Milford chronicle., 1893-02-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.


The President is as proud ofthe Legislation 4
winch placed the finest ocean steamships IN r
The world under the American flag as Of any =
single accomplishment Of his administration b
and il is his intention, unless something oe i
ours to prevent, 10 go over to New York on /
the a2nd-6,tiue day for such a deed-'n I
order to raise with his own hands the stars !
and stripes over The magnificent steamship ,
New York The President expects to be ae- {
companied from Washington by his entire !
cabinet aud number Of prominent Con
qressmeu (f they can get away aud other
officials. The U s cruiser Chicago, now IN
New York harbor, viii FIRE the national sa-
| ute of twenty-oue guns, as 'old glory"
reaches the mast head Of the New York
The treaty for the annexation Of Hawaii,
which was sent to the Senate last week, has
been favorably reported from the committee
ON Foreign Relations and although there is
some opposition in both parties it is regarded
as a certainty that more than the necessary |
ltwo-thirds will vote for its ratification,
Both the President and Secretary Foster /
have become convinced that the recent and |
continued demand for gold is largely artif-
eial manufactured for the express purpose
of trying to compel an issue of bonds and
for that reason they have both arrived at the
conclusion that no bonds shall be issued dur
ing this administration.
Senator Sherman's amendment has been
ADOPTED by the Senate, authorizing the
: Secty. Of the Treasury to issue $50. 600 900,
t in percent five year bonds whenever in
f his discretion it becomes necessary to keep
up the Treasury gold reserve. The bonds
, could be issued under present laws, but
. they would have to bear 4 percent interest
= and to run for a long period; hence this
2 amendment
4 The democrats in the House tried to Grip
O nile the federal supervision Of Congressional
y elections by attaching an amendment to the
!, suudrv Civil Appropriation bill prohibiting
:, the payment of any expenses incurred by
: Dtosecutiou under the laws relating to the
= election of members Of Congress The Sen
- ate promptly struck out the amendment as
soon as the bill was taken up. The gentle
a = men who are so anxious to put a stop to fed
~ eral supervision of elections will have to
= wait until the next Congress gets together
u this Senate will not sanction any of theil
10 schemes. no matter how cleverly they may
~ be disguised
- The pension laws will not be turned up
H. side down at this session Of Congress, al
IL though there was a strong effort towards tina
ey end made bv the auti-soldier Democrats, re
re sultiug in a three minute free fight on thu
H. floor of the House.
It is significant that Representative Comp
G. ton, Of MARYLAND, who is probably closer t.
a Senator German politically than any mat
he living, should be the most ou;spokeu maj
st in Congress against the selections alread
ne made for the Cabinet: A Republican friend
er Joking Compton, said to him 'If you kee
. M vour criticism you will find no place z
the patronage trough" 81 don't care" sal
Mr. Compton. 'T am to old to change tn
habit of saving Just what think of publ
men's acts do not approve the appoint
ment Of Gresham and Hoke Smith. and
en- have no hesitation in saying so While
.rs might disappoint a few of my constituen
raj It would relieve me of great deal Of both'
tie should all federal patronage be denied to n
tin Here is one reason for Judge Gresham
no having voted the Democratic ticket: Just b
an fore Justice Brown was appointed to the
,d- S. Supreme Court a delegation of Chcai
-, lawyers came to Washington to urge Il
-, President to nominste Judge Gresham to Il
,ni vacancy; they told him how magnanimn
- such a nomination would be and gave hi
fe understand that tbev were here with Tud,
Gresham's knowledge aud consent. tt
~ President heard all they had 70 say and thu
ue told them there were two reasons either 81
las fciert, why he would not nominate judi
al Gresham. First, the appointment did n
ny belong to the section in which Judge Gre
len ham lived; second, he would not put his
op- self in the position to give people the rig
lal- to say that he had used one of the high'
viii appointments in his gift TO placate pc
the sonal enemy. It was this refusal that det'
ar; mined Judge Gresham to withdraw from t
ore Republican party. How he coquetted wi
nd The populist Presidential nomination a
ear finally announced his intention to vote I
Democratic ticket is known to all newspaT
to readers
, in Democrats regard Mr.. Cleveland's cabin
nm as so far aunouHeed as being more persot
,eir than political in its makeup, and iudicati
lief that it is Mr. Cleveland and not the Dem
AXE cratic party who is in control.
70 Judge Tackson's nomination TO the
,o,r preme Court was confirmed without the f
von ruslity of vote, there being no Oppositi
hot expressed.