The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-05-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondent WING.
W.SUISGTpN Anrl 9TH 1905

Senator lillman's head is about ten times
as big, i'll his own mind, since he returned
from his Western trip. He actually believes
that his chance for being nominated for Pres-
dent by the Chicago convention on free
silver platform is a good one, and he says
there is no longer the slightest doubt that the
silver Democrats will control that conven-
ton. He thinks that Western tour made him
So solid with the Democrats OF that Sec
ton that he is now aiming for Il Southern
speech n&hing tr,p which will take in Ala
bama. Arkansa, florida Georgia, Mississippi
and Texas. Wlcn Tillman's aspirations for
the DemOcr tie Presidential nomination were
talEcl al,uut the Cleveland Democrats re-
garde,j i - joke, but they don't now. Just
50 We the Cleveland Democrats at first dis
pose to pooh. pooh the idea OF the silver
Democrats controlling the Chicago conven-
ton. To-day most Of them admit the prob
ability that Il ma ority of the Chicago conven-
ton will be silver men, but say they rely upon
the influences which men like Senator Brce
and eXSecretary Whitney can bring to bear
upon them after they get to the convention to
prevent the adoption of Il radical silver plat
form or the nomination OF II silver man.
The Senate is now working under IN un
derstanding that nothing important shall be
taken up until all of the Appropriation bills
are disposed of, and some think that adj
joUrnment is probable on or about May 16,
the date suggested at recent conference of
republican senators, hut everybody recognizes
+,n H., !,
until Il joint resolution naming the day for
adjournment has been actually adopted by
the Senate. The House is alright and will
promptly agree to any date set by the Senate,
and will wait for the Senate to take the
initiative.
Numerous Congressman breathCd easier
when the announcement was made that the
Venezuelan Boundary Commission had de-
cided 10 send to The Hague for the purpose
OF having an expert examination made of the
original Dutch documents in the Royal
Archives, which bear upon the Venezuelan
boundary question. 1t had been rumored
that the commission had practically finished
its work and would make its report to the
President in Il short time, and it was feared
that if the report was made before Congress
adjourned. it would result in an indefinite
ptolonca,iun of the session. But it is now
known that the commission cannot complete
its WORK until those old Dutch documents
have been carefully gone over, and possibly
others at Madrid. which makes it certain that
the report will not be made before next
winter
The idea that the Raincs Excise law, pass
ed by the New York Republican Legislature
was going to injure the Republican party of
that state is no longer held even by Demo
Gratis on the contrary it is going to strengthen
the Republicans. Here is the opinion of
Judge c w. Meade, for some years IL police
judge in New York City, who is now visiting
Washington "At first it looked as though the
Raines law would be SO distasteiul to the
public that the Republican party would be
m;tde to suffer for its enactment. But there
has been a great change of public sentiment;
the people are beginning to realize the many
good points of the law, and l am satisfied
that the Republicans will reap the benefit
from it instead of disaster. 1t is about as
good statute as the ingenuity of a man
could contrive: it wipes out the dives where
the poorer classes loaf and squander their
earnings; ii puts the business Of selling liquor
on the best possible plane 10y putting it in
the hands of responsible men, and it does
away with the corruption and blackmail of
the old regime"
This administration makes record for
Partially and prejudice in everything it
touches. For the second time record
of his brother offices have submitted IL
report to the War Department declar-
ing Lieut.. Schoied, son of Gen. SEQ.
field. to be unfit for promotion on account
OF his being very deaf-surely good enough
reason. But for the second time, Secretary
Lamont has disapproved the finding of the
Military Examining board, and has now di-
rected that Lieut. Schofield be re-examined
for promotion within six months. The ex-
ClevelaRd's chums.
The disgraceful fight with ink bottles
sponge cups and other stray bits Of Govern
ment stationery which Representatives Hall,
of Mo-, and Money, of Miss, got into, in a
House committee room the other day, indi-
Gates the present status of the silver and anti
silver Democrats. Money is a silver Demo-
crat, and Hall was originally elected as such
but he was converted by Mr.. Cleveland at the
extra session of the flfty-third Congress
which repealed the purchasing clause of the
so-called Sherman silver law, and is now anti
silver Thpy nil to OF
others throats and nobody will be surprised
if the Chicago convention should end in a
free fight in which more dangerous weapons
than ink bottles will be used.
A Jockey Killed
On Wednesday morning about half past
eight while Frank Crater, a boy about six