The times., 1899-11-26
The Currency ProbIem.-The mo

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The Currency ProbIem-The move
ment inaugurated by the Administration
during the last session Of Congress to place
upon the statutes a single gold standard
| currency system Will be pushed without de
lay and be made a paramount feature al
/ the coming session of Congress. The House
/ caucus committee on the currency bi ! viii
! hold a meeting today in the rooms of Gen
| eTal Henderson to reach an agreement on
! the proposed currency bill that has been
/ under discussion during the recess OF Con-
( gress. The Senate Finance Committee is
scheduled to hold session tomorrow, and
/ it is considered desirable that the House
/ committee shall have reached some agree
/ ment by that time to confer with the for
! mer committee with view to harmonizlng
/ ideas upon a currency measure Hence the
I Sunday meeting.
Senator Turkeys Seat. Representa-
/ tive Carmack of Tennessee is sanguine of
/ success in his race for the United States
4 Senate TO succeed Senator TurIey He ex-
/ poets TO win, and says that ne has prac-
I tically staked his political future upon the
/ outcome. Il have notified my friends at
/ home he said. that | will not accept
! the nomination to Congress from the Tenth
! district. | am candidate Tor the United
! States Senate and nothing else. and / do
not propose to run for one office and then,
| after my election ask the people of the
( State to give me another This would not
I be fair to my constituents, and I do not
/ intend that there shall be any question
! to what office / am a candidate for In
making this decision | realize that I have
/ severed all ties and burned my bridges be-
/ hind me, so TO speak. | am in the race TO
win, and am not alarmed as 10 the out
/ come.
Mr.. Carmack's principal opponent viii be
! Governor McMillin CHIEF Justice Snod-
/ grass. of the Supreme Court Of Tennessee.
/ is also a candidate
Mr.. Goebers Fight Representative
Wheeler of Kentucky arrived in Washing
ton yesterday, and is firm in the belief that
Goebel will be the next Governor of that
/ State He said Senator Blackburn would
/ be the next United STATES Senator with
! out doubt
Mr.. Wheeler said he had made no prom
/ ises OF support for any candidate for The
/ minority leadership He writ remain here
until the session begins
Mr.. Mercer's views, - According to
Representative Mercer, Chairman Of the
House Committee on Public Buildings and
/ Grounds, appropriations for public buildings
/ viii not be considered TO any extent during
! the next Congress. There may be urgent
cases where the demand cannot be denied
1 but the large cities asking for additional
/ appropriations to enlarge their structures
/ will have 10 be content with what has been
allowed them during the last session New
/ York was clamOriug for q new building but
( the mpnav auurpuriafaE last yaor fo,.
custom house would probably be TO the
! detriment of any further claims for consid-
Grafton on the part of New York City
However il would depend upon what claims
that city could make as to the necessity for
a new building.
Representative Mercer said that il was
| his opinion that the next Congress was dis
! posed TO keep down public building ex-
| penditures TO the lowest limit He added
/ that members wanted TO dispose of public
business as quickly as possible in order 10
! get into the national campaign
The Industrial COmmissIon.-Senato
Kyle win not be able for some time to an
nounce the names of the members OF the
| two subcommittee of the United States
/ Industrial Commission that are to visit the
! South and the Pacific Slope, The Indus
/ trial Commission has four distinct subdi-
visions viz, that of agriculture. mining
manufacturing. and transportation, and it
! is the intention of the Commission to have
| one member of each subdivision on each of
the two subcommittees. and until these
/ divisions name the men they desire 10 have
! appointed to the subcommittee Senator
| Kyle cannot make the announcement
| The subcommittee will only enquire
| into matters pertaining TO agriculture
mining. manufacturing, and transporta-
! ton. They will not deal with trusts at all
| except as far as they relate to transporta-
! JiOn or indirectly TO the three other di-
/ visions. The secretary Of the Industrial
| Commission said yesterday that the reason
! for this is that the Commission itself is
making the investigation into trusts and
/ that the taking of testimony in Washing
/ ton will constitute but a very small portion
/ of the investigation. 1t is the intention Of
| the Commission to send agents to corpora
I tions all over the country to elicit infor-
nation These agents viii be furnished
with authority from the Commission and
I provided with a set OF blanks containing a
/ list of questions the Commission desires to
{ have answered. The answers will be given
/ under oath in just the same manner as
/ they would If the person being interrOgated
( was before the Commission itself iu this
city. II is believed. the secretary said
/ that in this way The Commission will be
better able TO reach the greatest number
/ of men who are yersed on this subject He
! said there were many prominent men who
would be perfectly willing 10 furnish in
/ formation TO the Commission. but that
/ they cannot afford the loss of time a Jour
ney to Washington involves. These agents
viii begin their work at an early date and
4 they viii probably be kept busy for sew
eral months
The itinerary of the subcommittee to
visit the South viii be to proceed to Co
! Iumbia 5. c.. Atlanta. Ga. Jacksonville.
Fla, New Orleans. La. Memphis Tenn
and Birmingham, Ala. This proposed ex-
animation into the conditions of the South
/ was primarily brought about by Repre-
/ sentative Livingston of Georgia who urged
/ that in no other way could the Commission
| secure the information desired Owing to
| the fact that the Commission had met with
! considerable difficulty in obtaining wit
/ nesses from the South. il was desired to
adopt the plan suggested by Mr. Living
ston.
The origin Of the Pacific Slope subcom-
mittee came from some facts furnished the
/ Commission by the editor Of a San Fran
/ cisco agricultural paper who called atten-
/ tion TO the irrigation question and the
( great raisin trust which practically CON
! trolls all of the output from the California
vineyards. This subcommittee viii visit
4 Chicago, ST. Paul Los Angeles San Fran
/ cisco Portland and Tacoma Both sub
/ committees viii leave this city in February
( and return in March.
The subcommittee now i'm the West
/ comDOsed of McssTs Kennedy Harris T.or-