The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-01-27
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Federal Election Law.
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' W ASHlNJ.IstN. Jan. ss.tb
j Ii the cholera gets a footholl in the
+ United States next summer by reason of
inadequate quarantine laws. the Tam
many members of the house. aided by Il
/ few more of the kilgore stripe. will be re
responsible for it. The quarantine bill. .
which recently passr! the senate with
out a division is generally admitted
To be- u good bill. and entirely
| free from --r-t--41 the slightest ,ant of
par.sanship. About the only criticism
made Of the measure was thai il does
not actually provide for "a complete sys-
/ TEN of +" ier.,l quarantine. but as it
practically does tie same thin. II was
i not opposed on tiat account. 1t Was
/ supposed that the hu,is. would prompt
! ~ pass the bill just as j. was. IN order to
avoid delay and possible failure to meet
| the emergency that every intelligent
medical man ia the country knows is al
most at hand and If orders had n"i been
received from The TamnlaAg boss. 10 OPP
| p,sc il such would probably have been
| The case" ~ il is iic Tamnany mem
/ bers and Il few others held out against
I tn" bli ani loaded il with amendments.
nome uf which have improved it. the
evident object being 10 defeat lllaran
| tine Legislation. lis Il fearful resi,on5.-
| bility, but what cares the Iann?ny
crowd for that. 50 long ;,s i, gcis its own
way.
! Tx Speaker Reed was right when lie
recently said that when congress did not
! ieeislatc ii was simply because il did
not wish 10 do 50. and il is daily becnm
! ing more certain that Speaker Crisp and
| his associate bosses 10 mol wish tho
| house IL legislatc al this session. They
/ iase ilmo-, decided ia give the den"-
Gratis II chance To- make themselves solid
with the ncst administration by setting
Il day to vote un the bill providing for IA
suspension of the purchase "f silver.
which has been faynrai,l, reported from
the committee on bhnkinga and currency.
Speaker Crisp. who is the controlling
spiri! of the committee ON rules does
moi in reality favor this hill. but he has
promised To give it IA chance. and ihrr.
is now only one thing that stands in the
way of "A cloture rule being reported.
setting II time for voting ON the bill. and
that is the fear that the Stewart free
coinage bill. which was passed by the
senate at its lasi session. may be offered
as Il substitute and adopted. If Mr..
Crisp really thought that this bill could
ever get through the senate he would
probably not have promised to give it I;
chance to get through the house.
Senator Proctor has taken up an idc;
that was the pet hobby of his pr.leces
sor. Senator Edmunds. for many Years
and will introduce IA bill providing f"l
the establishment of great na.iona
university in Washington. to he unde'
the control Of the government
The report that Judge Gresham has
been or would he rendered seat in th'
coming cabinet was not at all pleasin,
to majority Of the democrats in con
! gress, although few Of them have pub
J licly expressed themselves. 1t is know
that Judge Gresham made secret visi
to Washington. and that he held confer
/ ences with Mr.. Carlisle and other prom
;. inent democrats known to he in the con
:. fidence Of the president elect. Senate
Brice says he knows that Gresham ca
= | L., ,..:.l.,
!. Democrats say that the acceptance {
: the treasury portfolio by Mr.. Carlisl
r makes it certain that there will be "A
q administration tariff bill presented /
rs the house Of the fifty third congress. AN
that it is to devote his time to the pr
paration of that bill that Senator Ca
lisles resignation will take effect on I'll
: fourth Of February. Ii this be- true.
- also indicates that an extra session ,
vs. congress has been determined upon, b
cause il congress was not to meet unit
next December there would be no n
" cessity for hurrying up the preparatie
r. Of the bill. Republicans do not.
course. believe in one man legislatio
M but il one man IL to prepare tariff b
of the most of them would prefer Carlis
to any other democrat; he will make
democratic bill, and that is what repu
licans want to see. believing that the
. evitable result will be the return of t
DID control Of the government to the repr
lican party.
- The house committee ON the electi
cts Of president and vice president has ma
favorable report on the bill for the
peal of all federal election laws. I
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