Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
 WASHINGTON. DEC. 26, 1890.

Senator lIoar did not, it is a safe thing to say, enjoy his Christmas dinner. He was too badly disgust ed at his failure to get vote upon the Force bill this week. He thought he was alright the other day when he offered a resolution proposing a re- cess until o'clock in the evening and continuous session of the Sen ate from that time until the bill was disposed of But To and behold when noses were counted there was no quorum present, and the point was quickly made by Democratic Senator who had remained in the chamber for that very purpose, and most aggravation of all to MT. Hoar was the fact that, in spite of all his coaxing and threatening, seventeen republican Senators were among the absentees.
 The republican mountain, after weeks of painful labor, has brought forth a mouse in the shape of a rule to to cut off debate at the pleas ure of the majority which has been reported to the Senate by MT. Ald- l rich Rnt tho OTTO not at all alarmed; on the contrary they are confident of their ability to de- feat this proposed revolutionary overturning of the precedents of a century, and in any event fully de- termined that 1t shall not be done until every parliamentary expedient has been exhausted in the effort to prevent it.
 If Mir Harrison wished to select a gentleman entirely without a na- tional reputation to succeed the late Justice Miller on the bench of the United States Supreme Court he cer- tainly succeeded when he ominated Henry s. Brown, of Michigan, to the vacancy. Said republican Senator: Ut was really amusing when the nomination was announced to see prominent Senators going from one to the other in order to find out who this Mir. Brown is. The Michigan Senators speak we'll of him but 1 doubt if there are a dozen oth- CT Senators who ever heard of him before.
 Representative Blanchard, of Louisiana, has offered a resolution in the House providing for general Indian investigation. The same gentleman has offered a resolution instructing the House committee on Banking and currency to report a bill to increase the amount of money in circulation to $50 per capita. He sets forth in preamble the fact o1 its being impossible in many parts oI the South to get an advance of ever Sl0 bale on cotton owing to the scarcity of money.
 The republicans of the Senate arc getting their party into nice snar on the financial question. The re cent republican caucus approved bill, in the hope of conciliating tho free coinage republican Senators that provided for the issuing ol treasury notes, based on purchase of silver bullion to make up the de ticiencv whenever the amount of nat ional bank circulation fell belov S1S0, ,000, ,0O0, but the Finance com mittee to which the bill was referre, when introduced, has cut out tha section of the bill entirely and put il place of it one authorizing the Sec retary of the Treasury to issu S200, ,000,0 ,000 of per cent bonds and the amended bill has been re ported back to the Senate by tha strong and vigilant foe of silver Senator Sherman The silver mel are mad as hornets and Senate Stewart has already offered fret coinage amendment to the bill, ant overtures are being made to dem ocrats to support it. What the dem ocrats will do depends largely upol what action the republicans who ia vor free coinage take upon the force bill. Senator Stewart will do all he can to get them to oppose it.
 The House will pretend to be do' ing business for the rest of Christ mas week, but it had no quorum when it adjourned from Tuesday un til today, and it is not probable tha it will have again until after the frs of the year. The Senate finding that it would be impossible to get { quorum present on Christmas day adjourned from Wednesday until Saturday. Senator Aldrich has promised to give 24 hours notice be.