The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-07
GOLD, SILVER, TARIFF.
THREE LEADING TOPICS UNDER
DISCUSSION.

Senators Making Good Prog
ress with Their Duties on the vari-
GUS Committees-Dissens in DEM
ocratic and Populist Ranks.
E. F. PARSONS, Special Correspondent.
Washington, b. C.-Our gold con-
tinues to increase. This is true both
as to the products of the mines and the
receipts in this country from other parts
of the world. Advices from the gold
mining regions of the United States just
received here show. an enormous, in
crease, the return at the Denver branch
mint alone showing a gain of nearly
100 per cent for the first quarter of the
year over the return for the same
months of last year. Add to this the
fact that gold has been flowing into
this country during the part of the year
in which we are accustomed to send
gold out, and it shows that the stock of
gold in the United States is now phe-
nominally large and seems likely to
continue to increase indefinitely.
Popocratic Alarm and It's Cause.
The popocrats are scared. There is
rebellion in the Democratic party
against further continuance of the al
lance between silver Democrats and
Populists and members Of both these
organizations are wild with alarm.
Mr.. Bryan's organ, the Omaha World
Herald is frantically appealing to the
old members of the political job lot
which failed in business last November
to still hang together. 1t says: "It
would be worse than folly at this time
for the Populists to refuse to fuse with
the Democrats and silver Republicans"
and adds that continued combination
of their forces means solid phalanx
of silver forces in all campaigns from
now till 1900.
While things are moving on smoothly
with the Republicans here, there is
trouble among the Democrats. The
breach between the Bailey and the
Bryan faction in the house has been
widenend, and the Populist allies of
that party have been given the cold
shoulder. The sockless Simpson, find
ing himself fast losing the notoriety
which his eccentricities have awarded
him, developed new freak and at
tackled Speaker Reed because of his fail
ure to appoint committees when COM
mittees were not needed. The Bryan
wing of the Democracy being SO accus-
toned to cooperating with the Popu-
lists, wanted to support Jerry, but the
Bailey wing opposed it. Mr.. Bailey,
who last fall opposed the consolidation
of the Populist and Democratic party
in the campaign, retains the same views
today land put them into practical
operation. AS the leader Of the Demo
cratic side of the house, he called a
zcancus at once and, by vote of two to
one, adopted resolution declining
cooperation with Simpson and his fol.
lowers, thus again defeating the Bryan.
ties in their attempt to control the
Democracy in the house
What the Week Has Accomplished.
. Tariff and bimetallism, those two
great issues of the campaign, have been
prominently at the front during the
present week in Washington. And
those people who doubted or professed
to doubt the sincerity Of the professions
of the Republican party on either oi
these subjects have found that they
were mistaken.
A thoroughly protective tariff, one
which looks after the interests of the
farmer and the working man; that is
what the new Dingley act is to be when
it gets upon the statute books, what il
is in fact today, for the probabilities
are that it will be little changed by the
senate.
Earnest and intelligent efforts in be.
half Of international bimetallism-that
is what this weeks work means upon
the subject. The appointment of the
commission whose names have already
been given the public, assures vigorous,
prompt, and it is hoped successful work.
The Bimetallic Commission.
The appointment of Senator Wolcott,
of Colorado; ex-Vice-President Steven.
son, of Illinois, and Hon. G. J. Paine,
of Massachusetts,, as commissioners tc
pave the way for an international con.
ference has been cordially commended.
Until this week nobody knew definitely