Southern States we're authorized
before the adjournment of Con
gress. At one time lit seemed
probable that blanket inyestlga'
ton would I've ordered, but private
discussion of the matter soon
made it apparent that it would
have been about as easy to get a
vote on a tree coinage bill as on a
resolution of that sort, so 1t was
decided to drop the whole business
but 1t will come up at the next
session again.
Senator Henderson accomplish
cd one real reform during the last
week of his service in the Senate
The time wasted at every session
of Congress by the delivery Of
eulogies on deceased members
averages from one to ten days IN
both House aDd Senate. This
time will no longer be wasted in
the Senate, nor will the memory OF
deceased Senator'S be neglected.
or their virtues or supposed Wiz
tues fail to be recorded. In &C
COZ dance with a resolution offered
bv Senator Henderson and adopt
ed by the S.nate there will be no
more spoken eulOgies of Senators.
When a Senator dies his life and
services will be duly recorded, all
his colleagues having chance to
contribute, in a printed volume
aud the farce of speaking the
euIogies to empty chairs and vast
| ing the time of the Senate will
be seen no more. Amen,
The following words OF 81
| Charles Hunt, of England, who is
at present in Washington and who
Is known at home IS an expert
fnaucler, are timely and interest
ing: 81 have studied the money
question in India, in Europe, and
IN America, and though l haven
the slightest interest in silver as
D oducer or owner, believe thai
its denomination has been the
cause of the great depression that
exists in trade 10 every civilized
countrv today. The In .oses are
Just I, .1nIng to see this, but they
will learn very rapidly henceiorth,
and in the next general elections
in England and in the UnlteC
States we shall have popular
verdict in favor of bimetallism. My
own belief is that We shall never
have any permanent prosperity
until the great nations OF the
world come together aud fix an
agreement that will rehabilitat'
silver as a money metal. l wlsl
that the United States were able
to maintain silver alone, but sh'
cannot do it without the help o
other gOvernments.'
The silver men, who stood 81
close together during the greater
part of the life of the Congress
just Closed, seem within the las
few days to have forgotten th'