Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-04-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20, 1894.
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than a member of Cleveland's caoi-
net" remarked a democrat wildly
known in commercial circles to per-
sonal friend "Why," he continued,
''they rarely know what he is going
to do about anything until his act Is
publicly announced. When he in
vites them to express their opinions
it is only that he may ascertain how
many of them agree with him, and
never with the remotest idea of ac-
cepting their advice when they do
notn The occasion of these remarks
was visit he had paid to each mem
Der of the cabinet, all his personal
friends, to find out some thing definite
about Mr. Cleveland's intentions as
to the Bland silver bill. He was told
by each of them that while the mat
ter had been discussed at two cabinet
meetings Mr.. Cleveland had not told
any of them what he intended to do,
but four of them believe that he will
veto it, not SO much from anything
he has said since the bill passed Con-
gress as from his previous utterances
on the same subject. 1t Is also the
general belief in Congress that he will
veto the bill. If he does, look out for
the biggest democratic row yet seen.
The republican Senators are hard az
work preparing Jhemselver for the
tariff debate, which begins week
from to day. 1t is their purpose to
point out in their speeches the bad
points in the bill which are SO numer
Gus that many OF them have nee
essarily been overlooked by the
casual reader.
Nobody in Washington appears to
take COXey's army seriously, except
Senator Kyle and a fellow who calls
himself Coxey's agent. The latter
goes Coxey 200, 600 better and says he
expects the army to number 100000
when it gets here.
Judging from the record Of the
party, particularly in the last House,
it would seem that if there was any
one that would induce a quorum Of
democrats to remain in their seats ii
would be the prospect Of unseating a
republican member and giving his
seat to a democratic contestant who
has just about as much right to it as
the man in the moon, but even that
prospect did not keep the democratic
members of the House in their seats,
and, after wasting two days in inef-
fectual attempts to get a democratic
nnnr7n1-+b0 ronuhlioapc Uoru nrOn-
erly refused to vOte-in order to carry
out the report of the democrats on
the election committee, by ousting
Repr esentative Joy Of Mo-, and Civ
ing his seat to the democrat he de-
feated, they were compelled to tenn
porarily abandon the scheme. 1t will
be again attempted this week, and il
will, of course, in the end succeed.
1t is only question Of getting dem
ocratic quorum present.
According to relative of Secretary
Hoke Smiths, now visiting in Wash
ton, Sam Jones, the slang singing
Georgia preacher, said lately of the
democrats in Congress-: "Of all the
box ankled, handy shanked, flea
bitten, bob tailed, NANCY, courage
less, brainless iackasses that assem-
bled since God made the world, L
think for pure downright cussedness
the present gang in Congress, headed
by Hill in the Senate and tailed by mo
quorum in the House, beats them
ALL" And the Reverend Sam is a
democrat, too.
The defense of Representative Brock
enridge in the suit for breach OF
promise of marriage, now oeing tried
in the Washington courts, has furn-
iShed lots of amusement mere. The
idea of a man of his experience
and years having been led astray by
any woman, however beautiful anu
artful-Miss Pollard is far from be
ing beautiful-is so ridiculous and ao
surd that general smile is the result
whenever it is mentioned, and il is
mentioned quite often. However he
had to make some sort of a defence,
and he doubtless thought that this
one would at least secure him the
sympathy of the other men who are
following in his footsteps, because, il
successful, it will furnish precedent
to help get them out of similar pre-
dicaments should they too get found
out. His political career is regarded
here as being ended.
The April issue OF Worthington's full
ly sustains the reputation gained by
previous numbers Of this always
bright and attractive magazine. 1t
has won a leading place among it's
many rivals and is rapidly gaining pop
ular appreciation. It's distinctively