Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-12-17

had there not been more or less triekery
about the way 1t was worked by some
Senators. it might not have gotten
through at all. The fifty third Congress
it will be remembered met in extra
session August 9TH, 1893. Although
the extra session was called solely to
to pass the bill for the repeal Of the
Sherman silver law, the House Commit.
tee on Ways and Means went right to
work on the Wilson tariff bill, but that
measure did not become law until
August 28th 1894. It is because they
remember the time required to pass
these recent tariff bills when the party
in power had good working majority
that old-timers are saving nothing when
the legislative beginners are talking
about passing tariff bill in sixty days
after the extra session meets.
The majority of the Senate seems de-
termined to live up to the record of
being the most deliberate-eome people
say lazy-body in the world. Although
the Christmas holidays will take up ten
days or more of the time of the short
session, and the Senate calendar is we'll
filled with House bills passed at the last
session, some OF them measures of i'm
portance, the Senate only held four
short sessions during the first week of
Congress. The House did much better.
1t was in session five days and it did a
lot Of business, including the passing Of
the pension appropriation bill, some
postal bills and bill prohibiting the
sale ofintoxicating liquor in the Capitol
building.
Representative Boatner, Of La, who
will not be a member of the next Con-
gress, has introduced a bill to increase
the Speakers salary from $4,000 to
$4,000 and of Senators and Represen
tatives from $1,000 to $1,000. While
majority in Congress would probably
like to see this bill become law, there
is no likelihood that majority would
vote for it, because they know the pre-
vailing idea is that the salaries paid are
already equal to, if not in excess Of the
value Of the services rendered.
Representative Raw, of New York,
believes that the sensational publication
of the details Of suicides results in in :
creasing suicide, and he has introduced
bill making any publication, not de-
voted to medical science, which publishes
the picture Of the suicide, or any details,
excepting name. date, and place Of
death, unavailable.
Senator Teller braced up several Of
the silver Senators notably Dubois. Of
Idaho, and Squier of Washington, who
have been getting little shaky about
their reelection, owing to combinations
against them by announcing as soon as
he arrived in Washington that the first
duty Of Legislatures controlled by silver
men was to reflect Senators who had
stood by their convictions in favor Of
silver to the extent of leaving their
party. 1t is thought in Washington
that this will have great weight, as
Senator Teller is regarded as one Of the
most influential among the silver lead
ers. Senator Teller declines to express
any opinion for publication as to what
the programme Of the silver men in
Congress will be, and he escaped d.
rect question as to what attitude he
would himself assume toward the repub
lean tariff bill by saying: VI haven't
been reelected to the Senate and my
present term expires March 3rd" This
wasn't half bad, although Senator Tel
Ter knows, as does everybody else, that
his reelection to the Senate by practic-
ally the unanimous vote of the Colorado
legislature is as certain as the meeting
of that body few weeks hence.
The caucus committee appointed by
Senator Sherman to devise bill in the
interest of international bimetalism, il
made up Of silver men-Wolcott, Hoar,
Chandler, Gear and Carter.