Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-01-20
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.

who had just had a long talk with Mr.
Harrison, lis not inclined to take any
steps either officially or personally
towards pushing any financial legis,a-
ton through at this session Of Congress.
His own position on the financial ques
ton, which is we'll known to the coun-
try, is Just what 1t has been for years,
but, while he did not say so IN SO many
words, be intimated that he thought, in
view of the very short period that will
elapse before a new p esident and Con
gress will assume office, it would be
only right and proper to leave the mat
ter to them for settlement A great
many Republican Congressman are also
taking this view Of the matter, and the
opinion is steadily increasing that Mr.
Cleveland, through his representatives
in Congress, is trying to get Republi.
can votes to carry into effect his ideas
concerning silver, and that his object
is to provide himself a bulwark behind
which to hide in case the legislation, if
enacted into a law, did not prove salts
factory-he wishes to be in a position
to tay: "Oh, l am not responsible for
that; it was done under a Republican
administration -
A strong effort is being made to put
the Quarantine bill, which passed the
Senate this week, through the House
without further amendment, and al
ttongh the Committee on Rules has not
yet positively agreed to report special
continuing order giving it a dav it is
believed that it viii do so. As tins bill
empowers the President to suspend i'm
migration for period of not moro than
one year whenever he deems it necos-
sary as a precautIon against the in
PRODUCTION of contagious diseases, The
Impression Is that the bill providing for
suspension of immigrant N for one
year will not be pressed uuless it shall
appear that tho Quarantine bill is in
danger of being "hdng-up" in the
House
Representative Springer has grown
reckless since he learned that Mr. Cleye
land had named another man for Chair
man Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee Of the next House. This week
he was foolish enough, while the debate
on the JOINT resolution providing FIR
change IN the dates for the Inaugural
ton of President and the meeting of
| Congress (Which was overwhelmingly
defeated) was going on in the House,
to begin a controversy with ex Speaker
Reed, Mr., Reed in the language of
the street, wiped the floor with Mr..
Springer, and after leaving an oratori-
cal arrow sticking in each of the numer-
GUS vulnerable spots in the body of the
Illinois man tossed him into a corner as
carelessly as a terrier would a dead rat,
a sadder if not a wiser man. The ex-
Speaker, who opposed the resolution,
was never more bltingly sarcastic in his
remarks titan when he referred to
Springer as 1.-THE leader of the House,"
and to add to the misery Of the latter
was the evident enjoyment of his seourg-
ing by number Of his party associates
in the House.
The public threat of representative
Holman, Chairman Of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, who is an
ardent acyocate of an early spring SEES
sion of the FIfty-third Congre ss, to
hold back one or more of the regular
appropriation bills an make an extra
session before the first of next July
necessary, If some silver legislation is
not passed at this session, is one Of the
queer signs Of the times, indicative of
the lack Of unity in the Democrat,
ranks. Mr. Holman's ideas of the silver
question are directly opposed to those
Of Mr.. Cleveland and those who are
known as cleveland men" in Congress
Mr. Holman's position as Chairman OF
the Committee on Appropriations will
make it an easy matter for him to hang
up one or more appropriation bills long
enough to prevent their being acted
upon before the 4th OF March, but it is
believed that the threat was made more