West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-03-19
THE POLITICAL HOPPER.
Our Letter From the National Cap
ital on Current Events and
Political Points OF
The Day.
rom our regular correspondent.


From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID c..
March Ia. 1896
Senator Turpie's speech against
the right OF Dupont, of Delaware,
to seat in the Senate is unanswer.
able from a legal aud constitutional
point Of view.
The anti-optiou bill of Colonel
Hatch, which has been killed so
often and which passed the House
in the last Congress and came near
enough to being passed by the Sen /.
ate to badly frighten its opponents,
is about to be killed once more.
The House committee on Agricul.
ture has agreed to table the bill.
The report of the majority OF the
Senate Election Committee, written
by Chandler, Of New Ham pshire, in
favor of the resolution for investi-
eating the election of the Alabama
Legislature that elected Senator
Morgan exposes Republican plot
to get majority in the Senate by
unfair means. Their purpose is to
use the Populists to help them pass
this resolution. Then to have the
investigation committee report in
favOr of unseating Senator Morgan,
when the Populists are again ex
pected to join them in vo.ing for
the adoption OF that report.
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The Republicans in the House
hope to get some camplign thunder
out Of the hearings which have been
arranged by sub. committee of the
House committee on Ways and
Means for the next week. These
hearings are announced to be for
the purpose of ascertaining whether
the reciprocity treaties and arrange
ments made by the late Mr.. Blaine
during the last Republican admin.
is.ration were of sufficient benefit
to this country to make their Io-
newal advisable, and what tarih
and customs regulations in foreign
business. As to the reciprocity
treaties. the Democratic Congress
which repealed them ascertained by
thorough investigation that this
country received no benefit at all
from the most of them and from
the Others so little that the whole
business was thrown overb lard.
Unless | miss my guess these hear
ings will be followed by the same
rose coloTed newspaper fairy stories
about reciprocity which were so
plentiful when Mr.. Blaine was
working on the scheme.
IlHl
President Cleveland is allowing
the Senators to monopolize the talk
on Cuban affairs, and they have
certainly done lot of it that was
unnecessary this week, inasmuch as
the acceptance Of the report Of .he
committee on Foreign Relations in
favor Of the Senate accepting the
Heuse resolutions as a substitute
for It's own resolutions was fore
gone conclusion from the first.
And talking wasn't the only unnec.
essary thing the Senate did this
week. While the report Of it's com
mittee was pending it adopted a
resolution calling on the President
for all the Information 10 lis pos
session concerning IN present state
Of aft ,irs in Cuba. Cuban aff ,irs
were fully discussed at the last
Cabinet meeting. and there are
rumors Of the President having sent
a trusted agent to Cuba to 6nd out
just how things are and Of his IN
t1ntion to send a message to Con.
gross on the subject, but neither
the President nor any mem Der Of
HE Cabinet will talk about IL, st
least not for publication. One thing
can be set down az certain, Con
gress has been stampoded, bat the
administration will not be. Mr..
Cleveland wants TO know he is right
before he takes action that cannot