Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-01-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 1897.

Senator Gray, of Delaware, will this week
present the credentials of Mr.. Kenney, who
was last week elected Senator by the leg
stature, and whose credentials are properly
certified by the governor of that state. A
hard fight is going 10 be made by the repuD-
licans to keep Mr.. Kenney out OF his seat.
Inasmnch as Kenney, WHO'S silver DEM
ocrat, will receive the support OF all the
silver Senators, it is expected that the
republicans will devote their efforts to try
ing to stave off vote until after the 4th OF
March, when they will be stronger In the
Senate. It is said that Little Billie
Chandler's scheme of reopening the Dupont
application will be abandoned because OF
the refusal OF some of the Republican SEN
ators to support it, and that instead the
claim of 1.-The gas millionaire, Addicks,
which has slready been presented TO the
Senate by ('handler,-he is always around
when anything dirty in the political line is
needed will be urged against that of Sen
ator-elect Kenney. AddIcks has got plenty
of money and if there are any votes in the
Senate that can be bought, he is willing to
spend it.
Senator Turpie called up the Cameron
Cuban resolution and made a spirited
speech thereon, in which he made it plain
that while he was Just as strongly 10 favor
of the independence of Cuba as ever, he was
even more strongly in favor of action which
would declare the Senate to be independent
of Executive authority.
Senator Morgan has not at any time been
oYerfriendly towards the arbitration treaty,
and since the Nicaragua Canal bill, of which
he was an ardent supporter, was given its
deathblow by the notice from the Minister
of the Greater Republic.of Central. Amer
lea that Nicaragua, which is part of that
Republic, would not allow the concessions
granted to the Canal Company to be con-
trolIed by the United States. as proposed
in the bill, but would be willing to open
negotiations on the subject withathegoverR-
ment direct, he seems disposed to even up
things with England by trying to defeat
the arbitration treaty. Senator Morgan says
that England is merely making catspaw
out of those little Central American gov
ernments, and that one of its reasons for
wanting that arbitration treaty enforced is
to get hand in the control of the Mica
ragua canal. This it would do, if the arbi-
tration treaty we're in force, by getting upa
dispute with us oyer the Canal and then
referring it to arbitration, with the certain
ity that King Oscar, of Sweden, would
name an umpire who would decide in
Eogland's favor. Senator Morgan is figh-
ing mad about it, and that isn't going to
help the arbitration treaty any.
Miss Maud Stalnaker, young lady of
Washington, d. c., was recently an appli-
cant for position under the Civil Service
Rules, and probably passed the most diff
fcult examination that has ever been pre-
pared by the Civil Service Commission.
She was the only one who was able to pass
the examination. but the war department
refuses to appoint her to the vacant clerk
ship on the ground that she is woman.
The examination required translations into
English of Technical Military Works in
French, German, Spanish and Italian ;
typewriting in all of these languages, and
ability to do proof-reading aud prepare
manuscript for the press; a knowledge of
modern library methods, cataloguing, in
dexing and of the English language and
literary composition. The salary of the
position demanding all these requirements
is 81, 500 year.
Some very interesting, although rather
tardy talk about the methods by which
President Cleveland shut members of Con-
gress out of his presence, thus depriving him
self of information he should have had aud
would have had about legislation asked for
by the people who are directly represented
by the members of the House, preceded the
passage of the House, over the Presidents
veto, of the bill providing for the establish
ment of a new division of the Eastern
Judicial district of Texas. Representative
Cooper told the House of several trips he
made to the White House for the purpose
of explaining to Mr. Cleveland why his
constituents wanted u legislation, and OF
his finally being told by private Secretary
Thurber that it was useless for him to con-
tinue his efforts to see the President, because
be had already made up his mind to veto
the bill. 1t is believed that the Senate
will indorse this section of the House.
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, has
alarmed those who are interested in his
welfare by stating on the floor of the House
that he was not McKinley's representative
and could not speak for him. AS modesty
has never been part OF Grosvener's make
up, it is feared that his mental faculties are
getting disordered.