The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-02-08


| WASHINGTON, February 4.-Pres dent Ceve.
land may in Difference to the attempt of the
! leaders of the House to pass the bill reported
| from the Committee on Banking and Currency
which was drawn in accordance with the re-
commentators of his special financial mes
sage, postpone for IA few days the official an
nounccment of the bond issue for which all ar
engagements have been made, but Il careful
| canvass of the Senate has shown that no bill
passed by the House can pOssiblyget thrOughthe
Senate; hence the bond issue is inevitable. 1t
Will Afford the Treasury that relief which Con-
grcss has SO persiStently denied, and that relief
is necessary is acknowledged, alike by those
bonds 1t isn't what the administration would
like to do, but what it has got to do in the alb
Sence OF congressional relief.
The House committee on Rules will report an
order for the consideration of the financial bill
| on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, and when the vote is taken on that order
it will be seen how much influence the Pres-
dents special message had with the Democrats
OF the House. If the rule be adopted it is prob
able that the House will pass the bill in some
shape; but if it be rejected there will be no
1urther nope of financial legislation ut the
present session.
Senators Gallery and Blanchard, of La, ac-
companied Il delegation of New Orleans bust
ness men i'll call upon President Cleveland to
ascertain his views upon the payment of the
sugar bounty for the year 1894. Members of
the delegation were surprised and pleased to
find that the President was thoroughly posted
ON the subject, and were still more pleased
when he told them he was in favor of the pay
ment OF one-halt OF tho bounty for "a and
would gladly cooperate with them in securing
The necessary Congressional legislation,
Chairman McCreary, of the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs made few sensible and
weli-timed remarks concerning the disposition
of Republicans to introduce all sorts of resolu-
tons concerning Hawaii just for the purpose
OF making buncombe speeches thereon. He
said that the actions of this administration on
Hawaiian matters had been in accordance with
international law and with the policy of this
country for hundred years, and that if a diff
ferent policy were to be followed, the govern
ment might be called upon to send warShpS
all over the world, and to interfere wherever
there was trouble.
The dealers in fake designations from the
caDinet Raa at last \ real tts!gpatpr f. hnnGle
several days ago. True, 1t was not cabinet
resignation. but it was as near as it could posi-
bly, have been not be to. The Solicitor Gen
eral is next i'll rank to the Attorney General
lie ssaES 81 0n o{ o faGassGGa e
Maxwell was great surprise outside of the
Department Of Justice, there was little or no
foundation Tor the sensations which have
been built up around IT.. There was no quar-
rel between Judge Maxwell and Mr.. Olney,
although there have been numerous differences
of opinion between thenl such us are common
enough between lawyers who are the best of
friends. Judge MaXwell'S principal reason for
resigning was that the illness of his law partner
made il necessary for him TO return TO Cipein-
natl and take phafge OF their large PRACTICE.
Holmes CanEad, of Virginia, was apRonted to
the Vacancy.
Under the alleged divinity which doth hedge
AL legislation CONCERNING men who served in
the .: 9, Army during the recent war, there is
vast amount of crookedness A case in point
is the bill to place 1t, Col. ], Madison Cults on
the retired list Of the army with the rank and
pay OF Captain. This man, who has for years
been a. 81 200 clerk in the War Department
and the recipient of 800 month pension, was
dismissed from the army in disgrace in 1863
for using and writing abusive language to
brother officers and for paying ''peeping Tom"
in hotel. Yet he now comes forward, under
the pEpteeti9p Of tue afnresaid aiYiHity, and
his life, and The blf giving it to him had passed
the Senate and been favorably reported to the
House Bhen Representative Brett, of Indiana,
madethe above facts known 70 the HOUSE.
To-day ftlr the first time since the fourth of
MARCH, 1898, the 1emQcfatS nave less than q,
majority of the Senate. There are now So
Senators, and the Democrats have only 43.
When the two additional Republicans, one
elach from .WyomtpE and Washington, take
publcans having 40 and the Populists 5.
Whetherthe Republicans and the Populists will
combine to reorganiZe the Senate is as yet IN
known, but the probabilities are that they will,
after 4th of March. when the Democratic
strength will be still further reduced.
The House killed the Rally Papihc Railroad
funding BIZ by Adopting q motion to reccmmit