The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1896-02-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Garden Seed GuSh, Congress
SiOnal Matters,
The Read.Money Wedding. Other
Interesting Items.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 10, 1896.


Editor Sentinel About thirty-fve
years ago the old Capitol building,
whose gigantic wings were stretched
out over great nation of divided peo-
pie, resounded from pit to dome with
fiery and eloquent secession speeches
of noted statesmen, that almost shook
the goddess of liberty from her lofty
throne and agitated the political wa
ters Of the earth as they were ne'er
agitated before. The principle then
involved affected the ;nalienable rights
of many millions of liberty-loving
freemen Verify, histol y repeats itself,
but under somewhat dissimilar circum-
stances. For the last week both
branches of Congress have gone
through genuine epidemic Of seces-
sion agitation-members delivering
themselves Of bitterer and more vim
dictge speeches than even those away
bacFin the Sixties" 1t was decla.
ration Of secession on the part of Con-
gressmen who are determined to Sc
cede from the seedless policy of J..
Sterling Morton. the seedless Secreta.
ry OF Agriculture. Congressman do
not propose to sit still and act like
''dumb driven cattle" end have Secre-
tary Morton rob them of their best
campaign argument in favor of their
reelection to Congress. 1t is indeed a
cruel piece of injustice on the part of
Mr.. Morton. How can he expect GER
tain Congressman to be reelected
without the valuable assistance of
their faithful old friend. garden
seed?' And that's no joke. either.
The Senate and the House have unan-
imously resolved that Mr.. Morton
shall continue to distribute free seed
among their constituents. SO B:lI Jones
and John Smith may expect their full
quota of sweet peas aud morning glory
seed.
The free coinage silver bill. which
WIS passed in the Senate hy seven ma.
jority and referred TO the House for its
action, was defeated the other day by
that body by a majority of over one
hundred, thus saving the President the
trouble Of veloipg it. which he surely
Il l,n, hpI II fI hi,,,
The ;ction of the House was no sur
prise, but the sound money" people
claim that it was a great victory for
their side, since the members of the
House are supposed to more accurately
reflect the true sentiment OF the coun
try on all public issues. as they come
more directly from the people than the
Senators do. That doubtless ends the
free silver agitation for this session Of
Congress.
A bill has been introduced in the
House hv philanthropic member.
which provides that a small per cent
OF the earnings of all Government en-
ployees shall be retained as a sort OF
reserve fund, and when a person shall
have served the Government for TWEEN
,y years he is to be retired aud paid
his pro rata of the fund, with accrued
interest ard Il years pay, equal to the
amount of the highest salary he re-
ceived during the twenty wears OF sprv-
lee, as Il sort OF pension. If he leaves
the service for any cause before the
expiration of the twenty years, he
only receives his pro rata cf earnings
and interest for the time he was in the
service. The measure carries ccn>!d-
cradle merit with it. For it not only
provides for people who have grown
old in the service of the Government.