Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-04-15
CONGRESS NEWS
Interesting Items Cleaned at
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All the Important Doings in
the House and Senate Re
corded Weekly.

Washington, Aprll w nat
ever others may think about It
there ~ no longer any doubt that
Senator Tillman, of South Care
lima. the pltehfork statesman, re-
par,ls hTms. IF as probable candl-
date for president. He left Wash
lngtnn yesterday for the west, and
will deliver >peeches in Louisville,
St. L.nua, ., Il Denver, and possibly
In either pRaes- He has two strings
to Ii, Y >,dential bow. 1t the
Iemoc ratIe convention is captured
bx the silver men he hopes to be
their eanGz tie, and if the antl-sll-
yer Uenloer4ts win he proposes to
head IA eAr of the silver Democrats
and to hav himself nominated as
"A SILVER ana down-with-eVerythlng
candidate, and to get the endorse
ment of the Populist convention.
In f2theranea of these wild pro-
ieets he Is making his western TIP
s.lek " hen lie returns he will make
All Ter speech in the senate that
n., nj nr fes Will be much great
er shack to senatorial dignity and
common deceney than was the
spec, ii he delivered In the senate
sometime ago. Poor old democrat
epartyI It is really to be pitied
when men of Tillman' s caliber as
pire to its leadership.
I have just heard an interesting
Fumor In connection with Mr..
Cleyeland's alleged elaboration as
To what he shall do about these
concurrent Cuban resolutions,
which is given you for what it IS
worth Il have reason to believe,
said q business man who is his per-
sonaI friend. ''that Cleveland is
meditating on using Cuba for a
Political cup that will astonish the
world, and, he believes, give him
another term. He knows that as
things now stand the Democratic
party has no earthly show to carry
Ehe country, but he has the idea
&lbab the enthusiasm which would
BE aroused by a foreign war will
rebound to his credit sufficiently to
senominsbe and reflect him, and he
y thinking seriously of taking such
ction toward Cuba as will make
sar with Spain certainty, and |
believe he has more than half de-
s;,deG to do st. -
Represen tatiye Lorime1 of Hi
z19is was at first inclined to regard
ahe report that he was flooding the
country with Harrison buttons, of
which, at cording to the story, he
had purchased many thousands, as
"a joke, bus when kilograms began
to pony IN upon him enquiring
about it he sent out a serious de-
nial of the hole story.
Here Is an opinion of the admin
l~tration, expressed, mind you, not
by a Republican, but by a Demo
c attic excongressman-Hon. g. g.
opn of Indiana-'The president
" the cabinet, and the heads Of
she various departments are well
I'll Be6 to look after the details of
,. = administration, and If it will
4, 5ghten the Cleveland horizon to
s~~a4,E cabinet luminaries on pollti-
e recruiting junkets, it is fully as
= T. factory as to allow them to
Eellsain here and draw double sala-
~ as government officials and cor-
poration coa,use :" And Mr.. Conn
1ubs it 10 b. off ring this sugges-
ton for the consideration of the
members IT sre cabinet who take
stump; III would be interesting
to her th. III explain how a wise
and patriotic administration had
accumulated national debt of more
than $500, 600 ,OOOin less than three
ye.rs: also the process employed by
asn1ious financial samaritans to
bind up QUE monetary wounds with
successive bond issues; how great
p'rty had practically been driven o
gicide because of the political vag-
araes Of a favorite son, and how the
rosperIty of an intelligent people
ssd been turned over to the lnsati-
,f,ie greed of a serious of industrial
nd eaY1Vy9nYrial conn binoc -