Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-06-26

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Senator Plumb and all the rest of
the silver Senators. are very much
eIated over their success In amending
and passing the House silver bill Ia a
manner which makes II provide for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver bv
the substantial vote of AZ to 25. Sena-
tor Wolcott. Of Colorado. made the
last speech in favor of free coinage.
which by the way. was his maiden ef-
fort IN the Senate. and thereby placed
himself NJ once In the front rank OF
Senatorial orators. This action by
the Senate surprised many people. but
not your correspondents, who predict
ed IL In your columns many months
ago. The bill as amended and passed
by the Senate IL now upon Speaker
Reeds table aid its disposal of by the
House is going to be mighty interest
ing TO lots OF folks, and some fine
parliamentary work is likely to be ex-
hibited for the ediflcation of those
sufficiently posted 10 enjoy it. IL the
House concurs in the Senate amend.
ments, there is no certainty that the
President will sign It. on the contrary
it is very probable that he would veto
it.. There is conservative element in
the House which will attempt to have
a conference ordered on the amend,
ments. II that is successful some sort
Of n compromise favorable TO silver,
but not quite TO the. extent of au-
thoriziug free coinage, will probably
he the result. If vote on the
amendments is forced in the House
they will be concurred in.
The Mckinley tariff bill has been
reported to the Senate, but it will not
be called up until Monday, the 30th
inst. The radical changes Which our
| democratic friends have been predict.
ing have not been made. There are
changes, OF course, quite a number of
| them, but they are nniiDportaDt and
do not in the slightest degree affect
the character of the bill, which will
become n law substantially as it passed
the House. THIS has been said before
in these columns, but it is important
enough to repeat.
| Both House and Senate have with
drawn its amendments to the anti
trust bill which has now gone to the
President in exactly the shape which il
first passed the Senate. It's harm
less document
| Commissioner of Pensions Raum
has no idea of resigning, although his
position is one of the hardest and most
unsatisfactory under the government
The River and Harbor bill has been
! reported to the Senate. With the
amendments added by the Senate
committee the bill carries an appro-
priestio,n1 IN. q nearly SIS, 29o, 600 and
Of the party against the advisability
of passing it at the present session.
Such talk however will not defeat the
measure which is specially dear to the
average legislators heart. but should
it pass there will be great pressure
brought to bear on the President to
veto IL.
Speaker Reed, VIXEN asked when
Congress would adjourn replied: 1.-THE
House can adjourn by the first of July,
md not leave anything OF pressing i'm
portance undone." 1t would require
some very lively hustling on the part
of the House TO adjourn at that date,
but of course it could be done If the
Senate were ready to adjourn, and the
Speaker so willed it, but the Senate
will just be beginning its consideration
of the tariff hill on that date. Adj
journment will be nearer to September
than July.
The Senate rejected two Presideu-
tial nominations this week-John y.
caves to be collector of internal
revenue for the fifth district of North
Carolina and II. II. Schoch, to be-
postmaster at Selin's Grove. Pa. Both
Of these appointments were made more
than a year ago.
Mrs. Harrison and her family have
left Washington for the Summer; they
have gone to their new cottage at Cape
May Point. The President will pay
them visit tomorrow, returning Mon
day or Tuesday.