The weekly dawn. [volume], January 12, 1895, Image 1

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VOL- i.
OUR WASHINGTON CITY LETTER.
FUOM OUK REGULAR Cokkespondknt.
CONGRESS IN SESSION—A NEW CURRENCY PROPOSED —
CARLISLE LIKELY TO BE REMOVED—ALLISON
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TALKED OF AS THE REPUBLICAN NOM
INEE IN 1896—BOOMING THE STATE
HOOD OF OKLAHOMA.
Washington, Jan, 4, 1894.
Congress is agaiu in session, al
though there are many empty seats
in both Hmtsfc and Senate. The
debate on the currency bill has
been resnmed in the Honse, bnt
the majority do not seem to regard
it with any more enthusiasm than
they did before the recess. All
sorts of propositions for changes in
the bill and for entirely new bills
are being privately discussed, but
nothing has been decided upon and
there is little in sight to indicate
when anything will be decided up-
The most important of the pro
posed changes is one for a new bill,
whidi is being engineered by a few
iulmmistration men and tacitly, if
not openly, endorsed* by many re
publicans. It provides for the is
-lue of $300,000,000 in 2\ percent
bonds, to be used for the retirement
«>t the Treasury notes and green
backs: also, that these bonds may
te used as a basis for currency to
jje issued by both National and
£tate banks. It is claimed by
those who are behind this idea
that President Cleveland stands
r -ady to approve- k, if it can l>e
passed. Needless to say that the
ultra silver men will light this idea
10 the last ditch. They regard it
,ls a scheme to give the National
banks a new lease of life.
The reassembling of Congress
* accompanied by two sensation
al stovies. One that President
welaud had about made up his
•aind to send a special message to
n gress, appealing to the patrot
-ISIU°f Members and asking that a
attempt be made to
*wpt some legislation that will re
teve the Treasury, and the other
the syndicate of bankers which
THE WEEKLY DAWN.
OUR MOTTO: KEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
ELLENSBURG, WASH
bought that last bond issue had
sent one of their unniber here to
«»k that the President remove Car
lilse, for having broken faith with
the bankers and for demonstrated
incapacity. The last storv may be
heard from in Congress, as there
are people who would like to know
something about a bargain made
between the Secretary of the Treas
ury and a syndicate of bond-buy
ing bankers.
The average politician never lias
any difficulty in figuring out just
what he wants from any given sa
nation. For instance, this is the
way that ex-Senator Leggitt, of N.
Y., sums up the Presidential situ
ation on the republican side of the
fence:
''Haven't you often noticed how
frequently a racehorse that gets oft
far in advance of the rest tires out
in the stretch and fails to come in
winner. That, I thiuk, is appr< -
priate to lhe present stage of tie
Presidential Derby. Tom Reed is
away in the lead of all competitors.
It is clearly the field against the
man from Maine. If the conven
tion were held to-morrow, or
next week, lieed would get the
nomination easily. But these con
ditions won't last. Harrison is not
to be ignored, neither is McKinley,
although the latter will never walk
oft' with the prize. My guess is
that Senator Allison will be the
lucky man. lie is looked on as a
safe conservative statesman, big
enough to be President, and he has
riot gone about with a club, hitting
people over the head, so that he
has not aroused any antagonism.
TJ:e republicans are almost sure
to go to the West for their candi
date, and Allison is the most eligi
ble in.:
For twelve years Senator Allison
, JANUARY 12, 1895.
has had similar predictions made
of himself, but he has never been
nominated for President.
Ex-Congressman Sidney Clark,
now a citizen of Oklahoma, has
joined Gov. Renfrow and his live
ly assistants and will lend his aid
to boom the bill for Statehood for
Oklahoma, The Statehood boom
ers would prefer that the bill be
passed as it stands, including a
part of the Indian Territory in the
proposed State, but if Congress
prefers they are willing to accept
Statehood for the Territory as it
now stands. "Statehood or bust"
is their motto.
Representative Bailey, of Texas,
who is chairman of the sub-coin
inittee which investigated the
charges against Judge Ricks, has
been ill and is still unable to work.
Consequently the report has been
del aj ed and it is very uncertain
when it will be made.
Hon. J. C. Manning, of Ala.,
who is in Washington as a member
of the special committee appointed
by the National committee of the
People's party, to submit evidence
to congress in substantiation of
election frauds in the Southern
States, says he luts received so ma
ny letters bearing 011 this subject
(hut }, c proposes to issue a call for
representatives of all the Southern
States to meet at New Orleans, Jan.
18 and 11). for the purpose of
considering the feasibility of organ
izing ballot-right ieagues throng) -
out. the South.
The Nicaragua Canal lobby-is
disconsolate. It had figured on
rounding up enough votes during
holiday recess to make sun- of the
passage of the canal bill by the
House, although its latest count of
noses shows a considerable gain,
there are not enough by a consid
erable number to pass the bill.
Nobody need grieve over this,
except who have been spending
money with the expectation of
getting dollars for cents. It is al
together probable that that U.S.
will eventually build the canal,
but not likely that it will pay mill
ions of dollars to a bankrupt com
pany for that privilege.
Expose Fraud and
CORRUPTION
Wherever Found.
OVER 13,000 FAILURES,
New York, Jan. 5.— R. G. Dun
& Co.'b., Weekly Review of Trade
issued to-day says:
Failures for 1894 are fully report
ed this week, being 13,885 in the
United States. The liabilities were
$172,992,856. The failures have
been 12.5 in every thousand firms
doing business, the liabilities have
averaged $133.77 to each firm in
trade, and the proportion of the
volume of solvent business reported
by all clearing houses $2.6$ for
every $1,000.
The condition of industries has
been largely governed by the fall in
prices, while the production is
much greater than a year ago.
In steel the lowest prices of the
year were at the close, the lowest
ever known, the demand calling for
less than half the usual quantity of
rails, with a large decrease in many
other branches.
The woolen industry records a
production for the year of about a
quarter less than normal, and for
the last four months 28.74 per cent,
less than in 1893 in the quantity of
wool consumed, but in the value of
the product the decrease was of
course greater.
The year has been especially
noteworthy for the lowest prices for
wheat and cotton on record.
The danger from flood threaten
ed in the Ohio River valley seems
to be over, as the water has ceased
rising. Considerable damage has
already been done.
Beecher's Evidence.
•'One might as well study uptics
in the pyramids of Egypt or the
subterranean tombs of Rome, as
liberty in secret conclaves controll
ed by hoary knaves versed in politi
cal intrigue, who can hardly enough
express their surprise an.l delight
to see honest men going into a wide
spread system of secret caucuses.
Honest men in such places have
a peculiar advantage that flies have
in a spider's web —the privilege of
losing their legs, of buzzing with
out flying and of being eaten up at
leisure by big-bellied spiders.■
Ilcnry Ward Beech? r.
NO. 24.