The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-20
SENATOR QUAY WILL BE BOUNCED
FROM GUARDIANSHIP OF THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
President Harrison Much Perplexed About
Whether to Urge the Force Bill
in His Message to
Congress.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 10, 1890.

can Jonah, and there exists The bes
of reasons for believing that he viii
be asked to retire, not only from the
Craftsmanship of the Republican ma
tional committee, but to resign hi
membership in the senate. ItwoulC
have been done before now, but thai
the question OF what to do with j. S
Clarkson has not been decided. Clark
son is vice chairman of the committee
and has always been an humble too
of Quay's, and there is feeling among
influential Republicans against his
being made chairman of the commit
tee, as he would naturally expect
when Quay retires. AS soon as a
satisfactory solution Of the difficulty
is reached Mr.. Quay will receive what
the boys call the "grand bounce
| Quay is now in Florida, and Clarkson
is also down South somewhere. They
both thought 1T good time for disap-
pearing for awhile.
Mr.. Harrison is having a terrible
time over the force bill. Mr.. Blaine,
whose predictions about the tariff bill
have materialized so soon, and a few
other prominent Republicans, are try
ing to persuade him to let the force
bill alone in his message to congress,
which he is now preparing, and the
radical element in his party, which
embraces nine-tenths of its recognized
leaders, are urging him to insist upon
the immediate passage by the senate
of the bill. Mr.. Harrison is very badly
frightened at the tornado of popular
disapprobation that struck his admin
tration and party on election day, and
would most willingly take Mr.. Blaine's
advice, but for the fact that he had
committed himself in favor of the
force bill last summer.
a scene which took place in a senate
committee room last summer where ne
was the only Democrat present, and
where Mr.. Blaine stated in the plain
est language that if the Mckinley bill,
which was then before the senate
committee, was passed it would ruin
the Republican party and prevent its
electing the president in 1892. He
became so excited during his denun-
citation of the measure that he
smashed new silk hat which was
lying before him on a table. Mr..
Blaine has not changed his mind.
1t will be many a day before the
Democrats get through enthusing over
the recent election. Every train
brings a prominent Democrat, and
every arrival means a fresh jubilee.
The local Democrats fired salute of
tifty-two guns Friday night, although
Col. Ernst in charge of public build
ms and grounds, did his best to pre-
vent it by refusing to give them per-
nit to fire them in the same place
that the Republicans were granted d
similar permit two years ago, but that
didn't prevent it-nothing could. The
guns we're fired, and close enough to
the white house for Mr.. Harrison to
enjoy the music.
Under this administration federal
employees are slaves. An estimable
lady clerk in the Washington City
post-ofiice is now under suspension,
because she repeated a jovial remark |
of fellow clerk to Dick Quay, son
Of the senator. Dick presented an
order for the senator's mail at the |
general delivery window, and the lady |
went back in the Office and inquired |
where the senator's mail was. ooh,
he's dead, and his mail is gone to the
dead letter office" said one of the
clerks laughingly. The lady walked
back to the window and thoughtlessly
repeated the remarks to Dick, who,
by the way, she did not know. He
went to the post-office department
reported her as having insulted him
and his father, and an ordered was is
sued to the city postmaster for her
suspension.
Mr.. Wanamaker has not made
popular official, but now that reports !,
Of the pending failure of his big Phila-
delphia firm are circulated a great
deal of sympathy is expressed here for
him, and it is hoped that the claims
Of his friends-he is not here-that
the rumor was originated by Jay
Gould for the purpose of injuring Mr..
Wanamaker's credit, because of his
in behalf of a postal tele-
graph system, to which Mr.. Gould is
opposed, may prove to be true.
1t is not often that the leaders of
political party have to complain be-
cause they are given too much by the
voters of the country, but that's about
The condition of the Democratic
leaders. They fully appreciate the
endorsement of the princi-
pies OF the party given by the people,
out they would have anticipated far
ess trouble had their majority been
about 100 less in tie next house. 1t
S now so large that it actually causes
anxiety.
The feeling that the short session
'f congress will, in its anxiety to pass