The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-07-17
Washington Letter.

Senator Quay, who has returned
from Pennsylvania, said o-day:
Eyes, the Democrats are claiming a
great deal in Pennsylvania this
year, but they will be wofully dis
appointed when the returns are all
in My confidence in Republican
success is mistaken; it is founded
on rock, and when you have sand
in addition to the necessary rock,
you are pretty we'll fixed, and that
is just the condition of the Repub-
lican party of Pennsylvania. That
was a pretty long speech for Mr..
Quay to make to newspaper man.
There is not word of truth in
the statements made in Democratic
papers that the Republican Senators
had made a bargain with the Dem
ocrats by which the Federal Elec
ton bill was to be shelved for the
session in return for Democratic
promises of not obstructing or de
laying the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill. No such bargain has
been made, and no such bargain
will be made The Republicans
have large majority in the Senate,
and to intimate that they would al
low the minority to dictate what
should, or should not be done by
that body is simply to insult some
of the brainiest members of the Re
publican party. The tariff bill will
certainly pass before adjournment,
but no determination has yet been
reached upon the Federal Election
bill. It is thought another Repub-
ican caucus will be called before it
is finally decided what shall be done
with it. One was held last night
and several Senators who had been
credited as opposing it stated that
they favored it.
The silver bill reported from the
conference, and which is certain to
become a law, like all other com
promise measures fails to please the
extreme gold standard men or the
free coinage silver men, but it seems
to suit the average man pretty well.
It provides for the purchase of A.
800, 600 ounces Of silver each month,
which is said to be slightly in ex-
cess of the entire output of all the
mines in the United States.
Notwithstanding the extreme
warm weather the President. since
his return from Cape May Point
Tuesday afternoon, has been work
ing like a beaver
After many delays Wyoming is a
State, although the forty-fourth star
will not be placed on the flag until
the Fourth Of next July.
The Senate by a majority Of 3 re
fused to open the debate on the tar
if bill this week. Five Republicans
voted with the Democrats in this,
because they were opposed to tax
ing up the tariff bill until the silver
question had been finally disposed
of.
Representative Perkins, of Kan
sas, has introduced a bill in the
House to establish public schools in
the Territory of New Mexico
The House ComEittee on Invalid
Pensions has made a favorable re-
port on the bill to pension army
nurses. The bill only affects about
900 women, and it seems but tardy
Justice that these women many of
whom are destitute and in bad
health, should be provided for by
the Government for the rest of their
lives.
There is an ugly report floating
around here to the effect that Rep
resentatives Hooker and Catchings,
sitting members from Mississippi,
had retained their seats by obtain
ing the influence Of ex-senator
Bruce, and Auditor Lynch, two
Mississippi colored men now in Of
flee here This may or may not be
true, but certain it is that the
House Committee on Elections has
made report against the ReFub-
lican contestants of Messrs. Hooker
and Catahings' seats.
More than one hundred members
of the House are absent from the
city, and Speaker Reed has the
hardest kind of a time to keep a
quorum present, in fact he doesn t
do it; the unimportant business is
allowed to go through without hav-
ing the question of mo quorum
raised, and when anything of i'm
portance is TO be acted upon the
members are drummed up until
there is a quorum present.
The Original Package bill was,
ocoOv,1i1ooe 40 tho Of tho