Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-01-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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now pending IN the Senate ine'
intend to pass, although they have
little faith in Its getting through
the House and know that it would
be vetOd If it did; but that ISM
the only way they propose tC
demonstrate their power. Senator
Teller has served notice on the
Senate Finance Committee that
he will not ALLOW the House tariff
bill, which the republican caucus
ordered reported without amend
ment providing for the free coin
age OF silver, and that notice has
thrown the committee into a dead
lock which will be broken nobody
knows when.
1t has not been decided when
the debate now going on III the
Senate on the bill for the free
coinage of silver will end, but it
will probably depend more upon
the wishes of the friends OF the
bill then upon its opOl ents, who
have declared that they would
raise no obstacles to bringing 1t to
a vote at any time. All agree
that it will pass, the only differ
ence of opinion being as to the
majority it Will get.
The Venezuelan boundary CON-
mission is row getting down TO
business. Nnsequently It's meet
iu gs are held behind closed doors.
The House after a more or less
acrimonious debate has adopted a
set of rules, not differing widely
from the original Reed rules, and
is now working on routine busi'
ness.
1.-two bills which have been in.
troduced ever become laws we
shall have two additional members
of the cabinet ID a Secretary of
Labor. Much can be said IN favor
of the establishment of these two
new executive departments OF the
government, and little is said
against them, still such charges
are never hastily made. Both bills
are old acquaintance of Congress.
Neither would add anything to the
present government machine; they
would merely make executive
departments of the Labor Bureau,
aud ofthe several bureaux OF the
Treasury Department which deal
with commercial matters.
Spirited but Ineffective efforts
have been made in both Houses
and Senate to hurry the action OF
the respective Foreign Committees
In reporting a resolution for re-
coguitlon of Cuban belligerercy.
The men In control of those com
mittees have indicated very plainly
that no hasty action will be taken
by referring 1t to sub committees,
and it Is well.nigh certain that the
administration Will not take any
action until directed by Congress
to do so. Meanwhile agents oil
Spain are said to be spending
money literally to delay Con-
gTesSiOnal action.
Senator Morgan's resolution
congratulating the republic of the
TransvaaI for maintaining its ln'
stitutions Of political liberty against
the encrOachments of its enemies
which was referred to the COM
mittee on Foreign Affairs, was
somewhat OF a surprise. While
innocent enough and entirely prop
er under ordinary circumstances
the present relations between the
L. S. aud Great Britain and the
relation of the latter towards tie
Transvaal republic makes the re.
solution look like a sneer at Eng.
land,
1t is altogether probable that
Representative Pugh, of KY, In
tends TO be especially patriotic
when lie introduced bill proyld
ing that cities of 100000 or more
inhabitants may obtain postage
stamps of special design-memo-
rails Of local history and men
from the Postmaster General, but
there are people just sordid enough
to regard The bill as being entirely
in the interest of the stamp deal.
ers.
Democratic newspaper men OF
" ashiDgton are just hopping mad
because of the language used by
President Cleveland in ills letter
to Senator Gallery, of L., denying
that be had male any deal with
the Morgan bond syndicate. The
paragraph in the letter TO which
the correspondents take special
exception is the following: ~ am
amazed at The intolerance that
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