The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-03
LONG DRAWN OUT.
No Prospect of This Session of
Congress Ending
Before Next. October at the
Outside.
1T is ALL NONSENSE
To Try to Make Cleveland Favor
Silver.

and leave a great deal of unfinished bust
ness at that The dreary mOnotOny of roll
calls, the ringing OF bells to call members
from committee rooms and the rushing of
messengers hither and yon to hunt up the
absent have been the principal sources of
amusement TO onlookers, and it is a sort of
amusement of which very little goes
great way
Among the live questions about the cap
itol is this, 'tWhy do the Democrats have
so much difficulty in maintaining a quo
rums' There are two answers. One is:
Because they have such brutal MAORI
ty. Each fellow thinks he can leave at
viii and it will make no difference, and
the city mem bers are particularly bad-a
very large number of them being feverish
to get away Friday afternoon and unwi11-
ing to return until Tuesday. The fact is,
we haven't got our big majority well
ganized and disciplined yet So say the
Democrats. The Republicans put it thus:
1'The majority of the majority have got
up mass of stuff which the minority of
that majority doesn t want TO see adopted,
and yet does not want TO break party lines
and vote against Take this contested
election case of O'NeilI against Joy. The
fair minded Democrats don t want to turn
out Mr.. Joy and yet they don't wants to vote
against a report OF their own committee. -
A Republican View.
Mr. Mccall of Massachusetts saws
s'Thcse absentee Democrats are not here
because their hearts are not in the work
which was cut out for them They want
a reform CT the tariff, and they want
great many other things, but they don't
want a general onslaught on everything
that is distinctively northern and north
EASTERN When, however, an opinion is
asked of such Republicans as General Gros-
venor and Henderson, they have the same
old explanation-the total depravity of
Democrats and their Unborn, inherent, ir-
remediable incapacity to govern the coun-
frv hG he he is
certain that the dominant party is burning
daylight, and the leaders are getting cx-
tremely nervous about it, a great many
important measures are still to be discuss
ed, and at least three of them--the
Hatch antioption bill leading-the fight is
to be terrific
The various Mccain bills to protect Ia
Dor, or, as the sarcastic mem bers say, to
make their authors solid with the laborers,
have been pretty well ground through the
judiciary committee. and Messrs- Boatner
of Louisiana, Terry of Arkansas and Stone
of Pennsylvania, a subcommittee, are
hard at work investigating Judge Jenkins
and the railroad employees Mr. Boatner
continues to promise that he will stir
things up from the bottom and get in some
very energetic work on the question of col
lecting what the Pacific railroad owes the
government, but Senator CullOm and 9th
er old senators smile as skepticaIly as ever
and prophesy confidently that nothing will
be done at this session.
The Coxey Blizzard.
The appropriations bills also have taken
up great deal more time than was ex-
pected, and there are some measures from
the committees on public lands and Indian
affairs which are expected TO excite lively
debate. In the recent dull times, when the
principal business was calling the roll and
answering thereto, our only annusennents
were the current comments on the Breck-
inridge case and the freezing out of Cox
-fe 81 A ~
weather bureau, the blizzard which scat
tered Coxey's forces started in Texas and
travelled northeastward. John Allen says,
however, that it is a great mistake to sup
pose that Providence sent the blizzard es-
pecially to abate the malign influence of /
Coxey, as it was really started by the flop
ping of the two wings of the TexassDemoc-
racy in their late efforts to get together.
The Texan members admit that the flop
ping was vigorous indeed, but just the |
same the two wings have got together, and |
the whole delegation expect &c. be returned |
by the usual figures, with a majority of |
$50, 900 for the state at large.
When President Cleveland returned from |
his late trip down the river, all who saw 1
him expressed establishment at his vivaci- /
y and greatly improved appearance, and /
Tor few days be seemed really glad to see
and handed out the offices with /
like old fashioned Democratic
alacrity- Before he got through with the /
'eigniorage bill, however, far different re-
ports were given out not only as to health
put as to his temper and spirit And now
e Is the turn of western Democrats to be
IN the anxious seat Mr.. Bailey says: 1T
5 all nonsense to try TO go this way,
)De side at a time, like a half sled on ice
The Democrats have got to do inst like the
republicans did on some OF the questions
hat arose in their early days and particu-
arly during the war-that Is. pillow
round the difficulty In other words, the
Democrats must cut loose from CIeveland's
liver policy It Is all nonsense to go ON
or trying to make ourselves be-
ieve that he is friendly 70 silver when we
now as a matter OF fact that he is hostile
o it.
Another Hot Fight Looked For
If any single standard man has been in
ulging the hope that either success or
allure in any meg sure SO far reported |
Tould pacify the silver .nen and make
hem quiet for the rest of this congress, he
nay abandon it at once Mr. Bland frank
y acknowledges that the least little mite
4 success only whets tie appetite of his
olks for more, and any successful opposI- i
ion irrltates them and e>ccites them TO
reater effort. The advocates Of radical
leasures in connection with the tariff do
OF go quite SO far, but it Is every day
more evident that IN tie house the opposi-
ion to the senSte's action on the Wilson
i'll is growing, and several Repu blicans
lOk forward gice1uily to another hot fight
efore the senate amendments are adopted
4 short, the gensrei siLGatzon at present
nay be summed up thus: The prospects Of
u early adjournment, il t1ey ever amount
d to anything, have completely faded
way, and in their stead there is an aneic-
patton of several fierce contests which viii
( prolonged until late in August anyhow
nd possibly much later.