The bee., 1895-08-08
National Capital.
From Our Regular Correspondent. L
WASHINGTON, Aug. S, 1895.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S, 1895.
Public men in Washington are
already beginning to discuss the
probabilities as to the length OF
the next session of Congress.
Opinion is generally favorable to a
short session, and is based largely
on the belief that both parties will
be DESTROYS of getting away for the
campaign at as early date as pos
sible. 1t is now believed by some
that Mr. Reed, feeling practically
certain that he will be elected to
the speakership, has already vir-
tually completed the House com
mittee list. Should the House
committees be announced soon af-
ter the beginning of the session
and that body gets its work well
under way before the Christmas
holidays it would be decided in
novation. Some of the arguments
advanced in favor of a short session
are that there will probably not be
the usual amount of general legis-
lation before Congress; that even
though the tariff may be up it has
been so recently discussed as to
leave nothing new to be said upon
it, and that a majority of both the
great political parties will prefer
to allow the silver question to rest
with as little agitation as possible
on the eve of a national election.
Third term rumors are very
plentiful just now The existence
of many of these rumors is un-
doubtedly due to the fact that the
summer season is the time when
rumor-mongers are more than or
dinarily active. 1t could not be
charged that such an ambition on
the part of Mr.. Cleveland is an un-
reasonable one. The desire to be
President of the United States has
an abiding place in the breasts of a
great many men, and it would not
be altogether remarkable that Mr.
Cleveland should desire to achieve
phenominal honor such as no
American has as yet been permitted
to call his own. 1t is viewed as
among the probabilities that the
democratic party in convention as
sembled will re-nominate .Presi-
dent Cleveland if the convention
is satisfied that it is his desire to
once more enter the arena. 1t is
to be presumed, however, that
public sentiment is adverse to any
movement which can be suspected
of favoring the establishment of a
dictatorship. am reminded,
apropos of the present question,
of what Samuel ]. Tilden said,
more than fifteen years ago, when
General Grant was a candidate for
the third-term nomination, The
occasion was a Washington Birth
day dinner, and in a letter excus-
ing his absence, Mr.. Tilden wrote:
at was the Father of his Country
who set the original example
against a third term in the presi-
dental Office. He made that
memorable precedent as a guide to
all his successors, and as an un-
written law of the American peo-
pie. He did so in the light of a
prevalent fear that indefinite re-
eligibility would degenerate into
practical life-tenure. The vast
power acquired by the federal
government over the elections, by
its ofice-holders, its patronage,
and the money it levies, have de-
veloped this danger, until it dark
ems the whole future of our coun-
try. In the choice between the
republic and the empire, we must
believe that the people will be true
to their ancestry and to mankind"
The irrepressible Tim Campbell,
oX-M c., swooped down the other
lay upon the select coterie of
statesmen in Washington. 1t was
softly yet very thoroughly raining.
The heavens were thick and dark.
Chamberlin's itself would have
been gloomy and dull were it not
or the presence of the Hon, I. ].
of New York city. That
eminent jurist and law-maker was
he center of a small, pleased hud-
lie of gentlemen to whom he was
aging bare the truth as to political
in New York The .