Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-10
WASHINGTON LETTER..
[srECIAL cosnsspor DENoE OF THE MONITOR. ]
Washington, Feb. 3, 1896.

for the free coinage substitute for the
House bond bill, which passed the
Senate by a vote of ~ to 30, and
three republican Senators who would
have voted for it-Hansborough of
n. Dakota, Dubois of Idaho, WOlcott
of Colo-were paired. AS there is
no possibility that the substitute can
become a law the only interest at
tached to the matter was the record
made by the vote. With the excep
ton of Senator Cameron of Penn, all
of the republicans are believed to
have voted in accordance with the
views of majority of their constitu-
ents.
The democratic members of the
House committee on Foreign Affairs
having refused to agree to any resolu-
ton submitted by the republican
members of that committee, the re-
publicans adopted, and, of course, the
House will also, resolution express
ing the sense of the House that Am
bassador Bayard's unAmericau ut
terances in recent speeches in Great
Britain were improper and that he be
censured therefor. If Bayard has any
sense of manhood left he will resign
when the House adopts that resolu
ton.
Senator Pettigrew of So. Dakota
sometimes has prophetic mood.
While one of them was on him he
said: s'The bond bill will die in con-
ference. The House will not agree to
the free coinage substitute of the Sen
ate and all of the various compro-
misses that may be proposed will go
into the waste basket. There is no
common ground upon which the
Houses can meet.
Speaker Reed has been presented
with gavel from Mr.. Blaine's birth
place, accompanied by the following
letter, which is self-explanatory.
1.-THE wood for this gavel was taken |
out of the window frames of the
Blaine house. A living shrine is more
satisfactory than a dead one, mans
house is more attractive than his {
grave. To see the rooms in which he
lived and talked, the bed on which he
slept, the chair and table where he |
wrote, the very pen which his living |
fingers guided-these very sights
bring the man before us and he lives |
again. James G. Blaine belongs to
history. Knowing the Hon. Thomas
B. Reed to be a friend of the dead
statesman, we send him this gavel as
a token of our esteem and respect
for him personally, and as our stand
ard bearer in 1896. We hope when
taps of this gavel shall call the House |
to order, it will call before the mem
bers the form of Hon. James G.
Blaine, whose words have echoed
through the chamber which now
knows his voice no more"
While there are many men in both
branches of Congress who are as
much opposed to Mr.. Cleveland's
policy as Senator Tillman, of S. c., IS
or can be, there are few men in Con-
gress who do not openly condemn
the BLACKBOARD language which Till
man used to express his opposition.
The Presidents position should pro-
tect him from personal abuse.
The Union Republican Club of
Washington, proposes to celebrate
the fortieth birthday of the Republi
can party by holding a big mass
meeting on the evening of Feb. 22nd.
A large hall has been engaged, and
already the invitations of the club
have been accepted by a sufficient
number of republicans of national
reputation to make it certain that the
celebration will be the brilliant sue
cess it deserves to be.
If the democratic members of the
Senate all follow the example of the
it will be left for the populists to de-
eide whether Senator Dupont of Del,
shall get the seat to which he was
legally elected. The Election Com
mittee has, by the vote of every re-
publican member, reported in favor
of Senator Dupont's right to the seat, I
but if the democrats all vote against
him he will have to get some populist
votes to get in. Neither Senator
Dupont nor his friends have any
doubt of his final success.
1t is said by some that the reason
some of the republican senator's OPP
pose making change in the offices
of secretary and Sergeant at Arms of
the Senate is that they control more
patronage under the present demo-
cratic officials than they could hope
to retain under new ones. An at
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