Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-01-19

eiapse before a new President and Con-
gress will assume office, it would be
only right and proper TO leave the
matter 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 repre-
sentatives in Congress, is trying to get
republican votes to carry into effect his
ideas concerning silver. and that bis
object is to provide himself bulwark
behind which to hide in case the legis.
latiou, if enacted into law, did rot
prove satisfactory-he wishes to be in
position to say; ''Oh. l am not respon-
sible for that; it was done under
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
though the Com mittee on Rules has not
yet positively agreed to report a special
continuing order giving it a day it is
believed that it will do so. AS this bill
empowers the President to suspend I'M
migration for period of not more than
one year whenever he deems it neces-
sary as precaution against the intro
duction of contagious diseases, the I'M
preston is that the bill providing for a
suspension of immigration for one year
will not De pressed, unless it shall
appear that the Quarantine bill is in
danger of being chung up" in the
house.
Representative Springer has grown
reckless since he learned that Mr..
Cleveland had named another man for
chairman of Ways and Means Commit
tee of the next House. This week he
was foolish enough, while the debate on
the joint resolution providing for q
change in ne dates for the Inauguration
of President and the meeting of Con-
gress (Which was overwhelmingly de-
feated) was going on in the House, to
begin controversy with ex-Speaker
Reed Mr.. Reed, in the language of
the street, "wiped the floor" with Mr..
Springer, and after leaving an orator
zeal arrow sticking in each of the num-
erous vulnerable spots in the body of
the Illinois man tossed him into cor
ner as carelessly as terrier would a
dead rat, a sadder if not wiser man.
The ex-Speaker, who opposed the reso-
luton, was never more bihngly sarcas-
tic in his remarks than 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 scourging by number of his party
associates in the House.
The public threat of Representative
Holman. chairman of the Appropria-
tons, who is an ardent advocate of an
early spring session of the Fifty-third
| Congress to hold back one or more of
the regular appropriation bills and
make an extra session before the first of
next July necessary, if some silver leg
islation is not passed at this session is
one of the queer signs of the times,
indicative of the lack of unity in the
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on 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 pre-
vent their being acted upon before the
4, of March, but it is believed that the
threat was made more for effect than
with any real intention to carry il out.
The friends of Gen. Benz F. Butler,
who saw and talked with him Tuesday
were shocked to learn on Wednesday
that he had died early that morning
after less than an hour illness. Gen.
Butler was man who was liked much
and hated much. By reason of his
fierce attacks upon his opponents in
law, business and politics, many people
suppose him to be heartless but here,
in Washington, we knQg better His
heart was big, and it as we'll as his
pocket-book was always open to the
widow and the orphan, and in spite of
bis large law practice he was never too
busy to undertake a case in which there
was no fee, if in it were involved the
rights Of an old soldier. or his widow
and children He had his faults, as all
Of us do, but the prayers Of the widows
and orphans he has befriended viii
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