The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-08-12
WASHINGTON LETTER
LHsom oar regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON. Aus. 4 II. 1898.

os&ohtl NtlSp "a cASb hNbS NiifNN
Monday, and it is not probable that
he will at any time during the session
have to do Il harder weeks work than
that which has been imposed upon
HIM since mis- arrival. The first thing
that a democratic member of the
House wishes to do after his arrival is
to have a little private conversation
with the Speaker, about his committee
assignments, etc. Mr.. Crisp does not
shrink from these conferences; on the
contrary, he has caused it to be known
that he wishes every democratic Rep
resentatlve to call on him and make
known his committee pi references, in
order that he may, as tar as possible,
give them the committee assignments
they desire. The committees might
have been announced. next week, eX-
cept for this desire on the part OF Mr..
Crisp to meet the wishes of the mem
be,s. 1t will. the Speaker thinks,
take about two weeks after all the
members arrive to get the committees
satisfactorily made up.
Treasury officials are pleased to see
gold again coming into instead of 60
ing out of the Treasury. The reserve
fund crawled over the 100000 900
marke this week for the first time in
many weeks aud it is still increasing.
While it is not probable that the
financial question Will be submitted to
a democratic caucus of either Repre-
sentatives or Senators, Iemucra .
almost without exception express
hapncn1un no la1ro , ftat n N n crran
meEt viii be reached after a little
time upon a financial bill that Will re-
ceive the support of practically all of
the democrats in both House and Sen
ate, and tie existence of that belief
adds materially to the probability of
such al agreement b ing reached.
Secretary Carlisle and President
Cleveland probably never took the
time to spend a thought upon the nu-
merous miSstatementS which have
been made during the last few days
concerning their relations toward each
other, because they knew that the au-
thors of these ridiculous stories would
all be hunting for holes to crawl into
in a short time, as they actually did
when the official announcement was
made, several days ago, that Secretary
Carlisle had gone to GRAY Gables to
assist President Cleveland in prepar-
ing his message to Congress, The in
vitation tor this visit was extended
and accepted the day that President
Cleveland lett Washington, after is
suing the call for the extra session,
which shows how much those fellows
know who have been giving the pub
lie lii detail an account of Secretary
Carlisle's intended retirement from
the cabinet, because of the Presidents
failure to consult him about his mes
sage to Congress. Moral: get you
news from democratic sources, if you
van it to be straight.
President Cleveland and Secretaries
Carlisle and Lamont will return to
Washington together. The other
members of the cabinet, with the ex-
ception of Secretary Herbert, are at
their desks, ana he will return be-
tween this and Monday.
The first business to be taken up by
the Senate, which will not have to lose
any time in recognizing, that having
been accomplished at the March, extra
session, will be the contested senate
rial elections from the northwestern
States. A caucus of democratic Sen
ators will be called early next week
to discuss these cases and arrange a
party programme.
A half million of dollars is TO be
spent, it is said, by a lobby in endeav-
Oring to secure the repeal Of the Gearv
Chinese law, and those who thrive in
that sort of business are anticipating
living in clover, although it is not ex-
pected that anything will be done I'M
til the opening of the regular session,
Although Secretary Gresham de-
clines to discuss the matter at all.
there are reasons for the belief that
President Cleveland will very shortly
send Il special message to the Senate
with a new treaty with Hawaii.
Further than that the new treaty will
not provide for annexation, little is
known, but it is thought that in re-
turn for certain trade privileges it will
guarantee the protection of the gov
eminent of Hawaii from foreign inter
ference.
Speaker Crisp declines to discuss
the statement made here this week
that Representative Wilson, of West
Virginia, had been rendered and had
accepted the craftsmanship of the
House Ways and Means committee,
and Representative Savers, of Texas,
the Craftsmanship of the A%pproprla-
tions committee. The names of these
gentlemen have been connected by ru-
NOR with these chalrmanships for
many months, ever slice the election,
in fact, and they ale thoroughly com
petent to fill them with credit to them
selI es and to the party.