The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-07-07
FOR CURRENCY REFORM.
President May Send a Special Mes
snge ON the Subject.

snge ON the Subject.
Washington, July 3.-The question
whether the president will send spe-
ing the creation of currency commits
sion will be definitely decided next
week. The president is strongly in
clined at this time 10 send a special
currency message to congress. regard
ing himself as in n considerable meas
ure pledged to this course. In fact. IT
was semi-ofiicially announced at the
white house late Friday afternoon that
such a message would he sent TO con-
gress next week but some of the presi-
dents most influential advisers on
financial questions are opposed to a
message as impolitic at this time owing
To hostility 10 commission on the pare
of congress and the final determine
ton, as stated. will not be reached un-
til Mr.. McKinley's return from Canton.
The executive committee of the In
dianapolis sound money convention
have been actively advocating the COM
mission scheme ever since the advent of
the present administration. 1t had also
the sympathy of the president who
committed himself TO ii in his inaug-
ural. President Mckinley, however,
did not care to recommend ii TO con-
gress while the tariff bill was pending
lest it might complicate and delay ac-
ton upon the measure. But all along
the chief difficulty which presented
itself TO those who favored commits
sion for the investigation of the cur
rency system has been the opposition
it would encounter in congress.
While a bill for the creation of a COM
mission could easily be passed in the
house where factious opposition would
be unavailing against the operation of
cloture order that would bring il to
a vote, such opposition in the senate
might be almost interminable. Several
of the silver senators have openly
avowed their unalterable hostility to
the creation of n commission and Sen
ator Teller has declared that he would
remain here until December TO defeat
it. This being the situation it is under
stood that some of the members of the
executive committee of the Indian
apolis convention are now inclined TO
believe that it would perhaps be mis-
take TO press their request for the
creation of a commission by congress.
The better and wiser thing TO do, some
of them now think, would be to with
draw their requests for commission
and to use the provisional power vested
in the committee by the Indianapolis
convention, and themselves select a
commission to investigate the currency
question and present their conclusion
through the public press. If those con-
illusions were such as the administra-
ton could subscribe to, they could be
made the basis of an administration
measure, modified as Secretary Gage,
conducting an independent investiga-
ton, might suggest.
The matter was under discussion at
the cabinet meeting Friday, but not
in a manner TO lead TO definite conclu-
sion or policy, and the matter went over
until the presidents return 10 the city
next week, when ii is probable that
Mr.. II. II. Hanna. who is chairman of
the executive committee Of the Indian
apolis convention. and perhaps other
members of the committee, viii come
TO Washington TO discuss the situation
with the president and Mr. Gage. Upon
the result of the conference will prob
ably depend President McKinley's ac-
ton as 10 a special message TO con-