Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-02-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

the politicians by the introduction
OF a resolution declaring it to be
the sense of the senate that the
United States shoulu not perma.
nently acquiesce in the single
gold standard, and that the effort
OF the government in all its
branches should be directed tc
secure and maintain the use OF
silver as we'll as gold as standard
money, with the free coinage OF
both. Mr.. Chandler calls his
resolution another step towards
binetallism and has announced
his intention to speak on it, in
order to refute arguments made
| by Seenator Villas, whom he calls
a gold monometalllst, and Sena-
tor Pettigrew, whom he calls a
silver monometallist, when those
two senators voted against the
international monetary commits
sion bill. There is an impression
that Senator Chandler, who,
while IN no sense a leader of his
party, is one of the slickest wire
pullers now III politics, ltas some
object in view which he hasn't
mentioned and isn't likely to
mention, but nobody seems to
know just what it is. Although
Mr.. Chandler is a republican of
the most pronounced stripe, the
bitter personal attack he made on
Mckinley and Hanua just before
the national convention met last
year makes it reasonably certain
that he will have little or no in
Huence with the coming adninis-
tration. If it wasn't for that he
might be supposed to be acting
for Mckinley. He usually acts
for Chandler.
While the senate was wrang-
ling as to whether the Niagara
canal bill, the bankruptcy bill,
the conference report on the inn
migrtion bill, or the Pacific rail
roads resolutions should first be
disposed of, Senator Allen very
pertinently asked: Does the
senate propose to do nothing?
The bankruptcy bill is in the last
stages of consumption; the Nicar-
aqua canal bill is about to be
nailed in its coffin, and senators
are putting off these Pacific rail-
road resolutions" /" If the senate
intends doing anything, beyond
the appropriation bills at this
session 1t will have to hurry up,
as time is rapidly eating up the
small remainder of the session.
1t is already evident that the
new tariff bill will not increase
duties upon everything, For in
stance, the majority Of the ways
and means committee have infor-
rlally decided to cut the duty on
steel rails nearly in half. The
duty on steel rails under the pres
ent tariff is about equal to S7.S4
a ton, but it is not likely to ex-
ceed S4 ton in the new tariff
bill. Improvements IN methods
and lessenlng the cost of rails by
American manufacturers is given
as the reason for this cut.
1t may not make the treaty any
stronger, but it certainly added
to the sentimental in
terest OF the occasion that the
Venezuelan arbitration treaty,
which was this week signed by |
representative of Venezuela and
Great Britain, in the presence of
Secretary Olney, at the depart
nent Of state, should have been
signed with gold pen, owned by
Senor Andrade, the Venezuelan
which was in a holder
made of a quill from the wing
Of an American eagle and was
decorated with a gold heart sur
rounded by diamonds. Great
Britain and Venezuela have been
oyer thst boundary
inc for nearly hundred years
and for some years past there has
been no diplomatic intercourse be-
.ween the two countries. All I