The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-04-03
W ashingtOn Letter.
From our regular Correspondent


tors and Representatives, trying to as
certain which of the Presidential cam
didates is the ranking favomte in
Congress, has convinced me that the
average man, in or out of Congress, al
ways sees future political events as he
hopes they will be. The Mckinley
men will not admit that any other
candidate for the nomination is really
in the race. Many of them claim his
nomination on the first ballot, and
nearly all OF them not later than the
third. The Reed men are quite as
confident that the Speaker is bound to
win. The Allison men claim that they
will hold the balance of power and
that after there has been sufficient
number of ballots taken to show that
neither Mckinley nor Reed can win
that Allison will be nominated with q
hurrah. The Morton men and the
Quay men are not saying much, except
that they are playing waiting game
and expect to win, while the Cullom
men, the Manderson men and the
friends of several other candidates say
just wait; this is going to be dark
horse campaign, and our mans chances
are as good as those of anybody else.
Those Cuban resolutions have now
been before Congress for four weeks,
and while it is expected that they will
be disposed of this week, there is moth
ing certain about it. If Senator Nor
gan's joint resolution for the recogni-
tion of the belligerency Of the Cubans
had come to the Senate through the
committee on foreign relations, it
might be adopted, but the Senate very
seldom ignores its committee reports.
Therefore it may be set down us GER
tain that the end of the matter when
ever it comes will be the adoption of
the committee report, in favor of ac-
cepting the House resolutions as a
substitute for those originally adopted
by the Senate
If Secretary Lamont intends to re-
main in politics for the purpose of be-
coming democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of New York, as many believe,
he made great mistake when he
wrote that letter attacking Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, by imputation, if not
directly, in order to prevent Congress
passing the bill providing for revival
of the grade of Lieutenant-G General of
the Army for Gen. Miles. Already it
must have become manifest to Secre-
tary Lamont that he has stirred up IL
regular hornets nest. Gen. Miles has
many friends, especially among the
old soldiers, and they have already be-
gan to take steps towards heading off
any political aspirations Secretary
Lamont may have.
Nearly all the answers received to
the circular letter sent out by the
House Ways and Means Committee to
importers and manufacturers interest
ed in the export trade strongly favora
renewal of the reciprocity treaties
abrogated by the democratic tariff bill
passed by the last Congress. This
week the Committee will devote to
verbal hearings on the subject. It is
almost certain that the result will be
a bill providing for renewal of the
reciprocity treaties. but there is not
much probability that such a bill will
become law until after republican
president takes his seat
From London Congress gets un-
doubtedly authenic information that
Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury
have resumed the Venezuelan negotia-
tions just where they were brought up
to the Monroe doctrine communica-
ton, but at the State Department in
Washington. neither Congressman or
newspaper men can get a word about
what is being done. It has been the
rule during the last three years to find
out what our government was doing
through the published utterances of
officials in foreign capitals.
/ Secretary Carlisle hasn't made any
friends by his letter to the Senate
committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds, opposing the joint resolution
providing for the erection of bronze
statue of Gen. Spinner, formerly U. S.
Treasurer, on one OF the approaches or
butresses Of the Treasury building.
And he wasn't satisfied with opposing
the resolution as it now is but added
that there was no place for the statue
II in the grounds attached to the treasury
building. Gen. Spinner was popular
official, and the money to pay for this
statue was raised by popular subscrip-
tions. But he was also republican.
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