The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-06-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


perfect measure, or that any pre-
ylous Dill of its kind was, every Re-
publican in both branches of Con-
gress will vote to pass the bill over
the veto, because they believe 1t iG,
taken as a whole, q good measure
and that the Improvements provided
for viii mostly be good commercial
investments. The bill is in line with
the system of internal Improvements
which the Republican party has al
ways fostered and believed in.
Besides these reasons, the failure of
the bill to become a law would re-
suit in large losses by reason of the
stoppage of many important i'm
provements now under way,
1t is now regarded rs certain that
Congress will not be in session later
than next Monday or Tuesday, and
there is strong probability that adj
iournment will take place during
the latter part of the present week.
Although the President, vice
President, and every member Of the
Cabinet except Secretary Morton
was in Washington the only men,
Der of the administration who at
tended any of the memorial day ex-
ercises was Secretary Herbert, who
is an ex-Confederate. This has
been commented upon to consid-
cradle extent, as there was no eX-
cuse other than want of inclination
why these official should not have
paid the respects to the memory of
the men who gave up their lives to
make it possible for them to hold
their present offices.
A majority Of Congress feel re-
luctant to adjourn without doing
something definite for Cuba, but
any attempt to do anything would
start an indefinite debate which
might do more harm than good,
with no certainty that anything
could be done, anyway.
Senator Squier, as the first step
towards the erection of a suitable
memorial to Gen. Grant, has intro
duced a bill providing for the crea-
tlon of Commission, composed of
the Secretary of War, the Chairman
of the House and Senate joint Com
mittee on the Library, and the
Architect of the Capitol. The du-
ties of this commission will be to
secure from leading artists and ar
chitects, plans and estimates for a
monument, each artist or architect
being at liberty to make bis own,
and the estimated cost of the same.
All of these plans are to be reported
to Congress. After consideration,
Senator Squier concluded that this
was a better plan than that of his
original bill, providing outright for
a monument of Gen. Grant. He
wishes the monument to be the
best that can be suggested, and be-
lieyes the creation of this commits
sion is the best way to get it.
The silver Democrats are consid-
erably stirred up over consultation
which Mr.. Harrity,' the Chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, had with Mr.. Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle while he was in
Washington. The consultation
would not have worried the silver
men much, as they knew that all
the parties present has been doing
all they knew how to do to down
for many months, had it not been
for Harrity's announcement after
ward, that he intended to support
the ticket and platform made by
the Chicago convention They
don't believe that Harrity would
support silver candidate, and they
fear that his announcement means
that some trick has been concocted
by which Harrity feels certain Of
defeating the silver men at the con-
yention.
The Treasury deficit for the
month of May exceeds 81 600, 900,
and for the eleven months of the
present fiscal year is pushing S27,-
600, 900, and these figures are made
IS favorable as possible by Demo
cratic Treasury officials.
If you wish to make Senator
Brice mad you have only to men
ton Mr.. Cleveland's name to him.
He thinks of Mr.. G. what the late
VIM. II. Vanderbilt once said of
one Of his sons-ln-law. The trouble
all come about through the fight be-
tween the silver and anti-sllver
Democrats in Ohio. Although
Senator Brice has had no love for
Mr.. Cleveland since the tariff fight
which resulted in the substitution of
the German tariff bill for the origi-
nal Wilson bill, he sometime ago
called on HIM and told him that he
would help to prevent the silver
men getting the Ohio delegation to
h.