Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
Washington, april ~, 1896.

times as Dig III MS own miuu, olHCO Ho
returned from his Western trip. He
actually believes that his chance for
being nominated for President by the
Chicago convention on a free silver
platform is good one, and he says
there is no longer the slightest doubt
that the silver democrats will control
that convention. He thinks that
Western tour has made him so solid
that he is now planning for Southern
speech making trip which will take
in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor :
gia, Mississippi and Texas. When Till
mans aspirations for the democratic
Presidential nomination were first
talked about the cleveland democrats
regarded it as a good joke, but they
don't now. Just so were the Cleve-
land democrats at first disposed to
pooh the idea of the silver democrats
controlling the Chicago convention.
day most of them admit the prob
ability that majority of the Chicago
convention will be silver men, but
say they rely on the influences which
men like Senator Brice and ex-Secre-
tary Whitney can bring to bear upon
them after they get to the conven-
ton to prevent the adoption Of rad
ical silver platform or the nomination
of silver man.
The senate is now working under
an understanding that nothing import
ant shall be taken up until all the ap-
preparation bills are disposed of, and
some think that adjournment is prob
a BILE on or about May Is, the date sug-
gested at a recent conference of re-
publican senators, but everybody rec
ognizes that there can be nothing GER
tain about it until joint resolution,
naming the day for adjournment has
been actually adopted by the senate.
The House is all right and will prompt
ly agree to any date set by the SEN
ate, and will wait for the senate to
take the initiative.
Numerous congressman breathed
easier when the announcement was
made that the Venezuelan boundary
commission had decided to send to
the Hague for the purpose of having
an expert examination made of the
original Dutch documents in the Roy
al archives, which bear upon the Ven
zuelan Boundary question. Is 1t had
been rumored that the commission
had practically finished it's work and
would make its report to the presi-
dent in short time, and it was fear
ed that if the report was made before
congress adjourned, it would result in
an indefinite prolongation of the ses-
sion. But it is now known that the
commission can not complete its
work until those old Dutch documents
have been carefully gone over, and
possibly others at Madrid, which
makes it certain that the report will
not be made before next winter. rqe
The idea that the Raines excise law,
passed by the New York republican
was going to injure the
party of that state is no
longer held even by democrats, on
the contrary it is going to strengthen
the republicans. Here is the opinion
of Judge G. w. Mead, for long time
a police Judge in New York City, who
is now visiting Washington: cat first
it looked as if the Raines law would
be so distasteful to the public that
the republican party would be made
to suffer for it's enactment. But there
has been a great change of public SEN
timent; the people are beginning to
realize the many good points of the
law, and 1 am satisfied that the re-
publicans will reap the benefit from
it instead of disaster. 1t is about as
good a statute as the ingenuity of
man could contrive; it wipes out the
dives where the poorer classes loaf
and squander their earnings; it puts
the business of selling liquor on the
best possible plane by putting it in
the hands of responsible men, and it
does, away with the corruption and
blackmail of the old regime"
This administration makes record
for partially and prejudice in every
thing it touches. For the second
time board of his brother officers
have submitted a report to the war de-
partment declaring Lieut.. Schofield,
son of Gen. Shcofield, to be unfit for
on account of his being
very deaf-surely good enough rea
son. But for the second time, Secre-
tary Lamont has disapproved the
finding of the Military Examining
board, and has now directed that
Lieut.. Schofield be re-examined for