Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-04-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Specializing on the next Finance Conn
mittee-The President Takes a Walk.
From our regular correspondent. ]

From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1, 1895.
In view of the probability that the
finance committee of the Senate may play
a very important part in the fifty-fourth
Congress, there is considerable specula
tion as to who will be its chairman.
Under the existing organization Senator
Voorhees, is chairman of that committee,
but, although no one knows, it is
generally expected that the Senate will
be reorganized as soon as it meets. So
general is this expectation that the re-
publicans have been discussing the make
up of this committee, and have, in
formally, of course, arrived at some con-
illusions. Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
''the father" of the Senate, would be,
| under the usual rule, the next chairman
of the finance committee, but, owing
to his age and the hard work which is
likely to fall to he lot of the head of that
committee, he has indicated his desire to
waive his rights in favor of Senator Sher-
| man, who was chairman of the commit
tee when he retired from the Senate to
become secretary of the treasury under
President Hayes, and it may be consid-
cred as settled that Mr.. Sherman will be
chairman, if any change is made. 1t is
probable that the membership of the
committee will be increased from eleven
to thirteen, and that Senators Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, and Plat, of Connect
cut, will be members, the former being
the choice of the silver men for the place
left vacant by the retirement of McPher-
son, of New Jersey.
Verify, times have changed. Up to the
Cleveland regime it was the habit of
nearly every President to walk about the
streets of Washington, just as any other
citizen in search of a little healthful ex-
ercise would do, but the memory of the
public is short and the other day when
Mr.. Cleveland actually walked from the
White House to the residence of Secre-
tary Herbert, about four squares away,
| the local papers made sensation out of
| it; which shows the deteriorating effect
of having President who shuts himself
up, surrounded by sentry boxes and de-
| tectives and is afraid to venture out
among The people.
Speaking of changes, one that was very
amusing was brought to the attention of
the public by an overtruthful speaker at
one of the sessions Of the southern
! Methodist conference for the Baltimore
district, now sitting in Washington.
Mr.. Cleveland sent an invitation to the
mem bers of the conference and their
families to attend a special reception at
the White House, and when it was laid
before the conference, one of its members
Rev. }. S. Tongue, of CharlestoWn, West
! Virginia, came near to exciting a riot by
opposing the acceptance of the invitation
and calling attention to t he fact hat the
| last time this conference met in Wash
| ington-in 1S75-it had refused a similar
invitation from President Grant, on the
ground that the Inference wished to keep
as free as possible from politics.
Nothwit hstanding Mr.. Tongues re-
marks about the inconsistency of such
action he was promptly booted down and
Mr. Cleveland's invitation accepted.
| Sensible people, regardless of their poll
tics or their religion, can only laugh at
such silly doingS on the part OF those who
| assume to be leaders and teachers of their
| respective congregations.