The Southern herald., 1896-04-03
Our Washington Letter.

. " o. the republicans to legislaie
contained in Senator Platl's res.
luton providing for the adjourn
meni Of Congress on MAY 2, an
Mr.. Plat elinches the eoniessio
by saying Of his resolution: at
perfectly clear that there will B
noimpOrtantlsgislatiOn this sessio
except the appropriation bills. an
| see no reason for remaining her
merely for the purpose of intro
dueing and talking upon agitalin.
resolutions, and am pelsuadsdtha
the country would be better salts
ned TO have us at home than /,
have Us here" Ifthat isn't humi
lating, coming from a party which
controls both branches of Congres.
and which made such wonderful
promises Of what ii was going "a
accomplish in a legislative way
when it again got control, pray
what would you call il?
The Reed and Mckinley re-
publieans are now at daggers points,
so to speak, and they are growing
more bitter towards each other
every day. Each side is charging
the other with being guilty Of all
sorts Of disgractful tactics. The
Mckinley men are charged with
frying the fai out Of the manu-.
faeturers in order to buy delegates.
and the Reed men are charged with
every species of dupliciiy in con
nection with the favorite son
scheme, the latest being that they
originated the story Of combine 10
nominate Harrison so as TO prevent
he Indiana delegates committing
themselves to Mckinley. The
'verage Democrat regards il merely
IS another case of "lhe pot calling
he kettle black" and feels like |
bouling "goit Macl ""go itToml''
nd enjoying the fight all the way |
through without caring a continent.
! how it ends.
Boulelle, of Me-, had another
tack of contrariness this week
'hlch resulted in a considerable
Sposure of ears as he stood up and
rayed against the purely senti-
'ental bill for the repeal of the
w prohibiting Confederate officers
no held commissions in the u. s.
rmy previous to the war being
again therein. Every
'dy admitted that the bill, which
lanimously passed the Senate
lrlstmas eve, was merely an evi.
nee OF cordiality towards the ex.
'nfederates, and that there is not
en- a probability that any ex- a
'nfederate will thereby become c
officer in the US. Army, except c.
the very improbable event of an
rly foreign war. But Boutelle
'uld not see it that way. He h
lted against it for the greater W
Cnc Session Of the House al
finally cast the only vote that sc
5 recorded against the bill in 81
her branch Of Congress. Bou- fl
e'sconstituents must be different
N other men if they are not 10
Irtlly ashamed Of him and his HI
les. !;
although there is little expec- If
on that the bill will be acted III
N at this session, even If report Gil
a joint subcommittee composed pa
bree members Of the House and as
'e of the Senate PacifieRailroads sls
imittee has been selected to see by
is possible for both committees sea
gree upon one bill dealing with
Indebtedness Of the Pacific us,
roads to the government. the
looks like the Cubau business use
ended SO far as Congress is lea
'erned. But to many who did mu
catch the drift when the Senate on,
the Cuban resolutions back to gra
erence things did not look mi,
oising. But they soon saw that WI
conference had only to agree to Gun
original Senate resolutions and eve
House to do likewise to end the dis,
r chill
le equestrian statue ef Gen. W. age
ancoCk, which is to be erected tbei
Washington, has arrived and wou
b IN position inside Of Two or you
J weeks. The uuvsiling Of the use