Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


quite is anxious that congress
should hurry up with the appro-
alton b Ills an dthen adjourn as are
the friends of Speaker Reed and
Senatof Allison. Yet many have
their deubts about adjournment
being IS early as now predicted.
There is no trouble about the
house. 1t is thoroughly under
SpeakG Reeds control and will
adjourn whenever he says
the VOID. But the senate is un-
der COT lstrol of neither man nor
party, Ind if half dozen sena-
tors shSuld take notion to delay
adjourH H1nent they can easily do
SO for al1 indefinite period. That
IS why The Reed and Allison peo-
pie wet so badly frightened by
rumor HAT a combine of senator's
had betn formed to prevent ad-
journnf Int until after all the ma
tlonal pnventionS had been held.
No sud- combine has yet been
formed, but there is nothing to
prevent1t, if senator's are so dis
posed. That is why the date of
adjour4 4lnent will not be certain
until Il le joint resolution setting
a date shall haye been adopted
by botl house and senate.
The republican presidential
situatidu is unchanged. The MIC
h1nley hnen are making the most
no1se, lut they are not so conf
dent as they appear to be, or else
they wSuld not be constantly try
ing to stampede the opposition by
s,artinS stories about having re-
ctived prominent recruits from
his opponents. The opinion of
tie inexperienced is about unani-
nous Il lat Mckinley will get the
IDnination, but the old politi-
cans, whether for or against him,
dubt if very much. Those OPP
psed to him cite long lists of
recedents showing that the man
pho leads but does not have
elough votes to win on the first
allot rarely wins. But the Nc
Finley men insist that he will
hive enough to win on the first
hllot. There is no question
nout most of the democrats want
ilg Mckinley to win; they regard
1n as weak candidate, and for
tlat reason they are helping his
BON all they can.
Although the the house COM
n.ttee on territories has followed
tie example of the senate COM
nttee and ordered that the bills
e. the admission Of New Mexi-
coand Arizona as states be re-
Drted. one doesn't have to be the
see11tl1 son of a seventh son to
ordict that neither bill will be-
cone law as this session of con-
e-rss. Whether it is right or
wong to keep these territories
on of statehood cuts 10 figure in
th matter at all. The anti-sil-
We people have made up tl'eir
mads that no more silver sena-
tos shall be provided for, and
Vile the senate, which is domi-
naed by silver men may pass
bon bills, neither can get through
thel1ouse. which is dominated BY
aui-silver men. But even If the
bill, could get through both
braches of congress they would
|be romptly vetoed by President
ICleeland, the bitterest anti-sil-
verlnan of them all.
Notwithstanding the statement
Iof Representative Bingham, IN
pre4nting a conference report on
the Legislative, executive and ju-
dicil appropriation bill, citing
Ithe.enate amendments which the
houe conferees had declined tc
acre to, that the average cost ol
en1toyes of the house for each
netber, was $939 a year, against
an serage cost of senate employ
es fY each senator of Sass, the
hous agreed to accept amend,
nens providing for an addition
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