Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Wnshinoton.r Oct. 2. 1898.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
W~dshangton,r Oct. 2, 1898.
upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed
That he is grown so great?"
Well may this question be asked
concerning the man who at this mo-
ment thinketh himself an American
Caesar, and whose dreams are doubt
less filed with pictures of his future
greatness and power. The most au-
tocratic royalty of Europe is not sur
rounded with nor rigid exclusive
ness than Mr.. Cleveland now cloaks
his most august presence with. He
deems it beneath the dignity OF the
American Caesar to touch the hands
of plebians; therefore he has abolished
the long established custom of
holding public receptions in the White
House.
The intense Excitement over the
bill for the repeal of all Federal super
vision of elections, which democrats
expected to accompany the debate on
the bill in the House and relied upon
to unite the factions Of their democrat
lied party, has not materialized, owing
to the good sense of the republican
leaders.in the House, who wisely de-
cline to assist the democrats to "get
TOGETHER" contenting themselves
with opposing the bill upon high legal
constitutional grounds, and taking
advantage of the debate to visit the
Worlds Fair.
Senator Chandler made more of his
slashing speeches-he isn't an orator,
but he is a mighty plain talker-in
favor of his resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for his au-
thority for appointing the FairchiId
commission, now engaged in an al
legged investigation of the Appraisers
Office of the port of New York. After
showing that the appointment of this
commission, as we'll as mer other
acts of the administration, was I'M
constitutional, MI. Chandler remark
ed that it was entirely fitting that it's
members should receive their pay
$40 a day and expenses-from what is
known as the "fraud fund.- of the
Treasury.
The truce in the Senate over the
Voorhees, bill is to be continued under
the present arrangement-seven hours
talk a day-for another week, unless
a compromise is sooner reached.
Nearly everybody has now settled
down to the belief that it must be
compromise or nothing, and if the
compromise isn't reached by the 18th
of this month that itiwill be nothing, las
it is regarded as probable that Con-
gress will take a short recess about
that time.
No legislative body was ever more
sensitive to anything having the APP
p~earance Of outside dictation d even
interference than the u. S. Senate.
Even if the proposition of Mr.. sWhar-
ton Barker, which has been endorsed
by many prominent Pennsylvania
business men to make a combine, be-
tween the friends of silver and those
of protection, met with the approval
of n considerable number of Sena-
tors, which it does not, the manner in
which it has been brought to the at
tention of the Senate would almost
certainly have been fatal to it's pros
poets OF adoption. Mr.. Barker is a
man OF wide political experience and
it is surprising that he did not pro-
ceed differently. Had the proposition
come from some Senator first and
then been endorsed by the Pennsyl-
vanians Mr.. Barker's trip to7Washing-
ton might have had a different result,
although the chances were against his
proposition anyway.
The party whip is being brought
into use to force democratic Senators
into voting to confirm the nomination
of Mr.. Van Allen to be ambassador to
Italy, Notwithstanding the general
belief of the charge that he bought
the nomination with his $50, 600 con-
tribution to the Cleveland campaign
fund.
The United States senate is putting
in seven long, weary hours a day,
now, ostensibly in discussion Of the
Voorhees, repeal bill for the Sherman
silver act; but incidentally a good
many less important things come in
for a large share Of time. There's a
good old hymn which runs-"When
we've been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun, we've no
less days." etc. It wouldn't have to
be much modified to be applicable to