Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-08
ANOTHER dAyEL FOR mr.. REED
RAY Adjourn 10 May Bayard rlust
go Newsy Notes.

coinage substitute for the House bond
bill, which passed the Senate by a vote
of As to IS, and three Republican Sen
ators who would have voted for it,
Hansbrough of North Dakota, Dubois,
of Idaho; and Wolcott, of Colorado,
were paired. AS there is no possibility
that the substitute can become a law
the only interest attached to the mat
ter was the record made by the vote.
! With the exception Of Senator CAM
ieron. of Pennsylvania, all of the Re
/ publicans are believed TO have voted
IN accordance with the views of a ma
|jority of their constituents.
The Democratic members of the
House committee on Foreign Affairs
having refused to agree to any reso-
luton submitted by the Republican
members of that committee, the Re
publieans adopted, and, Of course, the
House will also, a resolution express
| ing the sense of the House that Am
bassador Bayard' S un-American utter
ances in recent speeches in Great
Britain were improper and that he be
censured therefor. If Bayard has any
sense of manhood left he will resign
when the House adopts that resolu-
ton
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
sometimes has a prophetic mood.
While one of them was on him he
said: '.The bond bill will die in con-
ference. The House will not agree to
the free coinage substitute of the Sen
ate, and all of the various compromises
that may be proposed will 60 into the
waste baskets There is no common
ground upon which the Houses can
meet The revenue bill will be re-
ported from the Committee on Finance
| without amendment, and will pass the
Senate in the same shape it passed
the House. 1t will then go to the
President, who will knock it in the
head with his little veto and end hnan-
cial legislation for this session. We
will then pass the appropriation bills
and go home before the first Of May,
making the shortest long session on
record
Speaker Reed has been presented
with a gavel from Mr.. Blaine's BIRTH
place, accompanied by the following
letter, which is self-explanatory: 'The
wood for this gavel was taken out of
the window frames of the Blaine
House. A living shrine is more sat
isfactory than dead one, man
house is more attractive than his
grave. To see the rooms in which he
lived and talked, the bed on which he
slept, the chair and table where he
wrote, the very pen which his living
! fingers guided-these very sights
bring the man before us and he lives
again James g. Blaine belongs to
history. Knowing Hon. Thomas B.
Reed to be a friend OF the dead states
man, we send him this gavel as a
token of our esteem and respect for
him personally, and as our standard
bearer in 1896 We hope when taps
of this gavel shall call the House to
order, it will call before the members
the form OF Hon. James G. Blaine,
whose words have echoed through the
chamber which now knows his voice
no more. :"
While there are many men in both
branches of Congress who are as much
opposed to Mr. Cleveland's policy as
Senator Tillran, of South Carolina. is
or can be, there are few men in Con-
gress who do not openly condemn the
backyard language which Tillman
used to express his opposition. The
Presidents position should protect
him from personal abuse.
The Union Republican Club, of
Washington, proposes to celebrate the
fortieth birthday of the Republican
party by holding big mass meeting
on the evening of February 70. A
large hall has been engaged, and
already the invitations Of the club
have been accepted by a sufficient
number Of Republicans of National
reputation to make it certain that the
celebration Will be the brilliant success
1t deserves to be.
/ If the Democratic members of the
Senate all follow the example of the
Democrats of the Election committee,
it will be left for the Populists to de-
eide whether Senator Dupont, of Della
ware, shall get the seat to which he
was legally elected. The Election
Committe has, by the vote of every
Republican member, reported in favor
Of Senator Dupout's right to the seat,
but if the Democrats all vote against
him he will have to get some Populist
votes to get 10. Neither Senator Du-
pont nor his friend have any doubt of
his final success.
i 1t is said by some that the reason
some ofthe Republican senators oppose
making change in the offices of Sec
rotary and Sergeant OF the
Senate is that they control more pat
ronage under the present Democratic
officials than they could hope to retain
under new ones An attempt is to be
made the last Of this week to settle
the question at caucus Of Republican
Senators.
Senator German virtually acknow.
lodged the hopelessness of the Demo-
cratic cause when he announced his
. intention toretire from the Democratic
National Committee and all participa.
/, ton in National politics. in order te
fight for his own political life at home
ua rs,ome that fha Reres1 HI ~. s4o 4,