The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-14
" aShingtOn Letter.
From our regular correspondent

WASHINGTON, u. c. Feb, z, 1896.
Fifteen republican Senators voted
for the zee coinage substitute for the
Ho Sc bond bill. which passed the
Senate by vote Of ~ to So and three
republican Senators who would have
voted tor --Hansbrough of n Dako-
ia; Dubois, of Idaho and Wolcott, of
Coo o,-were paired. AS there is no
possibility that the substitute can be-
come II law the only interest attached
to The matter was the record made by
the vote. With the exception of Sen
ator Cameron, OF Penn, all of the re-
publicans are believed to have voted in
accordance with the views of majori
ty Of their constituents.
The democratic members of the
House committee on Foreign Affairs
having refused to agree to any resolu
ton submitted by the republican mem
bers of that committee. the republicans
adopted, and, of course, the House will
also, a resolution expressing the sense
OF the House that Ambassador Bay
ards un-American utterances in recent
speeches in Great Britain were i'm
proper and that he be censured there
for. If Bayard has any sense of
manhood left he will resign when the
House adopts that resolution.
Senator Pettigrew, of S. Dakota,
sometimes has prophetic mood.
While one of them was on him he said
"The bond bill will die in conference.
The House will not agree to the free
coinage substitute of the Senate, and
all of the various compromises that
may be proposed will go into the waste
basket. There is no common ground
upon which the Houses can meet. The
revenue bill will be reported from the
Committee on Finance without a
and will pass the Senate in
the same shape it passed the House.
1t will then 60 to the President, who
will knock it in the head with his little
veto and end financial legislation for
this session. We will then pass the
bills and go home before
the first of May, making the shortest
long session ON record"
Speaker Reed has been presented
with gavel from Mr.. Blaine's birth
place, accompanied by the following
letter, which is self-explanatory: "The
wood for this gavel was taken out of
the window frames of the Blaine House.
living shrine is more satisfactory
than a dead one, mans house is more
attractive than his grave. To see the
rooms in which he lived and talked,
the bed on which he slept, the chair
and table where he wrote, the very pen
which his living fingers guided-these
very sights bring the man before us
and he lives again. James g. Blaine
belongs to history Knowing the Hon.
Thomas B. Reed to be friend of the
lead statesman, we send him this gavel
as token of our esteem and respect
or him personally, and as our standard
bearer in 1896. We hope when taps
)f this gavel shall call the House to
order, it will call before the members
;he form of Hon. James G. Blaine,
whose words have echoed through the
chamber which now knows his voice
10 more"
While there are many men in both
of Congress who are as much
opposed to Mr.. Cleveland's policy as
senator Tillman, of S. c., is or can be,
here are few men in Congress who do
lot openly condemn the blackguard
anguage which Tillman used to ex-
'ress his opposition. The Presidents
POSITION should protect him from per-
onal abuse.
The Union Republican Club, of
proposes to celebrate the
ortieth birthday of the Republican
,arsy by holding a big mass meeting
N the evening of Feb. 22nd. A large
lall has been engaged, and already the
invitations of the club have heen ac-
epted by a sufficient number of re-
ublicans of National reputation to
make it certain that the celebration
7ill be the brilliant success it deserves
0 be.
If the democratic members of the
enate all follow the example of the
emocrats of the Election committee,
will be left for the populists to de-
ide whether Senator Dupont, Of Del,
hall get the seat to which he was
sgally elected. The Election Com
nittee has, by the vote of every repub-
can member, reported in favor of
enator Dupont's right to the seat, but
the democrats all vote against him
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