The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-01-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2Stli. 1894.

SASllANdlON. Att. -Ctiis ACJfs
Although there have not been at the
outside more than seyenty-Eve mem
bers of Congress in Washington at any
one time during the present week,
that has not prevented those induStri-
Gus gentlemen. who make business
Of manufacturing Washington news
for sensational papers sending out de
tailed programmes-each entirely diff
ferent from the other-0f what dispo-
sition Congress will make of the Car
Isle Currency reform bill. AS that
distinguished philosopher, Josh Bill
ilngs. us Il to say, sit is better to be
ignorant than t. know so darn much
that amt So" While President Cleve-
land and Secretary Carlisle. us well as
Chairman Springer, who IS in charge
Of the currency bill. hope and believe
that the bill will pass the House in
some shape. neither of them would at
tempt to positively say that the House
would or wonld not pass it., although
these irresponsible scribblers do 80
daily.
AS Il matter of fact, No man livingl Is
il. Il position to state with ID reasona-
bic degree of certainty what will be
the fate Of the currency bill. and all
attempts to do STD are but guesses. 1t
was well understood by the democrats
OF the House when the adjournment
for the holidays took pace hal the
recess would be devoted to Il study of
low the bill might be improved, and
that no conclusion was to be reached
until they came together again. 1t is
believed, but eve that has not been
definitely determined upon, that the
fate of the currency bill will be set
tied at a democratic caucus to be held
as soon as Congress meets again. At
any rate it can be set down as certain
that the democrats, and not the sensa-
ton mongels, will decide the matter.
Ii Spain persists in making the du-
ty upon Canadian -four shipped to
Cuba IS cents a barrel less than the
amount charged upon flour shipped
from the United States, she may wake
up some fine morning aud find herself
reading a proclamation issued by
President Cleveland that will shut
Cuban sugar out of the United States
markets. There is no doubt about the
President having ample authority for
this retaliation, and little that he will
exercise it, if the Spanish government
refuses to favorably respond to the
representations which Minister Taylor
has been directed by Secretary Gresh-
AN to make on the subject.
Secretary Carlisle made public this
week the plan FOR the reorganization
of the office of the super
vising Architect Of the Treas
ury. which is to take effect January l,
1895. Under the new plan the Archi-
tect will have to deal only with mat
tiers which should properly come I'm.
der him !; all the rest will go where
they properly belong. Everybody
who knows anything about the bust.
ness of the Office, admit, the proposed
change to be beneficial in every res
peel. The Office OF Architect is now
vacant, but it is expected to be filled
soon after the reorganization of the
Office. There are twenty-five written
applications for the office on Tile.
They are making things lively for
Representative Asher Caruth, of Ken
lucky. around his usual Washington
haunts, because of his having told a
guileless reporter for a local paper
that he had no use for a present sent
him from Philadelphia. The afcre-
said present was in the shape of a
book and Il title reading .Clips that
Pass in the Night by Jack Pot" H.
side. instead OF reading matter, was a
poker layout, including cards and
ivory chips. The Col. is accused by
his friends OF trying to bunco that
poor reporter and through him the
public, and the reporter is said to
have been discharged for accepting as
true the statement that il Kentucky
Congressman has no use for a poker
layout.
Gov. Oates, of Alabama, is spending
the holidays in Washington, but his
visit is Que of business as we'll as
pleasure. When asked what brought
him to Washington at this time, he
said my chief aim aud ambition is
to help contribute to the material de-
v%elopment of Alabama. which is so
rich in natural resources. National
legislation is needed to help on the
good work. The people of the South
are short Of the capital required in
building up that section, and so l hope
that at the present session Congress
will do something to relieve the ne
cessities of the country by some kind
OF financial legislation. The Carlisle
bill may not be perfect. bat it is a
way of relief, and should be passed."
Chairman Sayers, Of the House
committee on Appropriations, is. with
a number OF his colleagues. working
rlght tlrnuch the hnliLaNS Oh the an.