Morris tribune., 1896-04-22
Interesting Items Cleaned at
the Capital BY the Tribune
Reporter.
All the Important Doings in
the House and Senate Re
corded Weekly,

of congress. Only one approprla'
ton blll-general deaciency--re,
mains to be acted upon, and the
eommittte on rules is now engaged
IN mapping out a program as to
how to d - ose of the remaining
tim. of The session. Although
nothing is yet definitely decided
npon, it 5 egarded as certain that
the bankruptcy bill, the bill for
the codifcation of pension laws,
and as nror Y of the contested cleo
tion Car, as can be reported will
be disp, srd of before adjournment.
tt is doubtful whether any other
measures of national Importance
will be considered, although the
PRESSURE to dispose of the Pacific
railroads bill, which has been
agreed upon, is strong, and Speak
er Red is personally i'll favor OF
disln sing of it at this session; but
many members think they would
prefer hnving chance to familiar
ize themselves with this bill before
voting upon it and for that reason
fave postponing its consideration
untii the next session. So far as
known the senators will th1ow no
obstacles in the way of early adj
iournment, but Senator German
has dropred hint which some be-
lieve to indicate the contrary.
Senator Quay is back in his seat,
but further than to say that he has
not wit hdrawn his name as a can
didate fer the Republican nomlna-
ton and that he is entirely salts
fed with the present outlook, he
will not talk for publication about
the campaign for the nomination.
The Mckinley men are as confident
,as ever that he will be the nominee
and they are doing much mora
talking than the supporters of the
other candidates. There Is reason
10 believe that Speaker Reed has
personally called down several of
his prominent supporters whom he
thought was talking too much, by
advising them to do more hustling
and less talking.
It took the house just three
hours, the greater portion of that
sIn1e being taken up with speeches
Ia favor Of the bill, to pass the for
aification bill, CARRYING appropria-
tions of $11,O00,00o for the cree
ton and Strengthening of needed
fortifcations. Even the Demo
Gratis admit that in view of the re-
cent cocky attitude of the United
States, which has been so generally
endorsed by public sentiment, we
must make some preparations to
defend ourselves in case Of war,
and the strongest friends Of peace
regard such preparation as the sur
est way of remaining at peace with
the world. The nation that is
thoroughly prepared to defend it.
self is very seldom attacked.
1T seems difficult to believe that
any man of even ordinary common
aa1.se would endorse the scheme
~ t,irh is heralded as the one upon
"a n'eh the democratic party hopes
b., elect a president this year, but
such men as Senator Harris, of
Tenn, and ex-Speaker Crisp, OLGA,
have been publicly spoken of as
endorsing it and no denials have
been marie. So it is presumed that
ahey and the other democrats men
41ssned In Il is connection do endorse
43ae scheme, which is several points
worse than it's very worst democra-
t1e predecessor. According to the
scheme, the democrats are to keep
up their present fight among them
Selyes over silver, and the major
5fy of the Chicago convention is to
decide whether a gold or silver
and platform shall be
ut up. Whichever way the con-
rention goes the minority is to bolt
nd put out a ticket and platform
u, accordance with its views. Then
there will be two democratic
national tickets in the field, ore
for silver and one for gold, and