Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-02-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1896.
+ The causus of Republican Senators which
nominated Mr.. w. A. Shaw, of Spok ane,
Washington,to be Secretary of the Senate;
f Mr.. H. L. Grant, of N. C., to be Sergeant
alarms, and Mr.. Alonzo Stewart of Iowa,
, to be Assistant Door1eeper, authorized
Senator Sherman to call up the question of
the election of these officers whenever he
sees fit but he is not expected to do so until
assured that they can be elected In other
words, until certain that at least one Popu
list will vote with the Republicans That
leaves matters in an indefinite shape. Sen
ator Frye has been unanimously elected
President pro tenn, but when the other Re
publican officials can be elected nobody
knows 1t may be to morrow; it may be
not at all.
The outlook for the House Tariff Bill is
not encouraging, no matter whether Sena-
tor Quay's resolution, to re-commit the free
coinage substitute, which the Finance Com
mittee last week reported. to the committee,
be adopted or not, If adopted there is
nothing to show that Senator Jones, of
Nevada, who holds the balance of power,
will allow anything but a free coinage sub
stltute to be reported from the committee.
And if it isn't adopted, there is little hope of
getting the tariff bill through the Senate
The House will this week refuse to con
cur in the Senate free coinage substitute
for the House bond bill, and the substitute
will be sent to conference, where it is likely
to remain.
The syndicate represented by Mr.. J.
Pierpont Morgon will get about oue-third
of that bond issue, simply because its bid
for the entire issue was tiny fraction
higher than that put in by the syndicate
represented by another New York banker
Whether Mr. Morgan made his close shave
! BY reason of advance information he
probably dds a question, but the most
important fact connected with Mr.. Morgan's |
bid was that, although the market quota
ton for these bonds was a little lower than
it was last year when he made that private
deal with Mr. Cleveland for the s62, eco,
600 bond issue, and that these bonds will |
have one year less to run, his bid for these
bonds was about seven cents on the dollar
81 oo, 600 in all-in excess of the price
he paid for the same bonds one year ago.
Has the Senate a right through a select
committee to investigate the election of
members of a State Legislature which
elects a u S. Senator? That is the prob
lem which has been referred to sub-com-
mittee of the Senate Elections Committee,
and the answer will probably determine
what action the committee will take upon
Senator Aliens resolution for an investiga-
ton of the Alabama legislative election
which preceded Senator Morgan's last cleo
ton to the Senate.
The vote of forty to twenty-eight, by
which the Senate referred the resolution
providing for the distribution of several
of the regular appropriation bills among
they now all go to the Appro
priations committee-to the Committee on
with Instructions to report back on
the first day of the next session. was a great
compliment to Senator Allison, who is
chairman of the Committee on Appropria
tons. There is little doubt that majority
Of the Senate would have voted for the
change had it not been for the fear that
such action by the Senate at this time n
would have been construed by some people n
as a reflection upon Senator Allison.
The report of the Nicaragua Canal Com
mission is not encouraging to Congress n
'ional action on the canal; at least, not on
he lines heretofore proposed In addition =
o nearly doubling the estimate of the cost /,
# its construction, the report says plans 4
must be changed or it cannot be constructed 4
It all majority Of both branches of :,
Congress tavors the construction of the "
anal, but they are far from agreeing as to "
ust how it should be done This will re- o,
ult in delaying anything like positive ac IT.
On
Justice Brewer, president Of the Venezu. 1t
Ian Boundary Commission, has made D.
ublic statement denopncing the stories n
ublished ia sensational newspapers about Il
lie luxury and extravaganza of the COM N
lisson. Justice Brewer says, aud his "a
ord has never been doubted, that instead ia
being exhavagant the commission has ~
zen very economical, and that he expects Isl
to continue to be economical until its work lie
completed. q
Delegate Catron Of New Mexico,has re- We
lived many congratulations for the clever Be
IS he displayed in pushing his bill against RI
ize fighting in the territories and the Dis he
1T of Columbia, through the House and
mate without delay or even a single adj D.
rise vote. The bill became law as sO0n 7
It reached Mr.. Cleveland. who for once sta
with Congress. Ina