The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-03-14
OUR Observation-Disclosures
lFrom our Regular Correspondents


Washington dinner party which
was attended by ten gentlemen,
among whom were several who
rank as leaders in the Republican
and Democratic parties in Congress.
The proposition came from Dem
ocrat, and was in substance that
the Republican House should as
soon as it assemblies, either in reg
ular or extra session, adopt a reso-
luton for the impeachment of Mr..
Cleveland, because of the written
and verbal contract he made con-
trary to law with that foreign syn
dictate for the sale of bonds. The
source from which the information
comes makes it impossible to use
names. The proposer Of the
scheme stated very candidly that
his party would stand a much
better chance in the campaign next
year with Stephenson as President
than it will with Cleveland, and
said that if all the Republican and
PopuIist Senators would pledge
themselves to vote for impeachment
he would guarantee a sufficient
number Of Democratic votes to
make the necessary two-thirds to
impoach. No promises were made
by the Republicans.
The fellow with esteem" reasons
why Mr.. Reed ought not to be
Speaker of the House has again
turned up in Washington. But his
reasons are quickly "turned down"
1t is settled to the entire satisfaction
of the Republican members of the
House of the Fifty-fourth Congress
and also to that of the individual
most directly concerned, that Thos.
B. Reed will receive the nomination
of the Republican caucus and be
elected Speaker of the House, and
1t IS altogether probable that at
this very moment Mr.. Reed is
thinking about the membership Of
tba TTouon conon,ittoo
Representative Henderson, of
Iowa, the ranking Republican
member of the House committee
on Appropriations, completed and
made public day or two ago
digest Of the appropriations made
by the last Congress and comparing
them with those made by the four
previous Congresses. The totals
were as follows:
Forty-ninth Congress..".....,... S 1852, 1851
Fineth .............. Sl7,063,S57SO
Fifty-Grst .............. 9SS, All, 1881
Fifty second ......"..... 1927, l0i,547 92
Finy-third d" ..",........ 99O,33S, 69l0l
1t will be seen that the two last
Congresses, both Democratic, made
the largest appropriations, and
there should really be S21, G8G, 7G4
added to the appropriations made
by the last Congress, as that is the
amount that must be appropriated
to paw contracts authorized, and
Mr.. Henderson estimates #that
insufficient appropriations for pub
lie printing, pensions, ETC., will
necessitate deficiency appropria-
tion Of at least S4,5O0,oOO by the
Fifty-fourth Congress. The two
last Democratic Congresses were
both billion dollar Congresses, the
first in the history Of the country,
although the Democrats made a
national campaign by falsely calling
the Fifty-frst, or Reed Congress,
the "bllllon dollar Congress.
Senator PIatt, before leaving
Washington, had few words to
say which should interest everybody
and especially Republicans. "The
public is apt to expect said Mr..
Platt, "too much from the Repub-
licans in the next Congress. The
next House will be Republican, but
we shall not have a Republican
majority in the Senate and there
will be a Democratic president.
We shall be almost as powerless for
the promotion of action in the
next Congress as we haYe been in
the last one. The opportunity for
Democratic mischief has passed,
but that is all. Little can be ac-
connnlicbad until after 1896 when