The Arizona sentinel., 1896-11-28
Washington Letter.
(From our regular correspondent

permanent headquarters in Washing
 ton, from which the educational fight against the free silver fallacy, which i: to go right along until the truth ha. been argued into the heads of all misguided people, shall be directed This move would have been generally commended anyway, but the announce ment that the silver committee, the Populist committee, and the Demo- cratic committee intended to main tain permanent Washington head quarters and to keep up the distribu- tion of silver literature, made it almost necessary. The silver sentiment would not have been half so extensive if it's opponents had met argument, instead of wasting time laughing at the silver men sending out campaign literature several years ahead of the campaie :, and doing nothing themselves. MT. Hanna knows how hard it was to undo in few weeks the work. that the silver men had been doing for several years: hence he has from the day the campaign closed favored 8 continuation of the education of the voters on the silver question.
 There is enough work on the bills already passed by the House to keep the Senate busy until the close of the last session of the fifty-fourth Con- gross, but how many of those bills the Senate will act upon, or even devote any time to, is more than any man can really say. Among the important bills passed by the House and left unacted upon by the Senate are the Dingley Emergency Revenue Bill, the bill to protect the Gold Reserve and provide for temporary deficiencies in revenue, the bill to amend the customs administrative law, the Bankruptcy Bill, the Immigration bill and the pension bill. Doubtless other bills would have been acted upon by the House had not the disposition of the Senate to do nothing been so apparent How much of that disposition remains will not be certain until after Con- gress meets. notwithstanding the opinions pro and con which some of the Senators have recently made public. It will be noticed that men like Senator Morrell, of Vt., "The father of the Senate, are not attempt ing to say what the Senate will do.
 MT. Morrell is in Washington for the winter, but he isn't making any pro phecies.
 MT. Cleveland's administration al- ways seems to have a war scare ready to spring on the public. Having just gotten rid of the principal cause of friction with England by negotiating treaty providing for the submission of the Venezuelan Boundary dispute with England to arbitration, the Spanish war scare Is trotted out in a new dress. While no official state ment has been made to that effect, friends of the administration say that it has trustworthy information that Spain intends to force a war with thls country if her present campaign against the Cuban revolutionists fail, and that the administration Is ac- cordingly preparing to fight. If Spain really had any such intention it would be wise to prepare for war, and in any event it will do no harm. But it isn't at all likely that Spain has any such intention. There has been enough to prove to the world that the men, or women, who are running the govern ment of Spain during the minority of | the king are not models of wisdom, but that is no reason why they should be foolish enough to provoke war with the United States. It may be that some Spanards are ignorant enough to believe that one-horse nation, like Spain, is in the same fighting class with the United States, but it is impossible to believe that men of sufficient education and intelligence to be entrusted with official positions under the Spanish Government, share such an absured belief. At any rate, there is no reason for anybody to lose any sleep over the probabilities of a war with Spain. If the Dons haven't any better sense than to get up a rumpus with us, they will find that the thrashlng they will receive will be too sudden and thorough to be dignif ed by the name of war.
 MT. Cleveland has decided to give Secretary Herbert a place on the bench, and he would like to do as much for Secretary Carlisle and Post master General Wilson, but he has grave doubts as to whether the Senate will sanction the nomination of either of these men, owing to the prejudice