The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-11-29
NO. 50
From our regular Correspondent


1t seems odd that Washington
should be so quiet with the date for the
assembling of Congress only two weeks
off, but it isn't. In the years when a
new Congress assemblies Washington
is usually in turmoil for several
weeks before Congress meets, owing to
the campaign for the nomination of
Speaker of the House. This year there
is no speakership campaign. 1t was
settled when the votes cast at the Con-
gressional election, last November,
were counted that Hon. Thomas b.
Reed. OF Maine, should again be speak
er of the House. There remains only
the minor offices of the House to be
determined upon, and.. although the
friends of the. several gentlemen who
are candidates for each of those offices
are greatly interested, there is no ma
tional interest felt in the good-natured
contest they are waging. So it is easy
to understand why so few numbers of
the House are in town and why every
thing is so quiet.
Major Mcdowell, the Pennsylvania
candidate for the House clerkship, and
Mr.. Glenn, the New York candidate
for Doorkeeper, have opened headquar-
ters in the same hotel and they are
understood to be working together.
Ex-Representative Wade, of Missouri,
may be candidate either for Door
keeper or for Postmaster; Ohio is said
to have a candidate, not yet named,
for Postmaster, and Captain Sherwood,
of Michigan, ex-Postmaster OF the
House and of Washington, is also a
for the same place. Ex-
Representative Henderson, of Ills, is
a candidate for the Clerkship of the
House, and he is said to have declined
entering combination as candidate
for Sergeant-at-Arms, a position for
which Mr.. Russell, the present speak
er of the Missouri House of Represent
atives, is q candidate. There are half
q dozen candidates for Chaplain of the
House, but the friends of Rev. H. ID.
Fisher, of Kansas, say he is certain to
get 1t. At this stage of the campaign
all the friends of all the candidates
are playing their confidence to make
votes, but until more members get to
Washington there is nothing to base
prediction of the probable winners on,
as most of the members will not COM
nit themselves until they get here
and look over the ground.
Senator Baker, of Kansas, wishing
to familiariZe himself little with
life and surroundings be-
lore entering upon his senatorial
career, has dropped in couple of
weeks ahead of time. Although not
disposed to push them forward, Sena-
tor Baker has opinions of his own,
and, when asked, does not hesitate to
express them. When asked what he
thought the republicans ought to do
1T the coming session of Congress he
said: "The most important question
will be to provide the government the
money it needs to pay its expenses.
see only two ways in which it can
be done. One is to increase the duty
On number of articles which, like
wool, for instance, are now admitted
free, or upon which the duty was radi-
cally lowered by the democratic tariff
law. think we should give the Pres
dent an opportunity to act upon a
bill of this sort, although do not be-
lieve he will sign anything we send
him. That method raising revenue
failing the next thing to do would be
TO repeal the law under which he
claims authority to issue bonds inde-
pendent of Congress, and to authorize
the issue of bonds in denominations
Of $50 to 800, which ought to be
made legal tender and to draw about .
two per cent interest. These bonds
would be taken up by the people with
great rapidity and held, but their
legal tender quality would make them
available for the payment of debts.
1t might be claimed that this would
be an initiation of the currency, but
certainly no harm would result, even
if some of the bonds passed as
Here is a nut for the free trade dem
ocrats to crack. Senator German
furnished it, when in the course of an
explanation of why the republicans
carried Maryland, he said: "The
fact is that the protection sentiment
in the state has largely increased. In
my own county, for example, we have
a number of wooden mills. Until
very recently they have been run up
on rough and cheap class of goods.