The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Corrc.pondent.l

MISUNDERSTANDING II HlNHlS bHc vi WV
favorite occupations in Washington, and
recent events have added special zest to
it. Senator Hill is given the credit,
whether rightly or not | do not pretend
to say, of having made combination
with Senators German and Brice to con
troll the Democratic nomination, which
Mr.. Hill wants himself if he can get it,
but failing in that he wants aahand in
naming the man, and his second choice is
understood to be German, and his third
"some good Western man" Senator
Hill found congenial atmosphere from
the first among the Democratic Senators,
most of whom are bitter anti-Cleveland
in their sentiments, and until his recent
New York coup he appeared to be rap
idly growing in popularity, but now fears
are expressed by those friendly to him
that he has gone too far in so openly
showing his hand as the manipulation of
the Democratic machine in that State.
No one can deny that he is one of the
shrewdest political wire pullcrs 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. pulers of the past.
Evidently the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations think the present Chi
nese laws sufficient for all practical pur-
poses, as it has reported adversely all of
the bills introduced providing new and
more stringent laws, and presented a sub
stitute in the shape of bill to continue
the present anti. Chinese laws for period
of ten years.
Senator Kyle made his debut as a Sen
atorial orator in a set speech in favor of
his joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution giving Congress
authority to enact uniform marriage and
divorce laws for the whole country.
The Farmers Alliance members of
Congress are welding considerable infu-
ence in that body. They have, aided by
rapidly growing public sentiment in
favor of the change, caused the House
Committee on the election of President
and Vice. President to decide to report
favorably a bill for a Constitutional
amendment providing for the election of
Senators by popular vote; but their
greatest triumph, in which they were
ably aided by the influence of all the
labor organizations, was to compel Rep
resentative Oates, of Alabama, Chairman
of the subcommittee of the Judiciary |
Committee, which recently adversely re-
reported Representative Watson's ieso.
lut'oI for an investigation into the |
Pinkerton Detective Agencies, to ask
the full committee to recommit the
resolution To the subcommittee for fur.
Their consideration as to the jurisdiction
of Congress.
Lobbyists representing the great corpo-
rations of the country here are much ex.
ercised over the decision of the House
judiciary Committee to favorably report
the bill which makes Il corporation cit
izcn of the State in which it carries on
business, for ali judicial purposes,
The House having adopted an amend
ment to the rules compelling the several
committees to report all of the apprnpria-
ton bills within eighty days after the IN
nouncement of the committees mt the
long session, and within forty days after
the opening of the short session, the
will have u do some lively
hustling to comply there with, as they
have hardly began work on any of them
yet, and the time within which they
should be reported will expire on the 18th
of March.
So many Democratic members of Con-
gress refused to he bound by the decision
of the caucus which was 10 have been
held tonight on the silver question, that
tho caucus was given up, and with it the
idea of making the free coinage of silver
a party question was abandoned, for the
at any rate. As announced some