The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-17
SENATORIAL TALK.
The Work of Reorganization of the
Senate About Finished-A
Difficult Problem.
The BIackfoOt Milling Co. and Bitter
Root Development Co. Stopped
from Cutting Public Timber.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE com
mittee of the democratic caucus which
for the past week has been dealing with
the troubles of the problem of revising
the committees of the senate and assign
ing chairmanships to proper members,
has practically finished its work. Cor
man thinks that a party caucus cannot
be held earlier than Tuesday and it is
not improbable that on that morning the
committee will make it's final report.
The committee declines to give any in
formation. but it is known that there has
been no violent fracture of the traditions
of the senate by which a ranking minor
ity senator becomes chairman. Many
changes have, however, been made nee
essary as one of the members of the
committee said by reason of the entrance
into the senate of new democratic mem.
bers from the northwestern states. A
A glance at the committee list of the
last senate shows how difficult it has
OCCh W DlluB uOOuI q lS5oit cutloiuCtOly
to all. There are forty standing COM
mittees of the senate and out of this
number the ranking democrats entitled
to the craftsmanship in t%hirty-one of
these committees, comes from the south
ern states and but nine from the north.
In the select committees the same pre-
ponderance from the south is seen, there
being eight from that section and but
one from the north. The selection of
democratic senators from Wisconsin,
New York, North Dakota, Wyoming and
California, has compelled the committee
tn make a shifting of membership and in
a number of cases of chairmanships SO
as to give those new members and other
men from the north their fair share of
good places. or cource, in this large
list of southern ranking members the
name Ut the same senator appears in
many cases on various committees, mem
bers from that part of the country hav-
ing served in the senate many years. De-
spite all this, however. it is understood
that there has been very little variation
from the usages of the senate in making
the appointment of chairmen of the
important committees of the senate, al
though the general makeup of the COM
mittees appears to have very materially
changed.
If any nominations are sent to the SEN
ate Monday they will be laid over until
the committees have been fully reorgan-
lied.
The treasury situation continues to
improve from day to day, and from this
time on the treasury department will be
in a position to take the more advanta-
geous offers of gold only. Today offers
of 100000 in gold were received from
P%ittsburg, and 100000 from Peoria.
The demand from Chicago for small
notes continues and this morning when
some bankers in Ohio had offered gold
for notes and some delay took place in
the transfer, delivery was deferred for Il
few days and small the small notes sent
to Chicago. Numerous offers of gold
from out of the way places caused Score
tary Carlisle this morning to notify all
interested parties through the Associ-
ated Press that gold coin can be recciv-
ed only at the subtreasury offices in ex-
change for notes.
No gold was exported today from New
York and probably q II will be taken
next week. A ten days statement is
sued today shows the free gold balance
to be s%2.50O,OO0. Acceptances Of gold
have been, but which do not yet appear
in the account, which bring this balance
up to more than S4,250,O0O.
Today closed a busy week for Presi-
dent Cleveland. and the last day was
marked by as much activity and hustle
among those seeking Office as the first
of any of the intermediate days. The
president will probably welcome the ap-
proach of sunday as "a blessed relief and
an opportunity to brace himself for the
struggle which will be renewed Monday.
The thunderbolt which burst over the
heads of patronage-hunters when the
president announced that old Office
holders would be barred for r%eappoint-
ment, momentarily cleared the atmos
phere, but only for a moment. 1t might
be thought that this announcement
would suspend applications while the
old men were falling to the rear and
new one getting to the front, but no
sooner were old applicants turned down
than each senator and representatives
reached into his. inside pocket where he
had "a list of availables ready to spring
upon the president. The tide set in
this morning by 10 o'clock at the white
house and for two hours a steady stream
of callers flowed through the president s
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