The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-12-07
washington Letter.
(From our regular correspondent.)
w Asu1NcTnN d g Dec. 8. 1893.

The return of Congressman to the Capt.
tai, which had been slow prior to Thanks
giving Day, became a rush on Saturday,
and this morning it appears that the ses-
sion will open with fifty more members
present Thar had been expected. The
travel stained crowd of noisy statesmen
about the House Post Office and committee
rooms make the corridors ring since Fri
day. Explanations of 'just how it was
done" referring to the recent election, are
offered from all sides, and plans are laid
for schemes, good, bad and indifferent.
The Democrats, Of course, concede the
next House to the Republicans by a bare
majority, and will take what advantage
NAV be left in the short session of the
Fiftieth Congress.
The session opens with the Speakership
fight fairly on. AS yet, Mr.. Cannon is the
only directly avowed candidate, With
Messrs. Mckinley. Reed, Burrows and
Butterworth in the background. Mr.. Nc
Kinley's friends appear to prefer his ap-
pointment, if possible, to the Chairman
ship of the Committee on Ways aud Means,
as it would increase his Presidential
| chances, If Senator Sherman goes into
the Cabinet Mr.. Mckinley would naturally
prefer the Senatorship. In his way in the
fight for the Ways and Means Committee
would stand Judge Kelly, the 'father of
the House" How far the child would
oppose its parent is an open question.
Many members think that the Judge is
getting rather too old for active work.
Indeed the feeling is strong that the
Younger men will conduct the coming ad-
ministration. Mr.. Harrison's reticence as
to his Cabinet continues, but those who
have talked to him pretend TO have discov-
cred an intention to appoint young men.
This impression is so strong that Senator
Sewell writes to a friend here, 1--WE old
fellows must stand aside"
Within the next two weeks the Demo-
Gratis in the Hou Sc will probably make an
investigation of election methods in In
diana and New York. If so, the Republi-
| can Senators will send a committee to over
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singing will go on right merrily. Neither
party would expect any direct results.
General Dudley might be asked to tell
what he knew about '.votes in blocks of
five" and Congressman Oates might be
questioned as to "white supremacy in
Alabama, but that would be the end of it.
A Congressional investigation of elections
is purely partisan and would be SO recog-
nized.
Representative Ford will present his re-
port of the immigration investigation early
in the session. The nature of the RENE
dies for pauper and criminal investigation
and that for contract laborers, have not
been completely outlined. Mr.. Ford's
failure for reelection will lead him to re-
port the bill as soon as possible, so that it
may not fail TO become a law before his
retirement.
With the opening of Congress TIE Presi-
dent returns from the cottage at Oak View
to the Executive mansion, to what Mr..
Blaine once feelingly spoke of as ''the
homelessness and hopelessness of the man
sion of power" Mr.. Blaine's anxiety to
occupy this dread mansion need not be
mentioned here. President Cleveland finds
the White House unusually elegant in new
paint and revamped furniture, ready for
his successor. Even the French chef feels
anxiety only about the inaugural luncheon,
and enters eagerly into conversation with
any body who can tell him aught of
"Meester Harrissoon.'
During the vacation, the old rafters un-
der the corridors near the Presidents Of
flee have been replaced with iron girders.
The weight of the great crowds present on
reception nights had strained the rafters
somewhat during the last half century.
The story published last week to the eff
feet that the President and Mrs. Cleveland
will go abroad next June is officially de-
MED, but the President is silent as to his
real plans. In the meantime the news
papers are making plans for him. There
is a rumor that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland will be at the White House dur
ing the coming season. She vas here dur
ing the opening season of the present ad-
ministration, and may see its close. AS a
hostess she was by no means equal to Mrs.
Cleveland. A certain lack of tact, a want
of adaptability and a mistaken literary
ambition, perhaps, marred her well-meant
efforts.
Secretary Whitney takes occasion in his
annual report to the President to make an
elaborate review of the progress of the
Navy since March 4th, 1885. He says, in
brief, that while at that date the United
States had no vessel that could compare
with those of other nations, the Govern
ment now has, if not first class vessel S, at
least a prospect of having them. He be-
lieves that a great triumph has been eff
fected in securing at Bethlehem, Pa, the
building of a plant capable Of turning out
armor and gun steel equal to the highest
grades of European manufacture.
WESTON.
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