Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-02
WASHINLTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. p, 1896.

silver democrats with Wedge Unau
will be used TO split the demo-
cratic party, at the Chicago conven :
ton. This wedge was Mr.. Carlisle's
letter declining to ask the anti silver
democrats in the Kentucky legisla-
ture to vote for Blackburn for sena
tor, and saying in effect that he
thought minority justified in re-
fusing to sacrifice their belief in the
interests of party harmony.
Senator Carter will this week call
up his motion to recommit the tariff
bill to the Finance committee, and
will make speech explaining why he
voted against taking up the bill the
other day. Tt is expected that the
three other republican senators who
voted against consideration of the
bill will also make speeches on the
same lines. Whether Senator Car
ter's motion will be carried will prob
ably depend upon the attitude of the
Populist senators, which at this time
appears to be doubtful, as the votes
of the other senators can be pretty
accurately predicted.
There are numerous members OF
both House and Senate who are of the
opinion that Secretary Carlisle placed
himself in position that is almost, If
not quite, criminal, when he sold the
Morgan syndicate the bonds upon
which the original bidders failed to
make the first payment at the stipu-
lated time, at price just six cents on
the dollar less than they could have
been sold for in the open market, and
some who think Congress should
probe this favoritism to the bottom.
Notwithstanding the abuse shower
ed upon the republicans of n. @. by
the democrats of that and other
states for having made that combi-
nation with the populists which re-
suited in wrestling the state from
democratic control and in the election
of two U. S. senators, one populist
and the other q. republican, the dem
ocratic leaders of North Carolina are
now trying to entice the populists to
publicans. A number of prominent
democrats from that state are now in
Washington. comforting with Senator
Butler, and DR.. Mott, who is in charge
of the silver party's campaign, the N.
G. populist leaders. Free silver and
white supremacy are advanced by
these democrats as the foundation
stones of the proposed new deal.
Congressman McDuffie, of Ala
bama, is enthusiastic over republi-
can prospects in that state. He said:
CAL elements will be united in Ala
bama this year to defeat the organic
ed democracy. The fusion will con-
sist of the republicans and populists,
under the banner of fair elections and
protection to home industries, and
there will be no disaffectiOn in our
ranks. This will be the first good
chance the republicans have had to
do anything in state politics in TWEEN
ty years or more, and we propose to
take advantage of the opportunity.
The presidential electors will be
equally divided between the populists
and the republicans"
Speaker Reed has succeeded in
keeping the ex-members of Congress,
who are engaged in lobbying, off the
floor of the House to greater extent
than has ever before been done The
rules give ex-members of both
branches of Congress the privilege of
the floor, but the rules also say that
this privilege can only be enjoyed by
those who are not interested in legis-
lation. Early in the present session
Speaker Reed instructed the door
keepers of the House to admit no ex-
member without pass signed blythe
Speaker, and to send all who applied
for admission without pass, to him. |
He has only issued passes to the ex
members who convinced him that
they were not lobbyists.
1t does not behoove our Canadian
cousins to be too critical about the
use the Gloucester fishermen make of
the licenses which their inequitable
laws compel the Yankee shippers to
take out. The Canadian government
has no moral or legal justification
whatever for compelling American
schooners which visit its ports to pay
a tribute for the privilege of buying
ice and water and provisions. This is
a commercial right which is exercised
without question in every other civ
ihzed country in the world by all
mariners of whatever flag or nation
atty. 1t is not to the credit of the
Dominion that it denies to its nearest
friends and naiuhhOrs q hnsnita iitv