The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-01-12
WASHINGTON LETrE.ss
(From Our Regular. Correspondent.

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from Our Regular. Correspondent.
Washington, Jan. 6. 1898
Senator Germans scheme ioi obtain
ing control of the u S Senate, and for
the wiping out OF every vestige of federal
supervision of national elections. by
means OF corrupt bargain with the
populists, is. according to the informa
ton received by prominent republicans.
among them chairman Carter, who was
in Washington this week. in a fair way
to succeed. The Republican senator's
might have outbid German in conces-
sions to the financial and other crank
ideas OF the populists, but no Republican
senator Was willing to retain control OF
the Senate ON any such terms. TIL. re-
publican party has given this country
the best financial system it has ever had,
although it fully recognizes the fact that
perfection has not yet been reached, and
its leaders are not willing to leave a
stain upon the party's bright record in
tt e pages of history by being parties to
any compromise with the isms of the
populists. The democrats had no such
scruples-they neve, knew the meaning
of the word-and Senator German, with
the approval of the so-called prophet of
reform, Mr.. Grover Cleveland, has been
bargaining with those who claim to be
able 10 dispose in advance of the populist
senator's votes. Most republicans will
agree with the leaders of the party that
it is better TO lose control of the senate
thanto retain it by the loss of selfre-
spect, which would necessarily have
followed any concessions made to the
populists.
Mr.. Cleveland's latest pronunciamento
made through his faithful and confiden-
tial friend, Dan Lamont, may prove to
be boomerang. 1t has upset the calcu-
lations of lots of democratic senator's
and representatives who opposed MIR.
Cleveland's nomination, as to patronage
under the coming administration, for it
saysin unmistakeable language, althoug
not in these precise words, that Mr..
Cleveland proposes taking care of those
WHO favored his nomination first last
and all the time, and that he will not
bother his head about the democrats
who opposed his nomination. The lives
up to this announcement he will find
himself in Andy Iohnson's prcdicameI2t
before his administration is one year
old, for it is well known that more than
majority of the democratic senators
and representatives who openly adj 20
Gated his nomination was ridiculously
small.
kentuckians i'll congress are so certain
that Senator Carlisle has accepted the
portfolio of Secretary of the Treasury.
which was recently rendered to him by
Mr.. Cleveland, that they are discussing
the probabilities Of who will succeed him
in the senate.
Ifit be iair to judge by their actions
the democrats wish to con6ne the legisla-
ton of this session ot-congress to pass
ing the regular appropriation bills, and
have adopted as the best plan to bring
about that result, keeping the house
without quorum. At any rate the
house has been without quorum since
the re-assembling of congress
Senator Hill seldom displays his feel-
ings to the extent that he has since his
return from Albany, where he went to
see that all parts of his machine, WHICH
is to elect bre'er Murphy to the U S.
Senate, was in good working order. He
fairly beams with satisfaction over the
| situation. Mr.. Cleveland opened the
tight IN him, in what he regards as an
! entirely uncalled for manner, a6d he
says that when the democratic caucus of
the New York legislature meets next
Tuesday only seven democrats will vote
against Murphy, and they were Oil
record as Opposing him before Mr. Cleve
land came out against him. I he Cleve-
| land democrats now shamefacedly claim
that Mr.. Cleveland meyer expected to de-
feat Murphy, and that he has done moth
ing beyond expressing his own personal
oppositiontoh him. When this story was
told to Seuator Hill he smiled knowingly,
as much as to say. "tell that to the
marines"
A very broad smile passed around the
house and the galleries when Representa-
tive Clover of Kansas, who is now beng
sued for divorce by his wife, presented
a petition from Mrs. Nathalie Pollard
asking that law be enacted abolishing
divorce in the District OF columbia, the
territories, and other places over which
congress has legislative control. Mr..
Clover was about the only man present
who did not smile.
Among large batch of nominations
sent to the Senate this week was that Oh
ex-senator Gilbert A. Pierce, proprietor
OF the Minneapolis Tribune, to be minis.
ter to Portugal.
ST. PAUL LETTER.
Several days of skirmishing among
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