Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
What the Senate Has Not Done and
Will Likely Not Do-other
Notes.

again in the city of politics and states
manship. fear there is often more pol
itics that craftsmanship. A great man!
things have come to pass during the las
three weeks, but as L dropped into th'
Senate the other day, it did not seem a.
though the time had made much impres
sion on that august body. The repeal act
is still hanging fire in the Senate, and al
though the country is impatient, and the
opponents of the measure concede they
would be beaten any time vote was
taken, still the weary public must wait
and wait, until the voices and the lungs
of the Western Senators give out, break
down, and surrender from sheer physical
inability to talk. 1t seems continuous
session of the Senate is the only remedy
and then the only hope would be that the
many could endure longer than the few
But how long, how long. will it last
The evident disposition of the extreme
silver Senators to retaliate, if the repeal
act is carried through by voting with the
Democrats for reduction in the tariff,
just to teach the East a lesson, shows
how wide apart the Two sections have
drifted The speech of Senator Allison,
who has been a silver advocate in the
past, was very able one.
The indications are that the Geary law
| will either be repealed or much modified
by the present Congress. No further
steps are to be taken to enforce it, until
some action is taken by Congress. That
it is in some respects an unjust law, there
is no doubt. DR.. Everett's bill, lately in
troduced in the House, extends to Sep
tember 1st, 1894, the time to which Chi
nese may register. 1t is believed that
the strong protest of the Chinese Gov
ernment, and the intimation that that
Government would no longer assume re-
sponsibility for the future safety of
Americans in Chinese territory, has had
its effect upon the Administration. In
the meantime the Government simply
explains the delay in enforcing the law
by claiming that the appeals in individu-
al cases have not yet been heard. This
is certainly true in the writs of habeas
corpus cases, and in all cases, so far as
such writs have been applied for. So the
Government seems to have good ex-
cuse, and in the meantime will push the
Everett bill But in this, as in every 9th
er measure, the President is said to ad-
wise that nothing be pushed until the
Senate disposes of the repeating act on
the purchase of silver He does not want
the repeal in any way to be complicated
by any other question. Some of the
leading members of the House of his own
party, who are with him on silver, do not
agree with him on suspending all other
business while the Senate runs along its
slow way. This has been apparent in the
question of the consideration of the
Tucker bill repeating the existing FEEDER
al Election laws. The President wishes,
above all other things, to have the finan-
cial question settled, and he wishes moth
ing done that will lose him any Republic
an voter on the main question.
The hearings before the Ways and
Means Committee on the tariff question
have been very interesting. Tom Reed
has worried the Democratic brethren a
good deal, and one remarkable instance
was where he endeavored to convert DR..
Ikert, the new member from the Eight
eenth Ohio District. DR.. Ikert came
before the Committee to say few
words in favor of keeping up the tariff
on pottery. DR.. Ikert resides at East
Liverpool, and the potteries, there,
are home industry. Reed made it
little lively for the Doctor, by asking
some peculiar questions as to the Doctors
position.
If the Senate ever does get through
with the bill now before it, there will be
plenty of business on hand for a long
time to come. The new tariff act, the
modification of the Geary law, the FEEDER
al Election repeal act, and the repeal of
the tax on State banks, are all liable to
be on hand, and ready for business. No
one seems to have any idea that there
will be any adjournment of this session
before the regular session opens in De-
cember Whatever is to be done might
as well be done now, and as soon as pos
sible, seems to be the general sentiment
everywhere. Whatever changes are to
be made even in the tariff, had better be
made as soon as possible, so the business
world will know at least, what they have
to stand on.
Quite a remarkable will was filed here
the other day. 1t was the will of Jerome
Bonaparte, grandson of Jerome Bona
parte, brother of Napoleon l., of France,
who married Miss Patterson, of Balti-
more. and afterward, at the command of
the Emperor, deserted her, and married
into one of the royal families. The late
American Bonaparte leaves large es-
tate. What a wonderful history the Bo
naparte family has written on the pages
of Time Yet, is the world any better
for their living?
MISS CotlCl SlCNOA1hu, nAO 10 obAo W
be wonderful child, and who is said to
have been born under lucky star, holds
at least one honor that no other Ameri-
can has ever yet claimed-she was born
in the White House while her father was
President of the United States. Even
the Presidents health has been forgotten
by the newspaper men since this event,
until some of us wonder if the President
were sick at all. The speech which he
made on the anniversary of the laying of
the cornerstone of the Capitol on the
18th, showed no lack of strength or Wig
or. The east front of the Capitol was
crowded as it seldom is, except on inau
guration day. There was large parade,
and everything combined it was fine eel