The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-29
WASHINGTON.
VOTE AGAINST MORE TAX ON .rrv

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vine bond Biii-Populist: Attemp, I,
Impeach OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES n,.
fuses Papers I" the Competitor Case.
The President Saturday sent mes
sage to the Senate in relation to the
spanish protocols and the Competito,
anair' 1t contains nothing but the
text OF the treaties and protocols, in
inc original Spanish and in English.
INC President declines, on public
grounds, to transmit to the Senate apv
OF the correspondence between this
government and Spain growing out of
the Competitor affair.
Inc Senate Friday gave fresh proof
OF It's mental and moral decadence by
voting to proceed to the consideration
OF the Butler bill prohibiting the is
sue of United States bonds without,
the consent of Congress though it was
afterwards side tracked. The motion
was adopted by a vote of ) yeas to 20
nays. The victorious yea column was
composed of II Democrats, ~ Republi-
cans and five Populists. The nays
comprised five Democrats and IL Re
puhlicaas. Hill made powerful fight
against it, pointing out that the Sen
ate had confessed its paralysis in the
presence of the silver Republicans,
that IL would not provide revenue to
carry on the government, and that the
only resource for the protection of the
national horror was that which the
President had used and which the
pending bill proposed to take from
him. The seriousness of the situation
was indicated by the offers made by
Senator Sherman on the Republican
side and Senators Gray and George
on the Democratic side to:yicld some
thing of their economic opinions. if
the other side would join them in
passing "A revenue bill. Hill threw out
the suggestion that the President
might refuse to send appropriations
except for necessary administrative
purposes, upon the ground that there
was not the money in the treasury to
pay them. Turning 10 the Southern
senators he declared that the agitation
of such a proposition as this hurt the
silver cause. With free coinage of sii
yer tomorrow, they would still have to
get the money to redeem the paper
currency. Hawley of Connecticut,
characterized the pending bill as lead
ibS "
and infamy. Strong protests against
the bill were also made by Gray of
Delaware and Sherman of Ohio, the
latter declaring that the bill ought
never TO have appeared in the Senate,
and that it was a serious threat to
business confidence. But the debate
on the bill has served good purpose.
1t has compelled the sound money Re
publicans to declare themselves in re
gard to past bond issues. They have
been making great noise over those
acts of the administration. But If, as
Gen. Hawley said, the passage of the
bill to prevent further issues would be
anarchy and "infamy,' then it
would have been about that for Mr..
Cleveland to have failed 10 issue bonds
when he did.
The Senate passed the general def
cheney bill Monday, the last of the 10
great annual budgets before It, The
sundry civil bill was disposed of Sat
urday by the Houses agreement of
some of the Senate amendments.
Among them was the appropriation of
$40. coo to rebuild the building at st.
Adams, partly destroyed by fire last
wear. as ii was about ready for occu
pancy. The River and Harbor bill was
finally disposed of, makes cash ap'
of So, SJ2, 23o, and author
ICES contracts to the amount of $50.
$40, 300
Mr.. Howard, Populist of Ala, Sat |
lrday had read series of charges |
against President Cleveland, on which |
ne .impeached him of high crimes |
and mIsdemeanors for the recent |
oond sales and his man agement of the
finances of the government But it was
defeated.
The House debate Monday began a
lefeat on the bill repeating the section
II the rasent tariff at providing free
,lcohol for use in arts. and Wednesday
he bill was passed
To the Mccall immigration restrlc
ion bill in the House last week were
,dded provisions which, in brief prohib-
t aliens from entering the country to
10 manual or mechanical labor while
holding residence or retaining
,ome in a foreign country. These pro
visions we're offered by d member from
Michigan and are designed to shut out
# the states those so-called Canadian
birds of passage who come over the
border to work for a season and with
10 intention of locating here. The
ill can have little practical effect
Ipainst these classes, and 1t is gust pos
ible that it was never Intended to
lave.
You don't want To say anything
,ore to Walker of Worcester about
Reed rules. business Congress
md all that. lie has informed the
.ountry in effect that the claims IN
,ehalf of the present speaker are all
,nmhug. At least he told the House
49,. H.
I'm the second session of this Con
,ress and in the next Congress the
'ules of this House will either permit
&c to do the business of the private
.itizep. or there will be no business
lone. We have got to place where
orm in our rules is necessary: ana
here are some members in this House
vho arc going to have it. want to
.ay to the former for men who are
Ming this House with a rod OF IRON
hat their peculiar rule will end at the
md of this Congress at any rate,
Icon or 20 of us shall be returned 10
he newt Congress, better rules must he
lad. p,li;o.ns
bowed their Willingness to aid IN pro.
';ding revenue by proposing tax OF ,
: nnnts a barrel in addition to the
resent one on becr-the most natural
vi reasonable of taxes. Dubois OF /
IDAHO proposed it in AN amendment 10
be f lied cheeseI bill. All the Dem,
Gratis had and all the Populists ana
he silver Republicans united in sup
orting it or refusing to lay 1t Cd me
able But Wednesday the big brew
81: ,,,hom both parties are SO afraid,