Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-10
WASHINGTON WISPS.
WHAT Is GOING ON AT THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The worlds fair has fairly divided
honors with the political situation and
the prospects of the free coinage bill,
as conversational subjects--since the
return of the congressional visitors to
Chicago-that city never did shrewder
thing than to plan that excursion,
which has already done more to open
the eyes of senator's and representa-
tives to the magnitude and importance
of the undertaking than could have
been accomplished in many months by
any other method. AS a specimen of
It's effect hear what Senator PETER says:
"Ihe work was on grander scale
than expected it to be, and the ar
engagements much more elaborate.
More work had been done than looked
for. The plan and its general arrange
ment-the scope of the exposition
has grown upon the management. Td
put it plainly it is bigger than thew
expected. To carry it out as it should
be carried out will require great deal
of money; more than has been ar
ranged for, and additional funds will
have to be provided. The country
generally is just beginning to realize
the greatness of the enterprise, and it
seems to me that all thinking people
must be enlisted to make the affair a
success. The fair must neither be de-
feated nor dwarfed."
Raln-maker Dyrenforth has been a
little slow in reporting how he spent
the eight or ten thousand dollars
appropriated by the last congress for
experiments in crying to produce rain
by artificial methods, and what he
accomplished Herewith, so, last week,
senator Sherman offered resolution,
which was adopted, calling upon the
Secretary of Agriculture for copy of
the report made by Dyrenforth. 1t is
understood that Dyrenforth's report
VIII claim that the experiments were
entirely successful, and will ask for a
larger appropriation to continue them.
Senator Stewart, speaking on the
JOINT resolution for the holding of an
International bi-lnetallic conference:
sad that the parity of gold and silver
could not be maintained in that way.
nor IN any other way, except by treat
ing them both precisely alike as money
metals. lie gave notice that he would
propose an amendment to that effect
before the resolution was voted on.
Senator George, of Mississippi,
Knows how to do manly act in
graceful way. He made statement
on the 11oor of the senate this week in
winch he acknowledged that he found
upon examination that he had made
an erroneous statement, in speech
MADE last week, as to the dispositio9
OF the $9O,000,000 of legal tender
notes issued under the act of 1890. He
also referred to the words conditions
arising from the local conditions sur
rounding senators in this city," which
ne SAID contained an implication unjust
10 others and to himself, that was not
intended. 10 make his explanation
al the stronger he added: "Dnrine
my service i'll the senate | have never
nad occasion to believe that any sena-
TOT gave support to any measure from
other motives than conscientious
convection of the public good"
senator Sherman's resolution which
was adopted by the senate, calling
upon the president for the particulars
OF the recent conference with the Can.
aalan commissioners concerning reci-
procity has started lots of gossips, and
everybody wants to know why, if
lhere was nothing in the conference,
as was unofiicially given out at the
Tune, the senator offered his resolution.
congress has not recovered from the
effects of its excursion to Chicago.
consequently it has been unusually