Omaha daily bee., 1890-04-26
lNSTRUCTNC HIS CAPTAINS.
Senator Quay Determined to Rule in Penn.
sylvania Politics
REPRESENTATIVE DORSEY EXPLAINS.
He Has no Quarrel With Civil Ser
vice Rcform-A Senate Substi-
tutc for the Tariff Bill
Army News.
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ways is about the busiest place around the
capitol at present and is crowded with Penn
sylvania politicians from morning till night.
Senator Quay sits at the head of a long table
and receives them one by one. The inter-
views are short and are conducted in a low
tone of voice. but the senator speaks very
seriously and the callers listen to his words
with the greatest attention. The county con-
ventons in PENNSYLVANIA are now being held
to elect delegates to the republican conven-
tion that meets early in June, and the sena-
tor has called his licutenants to Washington
to give them their instructions. He recog-
nizes, as all others do, that the fight over the
nomination for governor is to test his politi-
cal control in that state and there was never
a campaign in which he took greater inter
est or had more at stake.
said leading Pennsylvania politician to-
day; "Quay is i'll control of the party ma
chincry and while he pretends not to have
a candidate for the governorship he is calling
to Washington all the local leaders he can
depend upon, and is giving them their in
structons. He is also calling here many men
who were opposed to him or dissatisfied with
his management and is trying in every way
to cOncilate them and bring them into his
camp. Mr. Andrews, his chairman of the
state committee, is at Harrisburg working in
similar way and kilograms in cipher are
passing between the two men constantly.
State Senator Deameter is Quay'S
candidate and he proposes to nominate him
regardless of consequences. If Dclameter is
nominated he will not be elected. There will
be movement against him both on account
of his personal character and record and par
tcularly because he is the representative of
boss rule. Whether there will be an inde-
pendent republican candidate or whether the
republican boilers will vote the state demo-
cratic ticket is uncertain, but whichever
course is taken if Mr.. Delameter is nominated
it means the defeat of the republican ticket
and the overthrow of Quay. Both factions
are organizing for the fight in the local con-
vcntions and the prospects are that Quay,
having the party machinery underh his control,
Will have majority in the state convention.
1t may be that he will come to his senses be-
fore the convention meets and take his candi-
date from the field, but he is a headstrong
man and boss and think will insist upon
having his own way"
DORSEY EXPLAINS.
Representative Dorsey says that his motion
in the house yesterday to reduce the number
of civil service commissioners from three to
one is not to be interpreted as an attack on
the system which these gentlemen represent.
He SAYS that he believes in civil service re
form and that the republican party cannot do
better than to maintain it by strictly enforc-
ing the law and continuing to make appoint
ments and promotions on the basis of merit,
but he does not see any use for having three
commissioners when one could manage the of
flee just as well and perhaps good deal bet
ter AS long as one man is capable of manag-
ing the pension Office, the Indian Office and
the patent Office, exercising the duties of the
comptroller of the currency and carrying on
other branches of the government, he does not
see why it is necessary to have three men at
the head of much smaller bureau and OF in
! fnitcly less Importance than those mentioned.
If he had his way he would abolish two of the
commissiOnerships and have the bureau under
the control of one good man who is in sym
pathy with the administration and the repub-
liCan party.
1t may be said in this connection that there
is very strong feeling in congress in favor
of the position taken by Mr.. Dorsey, al
though his amendment was ruled out of order
because it would change the existing law and
that is not allowed on appropriation bills.
A SENATE SUBSTITUTE.
The republican members of the senate com
mittee on finance have already commenced
the preparation of IA tariff bill, which will be
proposed as a substitute for the Mckinley
bill when the latter measure reaches the
senate. 1t will be similar to that which was
reported from the same committee and passed
| the senate at the last session of congress with
few notifications, and will differ from the
Mckinley bill in very many important par
ticulars There has never been any eXpecta-
tion on the part of the republican leaders that
the Mckinley bill would become law, but
the committee on ways and means has at
tempted 10 frame such measure as 1t could
get through the house of representatives.
The plan has been therefore to have such a
bill passed by the house and then sent to the
senate, where it could be carefully revised
ana the difference arranged i'll conference
committee.
STILL TINKERISG.
The ways and means committee still CON
inn In pgrllm a
fCcted by the proposed changes in the tariff
and is tinkering its bill every day, so nobody
knows what sort of shape it will be in when
it is finally taken up in the house for action.
AN UNroUNDEp RUMoR.
There was "A rumor about the capitol today
that the president had given notice that he
should veto the caucus silver bill unless it
was modified so as to make speculation in sill
Yer at the expense of the government impOssi-
BILE. But ii could not be traced to any author
itativc source and doubtless originated in
remark made by Secretary Window that the
bill was imperfect in this particular. The
president is not given TO threats nor is it his
| practice to indicate what action he will take
on congressional legislation He has expressed
his views on the silver question to several
gentlemen and they are well understood by
the members of his party. He does not APP
prove the bill as ii stands and will doubtless
suggest certain changes in it. But he is too
good party man TO veto measure that was
adopted by republican caucus with only six
dissenting voices.
ONLY A BLUFF.
Arkansas republicans in Washington say
that the story that the governor of that state
has discovered the assassin of the late MIR
Cladton is simply bluff for effect upon the
congressional committee that has gone down
there to investigate the cause of Claytou's
death. There has been a good deal of CORE
spOndeuCe between Breckenridge and the
governor during the last few months II is
claimed that the yarn about John NJ Clayton
| having been killed by mistake for Powell
Clayton by an old enemy of the latter's is not
only unreasonable, but absurd. The two
brothers did not resemble each other in any
way and il was well known that Powell Clay
ton was nowhere in the ucighborhoOd at the
! time the murder was committed. The town
! whore il occurred is a small one and every
new arrival is known and discussed generally
/ by the citizens. Everybody knew that John
/ Nj Clayton was there for the purpose OF tax
/ ing testimony in his contest election case aud
| no one could have mistaken him for his elder
| brother \ similar suggestion was made soon
! after the murder was committed, bat nobody
/ paid any attention 10 il.
An OLD CuMRADE.
Another Of the presidents old army COM
! ruurs !s likely 10 get an Office for the mem