Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-05-16
WASHINGTONLETTER
To Limit the Issuing of
Bonds.
MAY BE vETOBD--ADJOURMBNT,
THE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION.
Iron oar RegaIar Oorrespondent. }

\krOm Our Regular correspondent
WAsHIEeroN. May IL, 1890.
The administration cannot extract
either pleasure or satisfaction from the
bond question. it had scarcely recOv-
cred from the chagrin caused by the
adoption of that resolution directing
the Senate Finance committee to in
vestigate everything connected with
all the bond issues by this administrt-
ton. with only six adverse votes. when
Senator Dubois of Idaho, threw
fresh bomb she'll by Offering a joint
resolution providing that hereafter no
bonds shall be issued by any officer of
the government until the presidents has
ex Elaine d to Congress the necs ssity FOR
the bonds the amount of the proposed
issue, and Congress shall have author
lied their issue There is little prOba-
bility that this resolution will ever
reach the dignity OF law, as &c would
certainly meet a Presidential veto
should il be adopted by both branches
o Congress. and il could not get two
thirds vote in the senate. Still. II
added 90 the unpleasant sensations Of
Sir. cleveland and his cabinet.
Speaking OF vel Oe-. the friends OF Jh'
River ana Harbor bill are 80 certain
that Nh Cleveland will veto it that
they have already made careful can
yass OF DO h House and Senate with
view TO passirg It over his veto, and
they express confidence of being able
TO do so.
II is now certain That Congress will
not adjourn on the date, May l. tn set
by the joint resolution which was
adopted by the House last ~ eek. and
not probable that adjournment will
come until after June 1st, although
the Senate could materially shoI ten
the session if so disposed; but owing
60 no party having n majority in the
Senate, no man can say what il will or
viii not do with any degree of certain
" of the correctness of his assertion.
There have been vague rumoPs of a de-
iberate intention To prOlong the ses-
sion until after the National Conven-
tons have been held, 10y starting up a
/ financial discussion, but none of the
leaders on either side tat q any stock in
such scheme, and Senators as wide
! apart in their general ideas as Mr.. AL
lison of Iowa, and MIR. German of Md.
agree in expressing the opinion that
Congress will ad journ before the meet
/ ing of the st Louis convention.
Considerable criticism has been
aroused by the action of the House in
/ following the example of the Senate
and voting to allow members 500 a
month during the entire year for the
| hire Of clerk, instead of only during
| the time that Congress is actually in
session. The vote was 100 to los.
All inquiries aC the State Depart
ment 10 ascertain what, if any, steps
have been taken in behalf of the Amer
4 lean citizens who we're captured on the
I alleged fillibuster, Competitor" and
who have after so-called trial been
sentenced to death by Spanish author
/ tiles. are met with the reticence usual
to that department From other
/ sources il is understood that Secreta-
~ Olney has made a protest against
! the sentence being carried out until an
/ investigation has been made by U. S.
officials A demand, backed by a war
ship, would have been much more fit
I ting than protest. These cases are
! exciting much interest in Congress
! The prospects of the erection of a
suitable monument at the National
Capital. IN memory of General Grant,
are now very promising. Senator
/ Squier's resolution, appropriating
$500 900 for the monument, TO be
erected on ground owned by the Gov
/ eminent, is in fair way TO become a
law before the expiration of the fifty
/ fourth Congress, and Grant monu-
! ment ASSOCIATION has been formed Tor
the purpose Of raising additional mon
ey by private subscription to be ex-
pended on the monument. Senator
Squier, who has been elected Presi-
dent OF this association has received a
letter from Mrs. Grant thanking him
for '4.s efforts and endorsing his reso-
luton. The ball is now rolling, and it
wiz not be allowed to stop until that
/ monument has been secured. The
people of the United States never
meant to neglect to pay a suitable
tribute TO the memory OF General
Grant; it has merely been deferred.
Senator Hin is a democratic states
man of high degree, as statesmen 60 in
that party. His term as Senator will
close next March, during his nearly
six years in the Senate, he has been re-
sponsible for but one bill, and that has
not yet become a law, although it has
passed the Senate and has been favora-
bly, reported from the House Commit
tee on Interstate aud Foreign Com
merce. And what think you is this
great and mOmentOus piece of legisla
ton that is to be the only reminder tC
posterity-that is, if it becomes a law
that David B. Hill served six years in
the Senate 1t authorizes the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to detaila reve-
nue. cutter to control excursion and
other boats which attend yacht races
Now doesn't that prove the statesman n.
cIfr, of Hill