Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-01-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
CFrom our Regular Correspondent. !,

/ Der OF D0tn House au1 OtuaCo l.
inclined to say words that woulI
be out Of place IN a family news
paper. Although it is regarded al
practically certain that the bill
Authorizing the issue OF 8 per cen
coin bonds, which was gotter
through the House by a small
majority after the most vigorous
use of the party whlp-forty sever
republicans voted against it-bJ
Speaker Reed and bis lieutenants
cannot pass the Senate, President
Cleveland ish't geing TO find out
bat is going ahead with another
boud issue under the old Law, and
apprelending that Congress may
be mad enough to repeal that law
he is going to make the issue a
startllngly large enc. And, a
though to add to the existing hard
feelings between the executive
and legislative branches OF the
government, it Is limited that
President Cleveland had arranged
with the bankers syndicate for
another issue of bonds before he
sent that financial message to
Congress.
The bond bill and the tariff bill
passed by the house last week will
both be at once taken up by the
reorganlzed Finance committee OF
the Senate, and it is expected that
the tariff bill Will very shortly he
and believed that the
the chances favor its passage. The
bond bill will be amended before
being reported to the Senate, and
one OF the amendments will provide
for the free coinage Of silver. AL.
though the administration protests
that it doesn't need the S4O,O 100000
revenue which the tariff
bill will bring in there is a grow.
ing belief that If 1t passes the
Senate 1t will become a law with
out the Presidents signature, and
that the addition to the revenues
will be gladly received by Secre-
tary Carlisle.
Jingoism having had an inning
it IS now the turn of peaceful ar
bitratiOn to come to the front.
Representative Barrett, of Mass,
the same young man who created
a sensation at the beginning OF the
session by Offering a resolution to
impeach Ambassador Bayard, has
a Joint resolution au-
thoriung the President to arrange
a conference between the United
States and those nations possess
Ing territory on the American con-
tinent for the settlement of all
boundary disputes.
1t is but justice 10 the memory
of the late Secretary of State,
Walter Q, Gresham, i'll view Of
insinuatiOns against the position
he occupied on the question of the
of the Monroe doctrine
that his own words on the subject
be given the widest publicity. Not
two months before his death be
SAID: IL do not regard these halr
line irquiries as to what the mon
roe doctrine was as peculiarly i'm
pOrtant. l dome so much care
what the doctrine wa, or what
Monroe meant for 1t as for what
the majority of the American
people think today that it is. am
to take that construction of
the Monroe doctrine which
majority of the American people
give, aud enforce it and stand on
it as the Monroe doctrine. And /
believe the American public hold
the Monroe doctrine to mean that
no European power shall be allow
g 10 extend or increase its foot.
hold on this hemisphere beyond
recognized aud admit
ted in the time of Monroe. By
that construction l am ready to
stand as expressive of the Monroe
doctrine, and would split no hairs
about it."
Tue bill for the establishment of
the University of the United
States, at Washington, which has
in one or another sha pc been be.
fore Congress for some years past,
has been introduced in both House
and Senate again. IL may be :hat
this bill may get through, inasmuch
as it only aprroprlates a small sum
OF money, to enable the regents OF
the proposed University to organ.
ize aud authorizes them to receive
gifts OF land and money from
friends of the University. 1t is
all