The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-02-11


 as the manipulator of the Democratic machine in that state. No one can deny that he is one of the shrewdest political wire pullers that this country has produced, but that very fact may prevent securing the nomination of his party, as has often been the case with wire pullers of the past.
 Evidently the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations think the present Chinese laws sufficient for all practical purposes, as it has reported adversely all of the bills introduced providing new and more stringent laws, and pre- sented substitute in the shape of a bill to continue the present anti-Chinese laws for period of ten years.
 Senator Kyle made his debut as a Senatorial orator in a set speech in favor of his joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution giv- ing Congress authority to enact uni form marriage and divorce laws for the whole country.
 The Farmers Alliance members oi Congress are welding considerable in, fuence in that body. They have, aided by a rapidly growing public sentiment in favor of the change, caused the House committee on the Election O President and Vice-President to decid, to report favorably bill for Consti tutional amendment providing for th' election of Senators by popular vote but their greatest triumph in whicl they were ably aided by the inhuenc' of all the labor organizations, was t. compel Representative Oates of Ala bama, chairman of the sub-committe of the Judiciary committee which re gently adversely reported Representa- tive Watson's resolution for an investi gation of the Pinkerton detective agen cies, to ask the full committee to re commit the resolution to the suh-com mittee for further consideration as t the jurisdiction of Congress.
 Lobbyists representing the great COT porations os the country here are muc exercised over the decision of tn House Judiciary committee to favoi ably report the bill which makes COT poration a citizen of the state in whic it carries on business, for all jueicia purposes.
 The House having adopted an amend ment to the rules compelling the sey eral committees to report all of tn appropriation bills within eighty day after the announcement of the con mittees at the long session, and withi forty days after the opening of tn short session, the committees will hay to do some lively hustling to compl herewith, as they have hardly bega work on any of them yet and the tim , within which they should be reporte
 will expire on the 18th of March. , So many Democratic members ( Congress refused to be bound by tn , decision of the caucus which was { 3 have been eeld last night on the silve . question that the caucus was given III r and with it the idea of making the fire t coinage of silver party question W;
 abandoned, for the present, at an
 rate. As announced some time agt the House coinage committee will ne, week authorize free coinage bill { be favorably reported to the Hous, l Next week the Senate finance cOmmi tee will also act on Senator Stewart | free coinage bill, and the action wi probably be unfayorable.
 , The Democrats of the II ouse have ; : last succeeded in getting their code ( : rules adopted, after the debate whic seemed to be aimlessly stretched O, , had become so tiresome to the men bers that most of them kept off th : floor to escape it. The question no is, what next? And nobody seems {
 be in position to make an authoratiy answer. If there be men of comman, ing power in the Democratic ranks the House they will have q great ol
 portunity to make reputation in th l near future by assuming the leadershi and showing the country that the m; jority of the House Is no longer adrif