Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
(rscm our Regular Correspondent


wasting time with the House taIilf
bill. List week the Finance CON
mittee reported the same free coin
age substitute for the tariff bill!
that the House Is about to refuse
to accept as a substitute for the
House bond bill, but as wrote an
attempt Is beng made III tue
Senate to send the bill back to the
Finance committee for farther con-
sideration, although it is not easy
to see how that is going to change
the status OF things.
1t is expected that enough OF
the popullst senators will vote with
the republicans to elect the Senate
officers nominated by the repAOll-
can caucus, but there see ems TO D.
fear on the part of the repuOIl'
cans that some of their own sena'
tors will block the gare by not
voting.
The debate on Senator Hans
brongb's resolution, directing the
Secretary of Agriculture to buy
and distribute the seeds for which
a Congressional appropriation has
been made, has brought out some
breezy speeches. The bitterest
attacks upon Secretary Norton
have come from senators OF bis
own party and the bjtterest OF
them all was made by Senator
Vest, of Missouri, in a speech that
will not be forgotten for a lo1g
time. His word picture OF Secre'
tary Morton swinging a golden
censor filed with incense at the
Executive mansion and shouting
"Holy, Holy, art thou, oh Grover
King of Kings and Lord OF Lords,
was a masterpiece of Its kind al
though most people will admit
that 1t wasn't good kind OF PIC
ture to be exhibited 10 the Senate
chamber.
Senator Allison is a candidate
for the Presidential nomination OF
his party, and he Is alss chairman
of a caucus committee appointed
to consider and report upon aprop
osition, fathered by Senator HoAr
that messenger I've provided for
each Senator. There may be no
direct connection between those
wo things, but it is not improba-
ble that the Senator's Presidential
aspirations will, whatever his per-
sonal inclination, have a tend ancy
to prevent his favoriDg this pro-
posed extravaganza on the part OF
the Seuate.
A week ago it looked like the
fight made by the younger mem
bers of tue Senate, lee by Dubois
on the republican side, Hill on the
democratic side, and supported by
all the populists. for distribution
of the appropriations among the
committee instead OF putting them
all in the hands of the Committee
on Appropriations, Was bound to
win but 1t didn't. By vote OF 40
to 20it was killed, by refeIring
the resolution providing for the
change to the Committee on Rlles.
with instructions to report it back
to the Senate on the first Monday
in next December. The result OF
this fight is believed to have prac'
tically made it certain that the
fight for a change in the Senate
rules will also be unsuccessful.
The report OF the Nicaragua
Canal Commission, which wa
transmitted to Congress without
Presidential comment, has killed
any chances that might have exls.
ted to get bill through Congress
guaranteeing bonds of the Cana
Company. The report estimates
that the cost of the canal will be
almost double what the C)nptny
has claimed that it woald be, and
says that radical changes must be
made IN the plans 10 Oullu III aC
any price, What Congress will dc
Is prob!ematical, but the report
makes 1t certain that 1t will e
slow in whatevertit does. If thu
Canal Company was less greedy
there would he a chance TO pm
through a bill buying It's franchise
for the U. 8. Government, bn
tn ose who are representing thu
Company will not be satisfied IN
less they can get out dollars TO-
the cents they have actually pu
into the enterprise.