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Show Washington keltn..? (Prom our Hrutr CdrrenJmli Tho attempt Is to be trade to add a fice coinage amendment toihe tariff bill IhoHouso having failed jjto para tin Wand bill over tho vclohuj it is not v I certain that it will bo supplied by dl ot the Silver Senators. Notife was gnen by Senator (Jauy when the tarlffhill vm. first reported "to the Houso ot hit Intention Inten-tion to offer a freo coinage amemlim nt to it when It got before i tlo Senate, and since tho Achate began In the Pctmic Senator Allenot Nebrnka.-has Intrulu. cd an amendment which lowcis the .'.i.-ticslli .'.i.-ticslli tho tariff bill nnd provides furl lie freo colnago of silver, Nothing startling was expected ml nothing of that nature has happ. ml during tho first wckot the tariff del in The speeches are Just what were cxpi i i-cd i-cd j tho Bttmo ojd storleejon both Htes that most Intelligent m'eh aro familiar with. It has, however, Already lxm made apparent that tho contest is to bi n long and stubbornly contested one and that the policy ot the opponents ot the bill will bo to prolong.the debit, indefinitely. in-definitely. Tho fato of the bill is r. ilh I in tho hands of the elglor ten dnim-cratswho dnim-cratswho nreoppoicd-fb curtain sections j of It. ' ' I A bill nlowlng greenbacks to bo taxed by states and mlnlclpnjitlcs is to be' favorably reported to tho House At present greenbacks nro exempt from tax-action tax-action while coin is taxed, nnd it is stated stat-ed that those who favor tho bill that although there are only -f 310,000.000 of greenbacks in clrculattonibanks and individuals in-dividuals by trickery claim and obtain exemption every year "oil 13,000,000,000 of greenbacks. The populists nro pointing to the rc-turnt rc-turnt fium the Into elections, at an indication in-dication that the noxt Presidential contest con-test in the west and, south will be between republicans and populists, instead in-stead of republicans 'and democratx. U Is reported that u number of Huiithcrn democratic member,! otthe House will ask for ft rcuominntlon and clcctiuii as populists, nnd not as democrats. lieprcscntativo McLaiirin, of South Carolina, who Is trying to work up n sentiment among southern and western Congressmen in favor ot signing a cull for a convention to bo hcidnt some western west-ern or southern point for tho purpose oj J"' "' a MLvcr party, Wlicvcs that the At "Wgl succeed. Mr. iducatednnd vcryurif)'diycXinjr'rs(?.i he hasn't celebrated Ills thirty-fourth I birthday yet. He is now eeriiig his second terra in Congress nnd has been a member of the stato legislature and Attorney General of South Carolina. Ho lias always been a straight democrat, . and his proposal t5 cut loose from tint party is being much talked about. He says the proposed movement has not yet reached a stage of certainty nnd thnt no announcement will bo mado until it does This Indicates that he will give It up unless convinced that it will get support enough to succeed. It is stated that tho requests lnnde by tho Latin and American governments that the United States Join thon In n i monctnry conference will be refused by ' President Cleveland on the ground that such n conference can accomplish po'liing until England nnd HullniM havo shown a. disposition to change ' thsirdttltude towards silver. Tlio fusal is to be softened by n suggestion that tho condition will probably be more favorable n year henro for holding an ' American monetary conference. Mum-while Mum-while Representative Camlnctll, of I nl-itorufn.has nl-itorufn.has Introduced a joint resolution directing tho President to invitt the nations ot the western, hemisphere to a ' financial conference, with a lew to! eccurlpg thjs adoption ot n silver standard by them. |