The Arizona sentinel., 1895-12-14
Washington Letter.
From Our ReguIsr espondsnt.l

'C't'OH 10 pDNlOu~. ne 'C6iidIc Gu
 transact little, if any, importan
 business until the question of re
 organization has been sttted anc
 the House can do little unti 1 Speaker Reed announces the com
 mittees, while the National Com
 mittee will decide when and whpr,
 the convention that will nnmIna't
 the next president w.lI he held
 Delegations are here actively work ing for the six cities which are competing for the honor of enter. talning the Convention. While the members of the committee are retlcent on the subject the conf dence of the Chicago contingent is such that nearly everybody who is not actively championing some other city seems to be of the opIn- ion that the convention will be held in that city, and the belief is general that June will be the month.
 Incidentally with the meeting of the National Committee a crowd of enthusiastic McKinleyites have descended upon Washington and opened headquartero for the pur pose of pushing along the boom ot Ghio's favorite son, which they consider not only a good thing but the best thing of its kind now on the road. They found plenty of sympathizer8 in Washington, as few men have more personal friends in Congress than Gov. Mckinley, and few of those friends in Con- gress than Gov. Mckinley, and few of those friends have warmer feelings for him than the big man n every sense of the word-who presideS over the House and who Is one of his rivals for the presi- dential nomination. The two men worked side by side in the House for long period and fully under stand each others worth, and, while neituoT would probably say as much fir publication, it would be a good guess 10 say that each of of theIh Is the others second choice for President; but it must pot be inferred from such guess that either would sulk should the National Convection in it's as sem bIed wisdom decide to nominate one of the other capable and pop ular gentlemen who have been mentioned They are both Re publicans of the tried and true kind, who always work their hardest for party success regard less of who may head the ticket
 For man who lays claim to more than an average share of courage, Mir. Cleveland has a queer--not to put worse construc tion upon it-way of acting. Al though he knew that Congress and the country were deeply interested in the answer 10 the administra tion's request to know whether Great Britain intended to submit the Venezuelan boundary dispute to arb tration. and that the an swer would be in Secretary Olney's hands on Saturday, he slunk off on a duck hunting trip, aboard of a Government Lighthouse tender, without even setting a time for his return, leaving Congress and the country to await his august pleas ure before being permitted to see that answer, which is known to be unsatisfactory. He may not have deen afraid to face the music rais- ed by his unexpected stand in favor of the Monroe doctrine, but there are people who believe he is. and that he went away hoping that Congress would take t bit in it's teeth, demand the correspondence of Secretary OIney, and dictate d reply to Lord Salisbury before he returned to Washington. That may be putting the case little too strong. but there can be no doubt that Mir. Cleveland's absence at this time is disrespectful to Con grass and to the American people and unjustifable from any point of view.
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