Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Jan. %, 1892.

If the cholera gets fOOthold In the
United States next summer by reason
of inadequate quarantine laws, the
Tammany members of the House, aid
ed by a few others of the Kilgore
stripe, will be responsible for it. The
quarantine bill, which recently passed
the Senate without a division is gen
orally admitted to be good bill, and
entirely free from even the slightest
faint of partisanship. About the only
criticism made of the measure was
that it does not actually provide for
complete system of federal quaran-
tine, but as it practically does the
same thing it was not opposed on that
account. Tt was supposed that the
House would promptly pass the bill
Just as it was, in order to avoid delay
and possible failure to meet the emer-
gency that every intellectual medical
man in the country knows is almost
at hand, and if orders had not been
received from the Tammany boss to
oppose it such would probably have
been the case. AS it is the Tammany
members and few others held out
against the bill and loaded it with
amendments, none of which have i'm
proved it, the evident object being to
defeat quarantine legislation. IT'S a
fearful responsibility, but what cares
the Tammany crowd for that, SO long
as it gets it's own way.
Ex-Speaker Reed, was right when
he recently said that when Congress
did not legislate it was. simply be-
cause it did not wish to do SO, and it
is daily becoming more certain that
Speaker Crisp and his associates boss
es do not wish the House to legislate
at this session. They have almost de-
to make themselves solid with the
next administration by setting day
to vote on the. bill providing for sus-
pension of the purchase of silver,
which has been favorably reported
from the committee on Banking and
Currency. Speaker Crisp, who is the
controlling spirit of the committee of
rules, does not in reality favor this
bill, but he has promised to give it a
chance, and there is now one thing
that stands in the way of a cloture
rule being reported, setting time
for voting on the bill, and that is the
fear that the Stewart Free coinage
bill, which was passed by the Senate
at the last session, may be offered as
a 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 chance to get through the
House.
Senator Proctor has taken up an
idea that was the pet hobby of his
predecessor, Senator Edmunds, for
many years, and will introduce bill
providing for the establishment of
great Nationall University in Wash
mgton, to be under the control of the
government.
The report that Judge Gresham had
been or would be rendered seat in
the coming Cabinet was not at all
pleasing to majority of the demo-
Gratis in Congress, although few of
them have publicly expressed them
selves. 1t is known that Judge Ores
ham made a secret visit to Washing
ton few days ago, and that he held
conferences with Mr.. Carlisle and
other prominent democrats known to
be in the confidence of the President
elect. Senator Brice says he knows
that Gresham can be in the Cabinet
if he wishes to.
Democrats say that the acceptance
of the treasury portfolio by Mr.. Car
Isle makes it certain that there will
be an administration tariff bill pre-
scented to the House of the Fifty
third Congress, and that is to devote
his time to the preparation of that
bill that Senator Carlisle's resignation
will take effect on the fourth of Feb
ruary. If this be true, it also indicates
that an extra session of Congress has
been determined upon, because If
Congress was not to meet until next
December there would be no neces-
sity for hurrying up the preparation
of the bill. Republicans do not, of
course, believe in one man legisla-
ton, but if one man is to prepare a
tariff bill the most of them would
prefer Carlisle to any other democrat;
he will make a democratic, bill, and
that is what republicans want to see,
believing that the inevitable result
will be the return of the control Of
the government to the republican
party.
The House committee on the cleo