Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(FrOm our Regular Correspondent

sion for a long time past. Accord
ing to those who usually know
what Is going on, Ex.Pres'dent
Harrison has met the combination
which the friends of Mr.. Reed and
Gov. Mckinley formed against
him some time ago, 10y making an
alliance, offensive and defensive,
with Senator Allison of Iowa. This
divides what has been known as
the republican ''Oig FOUR into tw o
pairs, and before Congress adj
journs it will probably be ap-
parent which is the strongest pair
Both OF these combinations have
shrewd friends in House and
Senate who will lose no opportunl
ty to forward their Interests. Mr.
Reed, as Speaker OF the House
will give his side the advantage
in that body, while Senator ALI
son is expected to hold the advant'
age for his side IN the Senate, but
both Will have sturdy opponents
in their respective camps.
There will also bs presidential
politics on the democratic side,
Notwithstanding the present dub
GUS outlook for that parry. In the
Senate, German and Hill, although
not especially friendly toward
each other, will join hands IN
sticking pins In the thIrd.term
balloon every time 1t gets within
their reach, and i'll tue House, Eek
Speaker Crisp is depended upon 10
sand up for the silver democrats
and also to thump the third term
idea if it should grow big enough
t. need it. The populists are most
Interested in the democratic game,
because they believe it certain
that President CleYeland will sue
coed in getting that party to adopt
gold platform and nominate q
gold candidate, and that the sill
yer democrats will then JON them
10 supporting a silver candidate
for president.
Senator Thurston, OF Nebraska,
who only the other day resigned
as Chief Counsel for one OF the
Pacific Railroads, has a bill pro-
viding for a settlement of the iD'
debtness of those roads to the
government. II would have been
more likely to have found favor
with Congress had lie allowed
somebody else TO father it. Peo'
pie can not forget his long salaried
relations with the company fol
which his bill would legiSlate.
lfCongreSs follows the recon
mendatious in the ANAL report Of
Commissioner Stump of the Immi
grafton Blreau, 1t will adopt some
radical legislation. For instance
Mr.. stump wants a bill passed
forbiddlng persons or corporations
engaging in the business of pro
curing employment for alien imml-
grants until they haye procured
license from and agreed to the
terms fixed by the immigration
B1reau as to what shall be charg
ed the Immigrants for service; also.
pIO7ldlug that all persons con
tracing tor the labor of any immi-
grant within one year Of his arrlv
al shall pay wages directly TO the
immigrant, under penalty of being
liable for the wages again if paid
to others. This would, ii enacted
into a law, knock the bottom ont
OF the notorious Italian padrOne
system, and others equally nefar-
ious but not so notorious, under
which certain parties become
wealthy at the expense Of the ln-
tellgent American labOrers who
are supplanted by the ignorant
contract immigrant laborerS be-
cause they can be hired cheap from
the piratical dealers 10 human
sweat.
When Secretary Carlisle was in
New York several days ago he
he was approached by a Gotham
millionaire with the proposition
that the govern ment could raise
all the money 1t needs or is likely
to need 10y establishing and selling
patents of nobility. The man was
not jJking either. lie was in dead
earnest. lie told Mr.. Carlisle
that lie believed there were more
than one hundred men besides
himself who would gladly pay
$1,000 or more for a title SINH.
lar to that of Duke in England
ard the privilege of a lifetime seat
without pay in an American
House of Lords, which it Is a part
of his scheme to establish. That
man isn't crazy. He is simply a
victim of the millionaire er-he,