Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-05
SLIPPERY JOHN,
THE BUCKEYE.
HE PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE ON
THE CUBAN MATTER.
John Sherman rs n Trimmer-The
Same Individual as a Financier-
Czar Reed Called Down Pros.
pecls "f ta- Democracy as OUT
lined by Representative swanson.

lined by Representative swanson.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90, 1897.
Senator Cameron who has only a
few weeks more Of public life and who
considers himself entirely out of
politics and who consequently doesn't
care whose political toes he treads on,
Is doing some very plain talking-like
his father, the late Simon Cameron,
he has an expressive neutrality-suspicious.
the hipfop certain Republican Sena-
tors have turned on his Cuban rcsolu.
ton. He is especially bitter against
John Sherman, who he says assured
him before he was compelled to ac-
cept the position of Secretary OF State
in McKinley's cabinet that he was
for his resolution and who has
since then used his influence among
Senators who wished to be solid with
Mckinley against the resolution so
industliously that if the resolution was
now brought to vote it would proba-
bly, be defeated.
a Washington real estate agent
said, speaking about John Sherman
and how he acquired some of his
wealth: " 1t may be only coincidence,
but it reminded me OF a former trans
action OF the willy Sherman when
saw that just about the time it be-
came certain that he was to be the
next Secretary of State he took out a
permit for the erection of a block of
dwelling houses in East Washington.
When he became Secretary of the
Treasury under Hayes he built a block
of houses in an undesirable section of
East Washington and they were all
sold to employees of the Treasury. |
| cannot say, of course, that Mr. Sher-
man made those Treasury employees
buy undesirable houses at big price
but You can imagine how it worked
when the real estate agent who handled
the property approached a Treaury
enploye with proposition to buy one
OF these houses, which everybody knew
belonged to the Secretary of the
Treasury, and gave him a gentle hint
to the effect that the Secretary would
not be likely to discharge a clerk who
was buying one of his houses. l shall
keep my eye on those houses Mr..
Sherman is now having built. l have
a curiosity to know whether any of
them will be bought by State depart
ment employees"
Car Reed is nearer to having an
open revolt on his hands than at any
period since he became the autocrat of
the House. A respectful petition
signed by POS members of the House
has been presented to him asking him
to suspend his arbitrary rule against
public building bills and to allow a
time to be set for the consideration of
% of those bills now OH the calendar.
He intimated quite plainly to the
Committee which presented the petit
ton that he didn't wish to grant the
request, although he took it under
advisement. If he grants this re-
quest, there will be plain sailing for
him, and not much show for the bills
to get through the Senate during the
remaining time of this session; if he
refuses it, there may be very lively
row. Two hundred and eight men,
bers-almost two-thirds of the House,
can easily uncrown the Gear, if so dis
posed.
The members of the House commit
tee on Public Lands declined to follow
the wishes of Speaker Reed concern
ing the Free Homestead bill. The
bill has been reported to the House
just as it was amended by the Senate
and the House will be given an op-
pOrtunity to vote on the Senate amend
ments, just rs it might have done
when the bill first came back from the
Senate had not Speaker Reed ordered
the bill referred to the committee
The committee. refused even to accept
an amendment exempting from the
operation of the bill the lands which
the government is selling as trustee
for the Indians.
Representative Swanson, of Va, one
OF the most prominent OF the younger
Democrats in the House has this to
say in public interview about the
future of the Democratic party:
There will be no reorganization of
the Democratic party. 1t is to-day
stronger and more compact, more ag-
gressive and bnoyant than any de-
feated party ever was before. With
out intimidation, coercion, or corrup-
tion vast majority of the voters of
this country to-day are in accord with
it. Having divorced itself from the
, present administration, it is building
near the affections and the interests of
the masses. The Democratic party
will continue its aggressive fight for
both gold and silver as legal tender
money and against special privileges