The Press., 1895-11-28
(From our regular correspondent.l
 Washington Letter.
Washington, Nov. .25, l


 any single session for a long time past. According to those who usually know what is going on, Ex-President Harrison has met the combination which the friends of MT. Reed and Gov. Mckinley formed against him some time ago, by making an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Senator Allison, of Iowa. This divides what has been known as the republican "big four" into two pairs, and before con- gress adjourns 1t will probably be appar- ent which is the strongest pair. Both of these combinations have shrewd friends in house and senate who will lose no Op- portunity to forward their interests. MT. Reed, as speaker of the house, will give his side the advantage in that body, while Senator Allison is expected to hold the advantage for his side in the senate, and both will have sturdy opponents in their respective camps.
 There will be presidential politics on the democratic side, notwithstanding the present dubious outlook for that party. In the senate, GoIman and Hill, although not especially friendly towards each Oth- CT, will join hands in sticking pins in the third-term balloon every time it gets within their reach, and in the house, Ex- Speaker Crisp is depended upon to stand up for the silver democrats, and also to thump the third-term idea if 1t should grow big enough to need it. The popu- lists are mostly interested insthe demo- cratic game, because they believe 1t cer- tain that President Cleveland will suc- ceed in getting that party to adopt gold platform and nominate 8 gold candidate, and that the silver democrats will join them in supporting 8 silver candidate for president.
 Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, who only the other day resigned as chief coun- sel for one of the Pacific railroads, has a bill providing for settlement of the in debtedness of those roads to the govern ment. It would have been more likely to have found favor with congress had he allowed somebody else to father 1t. PeO- pie can not forget his long-salaried rela- tions with the company for which his bill would legislate.
 If congress follows the recommenda- tions in the annual report of Commission or Stump of the immigration bureau, it will adopt some radical legislation. For instance, MT. Stump wants bill passed fOrbidding persons or corporations en- gazing in the business of procuring en- ployment for alien immigrants until they have procured license from and agreed to the terms fixed by the immigration bu- reau as to what shall be charged the i'm migrants for the service; also, providing that all persons contracting for the labor of any immigrant within one year of his arrival shall pay wages directly to the im- migrant, under penalty of being liable for the wages again if paid to others. This would, if enacted into a law, knock the bottom out of the notorious Italian pa drone system, and others equally nefarious but not so notorious, under which certain parties become wealthy at the expense oi the intelligent American laborers who are supplanted by the ignorant contract immi- grant laborers because they can be hired cheap from the piratical dealers in human sweat. | When Secretary Carlisle was in New York several days ago he was approached by Gotham millionaire with the propo- sition that the government could raise all the money it needs or Is likely to need by establishing and selling patents of nobil- ity. The man wasn't joking either. He was in dead earnest. He told MT. Car lisle that he believed there were more than one hundred men besides himself who would gladly pay $1, ,OOO, ,OOO or more for title similar to that of duke in En- gland and the privilege of lifetime seat without pay in an American house of lords, which 1t is part of his scheme to establish. That man isn't crazy. He is simply victim of the millionaire fever he, like all his kind, wants to buy some thing to distinguish him from ordinary men who possess only few thousands or hundreds of dollars.
 The prediction of short session, which always makes its appearance just before the meeting of a new congress, was on schedule time this year. But just bear in mind that this is not going to be short session.