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|. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S PEN
a VETO OF THE RIVER AND HAIR
BOR BILL EXPECTED.

Members of the House Confident
They Can Pass the Measure Despite
the Ncto-Bacon Presldcs over the
senHte-No stock Taken in Till
mans Presidential BOom.
Washington. May 22.-Representatfvs
Lester does not share in the feeling that
the river and harb0r bill is practically
dead. So FAR as this congress is concerned.
IL is generally believed here that the
President intends to veto the bill when
ever 90 reaches him. IL he does he win
but be consistent for he has never signed
river ana harbor ban since he became
president Representative Lester says
the vote ON the conference report In the
House to-day demonstrates beyond ques-
ton that 10 viii not be difhcult TO get
The necessary two-third's vote 10 pass
the bill over the Presidents head In
the Senate there were but nine votes re-
corded against it. so that lt is reasonably
certain that the bin VIII become a law,
although it may not receive the sanction
of the President.
col. Lester says &c would never do to
allow the bin to fail now, after all Of his
trouble over the Savannah harbor
,,hth hthe eonierecs on the river and harbor
nll We're IN session this morning but
Wnen they adjourned TO meet at 3 O'clock.
We're as TAR apart on the Santa Monica
harpor proposition as ever.
AZ the afternoon session. an agreement
was reached on the California harbor
The report was subsequently agreed to
ln the Senate, without objection and will
come up lu the House tomorrow.
Ihe enrolling clerk of the House has
the whole. bil with the exception of THIS
item, enrolled and an effort win be made
10 get lhe Din 90 the President tomorrow.
re Will then have ten fun days-Sundav
anQ the gay ne gets 10 not counted-in
Whlch 70 consider the measure. lie can
Ihen either approve A. or permit II to be-
come a law without his approval. A veto
must come Within the constitutional
period of ten days. This period elapses
az midnight on the night OF June A. A
pected.
Everything In relation to the location
ana details OF construction OF the pro-
posed 4eep sea harbor In California is
referred 10 commission, to be appoint-
ed by the President lt Is made "a condi-
tioh or me acceptance of the report OF
tho commission that equal facilities shall
pe Afforded 10 all railroads that wish to
use M tne harbor. FIFTY thousand dollars
ls appropriated TO pay the expense Of the
commission, and the ultimate cost Of the
Improvement is fixed az $4,000.
absent from the House on account Of sIcix-
ness. Both gentlemen are confined TO
ffnem apar tments with malaria In a mild
Lorm- All OF the other members OF the
delegation, excepting Col. Lester and Mr.
Tate, are absent from the CIV.
senator Bacon presided over the Senate
to-day, during one OF the most exciting
periods OF tho present session Senator
buller or North Carolina was pressing
MS ms p9nd thd pm ana Tor over an hour there
was the llYeliest kind Of running debate
between Senators Hin, Sherman GRAY
PETER, Butler, George and Chandler it
was intensely interesting, and for a few
minutes the Indications were that some
amicable adjustment Of the financial
question was about to be reached Of
Of
We're made from both sides of the cham-
per, but tnally partisanship outweighed
patriotism and the chance for relieving
the deuclt IN the treasury was past In
the meantime Senator Bacon had num-
Der OF rulings to make and a number
on parliamentary knots to untangle
te welded the gavel fairly and impair
Senator TiHman's presidential boom
which was officially launched at Columbia
wednesday, has not caused a ripple upon
the congressional waters. His associates
in the Senate treat IL as an exhibition OF
eBousm, or Ignore IL altogether. The
populists in the Senate do not regard him
as their leader, for Senator Allen OF Ne
braska claims to occupy that position,
and he announced his presidential aspira-
tions as the representative of his party
many months ago. The free silver DEM
ocrats do not take any stock IN Senator
Tilmans financial ability in view or
the wild and Impractical theories he ad-
debate with Senator Hin in the Senate.
The free silver democrats In the House
DO not regard senator Tillma1 as a possi-
billty, even IN a free silver or a populist
convention.
The members Of the South Carolina
delegation who are followers of Sena-
tor Tillman are Of course highly elated
at the Endorsement given him by the state
convention, and they cordially approve
all that was said and done by the sena-
tor. Representative Talbert says he does
not believe the democratic party of South
Carolina intends 10 bolt the action of the
Chicago convention. The fact that the
South Carolina convention adjourned un-
I'll Sept. ], indicates that Senator Till
man and his followers propose to wait
and see what Is done at Chicago, and then
go back to the people and ask them for
further instructions when the state con-
vention reconvenes The South Carolina
congressman alone treat Senator Tillmans
candidacy seriously All Of the other poll
ticians i'm this vicinity treat It as a bold
bid for further notoriety for Tillman.
TWO BOYS DROWNED.