The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-24
Mssnsngrom 1.esEer.
(From our regular correspondent
Washington, July 90, 1891.

i HP&GI lJuSt Is SClllUE All oho Oi-
q~uently interesting. The popular idea o.
the positions CT the candidates has under
gone a change, and now Representative
Crisp is thought TO have taken the ltaC
from MIR. Mills, consequently the friends
of the other candidates have began to tall
of s'anytbipg to beat Crisp" Messrs. Mill:
Crisp and Mcmillan are nos in this city
and neither of them shows the sligktes
disposition to consider the fight won ty
anybody. When Mr.. Mills was thought
to be in the lead it was at his head that al
the adverse criticism was hurled, now it i:
at Mr.. Crisp. He is charged with being
a prohibitionist and also with being the
lobbyist candidate, and yet the active
canvass may be said to have just begun.
What il will be a little later on no man
can say, further than it will be extremely
lively, and that it is likely to occupy con
siderable space in the newspapers.
The manner in which some OF the more
prominent Democrats now here ard others
who have been here since the meeting OF
the Ohio Democratic convention, treat
the free coinage plank in the platform
adopted by that convention, has brought
| forward the doubts which were freely ex-
pressed while the Democrats were esten-
sibly battling for free coinage in the
Senate last winter, as to whether the
Democratic leaders were really in favor of
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many shrewd observers who expressed the
belief, founded largely upon the previous
II expressed opinions Of Democratic Sena-
| tors, that they would not nave supported
the bill if they had supposed it to have
even a reasonable chance of becoming a
law, and now from what has been said by
Democrats, many believe that the plank
was only inserted in the Ohio platform as
a bid for Farmers Alliance votes, and in
the hope that it would prevent the nomi-
nation Of third State ticket. Such sus-
picious may be entirely unjust, but they
naturally arise from the many tricks which
the professional politician has in the past
played upon the people.
There is a general feeling eli regret
among fair-minded, broad guage people
that Indian Commissioner Morgan should
have severed the relations which havs so
long existed between the Indian bureau
and the Catholic Bureau of Missions by
declining to make further contracts with
that bureau for the conduct of Indian
schools. This is the elimination of a
| controversy which began with the appoint
ment of COMMISSIONS Morgan, upon
hard ard long fight was made; the Catho-
lies have maintained that Commissioner
Morgan has constantly Disseminated
| against them on account of religious pre-
judice, while Mr., Morgan has contended
that the Catholics AVE thrown every pos
sible obstacle in the way of his making
| reforms 10 the indian service. He claims
! that his action in refusing to make any
more contracts with the Mission bureau,
the head of which is located here, will not
interfere with any of the Catholic schools
on the reservations, as he will make con-
tracts with those who conduct the schools.
The other side could not be obtained
because the officials Of the Mission bureau
declined to discuss the matter for publica-
ton at this time.
Secretary Tracy is the only member OF
the Cabinet in own to-day, but Mr.. Wan
amaker is expected at his office tomorrow
The negotiations for the arbitratio ion Oh
the disputed points in the Behripg Sea
matter are not making much progress just
at present, although every day or two Sir
Julian Pauncefote. the British minister,
goes down to the State department and has
a conference with Assistant Secretary
Moore, who is in charge during Mr.. Blaine's
absence. The fact Of the matter is that
both sides are a@ waiting the report of the
commission which has been sent to the
Seal Islands for the purpose &C making
thorough investigation. Both couEtrie
have appointed a commission, and although
they are both on the same errand they viii.
work entirely independent of each other,
C6tI GIIiibiooipI hihhtbS ils itpOit l. ilr
own government. When these reports are
submitted, if they agree as to The condi-
ton Of things it will be plain sailing to ar
range the details Of the proposed arbitra
ton; but should they disagree there will
be q very troublesome hitch, which NAV
in the end upset everything.
A bulletin issued by the Census Office
gives the production of gold and silver in
the United States for the calender year
1889 as, gold 1880, 500 ounces, and silver
51,354, S51 ounces. that being about 20 per
cent. Of the entire worlds production OF
gold and Al per cent of silver.
Secretary Foster will go this week to see
Mr.. Harrison, cut nobody seems able to
say authoratiyely whether it is a social OF
an official visit. 1t is probably a combi-
nation Of both. WESTON.
Life Insurance Statistics.
A glance at the statistics in regard to
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