Middletown transcript., 1896-02-15

! ]: ] j !; ! J.
I, 4 INW~A Shaw, of Spoil
~ I V4M ane, Washington
M lHEM tb be Secretar
!, W HHAA ofthe senate; Mi
E/d IN II. L. Grant, q
!. IA k N. G., to be Serg
! ~ eant-a Arm I
and Mr.. Alonzo Stewart, of Iowa, t
be Assistant Doorkeeper, authorizes
Senator Sherman to call up the ques
tion Of the election, of these officer
whenever he sees fit, but he is not ex
pected to do so until assured that theJ
can be elected. In other words, unit
certain that at least one popnlist will
vote with the Republicans. Tha
leaves matters In an indefinite shape
Senator Frye has been unanimously
elected President protein. but wher
the other Republican officials can be
elected nobody knows. It may be to.
morrow; it may be not at all.
The outlook for the House tariff bill
is not encouraging, no matter VIII ether
Senator Quay's resolution, to recommit
the free coinage substitute. which the
Finance committee las week reported,
to the committee, be adopted or not.
If adopted there is nothing to show
that Senator Jones, of Nevada, who
holds the balance of power, will allow
anything bat free coinage substitute
to be reported from the committee.
And If it isn't adopted, there is little
hope of getting the tariff bill through
the Senate.
The syndicate represented by Mr.. J.
Pierpont Morgan will get about one
third of that bond issue simply because
its bid for the entire issue was !. tiny
fraction higher than that put in by
the syndicate represented by another
New York banker. Whether Mr..
Morgan made his close have by reason
of advance information, he probably
did. is a question, but the most i'm
portant fact connected with Mr.. Nor
gan's bid was that, although the mark
ct quotation for these bonds was a lit
tie lower than it was last year when
he made that private deal with Mr..
Cleveland for the S62, ,000, 900 bond is
sue, and that these bonds will have one
year less to run, his bid for these bonds
was about seven cents on the dollar,
81, 900, 900, in all, in excess of the price
he paid for the same bonds one year
ago.
Has the Senate right through a
select committee to inves tigate the
election of members of State Legis-
lature which elects a U. IS. Senator?
That is the problem which has been re-
ferred to subcommittee of the Sem
ate Elections Committee. and the an
swer will probably determine what ac-
tion the committee will take upon Sena-
tor Aliens resolution for an investiga- |
tion of the Alabama legislative elec-
tion which preceded Senator Morgan's
last election to the Senate.
The vote of forty to twenty-eight,
by which the Senate referred the reso-
luton providing for the distribution of
several of the regular appropriation
bills among committee, they now all
60 to the Appropriations committee, to
the Committee on Rules with instruc-
tions to report back on the first day of
the next session, was great compli-
ment to Senator Allison, who is chair
man of the Committee on ,Appropria-
tions. There is little doubt that ma
iority of the Senate would have voted
for the change had it not been for the
fear that such action by the Senate at
This time would have been construed
ny some people as reflection upon
S-n aior Allison.
The report of the Nicaragua Canal
5am mission il not encouraging to Con-
yiessional action on the canal; at least;
lpt ON the lines heretofore proposed.
N addition to nearly doubling the
'stimate of the cost of its construction,
he report says plans must be changed
II it cannot be constructed at all. A
majority of both branches of Congress
ayors the construction of the canal,
'ut they are far FROM agreeing as to
ust how it should be done. This will
esult in delaying anything like positive
ction.
Justice Brewer. President of the
1enezuelan Boundary Commission,
as made public statement denoun-
ing the stories published In sensation
newspapers about the luxury and y
OF The Commission. 9
ustice Brewer says, and his word has I
ever been doubted, that instead of .
eing extravagant the commission has =
cen very economical and that y =
Q expects it to continue to be econo- 2
lical until its work is completed. ~
T
Delegate Catron. of New Mexi g,
as received many congratulations for
le cleyerness he displayed in pushing al
Is bill, against prize fighting in the D,
J the territories and the District Of OF
through the House and tn
enate without delay or even q single eo
1verse vote. The bill became law IN
J soon as it reached Mr.. Cleveland, 81,
Tho for once agreed with Congress. vi
ss