The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-25

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ketfui of Democratic Heads as
Party Oferir 60 Linney's and Pritch-
ards Position Oh silver.
WASHINGTON. Dec. "a CSpeciaD
In the assignment of election cases
| to Guillotipe committees the contests
| against Woodland, Shaw and Lockhart,
in the order named. will be decided by
Committee No. 2, of which Johnson,
| of Indiana, is chairman. The North
| Carolinians will be the last threee of
| the eleven cases that viii be heard be-
| fore this committee.
Of the nine members who will do
the judging, Harrison, of Alabama;
| Mcclure, of California, and Kyle, OF
| Mississippi, are all the Democrats and
| are said to be strong lawyers.
Chairman Johnson is regarded as u
| partisan Republican; Strobe, of Ne
| braka, was elected against a fusion of
Populists and Democrats; Taylor, of
Ohio, is the man who beat CoXey;
Miller, of West Virginia, is regarded
as a conservative Republican; Long,
of Kansas, defeated Jerry Simpson;
Prince, of Illinois, Republican, is es-
| teemed to be good lawyer. So that
| it would not seem that STROBE, Taylor
and Long entered upon their labors
| with any special love for the Popu
lists.
Although the North Carolina Demo
Gratis would have no fear of not having
fair play before Linney, for so they
expressed himself as highly pleased
mittee No. /, which will have in charge
the first nine of the contested cases,
which are from Alabama, Georgia and
Florida.
! saw Mr.. Shaw tonight. He has
been quite sick, 50 unwell that he has
not before now been able to leave his
home, whence he has just returned,
but he is better, and expects TO re-
| main right through the holidays, not
even going home Christmas day He
expresse himself as highly pleased
with the personnel of his committee,
and saws he has every reason to eN-
peet fair treatment at their hands. In
| fact. he says he prefers it to any other
committee.
From what | can judge in the at
mosphere of things here, / am not dis
posed to enter into the sanguine mood
of Mr.. Shaw On the other hand, il
seems quite probable that the com
| mittees viii do their appointed work,
| leaving the basket-full of Democratic
| heads as a party offering 10 the Herod
man from Maine.
Mr.. Bum got here to-day but will
| be home Christmas day He says
nothing that he knows anything
of could keep him away from his
nine children a'Christmas." Mr.. Bunn
expects. however, to return soon in
connection with his law partnership
business here.
Statesman Linney tells me that he
willie oppose, till the cows come home,
any issue of any kind of bonds, and ii
such a measure is embodied in the bill
| to be reported Thursday by the Ways
and Means Committee he will offer a
silver amendment. Asked if he would
not be found keeping step
at the crack of the party whip
he said no, nay, no. He said he made
his canvass on the coming of the Amer
| lean product and not as suggested by
me on the free, independent and un-
limited coinage of silver. But he says
he will vote for the tariff feature.
Senator Pritchard said TO me this
| morning practically the same thing, as
far as voting against any bond issue
was concerned. In the midst of his
conversation, the Senator took occa-
sion to praise very highly the speech
of Mr.. Linney in the caucus in which
Upton was nominated by him for
Door-keeper. Senator Pritchard said
Mr. Linney's speech was pronounced
by the member from the 18th district
of Iowa to have been one of the finest
efforts he had ever listened to. 1t
must be said in fairness that Linney
is taking a remarkably strong stand
with his party friends, and it is freely
predicted that he will be favorabiy
heard from.
Pearson, it may be presumed has al
ready attained his 'swell" ambition.
He. of course, is in the social push,
and as a member of the committee on
Foreign Affairs will no doubt. make
himself heard az far as voice is con
cerned.
Howard. of Alabama. the man who
wrote IF Christ should come to Con-
gress," told me this morning that that
was rather one of his youthful ebulli-
tions and that he was now directing his
efforts to more serious work l told
him / had heard him roasted" by some
Oh tlLttb DOohs liz IL I'iIO'i tAlet's ClA Oiie
other hand, members had told him
that he had not yet told it all. He
may prepare another book on some
phase of Christ and Congress, and
promised kindly to give me an outline
of it before long.
Col. William Allspeech Turk, General
Passenger Agent of the Southern Rail
way. is perhaps, the most popular man
in Washington among newspaper men.
AS a newspaper man himself he is not
to be sneezed at. His speech at Bos-
ton is still often and highly spoken of
10y the members of the press. But,
nevertheless, he says the report was
wrong that he had bought the Staun-
ton, (Va.) Spectator. The mistake
was natural as his brother Mr.. Sam
Turk, of Staunton, is the man. The
! Spectator is one of the strongest pa