The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-02-03
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. a8th, 1898.

the Senate, but the knowledge that
that resolution would be adopted, as
well as the advice of the republican
Senators and Representatives from
the middle west, convinced Mr.. Nc
Kinley that the gold standard bust
ness would not go down, and that bis
party's only hope was to make play
to keep the bimetallists from desert
ing the republican party in a body.
The game was started when Mr.,
Preston, Director of the U. S. Mint,
who had made himself particularly
obnoxious to the silver men by his
obtrusive advocacy of the gold stand
ard, both under the Cleveland and
the present administration, and whose
work in that direction was referred to
by Senator Wolcott in his recent
speech, was bounced and the position
gwen to republican bimetallist from
Iowa. But the highest trump was
played when Secretary Gage, the high
priest of the goldocracy. was made to
publicly say that MIR. Mckinley was
bimetallist and was supported in that
policy by every member of his Cabi-
net. Ye gods think of that for a
somersault.
The opinion is growing in Congress
that the sending of that warship to
Havana was the result of an under
standing between the administration
and Spain, and that its principal OBJ
ject there is to stave off Congression-
al action.
So long as President Dole, of
Hawaii, who is now being entertained
in Washington as the guest of the U.
S., contents himself with the social
attentions that are being paid to him
and his wife he will find everything
lovely and the goose hanging high,
but if he attempts to meddle with the
annexation fght-he will find things
very different.
During the discussion which pre-
ceded the adoption OF the Teller reso-
luton, declaring U. S. bonds payable
in silver at the option of the govern
ment, Senator Teller forced Senator
Allison, who voted for this same reso-
luton in 1873 and now against it, to
admit that it would be legal and pro-
per for the Secretary of the Treasury
to pay the obligations of the govern:
ment in either gold or silver. Mr..
Allison tried to qualify that admission
with a lot OF stuff about the duty of
the Secretary of the Treasury to
maintain the parity of the two metals
ETC., but the admission was all that
Mr.. Teller wanted he is willing to
leave the explanation of Mr.. AIlison's
vote against the resolution after that
admission to be made by that gentle
man to the voters of Iowa.
Although Senator German pointed
out that the Pension appropriation
bill as it came from the House carried
about ten million dollars less than
would be spent by the pension bureau
during the fiscal year beginning July
I, next. and Senator Allen offered an
amendment adding $7,ooo,ooo to the
total carried by the bill, no action was
taken by the Senate to increase the
appropriation and the bill was passed
substantially as ii came from the
House. 1t is somewhat surprising
that the Senate should even to this
extent have helped along the republl-
can policy of insufficient appropri-
atoms, in order that the government
finances may be made to appear bet
ter than they should be, for the pur-
pose of bamboozling the voters at the
Congressional elections. 1t is at this
time absolutely known to officials of
the pension bureau that deficiency
appropriation which may exceed $1o,-
600, 1000, will have to be made by the
next session of Congress to pay pen
sions.
Representative Richardson, of
Tenn, stirred up the republican men,
agerie in the House by repeating the
minstrel end mans joke about the
only two things he ever saw that were
exactly alike--the Cleveland panic
and the Mckinley boom and when
tbe republicans started in to talk
t'prosperlty," they were asked why that
prosperity" had brought on strike
of I25 900 cotton mill operatives In
New England, and made quite mess
of their attempts to explain that un-
usual accompaniment of prosperity"
Governor, of Ohio, got himself so tied
up that he sought to escape by bit
of personal blackguardism-calling
Greene, of Nebr., hack-woodsman.
He and his party will find lots of
backwoodsmen of the same sort next
November, and every one of them
will cast and anti-republican vote
This is what Senator Teller said OF
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