Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
wAsHrseros. D. O.. July 8, '0s.


majority of the House intend TO pass
the free coinage bill: They say 1t Is
necessary for them to do so In order
to retain their hold upon a plumber OF
Congressional districts In the West
and South. and they rely upon Cleve-
lands well-known anti-silver senti-
ments to save them In the East. IL
will not be done. however. without a
bitter parliamentary fight, but as
Speaker Crisp has given the silver
men assurances of his intention to
aid them there Is little or no
doubt of the final result. 1t
Is regarded as certain that the Presi-
dent. who has taken advantage of the
wrangle over the bill In the House to
carry Mrs. Harrison to the Adiron-
dacks. will veto 1t.
Members of the Cabinet and of Con-
gress are taking the deepest interest In
the labor troubles in Pennsylvania,
although It is not a case In which the
general Government or Congress can
interfere, except by lending moral In
fiuence towards settlement of the
difficulties. Resolutions for investi-
CATION have been offered In the House
and Senate.
While the resignation of chairman
Campbell, OF the National committee,
is generally regretted by republicans,
there is no evidence here of the CON-
motion said by sensational democratic
newspapers to exist among republi-
cans by reason of that resignation.
The new chairman will be selected by
the new executive committee, and It
goes without saying that the selection
will be good one. The democrats will
discover before long that this cam
gaign is to be fought on great pr1nci-
pie and not by or for any one man.
Senator Aldrich this week introduce
ed a concurrent resolution for the f.
nal adjournment of Congress on July
Goth, but he has little hope that 1t will
get away as soon as that, unless q
great change takes place very soon.
A good deal of nonsense Is being
talked about the probabilities of the
election being thrown into the House
because OF the detection of the silver
States from the republican ticket.
Few people can be found here who
honestly believe that the voters of
any State heretofore republican will
prefer Weaver or Cleveland to Harri-
son; but allowing for the sake of ar
gument that Mr.. Harrison should lose
all of the new States, Colorado, Neve-
da and Wisconsin and the fifth Michi-
gan votes, and hold the other States
he carried In 1888, he would get 225
electrol votes, which would be two
more than would be necessary to elect
him. Much of this talk about throw
ing the election into the House comes
FROM the democrats who are using IL
as a means to convince the republic
cans who are inclined TO favor the
free coinage of silver of the possibility
of the House, which, when voting by
States, would be controlled by the sill
yer men. electing free coinage man,
IL there is failure to elect in the cleo
toral college.
Had the Omaha convention put up
a man capable of inspiring national
confidence, this talk might have infiu-
enced considerable number of repub-
lican voters, but the nomination of
Weaver has made It deader than
last years bird nest. 1t is doubtful
wether a single republican could be
found, no matter what his opinion
about silver may b.. who would be
willing to throw the election into the
House, even If that body was pledg-
ed to elect free coinage man; IL lie
knew that Weaver was to be the man.
The third party as factor in the
Presidential election Is dead -Weav-
er killed IL; the fight is to be a straight
one between Harrison and Cleveland,
protection and free trade, and every
man who casts vote for the peoples
party ticket simply throws II away.
Messrs. Nelson and Parker. the ex-
perts selected by the joint committee
on Immigration of the House and
Senate to make thorough examina-
ton of the Government buildings erec-
ted for the immigrant station, on Ell
liz Island In New York Harbor, have
submitted their report to the chair
man of those committees. The esti-
mate of these experts of what the nine
principals buildings should have cost
aggregated S242. 600, which is just
81, 900 more than they cost under
contracts made by the Treasury de-
.partment. The experts failed to find
any structural defects of Importance
Ia the buildings and report that as a
whole the work has been well done
and that its cost has been below the
average paid for similar work. That
Is just about what Secretary Charles
Foster said when sensational charges
were made Ia connection with this
work.