The age-herald., 1900-02-10
DAILY GOSSIP FROM
 NATIONAL CAPITAL
BY ALBERT HALsTEAD.

committee declaring that nothing in the bill is intended to interfere
 with international blmetallism prop erly safeguarded continues to create discussion. It can not be said that this lugging in of international bimetallism is any more popular. The democrats speak sarcasticaly of the proposition. and num- Der of republican senators express them selves as angered by this playing of poll tics with the financial question. very prominent republican, whose advice Is al-
 ways regarded valuable. says that If 10 was regarded as necessary to dig up the corpse of international bimetallism again, it would have been wisIr to have introduced a resolution to that effect and to have passed it separately. But Hhe finance com- mittee did not take the advice thus given, and as one result they have disgusted the two gold democratic senators, Lindsay Of Kentucky, and Caffrey, of Louisiana It was even said that the latter might refuse to vote for the bill if this 'preposterous nonsense was included in 1t. It is not be- lieved however, That he will do that, though he is not in the least satisfied with this exhibition of political hypoericy.
 Senator Lindsay. of Kentucky. who sacri-
 
 cept the Bryan silver doctrine and whose attitude has always been firm for gold has this to say about the International bimetal- lie amendment:
 q suppose the amendment was offered to soothe the feelings of some of the ad- ministration senators whose constituents are not ready to climb up on the Indian apolis platform (tcle gold democratic plat form of 1S96. think the country ds 10 De congratulated that the republican party has abandoned its past policy of keeping on both sides of the silver question and that the bill embodied by the finance commit tee embodied the advanced views of the party I take 1t, however that the leaders have been compelled to pave the road to the gold standard with silver bricks. Care fully considered, the amendment declares nothing and promises nolthing. Of course no bill we could pass would stand in the way of an international conference or an international agreement for 'bimetallism, but there Is no probability that such a con Terence wia ever be requested by any other country and the result of the commission we sent to Europe three years ago by no means encourages further overtures by the 
 ought to be settled definitely and finally"
 It will be seen that Senator Lindsay occu- pies the position of a broad minded, patri- otic man, who does not like subterfuges, and comes out frankly for what he believes right The gentle reminder in his interview that the republican party has come out for the gold platform of the Palmer and Buck ner democrats of 1896 is not very consoling to the republican party, but absolute frank ness will compel the admission of the truth of the senator's statement The use of the words "sdlver brick" shows that he thinks the republican party engaged in httle ibunco game, while the warning that there is danger that this international bimetalfic declaration might keep the financial ques- tion open strikes at the root of the obJec- ttons to such political maueuvering.
 Senator Jones' of Arkansas, chairman Of the democratic national committee, ex- presses the view generally held by the reg ular democrats in the senate when he says:
 .That international b.metallic amendment to the financial bill is the old straddle over again. It is intended to dodge and evade' the issue. It Is intended to deceive and' mislead and permit the adoption Of the sin- gle gold standard. It is so transparehl as not to deceive anybody, as the same course did in 1S9s" The republicans Of the hnahce committee really appear to have oVerreacA- ed themselves
 panresentatiye Flltzgerald of Brooklyn had an embarrassing experience yesterday. His private secretary is named Niisoh' 1Io ttsoupht the young man was at the war sunartmant so he telephoned to the war dooartment. trying to catch Wilson and tell him to come to his house last nSht. It being impossible to catch the secretary MT. Fitzgerald went to the house teie- erara operator and instructed him as foi-s lows. "Just wire Wilson to come up 10 my house at tonight, will your The op- erator knew of only one Wilson at the war department, the chief of engineers Erigadier General Wilson, so he wrote nolite message to General Wilson and in- formed him that Representative Fitzgerald of Brooklyn would be glad to have him come IND to his house at o'clock. General Wilson naturally thought Representative Fitzgerald was inviting him to dinner so he sent a courteous telegram accepting the courteous invitation Of the representative from Brooklyn. The dinner passed of nicely. Fitzgerald gave a dinner he did not expect to give and General Wilson enjoyed a very agreeable hospitality.
 Representative Shafroth is of German birth. He speaks English with an accent and often when speaking makes an odd bull. He was addressing tine house the other day and intended to say "H i'll be- comes England" but really did say, "lt becomes i'll England" As he was speaking of the Boer war, the statement actually made was not incorrect. Speaking of bulls, Gaines of Tennessee made one the other day that set the house in roar of laughter. Congressman Hill asked MT. Gaines, who was saying something on finance:
 Do you mean to attribute the famine and drought in India to the introduction of the gold standard?
 "I do not mean to contribute anything of tcse kind,' earnestly replied MT. Gaines, and he was at a loss to understand why such a Iauqh followed Such bull is very