The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-12-03
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

money very early in its career, not.
withstanding the assertions of the
party stump speakers and editors dur
ing the campaign that it would never,
under any circumstances, do such a
thing. Senator Chandler not only
thinks that the Mckinley administra-
ton will have to borrow money, but
he has prepared plan for it to do SO,
and it is supposed that he will put it
in the form of bill which he will in
troduce into Congress. His plan is in
short to authorize the Secretary
of the Treasury to borrow as
much money as may be needed to
make up the difference between the
government receipts and expenditures
SO long as there is deficit, the loans
to be made payable in a short period.
Mr.. Chandler seems to agree with the
statements made on the stump by sill
yer men, that the election of McKin-
ley would mean among other things a
further increase in the national debt
by the Government borrowing more
money, but other Republicans will
favor exhausting all other methods of
trying to pull through before resorting
to another loan in any shape.
Even if there is Republican ma
jority in the Senate, they could not
accomplish any tariff legislation at this
session of Congress, unless some way
could be devised of reconciling the
wide difference of opinion among
them as to what ought to be done.
There is some talk of an attempt to
add to the government revenues by
internal revenue legislation, and a
project of adding ST. barrel to the
tax on beer, which came so near being
incorporated in the Wilson tariff bill
by the Democratic Ways and Means
committee of the last House, has been
revived and may be recommended in
President Cleveland's annual message.
The influence of the brewers killed it
when it was proposed before, and now
in addition to that it will have to con-
tend with the opposition of the high
tariff Republicans who want to leave
the whole revenue question just where
it is in order to have an excuse for an
extra session Of Congress.
The vacant seat on the bench of the
Court of claims which gossip had as
signed to one of the members of
President Cleveland's cabinet went to
Assistant Attorney General Howry,
whose official duties have made him
thoroughly familiar with the business
of this court. Judge Howry's legal
attainments are high and there is no
personal objection to him, but if the
idea advocated by a considerable
number of silver men, of hanging
up all of Mr.. Cleveland's nomina-
tions in the Senate, be carried out,
his nomination will fail with all the
rest.
Whatever may be ones individual
opinions, it is clearly apparent that
the action of prominent gold Demo
Gratis, in trying to get the adminlstra-
to remove Democratic officials in a
number of states because they sup
ported Bryan, is not calculated to wipe
out the existing bitterness between
the regular Democrats and the boilers.
In the Post Office department alone
attacks are being made by the boilers
upon more than fifty Presidential post
masters. 1t is not likely that any
considerable number of these, or any
other officials the nomination of whose
successors has to be confirmed by the.
Senate, will be removed, because,
whatever may be the result of the
proposition to take no action upon
any nominations, it is certain that the
Senate as at present constituted will
not confirm the nomination of any
gold Democrat for position from
which man was removed for no
other reason than that he followed his
convictions, and supported silver,
That knowledge will probably prevent
action by the administration on the
complaints of the gold Democrats.
MThe four Democratic Senators who
bolted the nomination of Bryan
Palmer of ILL.,, Villas of Wis, Gray Of
Del, and Cafery Of La.-will not be
admitted to the caucus of Democratic
Senators which will be held as soon as
Congress meets, for the purpose OF
deciding upon a line of party policy
during the session. In addition to
the party caucus there will be silver
caucus, attended by the Populists, the
silver Republicans and the Demo
Gratis, and it is expected that an agree
ment will be reached under which the
silver Senators will act together in all
matters concerning finance. While it
is not thought that the bolting gold
Democratic Senators will caucus with
the Republicans, it is believed chat