Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-28
NEXT WEEK. THEN CONGRESS Newspaper Correspondents Will
 Be Kept Busy REPORTES,H LIVE INCIDENTS The IraScf v 3outelIe of Maine Will Have
 S Chance TO Ss T ABOUT QUEEN LII, HIS PET G' s nor Oates Friends Are at Sea as to Low He Stands on the Silver Ques-
 tion Since His Last Inter-
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Washington, Nov 27.-(Special Corre- spondence )-Next week the portly gen. tleman who presides over the destiny of this nation of ours will look out of his window in his residence at the head of Pennsylvania avenue and seeing the flags floating from the poles on the two wings of the capitol at the other end of the avenue will turn away withAa deep sigh, for he will realize that he has 'con- gress on his hands, again.
 Next Monday at the hour of noon Clerk Kerr of the house of representatives will call that body to order, while at the other end of the building Vice-President Ste venson will let fall his gavel, announce ing the convention of congress in it's fif- ty-fourth session.
 That the coming session of congress will be filled with many interesting events is foregone conclusion. The irascible but harmless Boutelle will find an opportunity to express himself about Queen Lii, or'there will be another hand than that of Crisp ahold of the gavel, and another bearer of the mace than the popular Ike Hill, and the gentleman from Maine will find plenty of room for his fantastic gyrations. Tillman, the one eyed gentleman of dispensary fame, will
 
 ate by his murder of the queens English and his denunciation of the administra- ton. Howard, author and libeler, will give. scenes from his If Christ Came to Congress-" and the chances of his haV- ing several engagements to fill in which "coffee and pistols for two" will figure seems not mpro bable. Chandler, dupe of Rube Kolb and Warren Reese. and ex- champion tail-twister of the British lion, Will cavort up and down the aisles of the senate chamber while his newspaper up in New England screams in imitation of the American eagle. Yes. there will be plenty of incidents to keep the genial correspondents of the American press on the alert, and the young man who pushes the pencil for the State Herald promises to keep up with the procession. Asking for Light. The friends and acquaintances of Gov ernor Oates and they are thousands, are a little muddled as to where the ex-rep- resentative from the Third Alabama dis trict is really ''at" on the financial ques- ton. Some who heard the governor on the stump in Alabama, when he was canvassing in the state, with the Hon. R. H. Clarke from Mobile as a drawing att traction, remember that he posed as a defender of the course of the national ad- miniStTdtion, and at the same time ex- pressed a friendliness for silver; posi- tion which to say the least, is hardly un- derStOOd Tn 1tSelf Then they remember that not so long ago, in an interview In an Atlanta paper, Governor Oates was quoted as having said that he had made 100 speeches in Alabama favoring "sound money" and vast majority of the people of the state were with him. Then they remember other interviews In which the governor is quoted as saying the silver "craze" was dead and never to be resur- rected. And now they read over his own signature that he stands on his speech and votes in the extra session of the Fifty-third congress. when he favored the free coinage of silver at 20 to 1 ratio, and failing in that he favored the Bland Allison act. They are asking themselves if In his race for the senate, the governor finding that the ground of an uncondi- tional indorser of the views of President Cleveland was already occupied by the blue-eyed boy from the Gulf City, he has turned back to the middle ground in the hopes of catching the votes of the con- servative silver element in the party.
 Personal and Pertinent.
 Since the recent promulgation of the order to the different sub-treasuries to pay the express charges on all gold sent to the treasury, and on the notes sent in exchange, the secretary is dubbed as Carlisle he-pays-the-freight.
 MT. D. H. Brown of Birmingham was in the city last week.