Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-01
A TRUMP CARD.
1t Is Held by Senators Hill and
Murphy.

Washington, D. c., Jan. IA story
was afiOat today that Senators Hill
and Murphy had notified their demo
cratic colleagues that if Peckham was
confirmed by democratic votes they
would resign from the senate AS the
New York legislature is in session this
would mean the election of two repub-
lican senators and throw the control
Of the senate into the hands of the
republicans, enabling them to defeat
the tariff and all partisan legislation.
Hull seems TO have the sympathy of
his party now in his fight with Cleve-
land, but If he We're TO destroy its
supremacy IN the senate he would also
destroy himself, and he knows it. The
talk Is nothing more than an outcrop-
ping of the uncertainty regarding
Peckham's confirmation.
Several senator's have received
through the mails a small pamphlet
of the National League for the Protec-
ton Of American Institutions The OBJ
iects of the institution are: ITO Sc
cure constitutional safeguards for the
protection of the common school SyS-
tenn and other American institutions,
and to promote public instruction in
harmony with such institutions, and
TO prevent all Sectarian and denomi-
national appropria tons of public
funds" AS the language clearly indi-
Gates. the association has an anti
Catholic tendency. In the list of mem
bers composing the law committee of
Wheeler III. Peckham.
In the copies of the pamphlet shown
Mr.. Peckham's name appears to have
been printed in the list after the book
had left the press, as it differs from
the remainder in respect to the color
of the ink used, and there is a faint
suspicion in the minds of some that the
insertion of the name in the list of of
ficerS of the association is the work
of enemies.
The extreme to which the fight be
tween the president and the New York
senator's is being carried is evident
from an examination of the records
Vi Vic Scldlt. botllolOl I'LL 10 lut
subcommittee of the senate committee
on postOttices, TO whom is referred all
nominations of poStmaSterS in New
York state. Since Dec. President
Cleveland has sent to the senate the
nominations of fOrty-four poStmasterS
in New York Since Dec 6 there have
been seven postmaSters confirmed for
the state of New York.
From this it appears that Senator
Hill has pOcketed the nomination of
his enemies, the anti-Snappers. Some
of the offices which are held up are
important cities in the state, including
Rome. Binghamton, Penn Yam, Owego,
Auburn, Cooperstown, GlenS Falls,
Flushing and Medina. The seven offices
that have been confirmed are for
the cites of Port Jervis, Middletown,
Ithaca, ShOrtSville, Chatham, Sing
Sing and Mamaroneck.
But the postoffices are not the only
appointments in New York which are
not being confirmed. Since the session
began the president has nominated
w. A. POucher to be district attorney;
Valentine Fleckenstein and Louis w.
Pratt to be internal revenue collectors
W. III. Bum to be appraiser of mer-
chandise, and Emil Rose, J. W. Strick-
land and P B. CumbersOn to be as
sistant appraisers, and Frank n. Pot
ter, Peter Doyle and George S. Weed
to be collectors of customs. Not one
of these has been confirmed.