The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-05-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From mr. Regular correspondent.j
" ASHTNGTON, May 4th, 1896.

III congress, dllDOuBll lew OIL UnOS6
who are committed to other candi-
dates will not publicly admit as
much, that Gov. Mckinley will be
nominated for President by the st.
Louis convention. The original
Mckinley men express confidence
Shat no ballot will be taken but that
the nomination will be made by &C
clamation. OF course 1t Is possible
that something may occur that Will
change matters, and it is largely
upon that the opponents Of Coy. Nc
KInIey are now banking, but from
the best obtainable information in
Washington it looks at this time as
# Mckinley was bound to win.
Members of the House are dis
posed to resent the action of the
Senate in reducing the number of
battIeships provided for in the Naval
appropriation bill from 4 to 2, and
She House will probably refuse to
She Senate amendments, but some
now or other the Senate always sue
oeeds in having its way, and as mem
bers Of the House are much more
anxious to get home-some Of them
laye got to fight for denomination
than the Senators. this will pro
badly not be an eXceptian to the
rule, if the Senate refuses to recede.
But the vote in favor of the amend
ment was cIose-31 to 21-and upon
i fullers attendance Of the Senate,
enough votes may be obtained to
recede from the amendment.
The House passed the general
bankruptcy bill by a vote of 157 to
81. Whether the bill will be dis
posed by the Senate at this session
is not yet certain. 1t will depend
largely on whether an agreement can
ae reached to limit the debate to a
given time.
Representative Baker, of New
Hampshire, has offered a concurrent
resolution providing for an investi-
cation by select Congressional
committee Of the recent purchase of
seed by Secretary Morton. A pre-
dmble to the resolution sets forth
She charges made against Secretary
Morton by a Chicago firm of seeds
men; also Secretary Morton's charge
shat Senators and Representatives
often dispose Of their quota of seeds
for cash instead Of having them sent
TO their constituents.
If Senator Tillman of S. c., was
given his just deserts, he would be
expelled from the U. S. Senate for
having insA 4 that body upon the
two occasions re has delivered har-
angues on the floor Of the Senate
chamber, by copious use of I'M
gentlemanly language. Other Sen
.ators have criticised other public
men just as harshly as Tillman did
and it being their right to do so no
objection has been made, but no
other Senator has ever belched forth
such dcluge Of billingsgate as Till
man did, and the worst feature of
1t is that he claims all his black
guardism to be done in the name of
the people and in the interest OF re-
form. The reform of which Till
man 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 BLACKBOARD speeches
without a blush, Some of the ablest
silver men in Congress believe that
Tillman has done the cause of sill
yer irreparable injury by his wild
Galk. 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
ne pieases. A more disgusting or
disgraceful boast was never publicly
made in this country. 1t is little
more than the boldest political boss
has ever dared to do.
1t is believed that when Senator
Hill stated IN his speech, on the floor
Of the Senate, that he didn't believe
Mr.. CIeYeland would again be a
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation, that the foxy New Yorker
was trying to smoke Mr.. Cleveland
out and get him to make a definite
'aratlon Of his intentions. The
ing of the platform adopted by
Iichigan Democratic conven-
va va 'hich was probably prepared
tim Dickinson, has increased the
ment Washington intends to cap
HeIt nomination for himself
in orde silver Democrats makelt
and rec'by capturing the Chicago
Little
him afte Democratic Senators
~ ''herl their Republican col
LOO, WiIi they would do nothing
djspuis. an early adjournment
retain sH,ief in some quarters