Nevada County picayune., 1892-04-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our regular correspondent.
Washington, April |, 1892.

| lug ulS iiIhJ ~ alohhN Oilot hN
will not be candidate unless assured
in advance that his nomination will
be made on the first ballot.
In view Of the spread-eagle COM
municaton which Mr. Harrison re-
Gently addressed To Lord Salisbury,
the satisfactory ending of the con-
troversy is very fortunate thing for
this country, although it must be
humiliating to Mr.. Harrison when he
compares the tone of his entirely
unnecessary communication, alleged
by his admirers to have been an ulti-
matum, with that of Lord Salisbury,
which Is extremely friendly, and
which also shows that there was as
little reason for the latest war scare
which Mr.. Harrison fathered, as
there was for the one concerning
Chill. The unfortunate part about
this sort Of thing is that it causes the
people to lose confidence in the adj
ministration, and sometime when
there is real danger of war they may
refuse to respond to its cry of
"wolf."
Representative Springer expects to
be able to attend next Mondays ses-
sion of the House, and move sus-
pension of the rules for the purpose
of passing the free wool bill, general
debate upon which is to close on Sat
urday. Mr.. Springer will not make
a speech on this bill in fact his
strength would not allow him to,
but he wishes to move the suspension
of the rules for the passage of the
bill of which he is the author.
The sugar bounties already paid
by the Treasury department aggre-
gate $4000.o00, and the claims
pending foot up s3.500.000.
Boss Plat, of New York, was over
here this week holding mysterious
conferences with prominent Republi-
cans in Congress, and there is reason
to believe that his visit bodies no
good to the Harrison boom, notwith-
standing statements that he had
promised to support Mr.. Harrison.
The only man that Platt ever really
and sincerely supports is Thomas G..
Plat.
Ex- Representative Owen, who was,
it was SAID at the time the appoint
ment was made, appointed Commits
sioner of Immigration-a position
created by the billion dollar Congress
by Mr.. Harrison in order to pay
one of his Indiana political debts,
is in the hottest kind of hot water,
and it is among the possibilities that
he may figure as the defendant be-
fore a criminal court He is charged
openly by his immediate superior,
Assistant Secretary Nettleton, with
being unfit, incompetent, and un-
trustworthy, and by implication with
being dishonest. These facts have
been brought out in the investiga-
ton which the Joint House and SEN
ate immigration Committee ia con-
Quoting, and which promises to show
that some Treasury otliclaIs-among
them Assistant Secretary Nettleton-
have been very wastefully eXtrava-
giant, if not actually dishonest, in
allowing 100000 to be spent upon
the Government immigration Station
at Ellis Island, when only $3.50. 1000
had been appropriated, the differ
ence being paid from the fund known
as ''head money The thing must
be very rotten somewhere, or Sen
ator Chandler, chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on immigration, who
has never been accused of being
"squeamsh" as to public expendi-
lures, would not have been so plain
spoken in his examination Of Nettle-
ton and other witnesses who have
appeared before the committee.
Senator Mills changed his mind
about remaining in the House until
the Free Wool bill was passed, and
was on Wednesday sworn in as n
Senator. His vote will not be need
ed, as the wool bill will receive the
votes of about two.thirds Of the
House.
The business of the House is in
such a condition that if it could die
tate the time of al journment it would
not be later than June |, but it is
already apparent that the Senate
will attempt to extravagantly in
crease the appropriation bills, as
passed by the House, and of course,
the House will fight to maintain its
economical figures, which will nee
cssarly prolong the session.
Much has been written about Dem
ocratic disseution because OF the
shelving of the free coinage bill, but
mighty little of it can be discovered.
There can be no doubt that major
itv of the Democrats in the House
are in favor Of free coinage, and
would vote for it if given an oppor-
tunity, but il is equally true that q
majority of the Democrats are oppos'
ed to the adoption of q gag rule to
pass that or any other measure,
That is the whole situation in nut
shell. Senator Stewart has given
notice that he will, next Monday,
call up his free coinage bill, Then
we will see some dssension on the
same subject in the Republican Sen
ate.
Russell Harrison recently made
application for admission to the press
galleries Of Congress, as the repre-
sentative OF his Montana paper, but