The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1896-02-13
THE NATIONAL
CONGRESS.
Some Record Of What the Peo-
pies Representatives Are
Trying to Do.
ANOTHER SILVER BILL,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 81.

nc Ctuhtc was not III htsSloU.
Forty-two pension bills were in
troduced in the House.
TT EsDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH. SENATE.
Twenty six pension bills were in
troduced.
The silver element in the Senate |
is either making strong fight for |
the free coinage of silver or making
Il big bluff. The finance committee !
OF the Senate it will be- remembered, |
offered bill for the free and unlim
tied coinage of silver as II substitute |
for the bond bill which was passed |
by the House. The free coinage bill
passed the Senate by a ajority of |
seven-the vote on which was given |
last week.
The House also passed a tariff |
bill. This has been before the f. |
nance committee. and the committee |
decided to substitute free coinage
bill for it. Such bill has been re-
ported to the Senate, and it is re-
garded as notice from the silver ele-
ment in the Senate that no tariff
bill will be passed by that body un-
less the Republican House will give
some recognition to silver. They
will probably keep on at this
bluffing and some poor fools
will be fooled by it. The SEN
ate knows that Cleveland would
veto q silver bill and the House
knows he would veto a tariff bill.
In fact he will veto anything but a
gold bond bill. But they keep up
their bluffing and with this bluff
they hope to fool the people. We
are prepared to believe that there is
an understanding between the two
old gangs by which they are to keep
up this sham racket, and in the
meantime one hundred millions of
new bonds are being issued and the
big banking syndicates are getting
the biggest share of them.
Some Republicans are about to
back down from the firm stand they
have taken for silver on the plea
that the tariff is the "biggest" and
most important issue. and that they
cannot try to compel the Republi-
can House to pass a silver bill on
condition that the Senate will pass a
tariff bill. This is the scheme that
is being worked to bamboozle the
people. In the meantime the wreck
ing work of the gold standard is 60
ing on. More bonds are being is
sued-failures are increasing, prices
of products continue to go down and
the Representatives sent to Con-
gress to legislate for the people con-
tinue to draw their salaries without
doing anything except to increase the
pension and salary grabs and pass
appropriation bills. But for the
almost infinite patience and forbear.
ance Of the American people a large
. number of these knaves and hyp
= ocrits would stretch hemp. No sucf
. dereliction of duty-no such evasion
l. of what they ought to do-no sucl
y lodging work-no such indirect sci
ling out to the money and monopoly
power would be tolerated by an.
. other people on the globe. 1t wa
1 tried in Rome-it.was tried in Franc
. and has been tried once in thi
D. country withlthe results of redhande
violence and awful revolution.
: Senator Morrill, the goldbug chair
man of the committee, took occasion
to make snivelling remark when h
, made the report. He said:
"Mr. President, am disposed t
say somewhat, as the proclamation
in Massachusetts end, "God save til
70 Commonwealth" l will add wins
perhaps it is unnecessary for me
say, that l was not in favor Of til
action of a majority of the COmmi
I. tee on Finance"
n, Trenty-two pension bills were il
w troduced.
70 - The days session was spent in di
cussing appropriation bills for tt
! district of Columbia. The bill
u make appropriations for vario,
1s sectarian and charitable institution
~, Some objection was raised TO givir
A public assistance to sects and denoI
80 nations, and hence the discussion.
ed Wednesday, Febr uarv 5th-senate.
Eleven pension bills were intr
duced.
The Committee on Foreign Rel
.e- tions, through Mr.. Morgan, report
sf- resolution recognizing the Cuba
ur as billigerents. The resolution is
of follows:
by RESOLVED by the Senate It
lr. House of Representatives conc,
sh- ring,) That in the opinion of &C
re- gress, a condition of public war .
l.. lists between the Government
ser Spain and the government proclai
art, ed and for some time maintained
Dor force of arms by the people Of Gu
the and that the United States of Am
t. lea should maintain strict neutl
ity between the contending powt
according each all the rights of
ures belligerents in the ports and to
lila, tory of the United States.
and Mr.. Vest addressed the Senate
leo. the subject of the distribution
men seeds in connection with the t.
u.s failure of the Secretary of Agri
the ture to perform that duty last "
His speech was a terrific arrai
ment and denunciation of that
eff cial. It was not behind the n,
ripe speech of Tillman in invective.
sample of how he spoke is this:
"Mr. President, the. Democl
party has been most unfortun
not only in the discussions vi
exist in his own ranks, but in
fact that the devil, to use Yves
phrase, has owed the party a gr'
re. and has paid US in a Secretar
liza Agriculture" Hama.
'ield Thirty-two pension bills were
ives troduced.
fer The District Of Columbia appro1
lder ton bill which provided vide l.; tor a.a g.
various sums to certain secta
and UNCONVENTIONAL institu