The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom. Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D. O., April II, '96.
It will not be the fault of the House
If there is not an early adjournment of
Congress. Only one appropriation bill
General Deficiency - remains to be
acted upon, and the committee on Rules
is now engaged in mapping out pro.
gramme as to how to dispose of the re.
manning time Of the session. Although
nothing is yet definitely decided upon,
it is regarded as certain that the Bank.
ruptcy bill, the bill for the codifcation
of pension laws, and az many Of the con.
tested election cases as can be reported
will be disposed of before adjournment.
It is doubtful whether any other meas.
ures of national importance will be con.
sidered, although the pressure to dis.
pose of the Pacific Railroads bill, which
has been agreed upon, is strong, and
Speaker Reed is personally in favor of
disposing of it at this session but many
members think they would prefer hav.
ing a chance to familiarize themselves
with this bill before voting upon it and
for that reason favor postponing its con.
sideration until the next session. So
far az known the senators will throw no
obstacles in the way of early adjourn.
nent, but Senator German has dropped
a hint which some believe to indicate
the contrary.
Senator Quay is back in his seat, but
further than to say that he has not with.
drawn his name as candidate for the
Republican nomination and that he is
entirely satisfied with the present out.
look 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 more talking than
the supporters of the other candidates.
There is reason to believe that Speaker
Reed has personally called down several
of his prominent supporters whom he
thought we're talking too much. by ad-
vising them to do more hustling and
less talking.
1t took the House just three hours,
the greater portion of that time being
taken up with speeches in favor OF the
bill, to pass the fortifcation bill, carry.
ing appropriations of Sl1, 900, 900 for the
erection and strengthening of needed
Notifications. Even the Democrats ad.
NIT that in view of the recent cocky at
titude OF the United States, which has
been go generally endorsed by public
sentiment, we must make some prepal
atiops to defend ourselves in case o.
war, and the strongest friends of peace
re gard such preparation as the sures
way of remaining at peace with thu
world. The nation that is thoroughly
prepared to defend itself is very seldom
attacked.
1t seems difficult to believe that an!
man of even ordinary common sens
would endorse the scheme which il
heralded as the one upon which th'
Democratic party hopes to elect Presi
dent this year, but such men as Senate
Harris, of Tennessee, and ex.Speake
Crisp, of Georgia, have been publicl!
spoken of as endorsing it and no de
malls have been made. So it is presumed
that they and the other Democrats men
toned in the same connection do en-
dorse the scheme, which is severa
points worse than its very worst Demo
cratic predecessor. According to tn
scheme, the Democrats are to keep VI
their present fight among themselve
over silver, and the majority OF the Chi
cago convention is to decide whether
gold or silver candidate and platform
shall be set up. Whichever way tn
convention goes the minority is to Dol
and put out a ticket and platform in &C
cordance with it's views. Then ther
will be two Democratic national ticket
in the field, one for silver and one TO
gold, and just here the fine. work OF tn
scheme is to begin. Only one set
Democratic Presidential electors are t
be run in each State. the silver ticket
have a clear field in those States i
which the silver sentiment ID Delleve
to be dominant and the gold ticket /
those States where majority are likel
to be for gold. The originators OF thi
scheme,have such poor opinion of tn
intelligence of the voters that they b'
lieve, or say they do, that enough State
can be carried by the two Democrat
tickets combined to make a majority i
the electoral college, and they propos
that they shall all be cast for the tick'
which has a majority of them. No
isn't that a scheme worthy of the part
which has stood for about every imal
Unable side of every public question, an
which has invariably adopted nations
platform that could be interpreted
represent the views of voters RADICAL
opposed to each other? Playing tt
voters for fools is very old Democrat