The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
M-asn,nx,on Letrer.

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Mr.. Blaine has been doing some very
plain talking to members of his party in
Congress about the proposed Federal cleo
ton law, 50 plain that the relations be-
tween the Secretary of State and several
distinguished Republican members of both
House and Senat c are decidedly strained
and constantly becoming more so. Mr..
Blaine thinks and does not hesitate to say
that the enactment of a Federal election
law at this time by the Republican major
ity in Congress would be practically COM
hitting political suicide; he believes that
what would be gained in the South under
such a law would be lost many times over
in other sections of the country and that
the Republicans would be badly defeated
in the next Presidential election. The
question has also been informally discuss
ed in the Cabinet and two of its members
agree with Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Harrison and
two others are non. committal, and the
other three favor the enactment of such a
law. In the meantime it looks very much
as If tho radical members of the House
proposed to attempt to pass a bill-the
Lodge bill Invested of the Australian bal
lot portion-at the very first opportunity.
Whether they will succeed is a question.
The charge that the present dead
lock on pension bills between the House
and Senate was puIposely gotten up to
prevent any legislation, has stirred up the
Republican leaders, and whatever founda-
ton the story may have had, it is now GER
tain that it will result in bringing about a
speedy argument between the confereos
from the House and Senate who now have
the bills in charge, and that a pension bill
of some sort is a certainty at this session.
AS anticipated the tariff debate in the
House under the five minutes rule has
been very lively. and at times even excit-
ing. Mr.. Mckinley has unquestionably
had the hardest job of his public life in
keeping tho Republicans in line for the bill.
So far he has succeeded and as he only has
two days more OF the ordeal to pass
through he probably will to the end, al
though there are all sorts of rnmors of at
tempted combinations by this or that
bi"fS - ihtPuoiitNh itlhbCf II tut
Democrats to secure the adoption of GER
tain amendments, but when it's a question
OF politics the Republicans generally vote
solid and it will be strange if they don't
do that Wednesday afternoon when the
vote is taken on the tariff bill.
Notwithstanding that the Republican
House caucus sat down upon the river and
harbor bill recently a determined effort is
to be made to get it before the House as
soon as the tariff bill is disposed of. If
once before the House it is believed that it
would pass, but unless Speaker Reed has
recently changed his mind it is not likely
that it will get before the House. Mr..
Reed was one Of the first Republicans to
advocate small appropriations at this SEES.
sion as being good politics.
A very distinguished crowd Witnessed
the marriage of Secretary Blaine's daugAt-
er to Mr.. Walter Damrosch or Saturday at
l O'Clock, although the ceremony was sup
posed to be strictly private. Two we'd
dings-a son and a daughter-and two
deaths-a son and a daughter-in one fam
lily in less thai a year, is the remarkable
record Of the Blaine's, and in the same
time Mr.. Blaine has lost a brother by
death and Mrs. Blaine Il sister.
The Senate is still wrestling with the sill
yer question and the end is not yet in sight.
1t is somewhat difficult to make an intelli-
gent prediction of what will be the fate of
the Jones silver bill. The appearances in
dictate that the bill will be passed, but
there are quite q number of Senators
whose positions are not clearly defined on
the subject. Secretary Window must re-
gard the passage of the bill as quite GER
tain as he would not have taken the trou-
BILE to prepare an amendment which Sena-
tor Sherman offered for him.. The House
will probably take up the Window silver
bill as soon as it gets through with the tar
i'll and as it has been endorsed by TIC eau
Gus it will undoubtedly pass that body.
If the representatives of the Farmers AL.
lance, who have been trying to convince
the members of the House Ways and
Means committee to make a favorable re-
port upon the bill to establish sub treas
urleS ior the ueposiG OF agricultural pro-
ducts, are not very cheerful and persever-
ing men, they must be greatly discouraged
at the slow progress made. The Demo-
Gratis particularly have been out-spoken in
their opposition to the scheme which is en-
tirely too paternal to be in accordance with
their ideas. Representative Mills has
taken the trouble to write three columns
of argument against the bill.
A member of The nb-committee of the
House which visited Arkansas to investi-
gate the Clayton breckenridge contested
election says it will be almost impossible
to report the case to the House at this ses-
sion owing to the enormous mass of testi-
mony taken, the most Of which is not yet
written ont from the stenographcrs re-
ports. He also says that none of the ev-
idence taken throws any new light upon
the killing of Clayton or the stealing of
the ballot boxes. WESTON.