Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TsPE 1AL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, May 4, 1896.

Congress, although few OF thOS'
who are committed to other candi
dates will not publicly admit as much
that Gov. Mckinley will be nominated
for President by the st. Louis conven
ton. The original Mckinley men ex-
press confidence that no ballot will be
taken but that the nomination will be
made by reclamation. Of course it is
possible that something may occur
that will change matters, and it is
largely upon that something that the
opponents of Gov. Mckinley are now
banking, but from the best obtainable
information in Washington it looks at
this time as if Mckinley was bound to
win.
Members of the House are disposed
to resent the action of the Senate in
reducing the number of battleships
provided for in the Naval Appropria-
ton bill from to 2, and the House
will probably refuse to agree to the
Senate amendment. The House often
refuses to agree to Senate amend
ments, but somehow or other the SEN
ate nearly always succeeds in having
its way, and as members of the House
are much more anxious to get home -
some of them got to fight for renomi-
nation-than the Senators, this will
probably not be an exception to the
rule, if the Senate refuses to recede.
But the vote in favor of the amend
ment was close-31 to 27-and upon
fuller attendance of the Senate,
enough votes may be obtained to re-
cede from the amendment.
The House passed the general
bankruptcy bill by a vote of 157 to 81.
Whether the bill will be disposed of
by the Senate at this session is not
certain. 1t will depend largely on
whether an agreement can be reached
to limit the debate to a given time.
Representative Baker, of New
Hampshire, has offered a concurrent
resolution providing for an investiga
tion by select Congregational COM
mittee of the recent purchase of seed
by Secretary Morton. A preamble to
the resolution sets forth the charges
made against Secretary Morton by a
Chicago firm of seedsmen; also Sec
Rotary Morton's charge that Senators
and Representatives often dispose of
their quota of seeds for cash instead
of having them sent to their constitu-
ents. =kc.
If Senator Tillman of s. O., was Civ
en- his just deserts, he would oe ex-
PEELED from the Z. S. Senate for hav-
ing insulted that body upon the two
occasions he has delivered harangues
on the floor Of the Senate chamber, by
copious use of ungentlemanly Ian
guage. Other Senators have CRITICS.
ed other public men just as harshly as
Tillman did, and it being their right
to do SO no objection has been made,
but no other Senator has ever belched
forth such a deluge of billingsgate as
Tfllman did, and the worst feature of
1T is that he claims all his blackguard
ism to be done in the name of the peo
pie and in the interests of reform. The
reform is truly to be pitied! How hol-
low it is may be judged from the fact |
that Tillman drew his salary as Sena-
tor for the period he was travelling in |
the West making blackguard speeches
without blush. Some of the ablest |
silver men i'll Congress believe that |
Tillman has done the cause of silver |
injury by his wild talk. 1t
must be CALLING to South Carolinians
to read of Tillman7s boast that he has |
the electoral vote of that state COM
pIetely under his control and can |
place it wherever he pleases. A more
or disgraceful boast was
never publicly made in this country.
1t is a little more than the boldest
political boss has ever dared to do.
1t is believed that when Senator Hill
stated in his speech on the floor of
The Senate, that he didn't believe Mr..
Cleveland would again be a candidate
for the democratic nomination, that
the foxy New Yorker was trying to
smoke Mr.. Cleveland out and get him
TO make a definite declaration of his
The wording of the plat
form adopted by the Michigan demo-
cratic convention, which was probab-
y prepared by Don Dickinson, has in
creased the belief in Washington that
Mr. Cleveland intends to capture the
nomination for himself unless the
silver democrats make it impossible
0y capturing the Chicago convention.
Although democratic Senators have
their republican colleagues
that they would do nothing to prevent
an early adjournment there is a be-
lief in some quarters that the aSSur-