Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-19
DOINGs AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Mar. Is. 1896.

1 ANCCh btlltNSN. lnal unless some
thing now unlocked for shall occur to pre-
vent congress can easily adjourn by June /.
FOR time it appeared that the Senate might
| prolong the session by dillv-dalIying on the
/ appropriation bills but up to this time there
Ids Deen no disposition to do so and pres
/ eht indications are that the Senators are
/ lust as anxious tor an early adjournment as
I mem berS OF the House are The House IL
unusually well advanced upon the appro-
! priatlon bills and unless there shall h =
/ wrangle over the River and Harbor annro-
| priation bill, which will be the last one re-
/ ported. all of them will have passed that
branch OF Congress- before the middle of
| April The idea of any tariff or financial
! legislation at this session has been almost
| If not quite entirely abandoned bv every
body
/ The at times exciting debate in the Senate
this week on the report of the committee on
| Foreign Relations in favor of acceptino the
! House substitute for the Senate concurrent
! cuban resolutions has been highly enter
tanning to the crowded galleries but when
considered as a whole it is extremely DIM
cult to see what was the use Of ii all The
Senate has already put itself on record in
! favor Of resolutions precisely the same. only
dlfering in wording. and everybody knew il
would not reverse itself by refusing to ac-
eept the report OF its committee. So long as
the president did not send the spanish min
lister his passports for having so far forgot
ten his position as to have used the columns
OF newspaper to question statements made
by Senators, as he should unquestionably
! have done, it would have been more dienin
ed for the Senate TO have ignored him But
this isn't the first time that the Senate has
CHOSEN to be laxative rather than dignifed
When the Senate adopted its original Cuban
resolution the time for speechmaking on
that subject should have ended. There's no
use trying man after he's hung
It seems that Secretary Hoke smith has
not abandoned the idea of capturing the
seat in the Z. 5. Senate which Gen. Gordon
VIII vacate next March. This was shown
by his virtually compelling the Southern
RallWay, which has recently secured con-
troll OF the Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad. to appoint one of his friends attor-
ney for the latter road in Georgia Score
tary Smith recently complained to the head
OF the syndicate which controls the South
ern Railway that the Georgia attorney for
that corporation was using his position
agalnnt his (Smith 81 senatorial aspirations
and IN favor of ex-Speaker Crisp. The rail-
road man not deeming it advisable to quar-
rel with the Secretary of the Interior and
not daring to remove the attorney of whom
Mr.. Smith complained, who is son of one
of the owners of the Atlanta Constitution
told Mr.. Smith that he might have one of
his friends appointed Georgia attorney for
the g. ) and f. road. Mr.. Smith named Mr.
John 1. Hall, who has resigned the position
of Assistant Attorney General for the Inter-
Tor Department to go to Georgia and look
after the Smith boom, and incidently the
interests of the railroad that will paw his
salary, and the Southern Railway now has
pull on both sides
There is some very plain talk in the ma
jority report of the Senate committee on
Privileges and Elections, in favor of Sena-
tor Aliens resolution for the investigation
of the election of the Alabama legislature
which elected Senator Morgan For in
stance. the report says: The case is not
merely one of local frauds which happened
here and there over the State. but is that of
willfully planned and deliberately manu-
featured masses of fraudulent returns bas-
ed upon no votes whatever. but made to APP
parently defeat state government that
was actually chosen, and to give apparent
title to a state government defeated by the
voters. The report says there isn't the
slightest doubt of the right of the Senate to
make this Investigation, and intimates that
if made Senator Morgan may lose his seat
Representative Hopkins of III. has been
made chairman of a Subcommittee of the
House Ways and Means committee which
will devote the whole of next week to pub
lie hearings of those who have information
concerning the practical operation of the
reciprocity treaties negotiated By the Har-
rison administration, and the effect of their
repeal by the democratic Congress: also as
to obstacles in the tariff or customs regula-
tons of foreign countries tending to retard
the growth of our export trade The OBJ
iect of the hearing is to enable the sub-com-
mittee to report intelligently upon several
bills on the subjects named. Circulars ask
ing series Of questions bearing on these
subjects have been mailed to merchants
and manufacturers engaged in the export
trade.
Instead Of writing letter declining to al
low his name to go before the Chicago con-
vention as a candidate. a. il was reported
some time ago that he would shortly do. Mr.
Cleveland has given several indications of
late of still hankering after that third term
nomination. well as ducks