The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-28
WASHINGTON.
from our Regular Correspondent.

Senator German this week made
yood the threat he made some time
tgo, when he called attention to the
act that there wonld not be money
.nough in the Treasury to meet the
sxtravagant appropriations made at
this session of Congress, by offering
IN amendment to the Fortifcation
o;,l authorizing the issue Of $Ioo, ,ooo,-
900 in 3 per cent, certificates of in.
d-btedness. OF course the republicans
threw up their hands in holy horror
at the very idea of such thing, but
none of them offered to join Senator
German in trying to curtail the ex-
uavagant appropriations.
Senator Quay is going to see Nc
Kinley to dicker for place in the
band wagon, and Speaker Reed is
thinking unprintable thoughts. The
republican opposition to Mckinley
das about reached the collapsing
point.
Those two eminent republicans of
the House, Walker, of Mass, ard
Dalzel, of Pa, exchanged this week
the complimentary terms of "dema-
gogue and "imprudent," in lit
tie discussion brought on by the form
er making a kick against boss rule in
the House, which allows speaker
Reed to control all legislation in that
body.
Gen. Fitz Lee, now on his way to
Cuba, opened a May festival given by
Southern ladies of Washington in aid
of the proposed Battle Abbey, to be
erected as a monument to the bravery
Of the Southern soldiers, with a spirit
ed speech endorsing the Battle Abbey
idea, and highly eulogistic of Ameri-
can valor. Gen. Lee is endowed with
that mysterious quality which we call
personal magnetism to marked eX
tent. As one of his old soldiers and
admirers puts it, 81 believe Fitz Lee
would create enthusiasm at Quaker
meeting, if allowed to talk for five
minutes
Senator Villas naturally resents the
charge that he secured the adoption
ofthe resolution by the Senate order
ing that Secretary Carlisle's recent
Chicago financial speech be printed
as a public document by trick. He
states that his action was open and
above board in the matter, and that
before he asked unanimous consent
for the adoption of the resolution he
consulted with Senators Cockrell and
Teller, as representative silver men OF
both parties, and they assured him
that they had no objection to the
speech being printed as public doc
ument so as to make it frankable.
Praise from your political enemies
is.dften more dangerous and undesir-
able than censure, but the reference
to the Immigration Bureau made by
Representative Corliss, of Mich,
doesn't belong to that class. He said
of this bureau, in speech made in
the House this week 1T stands
out as one department Of the govern
ment seeking earnestly and faithfully
to execute the laws with reference to
immigration, and I want to congratu-
late my democratic friends that they
have in this department worthy and
efficient men, Ex-Congressman
Stump, Of Md, is at the head of the
Immigration Bureau.
The debate on the immigration bill,
which was passed, brought new
orator to the front in the person OF
Representative Buck, ofNew Orleans.
As naturalizcd American citizen
He came to America in 1852, when
only 9 years old-he opposed any
burdensome restriction on immigra-
ton. At the close of his speech he
was warmly congratulated, by those
who agreed with him as well as by
those who did not, for having made
one of the best speeches of the ses-
sion, from the stand point of the ad-
mirer Of finished and eloquent oratory.
A movement has been started
which Mr.. Mark Hanna will do we'll
to watch carefully. Its avowed OBJ.
ject is to throw the vote of every
negro delegate to the St. Louis con
vention against Mckinley, and to
either Reed or Allison. This move
ment is headed by the notorious Perry
Carson, who has for many years boss
ed the negroes Of the city OF Washing
ron and who has been a delegate to
every republican national convention
for years past. Carson is an illiterale
negro, but when it comes to political
trickery and the manipulation OF
negroes he can give the shrewdest OF
his white brethren pointers. Mark
Hanna may have to buy some Of
those nigs again.