Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-01-22
CONGRESS NEWS
Interesting Items Cleaned at
the Capital by the Tribune
Reporter.
All the Important Doings in
the House and Senate Re
corded Weekly.

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other members of the Democratic
National Committee, which met here
this week. to imagine that they decid-
ed the time and place for holding the
Democratic national convention, but
as a matter of fact the members OF
that astute political firm had settled
the matter sometime before. A gen
s!eman who is usually good authorl-
ty upon matters relating to the BUSH
l7ass of the firm says there IS only
,e,,e man who could have changed the
result. That man IS ex-Secretary
Whitney. He was, SO this gentleman
SAYS. informed by German, Harrlty
Il %. that if he would agree to ac-
,|.pt the Democratic nomination he
AsnId name the time and place for
holding the convention and write his
,,yn platform. Mr.. Whitney, who
Erows thing or two about the value
Isl political nominations, is said to
have replied In substance that al
though he Was wealthy man he did
,,ot care to indulge in the pastlme OF
7hrow;Gg good money down ratholes.
There were a number of more or
less interesting ghost stories Heating
around Washington now about Mr.
Cleveland having authorized the state
p,ent 10 certain members of the Dem
go<.yatic committee that he would not
allow his name to go before the con
v~ntion, and many prominent news
papers paid telegraph tolls on these
stories. but most diligent inquiry fail
Ell to locate a single member OF the
committee who would acknowledge
having received any such information
and some of them did not hesitate
to say that they did not believe Mr.
Cleveland had authorized anyone to
make such statement. The best in
formed men in Washington still be-
liere that Mr.. Cleveland wants the
nomination again, and that nothing
short of absolute proof that he can
not get the necessary number of
votes in the convention will cause
hital to say one word against the pre-
seI,fation of his name to the conven-
aion, aud every movement of the adj
ADMINISTRATION indicates the correctness
al this belief
Amos Cummings, of N, Y, has
again shown himself to be about the
anost independent Democratic mem
l,,.r of the House Amos was gal
ant soldier and it riled him when one
OF his Tammany colleagues charged
that the amendment proposed by the
to the pension laws, in
fended solely to secure justice to the
oisi soldiers and their widows, was
nathing but an attempt to loot the
Treasury. Mar. Cummings started
Of by emphatically repudiating the
expressed by his Tammany
: ,lieague Mr. Bartlett), ION behalf
81 the people, of the Union soldiers,
oi Tammany Hall" He then paid
hi4 attention in cutting language to
"a present administration of The j
office He said it was time
10 call a halt on the pension l
1flice. That old soldiers and poor {
sidows were standing in hourly ex
pectation that something cowardly ]
rom the pension Office would strike t
hem; they were being stabbed in the I
back from quarter from which they a
should expect nothing but praise c
md Justice '1Rahi for Amos"
Senator Mills, of Texas, who has S
been webbing around ever since he i
made that declaration against the r
rec coinage OF silver, made a speech /
his week in which he tried to square r
llmself with the silver men in Texas.
lie didn't exactly go back to his orig
nal position In favor of free coinage, c
nut he befogged the question and p
RED to beat the devil around the
lump by advocating the coinage of
be silver bullion in the Treasury, J
ne payment of government obliga G
ons in both silver and gold, and de- G
ouncing national banks and the is q
ae of interest bearing bonds. 1t is L
.ident that Mr. Mills is still between b
le devil and the deep sea-" where it VI
i'll be remembered he declared him g
If to be in speech made while the p
al for the repeal Of the purchasing
ause of the so-called Sherman sill
:. law was before the Senate. The p;
able with AFr. Mills is that the M