Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-29
TOLD YOU SO!"
ENGLAND REJECTS INTERNA-
TIONAL BlMETALLlSM.
The Administration will He I'm a
Quandary, However - England
Will Doubtless Pull the Ear of
Spain - Morrison May Re-enter
POiitlcs-The New York Contest.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1897.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %, 1897.
The administration can scarcely con-
ceal the satisfaction it feels at the
knockout blow administered to Sena-
tor Wolcott's international bimctallic
commission by England, but it is
striving to hide it for several good
and sufficient reasons. 1t knows that
it is already under suspicious of having
given England tip, and, what is more
important, it knows that the votes of
Senator Wolcott and the other five
Senators - Carter, Pritchard, Shoup,
Warren and Clarke-whO remained
in the Republican party, when other
silver Republicans led by Senator
Teller abandoned it, solely because OF
their belief that this administration
would be able to accomplish some
thing for silver through some sort Of
an international agreement-will be
needed when the attempt to jam an
administration financial bill through
the Senate is made this winter.
1t remains to be seen whether their
votes can be had. None of these men
are fools. Their attitude towards the
administration financial bill will
probably depend largely upon whether
Senator Wolcott has been cured of his
international bimetallism hallucina-
tions by the rebuff given him by the
British government, and whether he
sees through the game that has been
played upon him and his silver
colleagues and their substitutes. Not
only must the administration get these
votes but it must also get those of the
gold Democrats-Caffery, Gray, Lind
say and Smith,-and then get the bill
to u vote in the Senate, in order to pass
it. And, as though this outlook has
not source of sufficient worry to Mr..
Mckinley, Car Reeds friends are
dropping mysterious hints that he may
not deem it wise to allow the House to
pass any financial legislation at the
coming session of Congress.
With all of its numerous faults, Eng
land never fails to see that the in
terests of the humblest Englishmen
are protected in the most remote por-
ton of the world. Knowing this, there
is much interest felt in Washington in
connection with what England will do
about that correspondent of London
paper who starved to death in the
streets of Havana, as result of his
having been robbed of everything he
had, including his passport, and being
unable to identify himself or COM
municate with friends at home and
obtain assistance. There are portions
of this story that seem incredible, but
if an investigation shows its main
points to be true, it is a good ten to
one shot that England will speedily
demand and get the fullest reparation
from Spain.
There is an impression among
prominent Democrats that Hon. w. r..
Morrison will enter active politics
again when his term as a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
expires, and be a candidate for Con-
gress from his old district, now
represented by his old-time POLITICAL
opponent John Baker. Mr.. Morrison's
many Democratic admirers would like
to see him back in Congress, where he
was once such a power.
Gamblers care nothing for men or
political principles in an election they
bet their money town, and the fact
that they are gladly taking all the offers
to bet against the regular Democratic
candidate, and even giving odds of 3
to to tempt bettors, tells its own
story, and the gamblers are not the
only men who regard the election OF
Judge Van Wyck, the regular Demo
cratic candidate for Mayor of New
York city, as certainty. One wager OF
even money has been made in Washing
ton that Van Wyck will poll more
votes than all other candidates COM
bined, which was a case of q mans
backing his enthusiasm instead of his
judgment. Needless to say he wasn't
a professional gambler.
Secretary Gage did not deny the
correctness of the statement published
this week purported to give the SUBJ
stance of the financial recommends
tiOps OF his annual report to Congress
merely said that his report was not
complete and was therefore not a SUBJ
ject for newspaper discussion. The
three features of this statement were
the issue of q per cent. gold bonds in
sufficient quantity to refund the entire
bonded debt of the country and to
allow $2O0,OO0,OOO so be converted
into cash; to establish an issue and
redemption bureau with which shall be
deposited $325,0O0,O0O in gold, to be
used to redeem paper money, and to
make various changes in the National
banking law, including reduction of
the tax on circulation to rate just
enough to pay for supervision and the
allowance of banks with 1926, 900 capital
in towns of less that 4, 900 inhabitants.
These recommendations may be made
by Secretary Gage, but there isn't the
slightest hesitation in saying that
they will never be favorably acted
upon during the life of the present
Congress by that body. Every time
the gold bond idea has been before
Congress it has been sat upon. Dem.
BUSH PRAIRIE BREvJTlES.