The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-01-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

the Federal Election bill will pass
the Senate and become a law. He
thinks that Senators Stewart, Woleott,
Teller and possibly one or two-others
not over two, represents the entire
republican opposition to the bill, al
though there are several others who
may not vote for the bill, but who
will not vote against it. But other
republican Senators are not SO conf
dent of the final outcome. The dis
affection in the republican ranks
arises not so much from opposition
to the bill as from the delay IN dis
posing of it, These gentlemen think
the bill has already occupied too
much Of the Senate time, while other
legislation, particularly that affect
ing financial matters, has had to wait.
lust what the result will be it
would be impossible to predict with
even a reasonable degree Of certainty,
but every Senator with whom | have
talked; and they are numerous and
represent the friends of all the meas
ures waiting to be taken up as well
as Of the election bill, agree in the
belief that decisive action of some
sort will be taken by the Senate dur
ing the coming week, when about all
of the holiday absentees will have re-
turned. One strange feature Of the
situation is that democrats generally
believe that the election bill will be
passed.
Democratic Senators are doing all
they possibly can to encourage those
republican Senators who are known
to be favorable to free silver coinage
to attempt to force the consideration
of one Of the bills already introduced
providing for free coinage before the
Election bill or the cloture rule is
disposed of; they are not doing this
because they favor free coinage,
which has some of its bitterest oppo-
nents among the democratic Sen
ators, but because they wish to Gre
ate dissension in the republican ranks
in the hope that they may profit
thereby in the end It will be dis
covered think, by these republicans,
if one of these bills ever reaches
vote, that the democrats, with very
few exceptions, will not vote for it.
The republicans in the Senate are
strikingly in need of leader, that is
to say a man with the daring and
dash which characterized certain Pc
RODS of Mr.. Blaine and the late
Roscoe Conklings Senatorial careers.
There are many able and learned re-
pubicans in the Senate, but there
seems to be no real leader among
them no man whom all the rest
will willingly follow. If Speaker
Reed had been in the Senate l don't
believe the present condition of af-
fairs, which is entirely unsatisfactory
to all classes of republicans, would
exist, Battles are not won without
fighting, and no army can fight we'll
with divided leadership. Republi-
cans all hope for the best, but they
are not inspired with that aggressive
confidence which has been character
istic of the party in other great Con-
gressional contests.
The President has signed the
commission of Henry B. Brown as
Associate Jnstice of the United
States Supreme Court, his nomina-
ton having been confirmed by the
Senate. The new Justice will take
his seat next week, and he will have
his hands full of work Immediately,
as there are number of important
cases that have been waiting for a
full court to act upon them. Justice
Brown is a fortunate man; not a
single word has been said against
his nomination.
The President is utilizing all the
machinery of the Post-ofice depart
ment in making an investigation OF
the recent murder of J. P Matthews
postmaster at Carrollton, Mississippi