Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IsPE1 DIAL coRREsposDENoB OF THE MONITOR
WASHINGTON, March 80, 1896.


ssrevolt' of the House against him.
The aforesaid s'revolt' consisted of
the House voting to devote day to
the consideration of private bills on
the calendar instead of following the
advice of Chairman Cannon, of the
Appropriation committee, and going
ahead with the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill Speaker Reed had no more
to do with the matter than the reader
of this paragraph, and the only reason
for the vote was that many of the
members realizing, especially since
the offering of Senator Platt's resolu-
ton for adjournment on May 2, that
the session is rapidly drawing to a
close, were anxious to try to get &C
ton upon private bills in which they
to it,
The Cuban business will be finished
SO far as Congress is concerned, as
soon as the House accepts the con
ference report in favor of the House
adopting the Senate resolution in
stead of its own. The change was
made because it became clear that
there was an intention on the part of
few Senators to prevent a vote be-
ing taken on the original conference
report, which was in favor of the
House resolutions being adopted as a
substitute for those of the Senate.
There will probably be some talk on
the subject in the House, but no pro-
tracted debate is expected, or will be
allowed, before the conference report
is agreed to. If those who are assun-
ing the right to speak for Mr.. Cleve-
land know what they are talking
about, the resolution will not be of
any material benefit to the Cubans.
The sentiment of the republicans in
Congress is practically unanimous in
favor of passing the appropriation
bills and adjourning as early as pos
sible, it having been fully demon
strated that no other important legis-
lation can be gotten through at this
session.
Secretary Hoke Smith may find
when he returns from his present
Georgia crusade against the free sill
Yer senatorial candidacy of xSpeak
er Crisp that he has got mixed up in
an ugly scandal. Just before he left
Washington he issued orders reduc-
ing Sergeant Perry and Captain Wat
son of the Pension Bureau watch, and
their friends intimate that the reduc-
ton is a punishment for not doing
what some Of Secretary Smiths
friends wanted done, rather than for
any neglect of duty. 1t is reported
that Senators Voorhees, and Turpie, of
Indiana, who although they are dem
ocrats are not in love with Secretary
Smith and his methods, particularly
those relating to Pension Office mat
tiers, will take up the cases of the re-
duced men and get them justice if
they have to have the whole business
investigated by a Congressional COM
mittee.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, of New
York, told the House commerce com
mittee that the Nicaraguan canal
company, of which he is President
had never asked Congress for aid and
was not asking now for aid. He said
that all the company asked from Con-
gress was a definite answer as to the
position this government intended to
occupy in the matter, and that if the
government didn't want to control
the canal and would say SO, the COM
pany could get private capital to car
ry out its plan, but that it could do
nothing while the attitude of this gov
eminent was uncertain.
Congressman were reminded of the
adage ''Go away from home to hear
the news" when telegram from
Mass. was published in local paper
saying that democratic member of
the House, now in that state, was
authority for the statement that Mr..
Cleveland had written a letter an
nouncirg his desire to retire to
private life and positively stating that
he would not allow his name to go be-
fore the Chicago convention as can
didate. If he had stopped right there
his story might have had some be-
lievers. But he killed everything by
adding that it had been Mr.. Cleve
lands intention to publish that letter
some time ago, but he had been per-
suaded by members of the democratic
national committee to hold it while
longer. Now it is well known to every
x,o,, md woman and ouou tho chill
dren who have reached the age of
discretion, that Mr.. Cleveland has
never since he became President, been