Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.


lFrom Our Regular Correspoudsntl
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WAsHrNoroN, April II, 1895.
IL will not be the fault o: the |
House, II there IL not an early adj
tournament of Congress. Only one
appropriation bill - General Defci-
ency-remains to be acted upon, and
the Committee on Rules is now en-
gagged IN mappiug out programme,
as to how to dispose of the remaining
time ofthe session. Although moth
ing is yet definitely decided upon, it
is regarded as certain, that the Bank
ruptcy bill, the bill for the codihca-
tion,of pension laws, and as many of
the contested election cases as can
be reported will be disposed of before
adjournment 1t Is doubtful whether
any other measures of national i'm.
portance will be considered, although
the pressure to dispose of the Pacific
Railroad bill, which has been agreed
upon, Is strong, and Speaker Reed is
personally In favor of disposing of 1t
at this session; but many members
think they would prefer having a
chance to familiarize themselves with
this bill before voting upon 1t, and
for that reason favor postponing its
consideration until the next session.
So far as known the Senators will
throw no obstacles in the way of an
early adjournment, but Senator Cor
man has dropped a hint, which some
believe to indicate the contrary.
Sen. Quay is back In his seat, out
further than to say that he has not
withdrawn his name as a candidate
for the republican nomination, and
that he is entirely satisfied with the
present outlook. he will not talk for
publication about the campaign for
the nomination. The Mckinley men
are as confident as ever that he will
be the nominee, and they are doing
much more talking than the support
ers of the other candidates. There Is
reason to believe that Speaker Reed
has personally called down several of
his prominent supporters whom he
thought were talking 10 much, by
advising them to do more hustling
and less talking
1t took the House just three hours,
the greater portion of that time be-
ing taken up with speeches in favor
of the bill, to pass the ratification
bill, carrying appropriations OF ST..
900, 600 for the erection and strength
ming Of needed Notifications. Even
the Democrats admit that In few of
the recent cocky attitude of the
| United States, which has been so
generally endorsed by public sent-
ment, we must make some prepare
tions to defend ourselves in case O.
war, and the strongest friends OF
peace regard such preparations az the
surest way Of remaining at peace
with the world. The nation that is
thoroughly prepared to defend itself
Is very seldom attacked.
1t seems difficult to believe that
any man Of even ordinary common
sense would endorse the scheme which
is heralded as.the one upon which the
democratic party hopes to elect a
President this year, but snch men as
Senator Harris, OF Tennessee, and
ex-Speaker Crisp, of Ca, have been
publicly spoken of as endorsing 1t, and
no denials have been made. So it is
presumed that they and the other
democrats mentioned in the same
connection, do endorse the scheme,
which is several points worse than
its very worst democratic predecessor
According to the scheme the demo
Gratis are to keep up their present
fight among themselves over silver,
and the majority Of The Chicago con
ventioh is to decide whether gold OF
silver candidate and platform shall
be set up. Whichever way the con
vention goes the minority is to bolt,
and put out ticket and platform in
accordance with its views. Then
there will be two democratic national
tickets in the field, one for silver and
one for gold, aud just there the Inc
work OF the scheme is to begin. Only
one set of democratic President al
electors are to be run in each state,
the silver ticket to have clear field
Ia those states, in which the silver
sentiment is believed to be dominant
and the gold ticket in those states,
where majority are likely to be for
gold. The originators of this scheme
have such poor opinion of the intel
ligence of the voters that they be.
lieve, or say they do, that enough
states can be carried by the two
democratic tickets combined to make
a majority 10 the electoral college,
and they propose that they shall all
be cast for the ticket which has a