Middletown transcript., 1896-04-18

| SEDE3 " llIluS WIN Vic
| @zNd0gS29J Cuban in surn-
gents for peace; Tut, according to cur
rent gossip, he doesn't wish Spain to
agree and doesn't expect it. Accord
Ing is stn:ips whispered in insiee cir
Giles, the fine hand of Ex-Secretary Bill
| " Whiin-y is playing the game for Mr..
Vi v-lansl. having su, ceeded in per-.
suatilhg him that The only salvation of
| The Democratic party lies in working
up feeling 0wards war with spain.
The offer to mediate is made for the
purpose OF convincing the world that
the administration favorS a peaceable
settlement aud will only resort to ether
methods when Spain refuses to enter
tain mediation, and TO gain time. War
is not wanted now; 1t might be. all
over before the meeting of the Demo-
cratic national convention, not to
meni ion the November election. 1t is
a deep game, to take advantage of tie
general sympathy of this country for
Cuba to boost up the tottering Demo-
cratic party, and to go into it it was
necessary for Mr.. Cleveland to go
against his real wishes, as he had been
from the first apparently on the side of
Spain.
Unless something unexpected turns
up to prevent Congress is likely to
break the long session record in the
date of adjournment. So far as the
House is concerned, it would be easy
enough to adjourn by the first of May,
as there remain only two appropriation
bills-foltifcations, and general defic-
iencies-to be disposed Of, and the first
of those will be passed this week. Un-
less the. Democratic senators become
obstructionists just to delay adjourn
ment, it is regarded as probable that
adjournment will occur somewhere in
the neighborhood of May 18th.
Senator Cullom denies very en-
phatically that he has written or in
tends to write letter Withdrawing his
name as candidate for the Presiden-
tial nomination, and Sen ator Quay's
friends make the same denial in his
behalf.
Secretary Morton is in hot water
again, and unless the men who are
making the charges against him are
out of their reckoning he may get
badly scalded before he gets out of it.
He and his assistants in the Agricul-
tural department are charged with
| having deliberately and Intentionally
misrepresented facts to Senator Proctor
and Representative Wadsworth, who
acted with Secretary Morton as COM
mittee to award the contract for seeds
for free distribution, in order to get
the bid of Chicago firm, which was
SIC, 0,00C below that of the firm which
secured the contract, thrown out.
They charge that Secretary Morton
represented that the seed submit ed as
samples by the Chicago firm were
found poor, when as a matter of fact
the official records of the tests made
by the department experts show item
to be as good in every respect as those
sent by the firm which secured tie
contract; that Secretary Morton told
his Congressional associates on the
committee of Award that the Chicago
firm declined to assume responsibility
by printing their name upon the pack
ages of seeds they proposed furnishing,
when that firm had stated both orally
and in writing that it would cut its
bid $40 900 if allowed to print its name
and address on every package. They
charge further that Assistant Secre-
tary Dabney worked against them be-
cause they refused to use certain
p ltent bag-flliDg machine advocated
by bim. It is very serious business if
these charges can be substantiated, and
the men who make them say can they
be.
Public Printer Benedict has had
collision with the civil service commits
sion concerning The eligibility for re-
instatement of certain printers dis
charged by him after the Government
Printing Office passed under the Civil
Service rule, and the matter has got
before the Senate Civil Service Com
mittee. According to one of the wit
nesses before that Committee, Bene-
dict said to member of Congress who
called on him to secure the reinsta.e-
ment of one Of the dismiss printers,
on the ground ofthe Civil Service Con-
mission having declared him eligible
for reinstatement without examination:
81 doI', Care What these d. vet nurses
say" TIE Committee will invs stsgate
and make i report.
Denioc. ats are tying to persuade
Senator Il,ll to once more become the
Democratic candidate fer Governor Of
New York, but Mr.. Hill has such
vivid recollection of the drubbing ad-
minissered to him by Gov Norton that
he isn't inclined to regard the matter
at all favorably.