Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.



WAsMHeroN, May 20, 1895.
EDrroR MISUNDERSTANDING nc
formal action has been taken - Il
the date of adjournment 1t Is easy
for old-timers to see that Senators
and Representatives are expecting
adjournment In few days. Unless
Mr.. Cleveland shall, In the veto mes
sage he is now preparing on the Riv'
or and Harbor bill, attempt to attack
Congress in such . manner as to pro
woke a reply, it Is probable that next
week will be the last week of the ses.
sion. 1t is regarded as certain, nc
matter what position Mr.. Cleveland
may take, that the River and Harbor
bill will DO passed over bis veto. IL
he contents himself with vetoing II
without scolding Congress, the bill
will merely be quietly passed over the
veto, without discussion; but II he
does otherwise there will be Discus
sion and plenty of 1t before the bill
Is passed.
The Senate voted down Senator
Dubois proposition for an additional
tax of IS cents a barrel on beer.
The Cleveland Democrats have al
most abandoned open lighting against
the silver democrats, and are now
working secret schemes by which they
hope to be able to control q sufficient
number of the silver delegates to the
Chicago convention to prevent the
adoption of free silver platform.
The general opinion In Washington
Is that there is bound to be a bolt at
Chicago.
The Virginia Senators, neither of
whom was consulted before the nom.
ination was sent in, succeeded In get
ting an adverse report from the Fl
nance Committee on the nomination
OF w. II. Fowle to succeed Gen. Fit1
Lee as collector of internal revenue
for the Sixth Virginia District. As
the adverse report was unan
imous, 1t indicates almost to a Ger.
tainty that the Senate will refuse to
confirm the nomination. The fight
on Fowle by the Virginia Senators. is
merely an undetermined fight on Fit
Lee, who Is his father-in-law, and
whose name is so powerful among Va
democrats that the Senators did not
dare strike him direct The charge
against Fowle is incompetency. 1t
may be perfectly true, but why was II
not brought during the time that he
was in charge of the Collectors Office
as General Lees deputy? 1t is well
known that Gen, Lee was only the or.
namental collector and that the work
of the office was directed by Fowie;
also that Lee was named for Collect
or without consulting the Virginia
Senators.
Chairman Picker, of the House
committee on Invalid Pensions, has
reported favorably to the House from
that committee service pension bill.
This bill provides that every honora-
bly, discharged soldier and sailor who
served ninety days or longer during
the late war shall receive SO a month
and one cent a month additional Tor
each day exceeding ninety that he
served. Estimates differ as to how
much money would he required to
put the bill into effect, the most con-
sentative putting 1t In the neighbor-
hood of $20,000,00) a year. The
friends of the bill say there is no In
tention to push it at the present ses.
sion, and that 1t has been reported
so as to allow the people chance to
discuss 1t and express their views UT.
on it before it comes up for final &C
ton, at the next session.
One Of the inter ested listeners to
the remarks made by Representative
Dolliver, Of Iowa, showing up the
turncoat political record of ex-Gov.
Boies, of that State, was Mr.. d. H
Stuhr, Of Davenport. Afterwards,
Mr.. Stuhr said: If Boies should be
the democratic nominee for the Pres
idency / think Iowa would give a re-
publican majority not short of l0O,.
600. The Germans ouce voted FOL
Boies because of his stand against
prohibition, but this time they would
knife him. The liquor question hal
been satisfactorily settled by the re
publican party, and Boies can M
longer get votes on his former anti
prohibition record. I think the re
publicans will carry every Congress
sional district in Iowa. as they die
In 1894"