Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.
SENATOR GORMAN PROPOSES A
HEROIC REMEDY.

SENATOR GORMAN PROPOSES A
HEROIC REMEDY.
The Quay and Mckinley Hobnob-
The battle Abbey How the Senate
Aids i'm Distribution OF Cam paign
Documents The ImmIgration
Bureau Lauded-Negro Delegates
Against Mckinley Democrats
Will he United.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May %, 1896.
Senator German this week made
good the threat he made some time
ago, when he called attention to the
fact that there would not be money
enough in the Treasury to meet the
extravagant appropriations made at
this session of Congress, by offering
an amendment to the Fertilization
bill authorizing the issue of 500, 900, :
QUO in three per cent. certificates of
indebtedness. Of course the Republic
cans threw up their hands in holy
horror at the very idea of such a thing,
but none of them offered to join
Senator German in trying to cuitail
the extravagant appropriations.
Senator Quay is going to see Nc
Kinley to dicker for a place in the
band wagon, and Speaker Reed is
thinking unprintable thoughts. The
Republican opposition to Mckinley
has about reached the collapsing point.
Those two eminent Republicans
of the House, Walker, OF Mass, and
Dalzel, OF Pa, exchanged this week
the complimentary terms of "dema-
gogue" and impudent," in little
discussion brought on by the former
making kick against boss rule in the
House, which allows speaker Reed to
control all legislation in that body.
Gen. Fitz Lee, now on his way to
Cuba, opened May festival given by
Southern ladies of Washington in aid
Of the proposed Battle Abbey, to be
erected as monument to the bravery
of the Southern soldiers, with .
spirited speech endorsing the Battle
Abbey idea, and highly eulogistic OF
American valor. Gen. Lee is endowed
with that mysterious quality which
We call personal magnetism to q
marked extent. AS one of his old
soldiers and admirers puts il, II be-
lieve Fritz Lee would create enthusiasm
at a Quaker meeting, if allowed to talk
for five minutes"
Senator Villas naturally resents the
charge that he secured the adoption OF
the resolution by the Senate ordering
that Secretary Carlisle's recent Chicago
financial speech be printed AZ q public
document by trick. He states that
his action was open and above board
in the matter, and that before he asked
unanimous consent for the adoption
of the resolution he consulted with
Senators Cockrell and Teller, as
representative silver men of both
parties, and they assured him that they
had no objections to the speech being
printed as public document so as to
make it frankable.
Praise from your political enemies 10
often more dangerous and undesirable
than censure, but the reference to the
immigration Bureau made by Repre-
Corliss, of Mich, doesn't be-
long to that class. He said of this
bureau, in speech made in the House
this week: cit stands out as one de-
partment OF the government seeking
and faithfully to execute the
laws with reference to immigration,
and l want to congratulate my Demo.
cratic friends that they have in this
department worthy and efficient men,"
Ex-Congressman Stump, OF Nd, is at
the head of the immigration Bureau.
The debate on the immigration bill,
which was passed, brought a new
orator to the front in the person OF
Representative Buck, of New Orleans.
As a naturalized American citizen
he came to America in 1852, when
only 9 years old - he opposed any
burdensome restriction on immigra-
ton. At the close OF his speech he
was warmly congratulated, by those
who agreed with him as we'll as by
those who did not, for having made
one of the best speeches of the session,
from the stand point Of the admirer OF
finished and eloquent oratOry.
A movement has been started which
Mr.. Mark Hanna will do we'll to watch
carefully. Its avowed object is to
throw the vote of every negro delegate
to the st. Louis convention against
Mckinley, and to either Reed or
Allison. This movement is headed by
the notorious Perry Carson, who has
for many years bossed the negroes OF
the city OF Washington and who has
been a delegate to every Republican
National Convention for years past.
Carson is an illitsrate negro, but when
it comes to political trickery and the
manipulation of negroes he can give
the shrewdest OF his white brethren
pointers. Mark Hanna may have to
buy some of those nigs again.
Mr.. John Bell Bigger, who has been
Clerk Of the Virginia House of Del
egates for years, and who is always
posted on Democratic politics in that
State, is in Washington. When asked
il the Virginia Democrats would bolt
if the financial plank Of the Chicago
convention didn't suit them. he in
stantly replied: "No, sir! Not on
your life. Boiling isn't in our line.
We will stick to the party, it matters
not what platform is constructed at
Chicago. If the financial plank should
declare for tin or zinc as money
metal it would be all right with Vir-
ginia Democrats. Party success with
us is paramount to all other consider
stjops."