The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 1895.

the assembling of Congress only
two weeks off, but it isn't. In the
years when new Congress assem-
bles Washington is usually in a
turmoil for several weeks before
Congress meets, owing to the cam
paigu for the nomination of speaker
of the House. This year there is
no speakership campaign. 1t was
settled when the votes cast at the
congressional election, last Noyem-
Der, were counted that Hon. Thomas
B. Reed, OF Maine, should again be
speaker of the House. There re-
mains 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 in
terested, there is no national inter
est felt in the good natured contest
they are waging. So it is easy to
understand why so few members of
the House are in town and why
everything is so quiet.
Majsr Mcdowell, the Pennsyl-
vania candidate for the House
clerkship, and Mr., Glenn, the New
York candidate for doorkeeper,
have opened headquarters in the
same hotel and they are understood
to be working together. Elk Repre-
sentative Wade, of Missouri, may
be candidate either for doorkeeper
or for postmaster; Ohio is said to
have candidate, not yet named,
for postmaster, and Captain Sher-
wood, of Michigan, ex-postmaster
of the House and of Washington, IS
also candidate for the same place.
Ex-Representative Henderson, of
Illinois, is candidate for the
clerkship of the House, and be is
said to have declined entering a
combination as a candidate for
seargeant-at-arms, a position for
which Mr.. Russell, the present
speaker of the Missouri House of
Representatives, is a candidate.
There are half dozen candidates
for chaplain of the House, but the
friends of Rev. D. H. Fisher, of
Kansas, say he is certain to get it..
At this stage of the campaign all
the friends of all the candidates are
playing their confidence to make
votes, but until more mem bers get
to Washington there is nothing to
base prediction of the probable
winners on, as most of the members
will not commit themselves until
they get here and look over the
ground.
Senator Baker, of Kansas, wish
ing to familarize himself little
with Washington life and surroun-
dings before entering upon his
senatorial career, has dropped IN a
couple of weeks ahead of time. AL
though not disposed to push them
forward, Senator Baker has opin-
ions of his own, and, when asked -,
does not hesitate to express them.
When asked what he thought the
Republicans ought to do at 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 radically lowered by the
Democratic tariff law | think we
should give the President an oppor-
tunity to act upon bill of this
sort, although | do not believe he
will sign anything we send him.
That method of raising revenue
failing the next thing to do would
be to repeal the law under which
he claims the authority to issue
bonds independent of Congress,
and to authorize the issue of bonds
in denominations of $50 and 800,
which ought to be made legal tender
and to draw about two per cent.
interest. These bonds would be