Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-11-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

It seems odd that Washington should be
so quiet with the date for the assembling
of Congress only two weeks off, but it
isn't In the years when a new Congress
assemblies Washington is usually in a tur
MOL for several weeks before Congress
meets, owing to the campaign for the nom.
ination of Speakers of the House. This
year there is no speakership campaign 1t
was settled when the vote cast at the Con
gressiona election, last November, were
counted that Hon. Thomas B Reed, Of
Maine, should again be speaker of the
House. There remains only the minor Of
foes of the House to be determined upon,
and although the friends of the several gen
tlemen who are candidates for each of those
Offices are grately interested, there is no
national interest felt in good-natured con-
test they are waging. So it is easy to un
derstand why so few members of the
House are is town and why everything is
so quiet
Major Mcdowell, the Pennsylvania can
didate for the House oleTkshIp, and Mr.
Glenn, the New York candidate for Door
keeper, have opened headquarters in the
same hotel and they are understood to be
working together. Ex-Representative
Wade, of Missouri, may be a 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-Postnaster of the
House and of Washington, is also a candi
date for the same place, Ex-RepreSenta-
tive Henderson, of His, is a candidate for
the Clerkship of the House, and he is said
to have declined entering a combination as
a candidate for Sergent-at-Arms, posi-
tion for which Mr. Russell, the present
Speaker of the Missouri House of Repre-
sentatives, is a candidate There are half
a dozen candidates for Chaplain of the
House. but the friends of Rev. H. D Fish
er, 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 con-
fdence to make votes, but until more mem.
bers get to Washington there is nothing to
base a prediction of the proboble winners
on, as most Of the members will not com
nit themselves until they get here and
look over the ground.
Senator Baker, of Kansas, wishing Ia
familiarize himself little with Washington
life and surroundings before entering upon
his senatorial career, has dropped in a
couple of weeks ahead of time. Although
not disposed to push them forward, Sena-
tor Baker has opinions of his own, and,
when asked, does not hesitate to express
them When asked what ae thought the
Republicans ought 10 do at the coming ses
sion Of Congress he said: 1.-THE most i'm
portant 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 a 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 opportunity
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 theng to do would be to re-
peal theh law under whied he claims
authority to issued bonds independent Of
Congress, and to authorize the issue of
bonds in denominations of $50 and 500,
which ought to be made legal tender and
to draw about two percent interest These
bonds would be taken up by the people
with great rapipity and held, but their legal
tender quality would make them available
for the payment of debts. 1t might be
claimed that this would be an Initiation of
the currency, but certainly no harm would
result, even if some of the bonds passed as
money
Here is a nut for the free trade Demo
Gratis to crack. Senator German furnish
ed it, when in the course OF an explanation
of why the Republicans carried Maryland
he said The fact is that the protectiof
sentiment in the state has largely increased