Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent


From our regular correspondent
Boss Quay has returned, and the
very first thing he did was to order
the Senator's of his party to confirm
the nominations of the Florida offici~
ais that the protests and changes OF
the Florida Senator bave had chung
up' tor some time, and the result
was the iiveliest secret session of tho
Senate for many day. The dem
ocratic Senators did not mince words
IN attacking the men that Qnay was
cracking bis whip TO have confirmed,
and the Senate adjourned without
CONFIRMING them, but of course Mr..
Quay will see TO it THAI they ars con.
trmed this week.
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Al % meeting of the executive
committee o! the National Associa-
ton of Democratic club held here it
was determined to take an active
part IN the coming campaign not
withstanding the gentle hint given
by certain leading democrats that no
help was needed from he clubs. Mr..
Carlisle is believer 10 the work ac-
complished by clubs and so is Mr..
Cleveland, and in fact the majority
OF good democrats. The headqnar-
ters of the executive committee will
in future be in this city instead Of
New York.
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The Committee of Pensions csti-
mates that it will take SAC, 100000, a
year to meet the service pension bill
proposed by the House committee on
Invalid Pensions.
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The Woman suffrage folks are jub.
liant over the passage by the House
Of the bin ro admit Wyoming as
State, with a constitution providing
for woman suffrage. The democrats
solidly opposed the bill and they had
the assistance Of one solitary repub-
.llcan.
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The House, after making the date
for holding the Worlds Fair, from
April to November 1898 passed the
bill, and it is now before the special
Senate committee. Senator Daniel
has offered an amendment providing
for celebration to take place in this
city on October IA 1892, on the occa
sion of the unveiling of the propos-
ed movement to Columbus.
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Representative Seney. who has
just returned from Ohio, says Il
don't think the redistrlcting Of State
assures the democrats az much as
some count on. The district are
shaped to give not fifteen, but eight
out of that fifteen have democratic
majorities of less than 1900 which is
rather narrow margin in Ohio
politics..
After grand flourish Of trumpcts
and the adoption OF enough amends
snen,s to kill dozen bills, the Sem
ate retired Senator Sherman al
legged anti~lrust bill to the Judiciary
Committee with Instructions to re-
port it back in twenty days. 1t
would not have hurt the trnsls in
any way il it had beensadoptcd just
an Mr. Sherman Introduced il, and
ii is certain th;.t il will he cqnally as
harmless whenl II il reported from
the judiciary committee,
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Senator Morgan has introduced a
b Il, which il there was'any pussibi :
lty OF lte ever becoming a law
would IN reality curb the rapidly
growing power OF the trusts in this
country. bur that is just what the 70.
publican millionairs ofthe Senate do
not want.
We shall see whether the powers
that besreaIiy want to enforce the
civil service law. Two officials Of
the Virginia republican club are tc
be tried for soliciting campaign con-
tribnuons from office holders in
violation ofthat law. There is. no
doubt OF the guilt Of the men, and
everybody is anxious 20 see whether
they are to be punished or acquitted.
lis dollars to brass buttons that moth
ing will be done with them.
Representatives Bland, Of Missouri
and Wllllams, OF Illinois, in a strong
minority report against the Window
silver bill say that intheir opinion
the bill is very adroitly drawn to
suspend silver coinage, TO totally
demonetize this nDetsl and to per-
mainly establish the slnglc standard