Milford chronicle., 1895-07-26

heId.up by the Comptroller, and the com
pany notified that the Comptroller would
hear argument as to the constitutionality Of
the Act of Congress approprating sz3s.ooo
to pay the bounty on beet sugar manufac
tured before the repeal of the bounty clause
Of the Mckinley law The Comptroller
says he believes the sugar bounty law to
have been unconstitutional, which is a little
queer, in view of his having allowed SI2,-
100000 or thereabouts, to be paid out under
that law during the fiscal year ending June
go, 1894. without a protest The real facts
in this business are well known. Comp
tIoller Bowler is merely a figure head, who
repeats his lesson just as it is taught to him
In addition to the money appropriated for
the beet sugar makers there was s., ooo,-
600 appropriated by the last Congress to
pay deferred sugar bounties-they will be
deferred sure enough, it seems This money
the administration doesn't wish to pay out
until Republican Congress shall have
put more money in the National Treasury.
Comptroller Bowler has been swelled up
by praise and made the tool of smarter men
to carry out this idea. The same tactics
are, according TO current report, to be used
O defer payment on the contract made with
he International Steamship Company for
the transportation of mails to Europe. This
contract was made by Mr. Wanamaker,
when he was Postmaster General, under an
act of Congress, and includes the use of
the steamships owned by tie company as
cruisers in time of war
That mysterious Cabinet meeting has
been the subject of much gossip
and Of numberless rumors That the Span !
Ssh minister, who came to Washington
about the same time that Secretary Olney
lid, If he did not accompany him, was the
,ause of this Cabinet meeting is certain, |
and that it discussed the Cuban revolu.
ion. All else is conjecture, owing to the
lir of mystery with which those who at
ended the meeting have since surrounded
themselves, although it is difficult to imag-
ne any good reason why there should be
my secrecy as to the position this govern
nent occupies towards either Spain or the
evolting Cubans. Rumor says the Span
Sh minister went so far as to ask that those
american editors who are disposed to SYM
athize with the Cubans should be muzzled
y the Secretary of State The admins
-atiOn would seem to have about all the
luzzling it can attend to, in trying to shut
lie mouths of the Silver Democrats, with
ut tackllng the editors of the country, al
Rough Secretary Olney is probably fully
accord with the idea of press censor
nip.
The Populists are much chagrinned over (
lie latest phase of the reorganization of the '
enate at the beginning of the coming ses-
on of Congress. They have been conf I
nifty counting upon being asked to join +
e Republicans in the reorganization and, '
course, receiving liberal share of the S
mmittee chairmanships and of the Sen
e patronage. 1t has lately come out that a
any of the Republican Senators would !
UGH rather not reorganize the Senate than a
do it with the assistancesof the Populists t
his wasn't pleasing to the Democrats, who d
not wish to retain control of the COM +,
tees without the power to control votes Is
ough to carry anything through, and
me of them have intimated to the Repub-
ans their willingness. to vote for a reor-
nization that will divide the chairman
ps and the patronage between the Re 9.
Dlicans and the Democrats, leaving the II
puists out altogether. No one has au. in
'rity to accept this or any other propo- sill
on concerning reorganization until it
Ill have been submitted to a caucus of re-
publican Senators, but all the same its on
summation is probable enough to have HI
trOyed the extensive air castles which pr
Populists have been building on the
eff that they would hold the balance of las
yer and could dictate their own terms for 'n'
of the Senate. wa