The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-24

took occasion just before the Senate
passed the Pension appropriation bill
without amendments compliment
to the careful work done by the
House committee in preparing
the bill-to give Mr.. Cleveland few
hard raps for having reiterated his
previous sneers at the pensioners, in
his annual message to Congress
They were we'll deserved, too.
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The fact that Congress adopted
without opposition in either branch
the joint resolution providing for a
recess from December % to January
S, was notice to the country that it
wasn't going off half-cocked on the
Cuban question just because of lot
of hysterical meetings in various sec
tions of the country. The Senate al
so showed it's good sense when it
adopted resolution calling on the
President for all of the information
in his possession concerning Cuba,
instead of some of the other resolu-
tions which have been offered. Some
thing will have to be done in the near
future, but no steps should be taken
in the dark.
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Senator Stewart has not found the
publication OF silver organ-dated
at Washington, but printed at Alex
a9dria, Va, because of cheapness--
profitable. He stated under oath a
few days ago in a court proceeding
to get rid Of some Objectionable part
ners that his paper, the Silver Knight,
has cost him $3.50 in cash and that
it had between $1,000 and $4,000 in
debtedness for which he was respon-
sible. It has been suggested that he
should make the title of the paper
read:-'"The Silver Knight Errant,"
or better still, don Quixote, up-to-
date"
Every bill of the Republican Con-
gressional campaign committee has
been paid and the vouchers audited
and the committee has small bal
ance on hand. Chairman Babcock,
whose health is a little run down on
account of hard work of the cam
paign, will spend the holiday recess
at the Hot Springs.
TX
Senator Allen is struggling hard
for notoriety. Last week he got
little bit by moving that the Senate
take up bill to which he himself is
opposed, and this week he made bid
for more by offering resolution for
the appointment of a committee of
Senators to investigate the expendit-
ure of money in the recent President
ial campaign. He claims to base this
resolution on no better foundation
than that the vote of a number of
states carried by Mckinley was large
~ in excess of what were cast in 1892,
when every well-informed man knows
that Cleveland was elected by the
stay-at-home republican votes, and
not because ma jority of the voters
of number of states he carried were
for him. This year the stay-at-home
vote OF '92 was cast solidly for Nc
Kinley, and for that reason this very
wise populist wants tn investigate the
the expenditures. it is customary
for the author Of d Senate resolution
creating a special committee to be
made chairman Of the committee, and
in that custom lies MIR. Aliens real
reason for Offering this resolution. If
he could get himself at the head OF
such smelling committee he could
keep himself continually in the news
papers, even if be found out nothing.
Men who become public nuisances in
their efforts for notoriety are really to
be pitied.
Senator Vest intends to use the
nomination of Secretary Francis to
help him get back to the Senate. At
the meeting ofthe Finance committee
this week, when under ordinary cir
cumstances the nomination would
have been reported to the Senate,
Vest asked that it be allowed to go
over, knowing that the committee
WOulu uOt HC'lN alOtueT tueoCluS uu-
til nearly the middle of January.
Meanwhile he will try to make mem.
bers Of the Mo. Legislature believe
that he can confirm or defeat the
nomination of Francis just as he
pleases. Vest made tariff and sill
yer speech, which was also intended
for Mo. legislators.
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Chairman Dingley, of the House
Ways and Means committee, has no
idea when the story was started that
it was intended to try to pass the tar
if bill upon which the committee is
now working at the present session of
Congress, and says that neither him
self nor any other republican has con-
temp]ated passing the bill at this ses-
sion, for the very good reason that it
would simply be wasting time for the
House to pass the bill knowing that
it hadn't a possible chance to get
through the Senate. The bill is be-
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