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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


other troubles than those which will be
made by the new tariff ahead of them
They are going to have no end of worry
over finance in the near future. 1t is an
open secret that there is Il serious differ
ence of opinion in the Cabinet on the adj
visibility of committing the administra-
ton and the party to the retirement of the
greenbacks and Treasury notes. Secre-
tary Gage, as the personal representative
of the bankers and ultra gold men, will
make hard fight to commit the admins
tration and party to the retirement of
those notes, although he knows us well rs
ANYBODY that no such legislation can be
put through during the life of the preset
Congress, because of the silver majority
in the Senate Proof that Mr.. Mckinley
is afraid of this question may be found in
the careful manner in which he avoided
committing himself in his special message
to Congress asking for authority to APP
point a currency commission. Mr.. Nc
Kinlcy has been everything on the money
question. He voted for the free coinage
of silver in 1877, and as late as the Fifty
first Congress, he voted and spoke for the
Window silver bill and the Sherman sub
stitute therefor He didn't want the gold
standard platform of last wears republican
convention. 1t is doubtful if he knows
what he wants now. He prefers to trim
and to wait, but Secretary Gage intends,
unless he is prevented, to submit to Con-
gress in his annual report the outlines of
a bill that would perpetuate the single
gold standard, not because he thinks il
will pass, but because he wishes to com
nit the administration and the republican
party.
Members of the administrat ion still in
Washington, are somewhat worried over
the results of the new tariff as far as they
have become apparent. They did not like
the shutting down of those big New Eng
land cotton mills, and some of them went
as far as to say that the mill owners should
have been willing to keep on running
their mills, even if they lost money, to
help along the republican party. They
like even less the story of increased prices
for almost everything but labor that comes
from every direction. Speaking Of this
phase of the matter prominent Phlladel-
phia business man, now i'll Washington,
said: Il hear that a general rise in prices
is to take place, and that people may pre-
pare to pay more for their dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes. and all articles
of household necessity. If this is going
to be so, predict tremendous discomfort
and dissatisfaction among the people. In
flush times there would be no complaint,
but when commodities rise in value and
the volume of money is not increased, the
common people are bound to suffer, es-
pecially when, as now, there is no chance
of an advance in wages. The upshot of
the matter viii! be a revolt against the
political party that passed the law which
made dearer all things the consumer is
bound to buy, without doing anything to
increase the ability of the consumer to
purchase the necessaries of life. If the
republican party hasn't very rough row
to hoe, then am utterly without ability
as prophet
Some of the civil service cranks are do
ing SO much shouting over Mr.. Mckinley's
extension of the civil service law to a few
of the small Custom House employees,
that they have overlooked his exemption
~ -, ,f ~ a
places in the Customs and Internal Reve-
nue. service His amendments to the rules,
prohibiting the discharge of government
employees, except for cause and only upon
written charges, has of course, been warm
" received in Washing ton, where so many
persons are pecuniarily interested in life
tenure of office, but if the country en-
dorses the idea | will miss my guess.
With a life tenure of office, there will nee
essarily come in a few years a civil pen
sion list. Both ideas are un dcmot ttic
and I'M American, creating as they do
privileged class. If it had not been for
the social influences of Washington, there
would never have been any civil service
law, and when the same influences were
brought to bear on Mr.. Cleveland to Sc
cure a life tenure for those in office, he
positively refused to make the amendment
that Mr. Mckinley has now made.
Senator German seldom talks for pub
LEGATION, but, without violating confidence,
| can say that he is preparing to make the
fl ght of his life to restore Maryland to the
democratic column, and that he is abso-
lutely confident that ne will succeed and
be re elected to the Senate.
G. 4. X. Encanpmcnt, BIffalO.
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