The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-24
REEDS MONEY IDEAS
CAR OF THE HOUSE DOESN'T BE-
LIEvE THE GAGE PLAN WILL
BE ADOPTED.
DIVISION IN HIS PARTY
ON CURRENCY REFORM, CAUSING
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
COMMITTEES.
1T IS DINGLEY VS.. WALKER.
The Tariff Leader Anxious to Be at
the Head of the Monetary
Revision.
DIVISION IN HIS PARTY
Special to the Glojbe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-It is evil
IDENTIFY the purpose of Speaker Reed
and the powers that rule the house to
give the banking and currency COM
nittee, of which Mr. Walker IS chair
man, chance to grapple with the
legislative problem. AS a part of this
programme Secretary Gage has twice
been before the committee, and
through its chairman, his bill has been
presented to the house Thus IL has
happened that the secretary, and the
administration in general, have
CHANGED to fail into the hands of Mr..
Walker, instead of Mr.. Dingley, to
whose committee Of ways and means
the speaker really looked for formu-
lating whatever finance legislation 1t
should be thought best TO attempt. In
Mr.. Dfngley Mr.. Reed has great faith,
and it has long been his desire that
Dfngley should lead off in finance just
as he has done on the tariff. 1t was
planned to accomplish this diversion of
the powers of Mr.. Walkers committee
by peculiar distribution of the presi-
dents message at the very opening of
the session. But Mr.. Walker was ert
Gratis, seeming a Republican family
quarrel, naturally became his allies.
The Dingley contingent did not think
1t polite to have an open breach with
the banking and currency committee,
and so the matter was smoothed over,
and Mr. Walkers committee lost no
time in taking possessin of Mr.. Gage
1t is the speakers present purpose to
tl1
chance, although he has little faith in
the possibility Of getting Mr.. Cages
measure very far along the road
toward the statute book. If nothing
comes, however, of the Gage pan or any
other measure emanating from this
committee, Mr. Dingley will, after
time, bring in a bill separating the
fiscal from the issue and redemption
departments of the treasury, and also
a measure relating to bonds. Under
the rules both these subjects now be-
long to the ways and means committee.
These the speaker will endeavor to
push to a finish
The monetary commission plan ii is
thought, will prove more popular than
Secretary Cages. 1t will do less in the
way OF bond issues, and will provide
for issuing circulating notes on assets,
both of which features are likely to les
sen the semi-Populistic opposition
which fires up when ever banking re-
form is mentioned. Which committee
viii adopt this measure ii is impossible
to tell There are evidences that the
banking and currency committee will
come nearer to agreeing upon it than
upon Mr.. Cages, and 1t is probable that
the speaker will also feel more favor
hIU inclined tnvUa If fndfffar-
ence to Mr.. Cages measure does not
arise from any lack of interest in cur
rency reform, but rather from a deep
seated conviction that the senate can
not be made TO do anything. He may
have his personal ambitions in regard
to great historic legislation, but he
would be glad to subordinate them to
the secretary of the treasury, if by
so doing he could see way out of the
financial perplexities that now beset
the country.
It is needless to add that Senator
Chandler does not represent Speaker
Reed although he assumes to be the
speakers closest friend. 1t is hard to
understand what object Mr.. Chandler
had in view IN his latest drive at Sec
rotary Gage and indirectly at the adj
miristration behind him. One thing.
however, Chambers free silver fulmi-
nations, coupled with Gallingers bad
erninence as a spokesman. ought to &C
cCmplish. There should be no more Re
publican criticism of Nevada as a rot
ten borough, or of the idosyncrasies of
Stewart, Jones and Newlands. New
Hampshire was one Of the original
thirteen states; but Chandler, Gallinger
and Sulloway would suffer severely by
a comparison with the three Nevada
congressman Gallinger has made his
attack upon civil service reform by
persistent and apparently wilful mis-
Representation of the facts. Chandler
is doing as much TO help on the free
silver agitation as any man in the
United States. Sulloway combines the
views of the two senator's. being
spokesman, a fiatist, and an advocate OF
doubling the pension roll.
Secretary Bliss today refused TO approve the
list OF lands selected by the Northern Pacific
railroad company between Duluth and Ash
land This rejection IS based on the decision
OF Secretary Smith that the grant only extend
ed to Duluth and Bliss rules that the COM
pany Is not entitled to lands east OF that
point. The list embraces 1.25O acres. Similar
action VIII be taken on other lists now pend
ing In the land office.
1t is understood today that large number
Of appointments for North and South Dakota
are to be forthcoming from the president right
after the holidays. Senator Hansborough and
Representative Johnson have settled many
matters OF controversy over postofices. arsi
quite a number Of recommendations have al
ready been made
DR.. Williams Weitenberge, OF Cincinnati.
Ohio has been appointed physician at Pine
Point school, White Earth reservation, Mime
sofa, at $500 per annun-
Second Assistant Postmaster General Shell
linberger has received q petition from the
officers at Fort Smelling asking that a sub
station be established so that delivery by car
rfer may be had This matter coming under
the Jurisdiction OF Perry Heath, first assistant,
It has been referred TO him. Action will be
taken after the holidays.
Tams Blxby and Tim Byrnes left Washing
ton today for Minnesota Charles NJ Beltz,
Of Minneapolis. arrived in the city today.
H W. Hall, Of st. Paul, was today appoint
ed clerk OF the treasury department from the
eligible civil service list