The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-29
CURRENCY THE ISSUE
G. w. FAIRBANKS OUTLINES THE
WORK OF THE NEXT CONGRESS.
The Senator Is Delighted to Get Home
and Displays an Active Inter-
est in Local Politics.

Senator Fairbanks was found in his office
by Journal reporter yesterday busy with
a great mass of mail that had accumulated
for him here since the adjournment of Con-
gress.
II cannot tell You" said he, how glad
I am to get back home again. have been
here but three days since the session began
and 1 hardly think 1 shall ever spend so
much time away again. But it has been
a remarkable session in the amount of
work before it. Here was the tremendous
labor Of the tariff bill, the arbitration
treaty and the Hawaiian question all
dumped upon US, together with the great
press of applications for Office incident to
a change of administration. All this made
a heavy strain and kept us busy night and
day. The task of enacting the tariff bill
was more difficult. much more difficult, from
the fact that we We're in a minority in the
Senate, and it required the most delicate
care and diplomacy for this minority to
accomplish the passage of a measure that
the majority of the people wanted. 1t re-
quired a patriotic yielding of local advan-
tages to the general good that was some
times very hard to accomplish, and not
once, but more than a hundred times did
we find the measure in danger.
Nor does the next session promise to be
less fully occupied Pressing upon us as
a matter of first Importance is the curren-
cy question. Our currency is all right so
long as our party is in power and the gov
eminent is conducted upon the good bust
ness theory of making the revenues meet
the expenditures, but when financial ex-
periments were tried that exhausted the
treasury, it left our currency open to at
tack and there was trouble. A plan must
be devised and carried through that will
put our currency and banking system upon
such a basis that it will not be subjected
to lack of popular confidence with varying
administrations. / have noticed in some
mugWurp newspapers a disposition to crit
icse the party on the ground that it OBJ
tanned success upon the currency isue and
then devoted its attention to the tariff.
This is foe ism. An immediate trouble need
ed an immediate remedy. and now that the
treasury has been fortified by a proper
revenue measure, we can take a, reasonable
time TO undertake the more difficult and
no less important problem of giving the
country a sound and impregnable currency
system. Then at the next session we have
pressing for solution the great immigration
question, the Cuban question, the Hawaiian
question and others scarcely less impor-
tant. It is therefore matter of the high
est Importance that we strengthen our
lines at every point and set our hands to
work with patriotic zeal and steadtast-
ness of purpose"
MT. fdlfDdHkS asked dDOul the SltudllOH
in local affairs, and after it had been eX-
planned to him in some degree he expressed
the livelest interest in the municipal cam
paign.
we must not fail to elect a Republican
to the United States Senate at the next
session of the General Assembly" eontin-
ued the senator Nothing that is now be-
fore the party possesses so great impor-
lance as this, Until we have a majority
in the upper house of Congress it will be
impossible for US to accomplish much, and
a senator to succeed MIR Turpie is 10 be
elecfed In Indiana In 1NN0.'