The St. Johns herald., 1898-02-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
CZar Reed Is Feminist State-
 hood for Arizona.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

| From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, January 28, 1898. l Czar Reed has one commendable trait
 -frankness. When he learned that the
 Committee on Territories was inclined
 to favorably report bills for the admis-
 sion of Arizona. New Mexico and Okla
 homa, as states. he told the members | flat-footed that it was useless for them to do so, as he did not intend that those territories should be admitted, so long as he had the power to prevent, and the present conditions continue to exist. He
 added that it was simply a question of
 gold against silver, it being well known
 that each of the territories named would
 send two silver men to the senate fl they had the opportunity.
 The hot fight made for the recognition U. Cu5u, Ug the democrats v. lAe hJu Q.
 has frightened the whole administration outfit very badly. The fake news of Spanish successes in Cuba also indicate that the fright has extended to the Span iards. The fighting isn't over yet. Rep resentative Bailey proved on the floor of the house that the efforts of the demo- crats were thwarted for the time. only by breach of faith on the part of Czar Reed and Mr Hit.
 Senator White, of California, who is leading the fight against the ratification of the annexation. treaty, is 80 confident that the treaty cannot be ratified that he proposed to Senator Davis, who has charge of the treaty, that day be set for taking the vote, and the proposition was declined. That little incident tells the story of the situation as we'll as 1t could be done in column of space.
 The refusal of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, which has been holding daily sessions in order to hear everything that Secretary Gage, members of the monetary conference, and other advocates of the single gold standard, might have to present in the shape of gold argument, to gl ant hear ings to representatives of the American Bi-metallic union, was an unprecedented and uncalled for insult. The Executive Committee of the American Bi-metallic union sent very manly and dlgnIfied protest to the committee, closing with the following appeal to the love of fair play that every properly constituted American has "So far as we are aware, this is the first time that in matter of so much importance, a great congress sional committee, engaged III giving hearings on a proposition before it, has refused to accord a full and far hearing to both sides"
 In marked contrast to the action oi the House Banking and Currency com mittee was that of the silver senators, 1 whose majority gives them the power to prolong the financial debate in the sen ate, as long as they might wish to do so' on the Teller resolution, declaring United States bonds to be payable Tn silver at the option of the government. They merely desired to adopt that reso- lution, as a notice to the gold standard that gold standard legis- ation is an impossibility during the life of the present congress, and to put cer- tain senators on record for the benefit of their constituents, and in order to show that they had no desire to unnecessarily prolong the financial debate, Senator Vest, who has charge of the resolution, submitted an agreement that the vote be taken on Thursday of this week, which was adopted The adoption of the resolution by the senate is & certain tv; the house will, of course, in defer ence to Czar Reed, allow it to be pigeon holed.
 The republicans who started out to throw down some of the bars to the fed eral offices, are up against snag in the shape of the inability of the House Civil Service committee to agree upon