The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-01-11
WABBLING WILLIES
Attemptat Blutfing Doesn't
go with the Ants.
NUT COAL CHARLEY
SHES His Castor and for Il Moment De-
serts HanUa.-Thc SILVER Men on
the Acknowledgements
tive Benton on the None
tary Commission.

From our Regular Correspon lent
WASHINGTON, January 10, 1885,
Mr.. McKinley's attempt to bluff the
anti-civil service republicans in the
House into keeping quiet, by prom
Using that he would modify the
civil service rules as soon as the
agitation ceased, was a flat failure
The fight on civil service began
as soon as Congress reassembled
Gen. Grosvenor 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
antis are not combining themselves
to talk. They have introduced a
bill in the House providing that
only those government employees
with salaries from 5000 to $500,
inclusive, and in places where th' re
are twenty-five or more Federal
employees shall be under the civil
service law. The answers Of three
members of the Cabinet,-Sherman
Gage and Wilson--to Senate
resolution are also in the nature of
Il fuslisade into Mr.. McKinley'e
rear, as they each say that the
rules ought to be so modified as to
exclude number of places in each
of their departments.
The silver men in the Senate are
showing signs of an intention to
take the aggressive. In line with
that intention was 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
Mr.. 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
resolution was referred, will be
sure to report it back, as majority
OF the Committee are silver men.
The administration having sue
ceedel in whipping all the repub-
lican Senators into the support OF
annexation, Senator Davis has
given notice that the Hawaiian
treaty would be taken up next
week.
Representative Benton, of Mo.
thus gives his opinion of that al
legeI Monetary Commission and
Its report: Isl eaking after the
fashion ofour plain western people
! think the commission and it,
report combine a stupendous ex.
hibition of gall. Who made the
commission The Indianapolis
monetary convention. And by
what authority? What act passed
by any law making body gave life
to this convention or its progeny
the Com mission? For whom dc
they speakP OF whom is this Com
mission composed? Is there o
practical cotton-planter on it? No
yet we raised in '97 $275,000,0CC
worth of cotton at the lowest prices
for many years. What representa-
tive wheat-raiser is on the Com
mission to represent the raisers OF
530,000,O00 bushels of wheat? Is
there to be found a representative
cattle and hog raiser on this Com
mission? Is there practical min.
er of coal, iron, lead or zinc on it!
No. Who on this commission rep
rescnts the carpenter, mason and
other mechanics? Nobody, well
If this vast army of people repre-
senting more than a thousand
million dollars of production ann
ually and sixty millions of people
have no member to speak for them
by authority, who do these emf
nently able and respectable gentle
men represent? Simply money
stocks and bonds, owned and con-
trolled by few thousand persons
who have by aid of legislation
cornered four-fiiths of our national
wealth, and insist on future legisla-
tion being enacted to suit their
condition" Mr., Benton says furth-
er that the legislation recon mend.
ed by the Commission is for the
purpose OF making money scarcer;
turning over the paper money to
the keeping of those they repre-
sent, and enabling them to control
markets and buy produce at their