Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-09-23
WASHINGTON GRISY.
I. S. Attorney Hemingway Confirmed
-Hoke Smith Repudiates that
Famous Pension Order.
The Repeal Bills in Fresh Complica
tions-Voorhees at Quits with
the President-Taritt
Tinkers.
JUDGE HEMINGWAY CONFIRMED.

JUDGE HEMINGWAY CONFIRMED.
Washington, Sept. 23. The senate
yesterday confirmed the nomination of
John Balfour Hemingway to be United
States attorney for New Mexico.
THE SITUATION.
Washington, Sept. 23. - The repeal
men have admitted on the floor of the
senate their inability to force a vote by
the continuous session movement. Mr..
Platt, of Connecticutt, made this nsser-
tion in advocating cloture, and no one
undertook to deny his statement. Every
body realized, too, and no one more than
the repeal advocates of cloture, that no
such rule as this can be brought in. Sen
ator Voorhees, states that not more than
eight votes could be mustered for cloture
in the senate at this time.
1t can easily be seen now that the sill
yer men are in the saddle and there is no
possible way in which the opposition will
ever be able to unhorse them. There
may be no new legislation favorable to
silver while Cleveland is president, but
if there is not the present Sherman law is
sure to stand.
THE TARIFF Thinkers.
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee has announced that the
Democratic members of the committee
would at once commence work on new
tariff bill. At the conclusion of the pub
lie hearings on Wednesday Mr.. Reed
made motion that the hearings be con-
tinued for two weeks, but this motion
was promptly voted down by the ma
jority, who seem anxious to get at the
work to report the bill to the house at tho
earliest possible date.
BOUGHT HIS OFFICE.
President Cleveland is "roasted" to a
turn by the New York World for his ap-
pointment of James j. Van Allen as am
bassador to Italy. The World claims that
Van Allen contributed $4,000 TO the
Democratic national campaign fund in
1892, and his reward is this appoint
ment.
The World quotes Van Allen as saying
that America is not a fit place for ladies
and gentlemen to live in. This paper de-
clares that the senate will probably not
confirm Van Aliens nomination.
THEY WANT DELAY.
An editorial in the New York Tribune,
printed with double-leaded emphasis, ad
vises the Republicans in congress to block
the passage of the Sherman repeal bill
till the Democrats consent to abandon
their effort to repeal the federal election
laws. The editorial, which doubtless was
prompted by Hoar, Lodge, Chandler and
other New England Republicans in con-
gress, hns attracted much attention
here.
IN A Mrss sunELx.
The indications are that the election
bill will replace the repeal bill in the
senate as soon as it passes the house, and
the shrewdest observers declare that
neither the tariff, election nor repeal bills
will pass the senate.
VOORHEES, IS REAL TIRED.
The appointment of an internal revenue
collector for the Terre Haute district, in
opposition to the candidate who was
especially championed by Voorhees,, IS
not relished by the latter. It has also
come to his ears that the president re-
CARDS the senator as only half-hearted in
the contest for repeal of the Sherman
law; or if not that, as lacking in ability
to manage the campaign against silver in
the senate. Mr.. Voorhees, is alleged to
be very much disheartened and dis
gusted.
U. 8. PENSIONS.
Pension Commissioner Lochran sub
mitted his annual report to the secretary
of the interior. The number of pension
ers on the roll of the bureau is
966,O12, net increase of S0,944
during the past year. During the
year, 24,715 claims for increase of pension
and 1880 for additional pension under
the act of June 81, 1890, we're allowed.
In the same time 1922 claims for pen
sion and increase were rejected. Claims
pending consideration July Z, numbered
7l1,150. The amount of money paid for
pensions during the year was $l56, 74O,447.
the balance at the close of the year was
$2,437,37l. The appropriation for the
next fiscal year, Commissioner Lochran
states, will be ample and the estimates
for the fiscal year 1895 amount to $162,
G31, $50
uOKE SMITH EXPLAINING.
Hoke Smith, secretary Of the interior,
says he has been grossly misrepresented
in the pension question. He says the
order of Comr. Lochran that pensions
should be dropped from the pay rolls
sixty days and then substantiate their
claims anew or suffer permanent suspen-
sion, did not have his approval and was
issued without his knowledge.
1TEET
Money for Strikers.
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