Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Probability of an Agreement on
Worlds Fair Appropriation.
AppOintments.-News, Notes and
Politics.
[From our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 90, '92.
There appears to have come sudden
conviction to number of leading mem
bers of the House who oppose the
Worlds Fair appropriation that the ap-
preparation will finally be agreed to by
the House. The majority against the
item when it came to final vote was
SO small that it is believed that the
friends Of the proposition will not have
very great difficulty in overcoming it.
The economists of the House now think
that the most they can do is to resist
long enough to emphasize their opposi-
ton. 1t is probable that the firstreport
from the conference will be a disagree
ment. 1t will then be in order for some
one in the House to move that the
House conferees be instructed to yield
to the Senate. 1t may be that the
Worlds Fair folks will have majority
on this motion at first, but the proba-
bility is that there will be more show
of resistance before yielding. In ans
wer to the objection that the item will
swell the aggregate of appropriations
they will argue that the appropriation
is from uncurrent and unavailable sub
sidiary coin and will be a means of put
ting this coin in circulation. Several
of the southern members feel very un-
comfortable over the prospect of the
appropriation being made, arguing that
it will give the third party-the ALI
ance sub treasury people-a warrant
for the statement that the Democrats
are ready to help corporation, but re-
fuse to help the farmers.
There is disposition in certain quar-
ters to assume that the probable passage
by the Senate of the anti option bill is
viewed with great alarm by Mr.. Harri-
son. 1t seems to be the theory of the
seers and prophets that the President
ardently wishes to be spared the dilem-
ma with which the enaction of this
measure into law will confront him.
He is represented as afraid to approve
and equally afraid to veto it, and alto
gether great number of most worthy
Democratic quid nuos find the utmost
comfort in contemplating what they
regard as the Presidents sad predica-
ment. Why it should be assumed that
Mr.. Harrison should be unhappy or
even especially concerned is far from
being apparent. If he regards the bill
as wise and patriotic and useful; if he
thinks that its operations will promote
the cause of morality and elevate the
condition of the agricultural class he
will not only sign it but he will be very
glad of the opportunity. If, on the
contrary, he regards it as foolish and
mischievous cOnceit, and powerful for
nothing but confusion, then he will
veto it with promptness and enthusiasm.
1t is evident Mr.. Harrison does not feel
the very slightest embarrassment as to
the anti option bill nor is it obvious how
any one who has intelligently watched
his course can imagine him in state
of alarm or hesitation as to anything
coming in the line of his official duty.
No more courageous and conscientious
man has ever occupied the executive
chair.
The pieces on the legislative chess
board in the House are rapidly removed,
and were it not for the complicated
position in which the anti-option and
sundry civil bills are placed the Con-
gressional game would soon be at an
end. The House made a number of
moves toward that result yesterday. To
be sure they were of themselves of no
very great Importance, but they tended
to show the disposition of members to
clear the board for the final fight over
the two great measures. The most i'm
portant legislation passed by the House
was the bill to enforce reciprocal COM
mercial relations between the United
States and Canada. A number of meas
ures pertaining to military and naval
matters were passed but postal affairs
were not SO successful, the only meas
ure of general Importance called up, for
the issuing of postal fractional notes,
not reaching favorable conclusion.
The President s appointments, already
noteworthy for their excellence, are to
be strengthened by that of Mr.. George
Shiras, jr., of Pennsylvania, just nomi-
mated to be Supreme Court Justice.
While great partisans have, in every
generation, made great members of that
exalted bench, it has always been the
case that the staple of membership has
been the eminent lawyer promoted from
private life or the lower judiciary. The
State of Pennsylvania has been singu
larly rich from colonial times in the
number and quality of her lawyers.
In Mr.. Garter the Republican national
committee finds an able, wide awake
chairman. One of the five gentlemen
originally suggested by the Presiden
for the place, he gives entire satisfac
ton to the personal fri nds of Mr.. Har
rison, while there is no reason why h,
should not please others in his party
just as well. He has been considerabl,
of a doer in his thirty eight years O
of life, and has usually succeeded in hi
undertakings.
Now that Mr.. Cleveland has taken
stand on the forca hill and ubila n,