The Washington times., 1894-08-25
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

An interesting episode in the Smith-AIc-
Pberson fight for New Jersey Federal patron
age occurred yesterday, when the President
sent TO the Senate the nomination of John w.
Beekman, of Perth Amboy, the Mcpherson
candidate for district attorney. The collector
ship is not yet settled, but rumor has il that
the senior Senator will get this also, because
OF the Presidents dlspleasure at Mr.. Smiths
course during the fight on the tariff bill.
This is the second time that Mr. Mcpherson
has captured the attorneyship, as he had
Capt Parker appointed for the place through
an alleged mistake and then got the Presi-
dent 10 withdraw it.
1t is not certain, however. that the appoint
ment OF Mr. Beekman will amount to any
thing. as Senator Mcpherson is now on the
high seas and Senator Smith is at Saratoga
visiting Senator Murphy, and confirmation is
unlikely in their absence.
The defeat OF Mr.. Kilgore, Of Texas. for re-
nomination will cause much regret in Con-
gress where he is very well liked by everybody
except those whose bills he has objected to.
Mr.. Kilgore, or as he is better known.
Buck Kilgore, has been picturesque fig
ure in the House since the Fittieth Congress,
and although he did not carry long knives in
his shirt or in his boots. nor a brace of pistols
in each hip pocket. as has been the somewhat
general impression among those who have
not known him, he has been one of those
breezy Southwesterners who says everything
in a clean-cut and original way, which made
him striking figure among his associates
The next Congress will have a strange void
without Buck" Kilgore.
Representative CofIeen, of Wyoming. who
has just been renominated. saws the issues out
in his State this fall Will be on silver and the
irrigation of the arid lands The battle will
be straight out and out one between the
Democrats and the Republicans. All parties
unite in favoring irrigation. but the action of
Senator Carey in voting for unconditional re-
peal of the silver law has had the effect of
throwing the Populists into the Democratic
camp. and Mr.. Colleen is counting on their
vigorous support in his fight. All good West
ern men are going to the grand Irrigation
Convention at Denver o. September 4. and
DIR. Coffeen expec' to be one of them As Con-
gress voted LOCO, 600 acres of arid lands to
each State in which such lands exist, for re-
clamation by irrigation, this question prom
ises to be a most important one in the noun
tain States for the next few years.
Eice-President Stevenson had a party of
Illinoisans TO show about the Capitol yester-
day, and the family party of which hs found
himself the head was quite "folksy'' in its
makeup. All the people from Mr.. Stevenson s
part of the county are careful to look him up
when they come East, and he has the repu-
tation among his acquMntances of being Just
as genial and unassuming as he was out in
Bloomington.
Congressman McMillin, of Tennessee, in
serted his campaign documents in yesterdays
Congressional Record in the shape of a sum-
mary of what this Congress has accomplished
1t is understood to be a semi-offlcial state
ment, and is therefore interesting.
One OF the principal things which this ad-
ministration has accomplished, according to
Mr.. McMillin, is the repeal of the election
force laws, whereby voting has been freed
from unfair and improper restraint. Another
is the taxation of greenbacks by the States,
the same as all other lawful money, thus pre-
venting the escape from taxation Of hundreds
OF millions Of dollars.
The great reduction in appropriations is a
third The passage of an antitrust law Is
included IL the list, together with the inaugu-
ration OF the income tax and the repeal of the
silver-purchasing law.
Mr.. McMillin closes his eulogy on the
greatness of the Fifty-third Congress BY
giving an elaborate summary of the tariff
bill as the greatest of all its achievements.