Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-02-18
FREELAND, FEBRUARY IS, 1897
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, February 1G, 1S9

washington, EeDtuafy 10, 1871.
When a Democrat. or Populst uses |
such language as Representative Calder |
head, a good Kansas Republican, did
before the house banking and currency
committee, of which he is Il member |
certain Republican editors invariably |
call it ''anarchistic raving' The text |
OF Mr.. Calderhead's remarks was the |
bill naming thirteen American million |
aires, among them Andy Carnegie and |
Phil Armour, as incorporators of the |
international American Bank" with !
authority to establish eight branch
banks in other countries. This bill or
similar one has been before this com
mttee in several congresses, and it was
only when all attempt was made to push
1T through the committee when Mr. Cal
derhead spoke against it, in part as fol-
lows The whole United States is in
condition Of unrest. The undcrhalf of
the country believes that it is injured,
and injured largely by the power of ag-
gregated wealth. They actually believe
it. They believe it to such an extent
that large areas of the country need
nothing but leader of ability to give US
an insurrection. That is the truth. and
that is the political storm that will fol-
low any attempt direct or indirect, to
incorporate the men named here into a
private bank with capital of millions
OF dollars, and the plea that it is done for
the benefit of international commerce
will g., ;t T..
mob-which only needs commanding
general to lead it. If the leader should
happen to have the military instinct, it
would mean civil war"
In speech made by Pension Commits
sioner Murphy, in answer to resolutions
commenting his administration of the
pension bureau, presented by com
mittee from two PENNSYLVANIA G.. A. Il.
Posts, Mr.. Murphy told for the first time
In public, the instructions given him by
President Cleveland when he appointed
him commissioner of pensions. What
ever may be ones opinion Of many of
his other policies, it is difficult to see
how any man could have outlined in a
few words more just and patriotic
pension policy than President Cleveland
did when he said to Commissioner
Murphy: "Mr. Murphy, | think you
know my idea of the pension bureau and
the pension system. They are Just
these; In claims coming up for the ac-
ton Of the bureau, where you find the
case OF worthy soldier who served his
country faithfully in her hour of danger.
you will be lenient with him and give
him the benefit of a reasonable doubt.
1t settling the claims of the widows
and orphans, you will act in the same
manner, but waste no sympathy on the
unworthy"
Another billion dollar congress- AL
though the exact figures cannot be given
until the last appropriation bill has been
passed, it is already known, and admit
ted by the Republican chairman of the
committee on appropriations of both
house and senate, that the total appro-
priations will not only exceed one billion
dollars, but that they will go enough be-
yond that amount to break the high
water record made by the previous bill
lion dollar Republican congress by an
advance of thirty or forty million dol
lars. This, too, in the face of the gener-
al Republican howl about the INSULT
cheney of revenue provided by the pres
ent tariff bin There is little doubt
that the Republican leaders have al
lowed the appropriations to pile up, al
though apparently fighting for economy
by shutting out bills even for the small
lest public building, in order to make
the deficit big enough to excuse the
tariff bill they are engaged in concoct-