Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-20
WASHlNiiTON LETTER.
Washington, Jan. -, 1896.
[spE MAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR

lock in theESenate Finance Committee
over the House tariff bill. A caucus
of republican senators decided that
the bill should be reported to the SEN
ate without amendment, just as it
was passed by the Honse, but instead
of the bill being reported it has been
hung up in the committee and no.
body knows when it will be reported
or whether it will be reported at all.
Is it any wonder that republicans are
asking what was the use of reorgan-
iZing the Senate committees if bill
ordered reported by a republican
caucus can be deadlocked in a COM
mittee which has a majority of re-
publican members. The alleged cause
of the deadlock is the action Of Sena-
tor Teller, of Colo, republican
member of the Finance Committee, in
declining to allow the tariff bill to be
reported to the Senate unless it be
amended to provide for the free coin
age of silver. What makes the action
of Senator Teller ineXplicable is that
the Finance Committee has already
reported bill for the free coinage of
silver as substitute for the House
bond bill, which is now before the
Senate and will almost certainly be
passed by the Senate. That being
the situation, what can Senator Tel
Ter, or any other silver man hope to
gain by putting free coinage amend
ment on the tariff bill. The tariff bill
was passed by the House as an emerg-
ency measure intended solely to fur
nish the revenue needed by the gov
eminent, and if it is passed by the
Senate in that shape it would at least
have chance to become a law. With
free coinage amendment it will not
have even a ghost of a chance. It
might get through the Senate, but it
could not get through the House, and
even if it could it would be met by
the Presidents veto to a dead GER
tainty. Senator Teller's intentions
are unquestionably good, but nothing
of the House tariff bill, and that will
be the result if he maintains his pres
ent position.
Hon. Geo. Prince, S. G. democrat |
now visiting Washington, probably |
gave away more than he intended |
when he said of the political situation
in his state: ssFor- some time it has
been evident that the democrats
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with another party, and now that all
danger of black supremacy has been
removed (by constitutionally re-
the right to vote), and the
democrats have virtually ceased
fighting each other, it is apparent |
that the republican party will come
into the field prepared for vigorous
battle on purely economic issues.
South Carolina has of late years
grown to be heavily interested in cot
ton and wooden mills and other man
enterprises. The people
who have put their money into these
are becoming strongly impregnated
with the doctrine of protection. With
the race problem settled, great
many of them will not hesitate to ally
themselves with the republican party
on the ground of it's fostering attitude
towards American Industries. From
this source will come the future dan
ger to democracy in South Carolina"
There was one portion of the speech
of Senator Jones. of Ark, in favor of
the free coinage substitute for the
House bond bill that was pleasing to
all republicans regardless of their
position on the silver question. That
was where he said that it was per-
fectly plain that the revenues Of the
government were at present insult
ficient and that they were not likely
to become large enough without ad-
1itional legislation. That has been
the position of the republicans from
the first, and the attemps on the part
Of Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary Carl
isle to make it appear otherwise have
not changed anybody's opinion. AS
has been repeatedly shown by repub-
leans in both House and Senate it has
been lack of sufficient revenue that
has kept the Cleveland administra
ton in financial hot water, and that
will keep it there until the money is
provided.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Cleveland's
letter to Senator CAT
ferry, of La, denying that he made a
deal with the Morgan syndicate for
those bonds, those best informed are
predicting that the Morgan syndicate
will get practically all the bonds when
they are issued.
The Senate Committee on Foreign