Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
written and compiled for the HERALD.

I Written and compiled for the HERALD
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 17.-The
secret is ont at last, there is no longer
any mystery as to the Democratic bowls
for recount of the population of New
York City. 1t is not because they hope
TO gain an additional member of the
House, and one more vote in the electoral
college for the state of New York. They
are playing for much larger stakes. The
scheme is to create such a hubbub over
this recount that Congress will pass
resolution ordering it, and then for the
milk in the cocOanut-the pOstponement
of the Congressional apportlonment until
the Fifty-second Congress meets. they
know that an appOrtionment bill such as
Representative Dunnel's will give the Re-
nublicans from II to 10 additional Repre-
sentatives in the Fifty-third Congress and
an equal number of votes in the electoral
college which will elect the next Presi'
dent, and they are playing bold game in
order to prevent the present Congress
making the spportionment at the COM
ing short session, and to get the appor-
tionment into their own hands.
But it is a decided waste of energy
The first business of the Republican
House. which meets December LIST, will
be to perfect and pass a fair and just APP
portionment bill based upon the returns
of the eleventh census. The bill intro
duced by Mr.. Dunnell at the last session
will necessarily have to be changed be-
cause the population of the country fell
below the estimates upon which 1T was
based, but there is not the slightest dan
GER that Democratic bowls can succeed in
having the bill postponed.
Everybody here is talking reciprocity.
The new Spanish Minister, Senior Miguel
Suarez Guanes, has arrived here, been
presented to the President and has al
ready opened negotiations with Secretary
Blame looking towards a reciprocity
treaty between the United States and
Spain, which will of course, lnclude
Cuba. In his speech to the President the
new minister made it very plain that his
government was anxious to have reel
Drocity. and privately he has talked even
plalner. Negotiations are also in progress
with several other countries, notably
those of Central and South America, and
IT will not be surprising If the Senate
shall be called upon to ratfy four or five
reciprocity treaties before the expiration
of the Fifty-frst Congress.
| The President spends the greater por-
ton of his time Just now in the prepare
ton of his annual message to Congress,
which promises to be an unusually inter
esting and important document, but he
takes time to confer with Republican Sen
ators and Representatives, who are arrlv-
ing quite rapidly, in order to get the
| benefit of their advice on the subjects
which he proposes to treat in his message.
1t is thought that within a week or ten
DAYS the most of the Republican Senators
and Representatives will be here, and 1t
is proposed that a conference be held to
decide upon tie legislation OF the coming
sessions. 1t is known that the President
will take strong grounds in his message
| for the immediate passage of the appor-
tionment bill and the shipping bills, and
il is believed by many that he Will also
urge the passage of the Federal Election
| bill by the Senate, but there are some
doubters as to the last measure.
l heard a gentleman say to-day that
the President had decided upon the sue
cessor to the late Justice Miller, and that
his name would 90 to the Senate immedl-
ately after Congress meets. The gentle
mans relations with Mr.. Harrison are
such as to leave no doubt in my mind.
He would not tell the name of the new
Justice in fact he wouldn't admit that he
knew it.
Buffalo Bills Indians, in full and gor-
geous dress, called upon the President
Saturday and told him Bill had treated
them like princes, and that they wanted
to 90 back to him after seeing their
kiusfolk. Most of them seemed to be
half.breeds. They attracted as much at
tention on Pennsylvania avenue as if the
sight of an Indian there was rarity.
Secretary Window last Friday received
letter from Philadelphia containing a
thousand dollars in United States notes,
which the sender, who withheld his name,
said he believed belonged to the govern
ment, and the receipt of which he asked
to have acknowledged through the Phila-
delphIa newspapers. 1t was placed in
the treasury to the credit of conscience"