Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-31
From our regular correspondent. j

thing he has said since the bill passed
Congress as from his previous utter
ances 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 at
work preparing themselves for the tar
if debate, which begins a week from
to-day. 1t is their purpose 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 a fellow who calls
himself Coxey's agent. The latter
goes Coxey 200, 900 better and says he
expects the army to number 800, 900
when it gets here.
The trouble with the new treaty
with China, which is being considered
by the Senate committee on Foreign
Relations, and which threatens to re-
open the entire Chinese question in
Congress, is that Secretary Gresham
! failed to prove himself entitled to
stand in the same diplomatic class
with the present Chinese Minister, who
secured everything his government
wanted without conceding anything
subst antial to the United States. So
plain is this that Gresham tries to ex-
cuse himself by limiting about bene6-
cial commercial treaty which is to fol-
low. What makes the treaty all the
more disappointing is that men close
to the administration quietly gave out
a tip many months ago that the treaty
would contain clause binding China
to purchase annually large amount
of silver bullion from us, some said
the entire product OF he American
mines. 1t really does grow monoto-
nous this having to condemn every
act of the administration, but what
can one do when there is absolutely
nothing worthy of commentator.
Judging from the record of the par
ty, particularly in the last House, it
would seem that if there was any one
thing that would induce a quorum of
Democrats to remain in their seats it
would be the prospect of unseating
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 waiting two days in ineffec-
tual attempts to get Democratic quo
rum-the Republicans very properly
refused to vote-in order to carry out
the report of the Democrat on the
election committee, by ousting Repre-
sentative Joy, of Missouri, and giving
his seat to the Democrats he defeated,
they were compelled to temporarily
abandon the scheme. twill be again
attempted this week, and it will, of
course, in the end succeed It is only
a question of getting a Democratic
quorum present.
According to relative of Secretary
Hoke Smith, now visiting Washing
ton, Sam Jones, the slang singing
Georgia preacher, said lately of the
Democrats in Congress: "Of all the
box ankled, handy -shanked, fea-bit-
ten, bob-tailed, NANCY, courageless
brainless jackasses that ever assem-
bled since God made the world,
think for pure downright cussedness
the present gang in Congress, headed
by Hill in the Senate and tailed by
no quorum in the House, beats them
all. - And the Reverend Sam is
Democrat, too.
The defense of Representative
Breckenridge in the suit for breach Of
promise of marriage, now being tried
in the Washington courts, has fur
nished lots of amusement here. The
idea of man of his experience, prom
inenee, and years having been led
astray by any woman, however beau
tifui and artful-Miss Pollard is far
from being beautiful-is so ridiculous
and absurd that general smile is the
result whenever it is mentioned, and
it is mentioned quite often However,
he had to make some sort of defense
aud he doubtless thought that this one
would at least secure him the sympa-
thy of the other men who are follow
ing in his footsteps. because, if sue
cessful, it will furnish a precedent to
help get them out of similar predica-
ments should they too get found out.
His political career is regarded here
as being ended.
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