Show ww amsy THE SILVER QUESTION the passage of the silver bill affects the market BLAINE BRINGS DOWN THE LASH ife straightens out alie senate by an open letter more clerks on pensions employed from our Regu lir correspondent washington july 24 1890 the compromise promise om silver bill has been passed by the senate and signed by the president it lias already raised the price of silver in foreign markets and at such a bound as was never before known the consequence will be eliat the secretary of the treasury having to buy ounces monthly at alie price will poon have all kliore is in the world or which alie taxpayers vill be charged an price that the majority of the senate aou id arbitrarily change the rules to dermit itself to rush through alie purely partisan measure the ledar al election bill but at alie first re publican nub lican caucus meeting some of the members refused to adopt alie bhame IP S of alie speaker ot the house and nothing but debate on eliat subject lias yet been done mr blaine lias had to bring down the lah on alie majority of the senate to to it he denounces the mckinizy tarifa bill and bays it will not open a market for another bushel of or another barrel of pork in the house a bill appropriating for an additional clerical force numbering for the pension bureau was called sir enloe of tenn thought eliat before any increase in creaso or force be granted the pension bureada it should ho ascertained whether the charges brought against alse present commissioner were true it had been alleged that the pension office was corrupt from top to bottom and he liim self believed the office reeking with corruption in every department he declared that every other department bureau was open to investigation and was conducted on bus mess principles about eliat bureau there appeared to be something sacred or something rotten and in hia opinion alie reason alie bureau had not been investigated vesti gated was because of a desire to conceal the rottenness which was known mr caoper of indiana said eliat facts had come to liis knowledge which substantiated the rumors chich had been circulated in the newspapers respecting the commissioner of pensions ho was ready to prove before a competent committee that the charges were true he expected to prove that the commissioner of pensions had outrageously sold out a ruling in behalf of a firm of pension attorneys in washington he believed that if the commissioner Commissi aner of pensions would devote the time for which alie government paid him to discharge the duties of his bureau instead of becoming president and chief manager of a refrigerating in ution based possibly on no substantial foundation there would be no necessity for eo considerable a number of clerks The bureau should be administered lio nestly and I 1 charge before the country aliis ia not the case at present and investigation will show it during this dis russion mr mckinley got in a severe slap on the hard climek ot speaker reed A few daya before speaker reed had ai rotated to himself the powers of a grand jury mr cooper biad made his charges against the com missioner in the house and was cited to appear before the committee on rules to show cause why he had offered the resolution to investigate the commissioners sio ners office mr cooper was reluctant to go before this committee on rule as there was no reason why he should be expected to go before a secret committee where he could call for neither persons or papers and be asked to prove charges against commissioner blaum which were a matter of newspaper notoriety he felt it was purely a device to make him show his hand but realizing that in view of speaker reeds tactics iii no other way was it possible to secure adv kind of an inquiry after some delay and persuasion of some 0 f the other members lie consented to appear lie first asked the autocrat aeed why he should be ordered before the speakers own committee which was not expected to consider such mit and received a supercilious reply before tho committee mr cooper made the same statement he had made before tho Hou seThe speaker asked if he could prove his statement by witnesses andee said lie could the speaker demanded the names of witnesses clr cooper declined to brive and liere was speaker reeds arbitrary method of dealing with public questions A stenographer had taken down representative coopers statement and alien he asked for a record le was informed that he could not have one well mr mckinley upon taking the bloor said that dowiny to serious in his family lie had not been able corat tend alie above mentioned meeting of alie committee on rules so far as any of aum was concerned if any donld rise in ina alro and charge irregularities or corruption or or unfair deal ins on the part of the commissioner would be reason for him to liis an investigation I 1 he bill as saturday by the house after a great discussion |