West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-09-07
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Our Weekly Letter from the Home OF
'sUnele Sam"
Special Correspondence Of the Argus.
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WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
Sept. 1, 1898.
President Cleveland, in accor-
dance with the announcement made
when he left Washington, just after
the extra session mot, is back at his
desk in the White House, and his
appearance is the best refutation of
the many silly sensational stories
that have been published within the
last week about the dangerous con-
dition he was in. He probably
never dreamed when he was having
those two troublesome teeth ex-
tracted and their liberated roots
cut out, two months ago, that it
would by and by grow into an oper-
alton IN which the greater portion
of his jaw bone would, in the mind
OF the sensational writer, have to be
cut away in order to remove the
terrible cancerous growth. In short
1T was bat another version of the
familiar old story of the man who
vomited three black crows. Presi-
dent Cleveland is not sick, and he
has not been sick since he left
Washington. In fact, there were
few days while he was away that he
did not perform some of his public
duties, AS the records in the office
OF his private secretary will show.
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The passage of the bill for the
unconditional repeal of the pur.
chasing clause of the Sherman
silver law by the House has focused
public attention upon the Senate.
where financial speeches are now
The order Of the day. How long
the Senate will talk before voting is
question that will be answered
differently by nine ont OF every ten
men in Washington. Two weeks is
the shortest time given by anyone.
and the longest goes away up in the
months. An agreement of some
sort will have to be reached before
a vote can be taken, and the silver
Senators declare they will make no
agreement, unless the Voorhees, bill.
which has been reported as a sub
stltute for the Wilson bill that was
passed BY the House, is amended in
a manner satisfactory to them.
The Democratic leaders, however.
are confident that an agreement will
shortly be reached.
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Procrastination may be the thief
OF time, as the old school adage
says, but it isn't getting a chance
to steal much Of It from the House
Ways and Means committee, which
has buckled right down to the tariff
question With the determination to
report a reform tariff bill at the
extra session, or very early in the
regular session. While the com.
mittee is not disposed to encourage
long-drawn-out hearings of every
Tom, Dick and Harry who may
think themselves tariff experts, il
will grant proper hearings to all
parties who by reason Of their
prominence in lines Of busirea that
may DC affected bv change IN the
tariff, have reasonable right to be
heard The hearings will begin
Monday and end September 20.
Speaker Crisp did a very unusual
although not unprecedented thing
thing when he called Representative
Richardson, Of Tennessee, to the
Speakers chair and descended to
the floor Of the House 10 reply to
tbe unjust and uncalled for attack
which exSpeaker Reed made upon
the new rules Of the House. Mr.
Reed was surprised, and before the
Speaker got through, disgastod to
IND himself justly held Up 70 the
scorn Of the House and the country
Tor having falscly claimed that tho
new rnles were IN the line Of the
notorious rules with which he
gagged the House Of the Fifty.first
congress. II is not The 6rst time
that Mr.. Crisp has proven himself
more than a match for the Name
biusierer, AID il viii not be the
last. The difference between The
new rules Of the Hoose and the
notorious Reed rules is precisely
that between the Government Of