Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-04

| SENATOR MARION BUTLER
 tors vote as they now talk not a single distinctively party measure can be passed. Every one has been catechised on the ! financial issue, and it is fixed fact that 1 there are 46 votes straight out for the free coinage of silver, and there may be five moro. Against the repeal of the income l tax there is certainly majority of three, and as to tariff legislation. while thcre is l still a doubt, we have the word of several senators that there is majority in favor of letting the country have n rest until | tho Fifty-fifth congress acts-to wit, in | 1898
 \ Peculiar Situation.
 l Every body knows that there may be q l tremendous political revolution with very | littlc change in the senate, hut tho pres | ent situation is without precedent in that | respect. All the enormous gains of the Republicans in every northern state east of the Mississippi have gained them but one senator West of the big river they have gained one direct and in all the south | two Hence. though they swept the coun- | try as no party ever did bcforc, they are actually indebted for their majority to | their new men from the three states but half represented in this senate. If even l tho Cid North state had stuck to her moor l ings, the next senate would have been tie, and so far as affirmative legislation is concerned there might us we'll have been no election last November. The greatest gain for the Republicans is in states where | one half of the senate holds over for four years Such things give point to that ut | teraEce of Chancellor Kent q believe ii was hel that the people do not really i govern themselves. but those who vote this year govern those who will vote a few years hence.
 | Youthful senator Butler.
 Of all the new senators the youngest is l Hon. Marion Butler of North Carolina, who has been here and cast his own politi- cal horoscope with truly southern frank ness. He is n very solid and dignified looking man, neither pronounced blond nor brunette. but with brown hair and beard, and is certainly a very good talker In private conversation and has the ap pearance of being an orator He is Si years old, was elected to the state senate in 1890 and has held some kind of office ever since flc is a graduate md a: pres ent a trustee of the state university and is by profession set down as lawyer and editor. The Democrats say he is really a Republican and only took the Populist chute because n combination of tho oppoS- ing elements had become necessity in l North Carolina. The Republicans say he Is a crank on the silver question: and here is what he said for himself the other day: II believe there will be a now alignment in 1896 on the financial question, and that the people will decide for the free coinage of silver. There has got to be some sub stantial, tangible thing to fight for, and as the people are opposed to the present policy the free coinage of silver gives them tho tangible issue Yes, think that all the clements of opposition to the present system will be able to unite in lS96. His new Republican colleague does not seem to have excited much interest among sena- tors of that party, and North Carolina Democrats (hut we may assume that they are littlo prcjndiccd) say that the river will be perfectly safe while h" k here He will not set it aiire.
 The same old Senate.
 | Of the other newly elected senators none has excited any particular curiosity. Mir, Thurston of Nebraska is regarSicd a. an exponent of the railroad interest, The resurrection of Steve ElkinS is supposed to emphasize tho revival of the old Repub lican party. Tho new men from the late half represented states are held t0 indicate the growing strength of the silver irter- est, and we are told that the ufscomprO' missing free coinage men are now thor oughly organized, with Senator Teller at ! HINN aH lNNas AtNttSfs NEaA events will hurry that issue tO a settle ment much sooner than congress is inclin- ed to act. A few in each house arc so con fdent of this the~ even predict that it will not ba an issue in iS9i, as it will he so far settled that the people will he unwill- l ing to have the settlement disturbed. In fortunately they are not able to tell us which way it will he settled each man prophesying according tH his wishes To sum up. We may say that the late amaz- ing revolution in politics has practically wrought no revolution in the senate.
 But, oh, what n difference in the house! From all the 2S northern states the Demo crats have just |" mcmheTs. ominOuS number. And yet the so called solid sec l tions show hut little change. Let us con trAst the extremes. The solid south ? now consists of the eight cotton states proper, and ina all of them there are hut l2 changes in persons and two iu oddities, Alabama sends one pnpulist and Texas enc Republican. All else is us 1t was
 There is a question, however, sbor. South Carolina, and 1t i~ at least possible that I three of her new r.rH will hc Populi~ts
 when they get herr l..r,Giu: at that l,ar
 ty'x gain In the sfnatr and iis Is'Ssihlt nine ar ten in the i@1tI>e makes marvel at the wisdom of thuse New York editors 1 Who SD frequently a>>'ttett h> a Ie" WtNAs ago that the Popniist party was crushed out of exiStence'
 In New England there are ten changes of persons and eight in pnlilics, Not 5 Democrat of the ri,>eut delegation sur. 1 wives. Hut Hon. Iuhs T. fitzgerald ot
 Boston comes in fresh. E-tl he is good one. As an orator and ssstesman Wash, ington has him yet ta e'limate, hut We already kEow thnt he slil never loss ] ,nythinH by not asking for 1t He buEzesl