Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-05-19
IY.A.SHlNGTON LETTER.
(FrOm Our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
ashingtOn May, ID, 1879.


getting well enough to travel. Seere
tary Noble is in st. Louis, and Secre.
tary Foster has gone up the Poto
mae for several days bass fishing
All of which shows how much trutl
there is in the stories printed in the
democratic papers, charging that the
entire administration is devoting its
! whole time trying to influence the
votes of the nninstructed delegates
/ to the Minneapolis convention,
The republican Congressional Cam
! paign committee has elected an eX-
ecutive committee and officers and
buckled down to the work OF assist
ing to elect Il republican majority OF
the House next November. The com
mittee's work is constantly made
easier by the action OF the democrat
ic majority Of the present House.
The Senate committee on Foreign
relations does. not agree with the
House inignofing the good prospects
for largely INCREASING our commerce
with the other,republlcs of this con-
titcnt. SO it Unsupported amendments
to the consular and diplomatic bill
increasing to $3O, 900 the amount APP
propriate for the maintenance of
the bureau of American republics,
and appropriating $6 200 to pay the
share OF the United States OF the ex-
pense of the prelimin:ry survey for
the inter-continental railway. recon-
mendedby the Pan-Amerlcan Con-
gress.
There is considerable opposition in
the Senate to the confirmation of the
nomination of L. Jefferson Coolidge
to be minister to France, but the inn
preston is that it is hardly strong
enough to reject him. The opposi-
ton is headed by what are known
as the silver Senators, who arc OPP
posed to sending Il man OF Mr.. Cool
iiuge's pronounced views in favor of a
single (gold) standard to a hi-metal-
lie country.
Having passed the big river and
harbor bill, the democrats OF the
House, in order to even up things
slashed away at the items of the Sun
dry civil appropriation bill, making
reductions that all admit to be alb
surd, such for Instance, as cutting
down more thar one third the csti-
mates for "repuirs and preservation
OF public builoinss". Representative
COggs we'll, OF Massachusetts, wittily
said that ii he We're called upon to
put a motto at the head OF this bill
it would read thus: mo saving, but
pOstpOnement; no ecouomy, but i'll
creased expenditures in the end.
There is II big difference between al
lowing two of the finest steamships
in the world the privileges Of Ameri-
can registry. on condition that at
least two similar vessels be construct
ed in American shipyards, by their
owners, as the bill signed by the
President this week does, and pass
ing Il bilf granting these privileges to
any and all vessels built in foreign
countries, as the democratic House
will soon find out, if it accepts the
advice OF Representative Finhian, of
Illinois, and passes IL bill to admit
foreign built vessels of all kinds to
American registry. The first bill will
result in an Increase OF work for
Americans. while the last, should it
become IL law, would eventually re-
suit in the closing ofevery American
ship-building establishment.
The House committee on Elections
has reported in favor of another re-
publican-R Representative Shonk, the
sitting member from the Twelfth
Pennsylvania. district, whose seat is
con tested by a democrat, and ;ts; the
democrat in the case is not backed
10y boss Hill it is not probable that
the House will reverse the action of
the committee this time.
Senator Sherman says all the talk
about his becoming; Il candidate
against the President is bosh. He
expects the President to be nominal
ted ON the first ballot or not at all.
Boss Hill thinks it will be easier
for him to control the Chicago Con-
vention with $50 than with 800 MEM
bers, SO he pretcnds to believe that it
is not legal to choose delega ties to the
National conventions and members
OF the Electoral college upon the new
Congressional apportionment, and
that the Electoral college will consist
Of 42l members, instead of ~, WHICH
is the proper number under the lrew
apportionmcnt. He has not found
IL single man of prominence in any
party to agree with him nor is it
very likely he will.
Since it was discovered that the
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