The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-05-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON. MAY 22d, 1896.
Senator German this week made
good the threat he made some time
ago, when he called attention to the
fact that there would not he money
enough in the Treasury to meet the
ex%travagant appropriations made at
this session Of Congress, by offering an
amendment to the Fertilization hill
authorizing the issue of 800. 900, 600 in
3 per cent certificates of Indebtedness.
OF course the republicans threw up
their hands in holy horror At the
very idea of such a thing, but none Of
them offered to join Senator German
in trying to curtail the e%xtravagant
appropriations.
Senator Quay is going to see Nc
kinley to dicker for a place in the
band wagon, and Speaker Reed is
thinking unprintable thoughts. The
republican opposition to Mckinley
has about reached the collapsing
point.
Those two eminent republicans Of
the House, Walker, of Mass, and
Dalzel, Of Pa, exchanged this week
the complimentary terms of ''dema-
gogne' and .'impudent," in IA little
discussion brought on by the former
making a kick against boss rule il
the House, which allows speaker Reed
to control all legislation in that body.
Gen. Fitz Lee, now nn 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 Il 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 a marked ex-
tent. As n of his old soldiers and
admirers put it, II believe Fitz Lee
would create enthusiasm at il Quaker
meeting. if allowed to talk for five
minutes.'
Senator Villas naturally resents the
charge that he secured the adoption of
the resolution by the Senate ordering
that Secretary Carllsle's recent Chica
go financial speech be printed as a
public document by a trick. He
o'eaSo t1dO lie dCtIOl was Otcn anu
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 "A public doc
ument SO as to make it frankable.
Praise from your political enemies is
often more dangerous and undesira.
ole than censure. but the reference to
the immigration Bureau made~by Rep
resentatiye Corliss, of Mich, doesn't
belong to that class. He said of this
bureau, In a speech made in the House
this week at stands ont as one de-
paItment of the government seeki, q
earnestly and faithfully to execute the
laws with reference to immigration.
and | want to congratulate nv demo.
cratic trends that they have in this de-
partment worthy and efficient men
Ex-Cengressman Stump. of Md. is at
the head of the Immigration Burean
Inc debate on the immigration bill !
which was passed. brought a new ora
tor to the front in the person of Rem !
resentatlve Buck, of New Orleans.
AS a naturalized American citizen
came to America in 1852, when only
years oId-he opposed any burden.
some restriction on immigration. AZ
the close of his speech he was warmly
congratulated by those who agreed
With him as we'll as those who did not
for having made oae of the hast
speeches Of the session. from the stand
point OF the admirer of finished and
eloquent oratory.
A movement has been started which
MIR. Mark Hanna will do well to watch
carefully. Its avowed object is to
throw the vote of every negro dele
gate TO the st. Louis convention
against Mckinley, and to either Reed
or Allison. This movement is headed
by the notorious Perry Carson. Who
has Tor many veals bossed the necroes
OF the city Of Washington and who has
peeh ii delegate to every republican
n"'i'''al for years past.
Carson is an illit+rate negro, but when
II comes to political trick cry and the
manipulation of negroes he can give
the siirewdest of his white bretlern
pointers. Mark Hanna may have to
Ouy some of those nigs again.
Mr.. John Bell Bigger, who has been
clerk OF the Virginia House OF Dele.
gates for years and who is always
posted o., democratic politics in that
state, is In Washington. When asked
1.-THE Virginia democrats would holt if
tl'e financial plank of the Chicago
convention didn't suit them, he in.
stantiy replied "No sir not on your
lie. Boiling isn't in our line. W. !