Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-06-06
WASHINGTONLET
RIVER A Nd HARBOR BILL
VETOED.
memorial Day Among the
Officials.
ANOTHER MONUMENT.
A Larg- Deficit,
From our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. G June 1. 1896
While 10 republican in congress
contends that the River and Harbor
Bill which Mr.C levelard has vetoed and
which will this week almost cert. inly
be passed over his veto is n perfect
measure, or that any previous bill of
Its kind was, every republican in both
branches OF Congress VIII vote to pass
the bill over the veto, because they be-
lieve NJ rs, taken as a whole a good
mt assure and that the improvements
provided for will mostly, if not all. be
good commercial investments. The
bill is in line with the svs-
tenn of internal improvements which
the republican party has always fos-
tered and believed in. Besides these
reasons the failure of the bill To ne.
come a law would result in large loss
es by reason of the stoppage OF many
important improvements now under
way
EARLY ADJOURNMENT CERTAIN
1t is now regarded as certain that
Congress will not be i'm session later
than next Monday or Tuesday, and
there is strong probability that ad-
jOu' nment will take place during the
latter part of the present week.
WHERE WERE THEY?
Although the President, Vice-presi-
dent and every member of the Cabi-
net except Secretary Morton were i'm
Washington The only member of the
administration who attended any of
the memorial day exercises was Secre-
tary herbert, who is az ex-Confeder-
ate. This has been commented upon
TO considerable extent, as there was
no excuse other than want of inclina
ton why these officials should not have
paid their respects to the memory of
the men who gave up their lives to
make it possible for them to hold their
present Offices.
NOTHING FOR CUBA.
A majority of Congress feel reluct-
ant to adjourn without doing some
thing definite for Cuba hut any at-
tempt 10 do anything would start an
Indefinite debate which might do more
harm than good, with no certainty
that anything could be done. anyway.
MONUMENT TO GENERAL GRANT.
Senator Squier, rs the first step to-
wards the erection OF a suitable mem
orial TO General Grant, has introduce
ed bill providing for the creation of
Commission, composed of the Score
tsry OF War, the hartman of the
House and Senate joint Committee on
the Library, and the Architect of the
Capitol The duties of this commits
sion = Ill be to secure from leading ar
lists and architects, plans and esti-
mates Tor monument, each artist or
architect being at liberty TO make his
own. and the estimated cost OF the
Al n MI -, L.,
port To Congress. After considera-
ton, Senator Squier concluded that
this was better plan than that of his
original bill, providing outright for a
monument 10 General Grant. He
wishes the monument to be the best
that can be suggested, and believes
the creation of this commission is the
best way to get it.
CHAIRMAN HARRITY.
The silver democrats are considera-
bly, stirred mp over n consultation
which Mr. Harrity. the Chairman of
the democratic National Committee,
had with Mr. Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle while he was in Washington
The consultation would not have wor-
ried the silver men much, as they
knew that all the parties present had
been doing all they knew how To do to
down them for many months, had it
not been for Harritp's announcement
afterward, that he intended to support
the ticket and platform made by the
Chicago convention. They don't be-
lieve that Harrity would support a
silver candidate, and they fear that
his announcement means that some
trick has been concocted by which
Harrity feels certain of defeating the
silver men at the Convention.
AN EXCESSIVE DRFICIT.
The Treasury deficit for the month
Of May exceeds So 100000, and for the
eleven months of the present fiscal
year is pushing $27 900 900, and these
figures are made as favorable as posi-
BILE by democratic Treasury officials
SENATOR BRIoEvs PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
If you wish to make Senator Brice
mad you have only to mention Mr..
Cleveland's name to him He thinks
of Mr.. c. what the late William II
Vanderbilt once said of one of his sons
in-law. The trouble all came about
through the fight between the silver
and anti silver democrats in Ohio. Al
though Senator Brice has had no love
for Mr.. Cleveland since the tariff fight
which resulted in the substitution of
the German tariff bill for the original
Wilson bill, he sometime ago called on
him and told him that he would help
20 prevent the silver men getting the
Ohio delegation to the Chicago con
vention. According to his friends Mr..
Cleveland gladly welcomed his offered
assistance 1t was not long, however,
before Senator Brice found out that
the sound money" democrats in Ohio
were expected to become mere
Cleveland machine, to vote for him or
for any man he might name, in case
they got to Chicago. He also found
out that instead of his being credited
for what he was trying to do, the
Cleveland men were steadily trying to
break down his influence in the party
He threw up in disgust, and now says
he doesn't care what the Convention
does.
POLITICAL GOSH PERs
The political gossips are all busy fry
ing to figure out what was talked
about at a conference between Sena
tor QUAY and ex-senator Platt These