Middletown transcript., 1896-05-09

Members of the House are disposed
to resent the action OF the Senate in
reducing the number of battleships pro.
vided for in the Naval Appropriation
bill from 4 to 2 and the House will prob.
ably refuse to agree to the Senate amend
ments, but somehow or other the Ser.
ate nearly always succeeds in having
its Way, and as members of the House
are much more anxious to get home,
some of them have got to fight for re.
nomination, than the Senators, this will
probably not be an exception to tile
rule, If the S-nate refuses 10 recede.
But the vote in favor If The amend.
ment Was Close, 81 to 27, and upon a
fuller attendance of the Senate, enough
votes may he obtained to recede from
the ament.
The House passed the general bank
ruptcy bill by vote of 157 to 81.
Whether the bill will be disposed of
by the Senate of this session is not yet
certain. It will depend largely on
whether an agreement can be re ched
to limit the debate to a given time.
Representative Biker, of New
Hampshire, has offered concurrent
resolution providing for an investiga-
tion by select Congressional COM
miltee of the recent purchase of seed
by Secret ary Morton. A'preamble to
the resolution sets forth the charges
made against Secretary Morton by a
Chicago firm of seedsmen; also Secre-
tary Morton's charge that 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 ex-
PEELED from the U. S. Senate for having
that body upon the two occa-
sions he has delivered harangues on
the floor of the Senate chamber, by
copious use of of ungentlemanly Ian
guage. Other Senators have criticised
other public men just as harshly as
Tillman did, and it being their right
10 do so no objection has been made,
but no other Senator has ever belched
forth such deluge of billingsgate as
Tillman did, and the worst feature of
it is that he claims all his blackguard-
ism to be done in the name cf the peo-
pie and in the interests of reform. The
reform of which Tillman 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 blackguard speechts.
blush. Some of the ablest
silver men in Congress believe that
Tillman has done the cause of silver
irreparable injury by his wild talk. 1t
must be CALLING to South Carolinians to
read of Tillman's boast that he has
,he electoral vote of that state COM
,letely under his control and can place
It wherever be pleases. A more dis
yusting or digraceful boast was never
made in this country. 1t is
. little more that the boldest political
BOSS has ever dared to do.
IT is believed that when Senator
Hill stated in his speech, on the floor
# the Senate, that he didn't believe
Mr.. Cleveland would again he can
iidate for the Democratic nomination,
hat the foxy New Yorker was trying |
o smoke Mr.. Cleveland out and get
lin to make definite declaration of |
lis intentions. The wording of the
,lstform adoped by the Michigan DEM
'crasic convent ion, which was proba-
'ly prepared by Don Dickinson, has
increased the beliefin Washington that
dr. Cleveland intends to capture that
Ior himself unless the sill
er Democrats make it impossible Ly
the Chicago convention.
Although Democratic Senators have
ssured their Republican colleagues
hat they would do nothing to prevent
n early adjournment there is belief
. some quarters that the assurance
all a string tied to it which will be-
bme visible when the Republicans
sport a resoll tion to the Senate set
ng q date for adjournment.
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