Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-05-23
Observation-Disclosures
Is 1T TO BE MCKINLEY
OR REED?
Would Either Take Sec
Ond Place ?
mr. OTHER SIDE SAYS
CLEVELAND.
The Minority Rules in the
Senate.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. May Is, 1896
If Speaker Reed would abide by the /
wishes of the rank and lie of his !
friends ana admirers, he would take !
the second place on the ticket to be
nominated at st. Louis, ii he cannot
get the first place, and Gov Mckinley
seems to come very near to having
mort gage on that In fact. there can
be no doubt that the combination of
those two names on the ticket would
give satisfaction to more republicans
than any other that could be made, and
aside from those who have personal
reasons for wishing one or the other Of
them TO head the ticket, it is probable
that Reed and Mckinley would be
equally as satisfactory as Mckinley
and Reed. Whatever may be the rela
tions existing between some of their
individual friends. Speaker Reed and
Gov. Mckinley, although for the sec
ond time rivals for high party honor,
are on the most cordial terms with
each other; and they have already
proven b : the great work they did i'm
the tiftieth Congress. after having been
rivals for the Speakership of the House.
that they work well in double harness
ana make a strong team That neither
Vice Presidency is not strange, but
they are both thorough republicans.
and as such would not refuse TO accep,
duty imposed on then, by the National
Convention. 1t is safe to predict that
If the Convention selects these two
men neither will decline.
SENATOR HILL TO NOMINATE
1t might look little queer to see
Sanntpr Hill mako spaA oh ~ Chi
cago Convention nominating Mr.. Cleve
land for a third time but precisely
that prediction was made in my hear
ing by a gentleman who has been sin
Sularly fortunate in toretelling politi-
cal events. AR. Hill must be anxious
TO see Mr.. Cleveland get worse drub-
bling than the voters of New York gave
% David b. when he ran for Governor
against Gov. Morton, if he is really
thinking about nominating Mr. Cleve-
land.
LIFE POSITION.
Mr.. Cleveland has rewarded Com
missioner Lochren for carrying out his
pension policy oy giving him a life job
as u. ). Judge for the District of Min
nesota. Dominick L. Murphy. of Pa q,
now First II, putty, has been nominated
Go succeed LOcnren as Commissioners,
and n. L. L. Dana. now chief If di-
vision in the Office. to succeed Murphy
There Will be no Change In the CleYc-
Land Pension polIcy-until after the
4Jh OF next March.
COMBINATION.
It had been evident for some time
that Col. Dupont would not be seated
as SenaC from Delaware. The com
Dined democratic and populist vote
makes majority OF 1 in che Senate,
and that WAS the margin upon which
Col Dupont was kept out OF the seat 20
which he was enJltied. If the popu-
lists had voted against Col. Dupont on
conviction, there would be mo kick
coming" TO the republicans, but they
didn't.
THIS RULES IN THE WAY.
About six men in the Senate viii
prevent the ado zion Of Senator dor
gan's joint resolution instructing the
President to recognize Cuban bvlliger-
tncy, although all the other Senators
nIne-tenths of The House and an over
whelming majority OF the people OF
this country iavor its adoption It is
the same old story This handful OF
Senators have indicated their inten-
ton TO talk all summer if necessary
to prevent "A vote on Senator Morgan :
know that the Senate rules are such
that it is only question of physical
endurance that will stand III the way OF
the threat being carried out. Conse.
quently there is not much probability
that the resolution Will be seriously
pushed Some day the Senate will pro.
badly have rules which will enable the
majority of its members, and not
determined and obstinate minority, t
II, Il. 4 i
Until then wise men Will not eXpec
too much from the Senate
THAT CUBAN TRIAL.
The Senate wants to know llttl,
more about what is being don,
in behalf of the AmeriC ans whC
were tried by Court Martial il
Cuba and sentenced to death, then tn,
meagre story the State Department
has made public, that the Spanish
Government had set aside The senten
ces and directed that the men be trie,
again in civil court, and rs the sures
way to get what it wanted adopted
without division, a resolution callinj
on the president for the information
NO EXTENDED DEBATE.
No definite steps have been take
about adjournment by the Senate, an,
1t is not expected that any thing will b
decided upon until the rest of the az
preparation bills have been disposed Of
In fact, decided objection has bee
made by Senators to setting a date fo
adjournment 1t is believed that
will take two more weeks 10 finish u
the appropriations, and that adjourn
ment will very quickly follow as it la
been in sort of tentative way agree
to by both democratic and re0ublica
steering committees that no bills likel
to start an extended debate shall b
taken up That means that nothing {
Importance will be touched after III
appropriations are out Of the way.
The Supreme ouncil A. p. A. decid
ed that the attempt of a minor con
mittee to boycott Gov. Mckinley WI
unjustified.