Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-02-14
POLITICAL POINTERS

! POLITICAL POINTERS.
lie caucus Of republican Sena
4 tors which nominated Mr.. w. A
Shaw, of Spokane, Washington
a to be Secretary of the Senate, Mr.
$ ID. l.. Grant, Of N. G. to be Ser
u geant-at-Arms, and Mr.. Alonz,
/ Stewart, OF Iowa, to be Assistan
doorkeeper, authorized Senate,
l. Sherman to call up the question O
d the election of these officers when
} ever he sees fit, but he is not ex
"cted 20 do so until assured tb.
beN can b. elected In oth,
words, ANTI certain that II iea.
one populist will vote with the
y republicans. That leaves matter>
p IN an indefidate shape. Senator
Frye has been unanimously elect.
I'd President pro TEN, but when
Il
The other republican officials can
be elected nobody knows. 1t ma,
he tomorrow; it may be not at
all.
| The outlook for the House tar
IN Is not encouraging, no matter
whethe. Senator Quay's resolution
to re-commit the free coinage sub
stltute, which the Finance COM
ml'tee last week reported to the
committee, be adopted or not If!
adopted there is nothing to show |
that Senator Jones, of Nevada
who holds the balance of power,
will allow anything but a free
coinage substitute to be reporte
from the committe. And ifit; d
'dopte', there is little hs -sn
getting the tariff bill thr 1pe O
Senate, ough the
-.
The House will
fuse to concur in this week re-
coinage substitr the Senate free
bond bill. an9 Ite for the House
be sent toc the substitute will
likely r., onference, where it is
emain.
e syndicate represented by
I. j. Pierpont Morgan will get
IT, oout one-third of that bond issue,
simply because its bid for the en-
tire issue was a timely fraction
higher than that put in by the
!, syndicate represented by another
q New York banker. Whether Mr..
Morgan made his close shave by
reason of advance nformation-he
. probably did-is a question, but
. the most important fact connected
with Mr.. Morgan's bid was that
although the market quotation for
these bonds was little lower than
it was last year when he made
that private deal with Mr.. Cleve-
land for the s62, ,O0O,OOO bond is
sue, and that these bonds will
have one year less to run, his bid
for the bonds was about seven
cents on the dollar-S7, 900, 900 in
all-in excess of the price he paid
for the same bonds one year ago.
Has the Senate right through
a select committee to investigate
the election of members of State
Legislature which elects a U. s.
Senator! That is the problem
which has been referred to a sub
committee of the Senate Election
committee, and the answer will
probably determine what action
the committee will take upon Sena-
tor Aliens resolution for an in
vestigation of the Alabama legis-
latlve election which preceded
Senator Morgan's last election to
the Senate.
The vote of forty to twenty
eight, by which the Senate referred
the resolution providing for the
distribution of several of the regu-
lar appropriation bills among COM
mittees-they now all 90 to the
Appropriations committee-to the
Committee on Rules with instruc-
tons to report back on the first
day of the next session, was a
great compliment to Senator Alli-
son, who is chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations There
is little doubt that a majority of
the Senate would have voted for
the change had it not been for the