Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-03-31

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Il would sooner be day laborer A
than a Member of Cleveland's cabi- q
net" remarked a democrat widely :
known In commercial circles to a per 7
sonal friend. why" he continued !
they hardly know what he is going =
to do about anything until his act Is
publicly announced. When he invites !,
them toexpress their opinions it is
ONLY that ne may ascertain how =
many o! them agree with him. and ;
never with the remotest Idea OF &C :
cepting their advice when they do :
not"
The OCCASION of these remarks was
q visit be har paid to each member
of the Cabinet, all his personal
friends, to find out something def
mate about sMr. Cleveland's inte n
tions as to the Bland coinage bill
He was told by each of them thar
while the matter had been discussed
at twocabiDet meetings Dir. Cleve
land had not told any of thedh wnau
he intended To do. but four of them
believ, that he will veto it, not so
much from anything he has said |
since the bill passed Congress as
from bis previous utt erances on the |
same subject. 1t is also the general |
belief in Congress that he will veto |
the BILL II he does, look out for the
biggest democratic row yet seen.
The Republican Senators are hard
at work preparing themselves for
the tariff debate, which begins a
week from to-day. 1t Is their pur-
pose to point out In their speeches
the bad points in the bill which are
so numerous that many of them
have necessarily been overlooked by
the casual reader.
Nobody In Washington appears to
take Coxey's army seriously, except
Senator Kyle and fellow who calls
himself Coxey's agent. The latter
goes Coxey 100000 better and saws
he expects the army to number 30O,-
900 when it gets here.
The trouble with the new treaty
with China, which is being consider
ed bv the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations, and which threatens
to reopen the entire "Chinese Cues
ton" in Congress, is that Secretary
Gresham failed TO prove himself en-
titled to stand in the same diploma
ic class with the present Chinese Min
lister, who secured everything hi
government wanted without conced
ing ANYTHING substantial TO tn
United States. So plain is this tina
Gresham tries to excuse himself b,
limiting about q beneficial CONNER
cial treaty which Is to follow. Wha
makes the treaty all the more disaI
pointing is that men close to the ad
ministratlon quietly gave out a ii
many months ago that the treat
toll A
China to purchase anr ually lare
amount of silver bullion from u
some said the entire product of I'll
American mines. 1t really do'
grow monotonous, this having
condemn every act of the Admini
tration, but what can one do whe
there is absolutely nothing worth
of cOmmendation.
Judging from the record of the q
tv. particularly in the last House,
would seem that If there was al
one thing that would induce q gu
rum of democrats to remain in TIL
seats IL would be the prospect OF L
seating a Republican member al
giving his seat to a democratic &C
testant who has just about as mu
right to 1t as the man in the moo
buteven that prospect did not Ike
the democratic members OF
House In their seats. and after wa
ing two DAYS in Intellectual attem
to get Democratic quorum-the
pu6licans very properly refused
vote-in order to carry out
report of the democrats on the e
tion committee, by ousting Repre-
tative Joy, of Mo, and giving
seat to the democrat he defeat
they were compelled to tempors
abandon the scheme. 1t Will
again attempted this week, anC
will, of course, in the end succ'
1t is only a question OF gettin
democratic quorum present.
According to a relative OF BE
tary Hoke Smith, now visi
Washington, Sam Jones, the slt
singing, Georgia preacher, said
lyof the Democrats In Congress:
all the box ankled, handy shan
flea bitten, bob-tailed NANCY, C
ageIess, brainless iackasses that
assembled since God made the W
think for pure downright cuf
ness the present gang in Cong
headed by Hill In the Senate
tailed by mo quorum" in the ID
beats them ALL And the Reve
SOM is a democrat, 0oo-
The defense Of Represent,
breckenridge in the suit for bT
OF promise of marriage, now
tried In the Washington courts
furnished lots of amusement
The idea of his experience, pI
hence and years having beer
astray by any woman, hoy
beautiful and artful-Miss Pc
Is far from being beautiful
ridiculous and absurd that a sc
smile Is the result whenever it II
toned, and it is mentioned qul
ten. However, he had to make
sort OF a defense, and he dOu
thought that this Que won
least secure him the SYM
of the other men who are
lowing In his footsteps, beca
successful, it will furnish preC
to help get. them out OF g
predicaments should they to
found out. His political career
garded here as being ended.
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