Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Especial CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoHIroH.l
WASHINGTON, May 25, 1896.

nlSn the Senate Will cOpl0S VI UHO COI
respondence with Spain concerning
American citizens captured on the fl
libuster Competitor, asked for by
the Morgan resolution, is not well re-
ceived either in or out of the Senate,
and unless it is proven to Senator'S,
by allowing them to see the cores
pondence, that some better reason
than whim of Mr. Cleveland's exists
for refusing this information, the SEN
ate is likely to take some additional
action. A report which cannot be
verified says that Secretary Olney re-
fused to allow member of the SEN
ate Committee on Foreign Relations
to see this correspondence.
Senator Quay's visit to Gov. Nc
Kinley is the subject most talked
about just now by the republicans in
Congress, who have nearly all con-
cluded that unless there is radical
change not now expected in the senti-
ments of the delegates to the st.
Louis Convention, Gov. Mckinley
will oe the republican nominee and
the next President. While nobody
knows exactly why that visit was
made, nor what was it's result, it has
certainly pleased the republicans,
those who have from the first sup
ported Gov. Mckinley as we'll as
those who supported other candidates.
1t indicates for one thing that the ST.
Louis Convention is not to be follow
ed by the sulking which had much to
do with republican defeat in '84 and
in 1872.
The House cannot be accused of
having any surplus love for Mr..
Cleveland, but it very promptly sat
upon the notoriety seeking resolution
of Representative Howard, the Ala
bama populist, impeaching the Pres
ident. Before Howard could make
the sensational speech he started,
Representative Dingley raised the
question of consideration against the
resolution; Speaker Reed at once put
the question, and by practically
unanimous vote the House refused to
hear Howard.
There is much doubt about that in
yestigation of the bond issue by this
which the Senate has
directed to be made. According to
Senator Harris, who is chairman of
the sub committee which will do the
investigating, it may be finished in
three days or it may take three
months. 1t will noU begin until Secre-
tary Carlisle furnishes the committee
all the details of the several bond is
sues. While indicating his willing
ness to do this, Mr.. Carlisle told the
committee that it would take con-
time to prepare the state
ment. Some criticism has been arous-
ed by the report that the investiga-
ton would be secret. tsi-s
1t is well known that neither Sena-
tor Vest nor Senator Blackburn has
any love for the present administra-
ton. The other day Vest approached
Black burn and said: "Joe, don't you
think Morton is the blankest fool who
ever held Cabinet position?" Black
burn took a long pull on the long
black cigar he had just lit and replied:
lsCan't answer the question, Vest; Pm
committed to Hoke Smith,"
Senator Sherman had no difficulty
in showing that those democratic
Senators who expressed their anx-
ETY. to join hands with the repub-
leans and pass non-partisan bill
which would give the government the
revenues which all the democrats now
admit that it needs were merely max
ng a grand stand play for the pur-
pose of trying to escape responsible
" for being willing that Congress
should adjourn without providing for
5he legitimate needs of the govern
nent. All that Mr.. Sherman did was
10 call their attention to the Dingley
Revenue bill which was
passed by the House early in the ses-
sion, and which comes as near to be-
ing an absolutely non-partisan tariff
bill as any measure ever passed by
either branch of Congress. That
brought out the cloven foot of the
Senators and they at once
declared they would never support
that bill. 1t is the country's misfor-
tune that the republicans cannot poll
q majority of votes in the Senate, but
it will be remedied in the near future.
The bill prohibiting further issue of
bonds without specific authority of
Congress is being debated in the SEN
ate. 1t has been virtually settled by
the several test votes which gave the
bill the right of way that majority of
the Senate favors the bill, but if there