Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-30

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in, there is a general feeling that
there are good and sufficient means
for the delay, which cannot be made
public just yet. Is is impossible to
get the smallest scrap of informa-
ton from official sources, but there
are reasons for believing that the
Gillian minister has made some
definite promises of reparation by
his government, and that the English
and German governments have,
through their minister here, request
ed the administrator to hold the
correspondence until there is time
given for their fulfillment.
Secretary Blaine ana the Presi-
dent are in perfect accord, as they
have been from the first, notwith-
standing sensational statements TO
the contrary. Mr.. Blaine's attack
of nausea at the cabinet meeting,
which necessitated his leaving be-
fore the meeting closed, and which
prevented his attending the Presi-
dents first state dinner of the
season to the cabinet, that night,
was made the basis of lots of stories
even more senseless than those
usually told by the men who are try
ing so hard TO stir up strife between
these two friends, and they were all
exploded by the fact that Mr.. Blaine
entertained the President and sever
al members of the cabinet at dinner
the very next night.
The Democrats Of the House
again showed how insincere they are
in pretending to be in favor of real
economy in running the government
when they defeated the bill to re-
form many abuses now existing in
the printing, binding and distribu-
ton of public documents This
bill was far from being perfect but
if enacted into a law, it would have
put an end to some of the most
fragrant abuses which have gradually
crept into the present system, and
would have saved the government
something like half million dol
lars a year, now wasted in the
printing Of supertiuous public docu-
ments which eventually find their
way into the hands of the junk-man.
Gen. Palmer, COMMANDMENT. Chief
G.. A. r. has been here. He says
that he believes that every post in
the country will be here at the
encampment this year.
Never before have so many bills
on matter ertalning to finance and
the tariff beea introduced in an en-
tire session Of Congress as have
already been introduced at the
present session. 1t looks as though
all the cranky ideas of the period
have been turned into bills aud
poured into the Congressional hop
per. OF course, everybody, including
their authors, knows that about
ninety-nine out of every hundred of
these bills will never again be heard
from.
The National Democratic Commit
tee met here last week for the
purpose of ratifying the choice long
ago made by bosses Hill, German
and Brice of the place for holding
the Democratic nominating conven.
ton. There is lots of kicking
among the delegations from the
cities turned down and several
members of the National commit
tee have had the nerve to protes
against the rough-shod manner III
which these bosses override every
body's wishes but their own, but
they will go right on following
these same bosses.
1t is already evident that the
| policy of the Democratic majority
| in the House is to do as little as
possible at the present session OF
Congress. The Mills men charged
during the Speakership campaign
that such would be the policy of
the majority if Crisp was elected