The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-01-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
News From ~a-hington. Prospective
Pr-sidential Nominations. Notes.
Personais etc.

its session is receiving food Of bills.
The first call for bills and resolutions in
the House put seven hundred on the
docket Out Of the thousands Of bills
proposed few mature into laws. The
farmer who sews seal in the same ratio
to his crop is poor indeed Much of this
legislative seed falls on stony ground
and in the trodden path, but the legisIa-
tive sprouts choke each other mostly.
Any man can have his little bill present
ed to Congress by the hand of his repre-
sentative who will cheerfully introduce
it to the House. But such introduction
rarely leads to acquaintance and more
rarely still to friendly approval. The
road to successful legislation in the ma.
jority of cases is not only strait but very
crooked. A measure Of national import
ance unless it be adopted by the party in
power has of course no hope, and it Of
limited Importance though non partisan
it requires to be steered around many a
shoal and between rocks innumerable,
and against all sorts of oratorical gales.
Congress has too much to do. 1t is bur-
dened with too many bills. Its time is
occu pied with too many small matters
for the relief of A, B; c. =" X, Y,
z, etc., which could be better attended
to by other suitable tribunals. There ia
crying need Of reform in the matter of
adjusting claims, Congress is not a suit.
able tribunal. The averass Congressman
is not disinterestcd. That which CON
Germs his district and his re- election 10
terests him mainly. Mrn of characte,
and experience say II wouEi not give $ 4
cents on the dollarfo the best clain,
ever held against the Government. h. d
claims can be put through by men Who
"know the rope,." while hundreds Of
just claims are left unsettled from year
TO year. Why ought not Government
creditor have the same facilities for col.
lecting debt as any other! And why
ought not the government pay its jus,
debts with interest before the creditor
and his children are dead, without the
expense and difficulty Of lobbying, aud
log rolling whereby corrupt claims art
too apt too succeed?
RErRENcHMENT is to be the democrat
ic policy Of the present session. Th'
"Riyer and Hsrbor' bill be kept down te
ten or fifteen fifteen millions, and no new
work undertaken. A bill has been in
troduced to cut down the expense Of con
gressional wakes. Other economics
measures will follow.
CRISP is better and able to see his DO
litioal friends on important matters. H
| is expected to take the gavel in few
days. Meantime Mr.. Mcmillan doe
very well as Speaker, and Mills is in tn
sunny south shaking Of cold and look
ing after his senatorial prospects.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS. The eapi
tai like the focus Of Ia whispering CALLER
hear rumors, conjectures, prophecies an,
opinions fro n oil quarters. A favoris'
topic just now is the naming Of candi
i dates for presidency. IL is said for ex
ample that Ex-Governor Hill having d.
monstratsd his power as . practical poll
tician has epdeared himself TO the d,
mocrscy, that hs has New York at hi
back; that Abbot Of New Jersey who |
to be senator will deliver that state b
him; that Connecticut viii follow; tha
Gray is to get SECOND place on the ticke
and insure Indiaus and that Hill lis tn
i coming man.
!, Others say that Hill will wait unit
, 1896. and that German is to be the NON
inee and they point to the exceptional
friendly and cordial relations Of the tw
men. Senator Sherman names Carlis
~ candidate aad there are not wantir
8 influential democrats who are ready TO
the same. Palmer has ftness aud frisn,
9 also, while Clspeland's great popuiari'
b endures though it does not so complet
3 over shadow al others IS few mont
ago. Evidently the democratic part
i has wide range OF choice for Q cane
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