West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-01-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
A. Heavy Assault On The Grill Service.
The Silver Fight Is On In The Senate.
The Monetary Commission Exposed
by Representative Benton.
PROM our Regular correspondent.

PROM our Regular Correspondent.
WAsHINGToN, ID. g..
January 3, 1895.
The administration having sue
ceeded in whipping all the Republi
can Senators into the support of
annex ition, Senator DAVIS has
given notice that the Illwaiian
treaty would be taken up next
week.
The silver men in the Senate are
showing signs of an intention to
take the aggressive. In line with
that intention was a resolution Of
fered by Senator Teller, declaring
that all U. s. bonds are payable in
silver dollars, at the option Of the
government. This is not new
idea. The resolution offered by
MIR. Teller is identically the same
that was offered in the Senate
nearly twenty years ago by the late
Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, and at
that time adopted. The Finance
Committee. to which this resolu-
ton was referred, will be sure to
report it back, as a majority of the
Committee are silver men.
TIT
The ordinary counterfeit is so
easily distlnguishable from the
genuine note that only those not
accustomed to htndlIng money are
deceived by il. but a number of
counterfeit 800 silver certificates
have teen discovered which fool
bank experts. and there is in con :
sequence. alarm and confederation
in the Treasury Department. The
Secretary has ordered that the en-
tire issue Of these silver certificates
bc called in (s2G 00p ,00O) and the
full extent of the connterfeiting
will not be known until the notes
are all in. Meanwhile anybody
would better refuse 800 silver GER
.titicates. unless rendered by respon-
sible parties.
TIT
Some of the shrewdest political
observers in Washington, mem bers
of all parties, agree that Gov.
Bushnell and the anti Hanna Re-
publicans of the Ohio legislature
have made 1t certain that neither
Mr.. Mckinley nor any other Ohio
man will head the Republican ticket
in 1900, and that the State will be
in the Democratic column for some
years to come. Cur Reeds friends
are keeping quiet, but they reglrd
his chances for the Republican
nomination ia 1900 as having been
greatly improved by the Ohio Re-
publlcans. There are reasons for
believing that Mr.. Mckinley also
holds this opinion.
tit
Mr.. McKinley's attempt to bluff
the anti civil service Republicans
In the House into keeping quiet, by
promising that he would modify
the civil service rules as soon as the
agitation censed, was fat failure.
The fight on civil service began as
soon as Congress reassern bled.
Gen. Grosyenor even left his friend,
Boss Hanna, who is fighting for his
life at Columbus. in order to be in
Washington TO lead the assault on
the civil service fort. And the
ants are not combining them selves
to talk. They have introd uced a
bill in the House providing that
only those government employees
with salaries from 5000 to $500.
inclusive, and in places where
there are twenty-five or more Fed
eral employees shall be under the
civil service law. The answers If
three members Of the Cabinet,
Sherman, Gage and Wilson, to q
Senate resolution are also I'm the
nature Of o fulisade into SIR. Nc.
Kiuley's rear. as they each sly that
the rules ought to be SO modified
az to exclude number Of places
in each Of tbe,, departments.
tit
Representative Benton, II Mis-
souri,, thus gives his opimon Of that
alleged Monetary Commission and
its report "Spetking after The
fashion Of our plain western people,
think the commission aud its re-