The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-02-26
WASHINGTON NOTES
The National LEGISLATORS are Widely
Scattered for the Present
Time.
Harrison Sick NgtA the Grip and Has
Cancelled all Engagements
for the Week.

natl0nal legislators are, Tor the Ilme'
quite widely scattered, The alliance
members have nearly all gone to St.
Louis, either to take part as delegates,
or to be interested lookers-on at the
conference of the alliance with other in
dustrial organizations, which opened
in the city today-the outcome of
which have an important bearing upon
the next presidential campaign. The
Tammany members have gone up to
Albany to see that the New York state
convention slips no cogs, and the rest
of them, with the exception of a few,
very few, engaged upon important
committee work, are in Chicago, guests
of the worlds fair people.
To caucUs, or not to caucus, on the
silver bill, is question that will con-
front the democrats of the house this
week. Representative Harter ofOhio,
who has made himself particularly OBJ
noxious 10 those who favor free coinage
by his somewhat peculiar methods of
working up public sentiment against
the bill. secured forty-tlve names to a
call for q caucus, which has been
handed to Mr.. Holman. chairman OF
the caucus, and it is supposed that he
will at once issue the call, as the rule
says shall be done at any time when
requested by thirty or more members.
The committee on rules, owing to a
peculiar chain of circum stances by
which one of the three democratic
members thereof have been continually
out of town. First it was Mr.. Catch
ings, who went to Boston; now it is
Speaker Crisp, who is at Fortress Mon
roe, has had no meeting to act upon
the petition signed by more than a
majority of the democratic members
of the house, asking that day be
named for the consideration of the
Bland free coinage bill.
The ways and means committee has
decided to call the tariff bills up fol
consideration on or about March l, and
if that program is adhered to the silver
bill will have no chance of getting W
before May, as the tariff debate is Ger.
tain to take up all the time not con
sumed by the appropriation bills for al
least two months after it begins. This
would not be seriously objected to bJ
the silver men if they were given some
assurance that the free coinage bill
would be taken up in May, but tn,
proposition to set a day in the mex
session of congress to begin the con
sideration of the free coinage bill will
be resisted by them with all the par
liamentary methods at their command
and the new rules give them plenty.
So rapid has been the growth o
public sentiment in favor of the cleo
ton Of senators by the people that it /
now predicted that the joint resolution
providing for such an amendment TO
the constitution will pass both seDat
and house at the present session.
The several bills concerning the adj
mission of Utah as a state, and sys
TEN of local government for it as
territory, are regarded by shrewd oh
servers as practically dead, although
hearings are still granted to represen
tatives of the rival factions in Utah
The factions kill the chances of tn
territory for anything.
The prosecution, as Representative
Cooper and Enloe are called, hav
asked the committee appointed to in
vestigate the charges against the pen
: sion Office to postpone the beginning
of taking testimony for a few days, i
order to give them time to prepare TO
it, The committee will meet again o
Thursday of this week, and will prot
ably then decide when the examination
Of witnesses shall begin.
Secretary Foster is still so muc
Frustrated from his recent attack c
the grip that his physician has ordere
: him to take a sea voyage. and he wi
(. sail from New York tomorrow, boun
e for Europe.
President Harrison is suffering froI
> something very much like the girl
although he says it is a severe COLI
He has cancelled all engagements fl
this week.