The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-05-15
" ashington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent

until it has been accomplished, tn
impression is we'll nigh general il
Congress, although few of those VIII,
are committed to other candidate
will not publicly admit as much, tina
Governor Mckinley will be nominated
for President by the St. Louis conven
tion. The original Mckinley mer
express confidence that no ballot vii
be taken, but that the nomination vii
be made by acclamation. OF course
it is possible that something may
occur that will change matters, and il
is largely upon that something tha
the opponents of Governor McKinle,
are now banking, but from the best
obtainable information in Washington
it looks at this time as if Mckinley
was bound to win.
Members of the House are disposed
to resent the action of the Senate in
reducing the number of battleships
provided for in the naval appropriation
bill from four to two, and the House
will probably refuse to agree to the
Senate amendment. The House often
refuses to agree to the Senate amend
ments, but somehow or other the Sen
ate nearly always succeeds in having
its way, and as members of the House
are much more anxious to get home
(some of them have got to fight for
re-nomination) than the Senators, this
will not be an exception to the rule, if
the Senate refuses to recede. But the
vote in favor of the amendment was
close-thirty-one to twenty-seyen-
and upon a fuller attendance of the
Senate, enough votes may be obtained
to recede from the amendment.
The House passed the general bank
ruptcy bill by vote of one hundred
and fiftv-seven to eigbty-one. Whether
the bill will be disposed of by the
Senate at this session is not yet GER
tain. 1t will depend largely on whether
an agreement can. be reached to limit
the debate to given time.
Representative Baker, of New Hamp-
shire, has offered a concurrent resolu-
tion providing for an investigation by
a select congressional committee of
the recent purchase of seed by Secre-
tary Morton. A preamble to the re-
solution sets forth the charges made
against Secretary Morton by Chicago
firm of seedsmen also, Secretary
MOrton's charge that Senators and
Representatives of states dispose of
their quota of seeds for cash instead of
having them sent to their constituents.
If Senator Tillman, of South Car
olina, was given his just deserts he
would be expelled from the United
States Senate for having insulted that
body upon the two occasions he has
delivered harangues on the floor of the
Senate Chamber, by copious use of
ungentlemanly language. Other SEN
ators have criticised other public men
just as harshly as Iillman did, and the
worst feature of it is that he claims
all his blackguardism to be done IN
the name of the people and in the in
terests of reform. The reform of which
Tillman is the apostle is truly to be
pitied. How hollow it is may be judged
from the fact that Tillman drew his
salary as Senator for the period he was
travelling in the west making black.
guard speeches without blush. Some
Of the ableSt silver men in Congress
believe that TiIlman has done the
cause of silver irreparable injury by
wild talk. 1t must be CALLING to South
Carolinians to read of Tillman's boast
that he has the electoral vote of that
State completely under his control and
can place it wherever he pleases. A
more disgusting or disgraceful boast
was never publicly made in this coun-
try. It's little more than the bold
est political boss has ever dared to dc
before.
1t is believed that when Senator
Hill stated in his speech on the fool
OF the Senate that he didn't believe
Mr.. Cleveland would again be a candi
date for the democratic nomination
that the foxy New Yorker was trying
to smoke Mr.. Cleveland out and ge,
him to make 3 definite declaration
of his intentions. The wording of the
platform of the Michigan Democratic
Convention, which was probably pre-
pared by Don Dickinson, has increased
the belief in Washington that Mr.
Cleveland intends to capture that nom
ination for himself unless the silve
Democrats make it impossible by cap
turing the Chicago convention.
Although Democratic Senators have
y