The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

l mere Is at l6aSG one pt puUlACdh SOh ator who thinks that the Mckinley ad- ministration will have to borrow money very early in It's career, notwithstand- ing the assertions of the party stump speakers and editors during the cam paign that it would never. under any circumstances, do such thing. Sena- tor Chandler not only thinks that the Mckinley administration will have to borrow money. but he has prepared a plan for it to do so, and 1t is supposed that he will put it in the form of bill, which he will introduce in congress. Ills plan is, in short, to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow as much money as may be needed to make up the difference between the govern ment receipts and expenditures so long as there is a deficit, the loans to be made payable in short period. Mir. Chandler seems to agree with the state ments made on the stump by silver men, that the election of Mckinley would mean, among other things, a fur ther increase in the national debt by the Government borrowing more mon ey, but other Republicans will favor exhausting ali other methods of trying to pull through before resorting to an- other loan in any shape.
 Even if there was Republican ma iority Tn the senate, they could not sc. complish any tariff legislation at this session of Congress, unless some way could be devised ofreconciling the wide difference of opinion among them as to what ought to be done. There is some talk of an attempt to add to the gov ernment revenues by internal revenue legislation, and the project of adding Sl a barrel to the tax on beer, which came so near being incorporated in the Wilson tariff bill by the Democratic Ways and Means committee of the last
 house, has been revived and may be I recommended in President CleVelaHd's d's annual message. The influence of the brewers killed :t when it was proposed before, ard now in addition to that it will have to contend with the opposi- ton of the high tariff Republicans, who want to leave the whole revenue
 question just where it is. ill order to have an excuse for an extra session ot Congress.
 The vacant seat on the bench of the Court of Claims, which gossip had as- signed to one of the members of Presi- dent Cleveland's cabinet, went to As sistant Attorney General Howry, whose official dutles have made him thor oughly familiar with tue business of this court. Judge Howry's legal attain ments are high and there is no person. al objection to him, but if the idea ad- vocated by considerable number ot
 silver men, of hanging up all of MT.
 Cleyeland's nominations in the Senate
 be carried out, his nomination will faI with all the rest.
 Whatever may be one's individual :. opinions, it is clearly apparent that the acton of fprominent gold Democrats, IT trying to get the administration to re move Democratic officials in a number
 of States because they supported Bryan is not calculated to wipe out the exist
 ing bitterness between the regular Dem ocrats and the bolters. In the post office department alone attacks are be
 ing made by the bolters upon more
 than fifty presidential postmasters. Il is not likely that any considerable :. number of these, or any other officials l the nomination of whose successors e has to be confirmed by the senate, vii e be removed, because whatever may bt U the result of the proposition to take nc - action upon any nominations, 1t IS cer | tain that the Senate, as at present cen t stituted, will not confirm the nomina ,. tion of any gold Democrat for position ]. from which a man was removed for nc
 other reason that he followed his con
 victions and supported silver. Tha y knowledge will probably prevent actior e by the administration on the complain e of the gold Democrats.
 The four Democratic Senators wh'
 bolted the nomination of Bryan-Pat u mer of Illinois, Villas of Wisconsin
 Gray of Delaware, and Cafery of Lou ~ isiana-will not be admitted to the eau n GUS of Democratic senators which vii '' be held as soon as Congress meets, 10 = the purpose of deciding upon line o V party policy during the session. Il !. addition to the party caucus there VII r. be a silver caucus, attended by tn t, populists, the silver Republicans, an' 1T the Democrats, and it is expected tha
 an agreement will be reached unde
 which the silver senators will act to
 oether on all matters concerning tn
 finances. While it is not thought tha
 the bolting gold democratic senator
 will caucus with the Republicans, 1t l
 believed that they will vote with ther
 upon financial questions.
 . The Republicans of Washington ar e in state of mind because old Dem $ ocrat has been slated for chairman l. the McKinlev inauguration committee I and they have made vigorous protes ;. against his being given the place, bot