Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-05-30
WASHINGTONLETTER
President Cleveland Re-
fuses TO Furnish Cor
respOndenCe to the
Senate.
SENATOR QUAY VISITS GOVERNOR
MCKINLEY.
To Go Over His Veto.
To Go Over His Veto.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent.l

(FrOm Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 25. 1893.
Mr.. Cleveland curt refusal to fur
nish the Senate with copies OF the cor
respondence with Spain concerning the
American citizs ms captured on the fill
buster Competitor, asked for by the
Morgan resolution. is not we'll received
either in or out of the Senate. and uu-
less it is proven TO Senators, by allow
ing them TO see the correspondence,
that some better reason than within
of Mr.. Cleveland exists for refusing
this Information, the Senate is likely
to take some additional action re-
port which cannot be verified says that
Secretary Olney refused TO allow a
member of tn Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations to see this CORE
spOndence.
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?
SenatorQuay's visit to Gov. MeKin-
ley is the subject most talt ed about
| just now by the republicans in Con-
gress. who have yearly all concluded
that unless there's radical change not
now expected in the sentiments of the
delegates to the St Louis Convention,
Gov Mckinley will be the republican
nominee and the next President While
nobody knows exactly why that visit
was made, nor what was its result, il
has certainly pleased the republicans,
those who have from the first support
ed Gov Mckinley as well as those who
supported other candidates. It indi-
Gates for one thing that the st Louis
Convention is not to be followed by the
sulking which had much to do with re-
publican defeat in 'S4 and in '92.
SITS ON MEMBER
The House cannot be accused of hay
ing any surplus love for Mr.. Cleveland
but it very promptly sat upon the no.
toriety seeking resolution of Repre-
sentative Howard, the Alabama popu-
list, impeaching the President Before
Howard could make the sensation
al speech he started, Representative
Dingley raised the question of consid-
Grafton against the resolution; Speak
er Reed at once put the question. and
by practically unanimous vote the
House refused to hear Howard.
THE BOND INVESTIGATION.
There is much doubt about that in
vestigation of the bond issues by this
administration which the Senate di-
rected to be made According to SEN
ator Harris, who is chairman of the
subcommittee which will 10 the in
vestigating, it may be finish in three
days or it may take three months. Ii
will not begin until Secretary Carlisle
furnishes the committee all the de-
tails OF the several bond issue While
indicating his willingness to do this
Mr.. Carlisle told the committee that il
would take considerable time TO pre-.
pare the statement. Some criticism
has been aroused 10y the report thai
the investigation would be secret.
: LITTLE CoLLoQUY.
It is we'll known that neither Senate,
Vest nor Senator Blackburn has an,
love for the present administ
The other day Vest approached Black
burn and said: Joe, don't you thinl
: Morton is the blankest fool. who eve
held Cabinet position2' Black burr
took "A long pull on the long black ciga
he had just lit and replied Cant an
swer the question, Vest; I'm commit
ted to Hoke Smith"
Senator Sherman had no difficulty il
showing that those democratic Sena
tors who expressed their anxiety Z
join hands with the republicans AM
pass a non-partisan bill which woul,
r which all the democrats now admi
e that it needs were merely making
o grand stand play for the purpose O
e trying to escape responsibility for be
# ing willing that Congress should ad
:. journ without providing for the legiti
e mate needs OF the government. Al
: that Mr.. Sherman did was to call thei
attention to the Dingley Emergenc
d Revenue bill which was passed by tn
d House early in the session, and whic
n comes as near to being an absolutel
e non-partisan tariff bill as any measur
d ever passed by either branch of Cor
it gress. That brought out the Glove
l. foot of the democratic Senators an
e they at once declared that they woul
e never support that bill. tits the couT
e try's misfortune that the republican
> cannot poll majority of votes in til
e Senate, but it will be remedied in til
n near future.
It The bill prohibiting further issue
% bonds without specific authority
Il Congress is being debated in the Sci
is ate. 1t has been virtually settled /
:? the several test votes which gave I'll
10 bill the right of way that majority
|? the Senate favors the bill, but if thel
lie was any probability that the bill cou
" pass the House it would not be ALLOW
ir ed to come to a vote in the Senate, al
it is not certain that it will anyway.
;; IMMIGRATION BILLS.
at The House last week passed b
Of placing additional restriction upon il
IL migration. but the Senate commit
If thinks the Lodge bill better measu
re and it has been reported to the Sena
Is, as a substitute for the House hi
OF They both shut out illiterate INN
er grants.
US The date of adjournment is thong
US to depend largely upon the River a
ce the Harbor bill now in Mr. Cleveland
m hands. He is expected TO veto it, a
Congress will not adjourn until after
go has passed it over the veto
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