The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-06
A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS.
How Much MIR. Mckinley Has Done
Senatorial Prospects.
Washington


Record.
President Mckinley sent his currency
commission message to Congress because
he believed ii to be his duty 10 do so as
soon as it was certain that 1t would not
interfere with the passage of the tariff bill.
which was the primary and important 90
Ject of the extra session. even though ne
knew in advance that the silver Senate
would prevent action on 1t. In the same
view his present purpose is to present TO
Congress in December a plan OF currency
reform, which will probably be that Score
tary Gage is maturing, although suggeS-
tons may be taken from the plan which
Chairman II. II. Hanna's business mems
President Mckinley, who knows Con-
gress, thanks to his legislative experience
in it, realizes that no currency reform leg
islation can be expected during the present
Congress or until the silver majority IN tne
Senate is wiped out. But he believes quite
as much as ex-President Cleveland not only
in doing his duty but in the campaign
of education" and he is hopeful that a
return of prosperity, which he confidently
expects through the good crops and their
good prices abroad, and through the in
flowing of gold from Alaska and all the
other places where prospectors are reaping
simultaneously results from their long ana
silent toll through the dark years OF the
rial elections of winter after next, insure
q sound money majority in the Senate, II
1t does not wipe out the silver issue alto
Senator German. shrewdest of Democrat
ic politicians, has already wiped out the
IdliO VI IL W i ~ lilO 410A AoAAQ AAt
which the silver-mine silVerites here are
struggling to praise, and this is a sign
board of the most encouraging character
to the sound-money men. Taking the list
Of the thirty senators whose terms expire
a year from next March, at the beginning
of the next Congress and examine 1t with
the tendency represented by Senator Cor
man in mind, we can see that the proDa-
bilitieS are that enough changes might oc-
cur in the election of the successors 10 the
ten seats, which may be said to be in doubt,
to transform the majority in the Senate,
even if the individual senators were all re-
1t is certain that Aldrich, of Rhode ISL
and; Burrows, Of Michigan; Clark. OF W.yo-
ming; Davis, of Minnesota, Hale, of Maine;
HaWley. of Connecticut; Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts; Proctor, Of Vermont; Quay. of
Pennsylvania, and Wilson, Of Washington.
where they do not succeed themselves, and
that Bate, of Tennessee; Cannon, OF Otan;
Faulkner. of West Virginia: George. of
Mississippi; Mantle, of Montana; Mills, OF
Texas; Pasco, of Florida, and Stewart: or
Nevada, will either be reelected or will be
succeeded by silveriteS of more or less In
The doubtful seats are those now held by
Gray, of Delaware; Hanna, or ONO:
Mitchell, of WISCONSIN,; Murphy, or New
York; Roach. of North Dakota; smith OF
New Jersey; Turpie, of Indiana, and White,
of California. Senator German may be re-
elected, and Senator Hanna may be de-
feated. just because the legislatures which
In ~ ~ AANAA
chosen this fall, but even then Senator
German will not return as a 16 to l free
coinage man. AS to the others who are to
be elected by legislatures elected in 1898, L
know that President Mckinley hopes 10
see every one of them succeeded by a man
who will not favor free coinage at 16 to i,
and in the cases. of Nebraska, Delaware,
Wisconsin. New York, North Dakota, New
Jersey and Indiana, expects an out-and-out
sound-money man.
Senator Hanna and his personal staff in
his elaborate offices near the Treasury De-
partment are working in tho name Of the
about. But It will not necessarily follow IL
all the ten doubtful seats should be won
for sound-money men and the silver ma
jority destroyed in the Senate, that the
majority of the Senate will favor a plan OF
currency reform. We shall know more
about that at the beginning of the next
Congress.
Chairman Dingley, of the ways and means
committed, and not Chairman Walker, CT
the banking and currency committee, is TO
give his name to the administration cur
rency reform measure, which, according TO
.the present purpose, is to be handled by the
ways and means committee, under the di-
rection. of course, of the omnipotent speak
err. So far as can be seen this, with the
bankruptcy bill, will be the main domestic
cember, which the leaders will try TO
shorten as much as possible. meanwhile
trying to keep down the totals of the APP
preparation bills, difficult though both
efforts will be on the eve of a congressional
campaign, when members want to make
speeches and get large slices of pork for
their districts.