The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-07-02

From our Regular Correspondent.

| From our Regular Correspondent.
| WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator McLaurin
| is one of the few Democrats who is willing to
| make IL prediction us to the date of the passage
| of the tariff bill by the Senate, which nearly
| everybody expects to occur sometimes during
| the latter part of the present or the first OF
| next week. Speaking on the subject, Mr.. Nc
| Laurin Says Il think vote will be reached
| on Friday. That is hangInan's day, and, as the
| bill will bring ruin and misery it would be ap.
propriate to put it through on hangman's day
| Some of the Republican Senators expect the
| bill to be passed us early us Wednesday OF
| Thursday of this week, but that is not very
probable Republicans in the House are very
| confident that in all important schedules, the
| bill Us it energies from the conference Commit
| tee will closely resemble the original Dingley
bill.
Secretary Sherman doesn't know what Mr.
McKinley's Cuban policy is TO be. He soinform-
ed Il close personal. 1t has leaked out since
Gen. WoOdfOrd, the new Minister to Spain, has
been in Washington that he isn't in any parti-
| cular hurry about getting to Madrid, and that
| he has no idea that he will actually open nego-
tiations with Spain in the Ruiz case, which is to
be made the stepping stone to the Introduction
of the Mckinley policy towards Cuba, before
| the fall He will probably start late in July,
but it is not certain that he will go either by the
| most direct or the most speedy route.
| Car Reed has made out his list OF committee
| assignments and unless some OF his kindergar-
| ten, otherwise known the Z. 5. House of
Representatives, do something to offend him
| between now aud then, he will announce them
after the House has adopted II resolution set
| ting the date for the adjournment of the ses-
| sion.
The new Commissioner of Patents, II on. BENZ.
| Butterworth, is plying the new broom or pitch
| fork which has been long needed. Within two
| weeks he has disbarred eight patent attorneys
| for fraudulent practices, and he has ordered
John Wedderburn y Co. to answer why they
should not be disburred, charging them with
| making fraudulent, deceptive, improper and
incomplete searches, with intent tn defraud
and the result of defrauding clients, tc their
| injury and wrong doing. to the scandal and
reprOach of the Patent Office and contrary to
equity and good morals"
Mr.. Mckinley and Boss Hanna have conclud-
ed to abandon the idea of trying TO get Con-
grcss to authorize the appointment of cur
| remcy commission ut this session.
Nearly everybody except the applicant takes
the refusal of the Committee of Privileges and
Elections to vote on the report prepared by
Senator Hoar, favoring the seating OF eX-Sena-
tor Corbett, of Oregon, on the certificate of the
Governor of that State, to mean that Mr.. Cor
bett will never get the coveted seat. HI might
have gotten the seat had not eX Senator Mitch
ell and his friends been using their influence
against him on the quiet, although it is by no
means certain that u majority would have
voted to seat him, anyway.
Senator Billy Mason will be numerically
guyed by his associates when he returns to
Washington, for having made II big bluff by
telegraphing the request to have the nomina-
tons for the Southern district of Illinois held
up by the Senate Committee to which they
were referred, one day, and following it up the
next day by Withdrawing his objection to their
confirmation. He will be complimcnted on his
| skill as u lightning change artist.
| Some of the applicants for consular appoint
ment3 are beginning to regard themselves us
| being up against buncO game that is being
run by Mr.. Mckinley, and they are kicking us
much as they dare to as long us they allow
| themselves to cherish hopes of getting gov
errment berth. These men say that every
| time they go to the White House to try to push
along their application, they told that Mr..
Mckinley isn't ready to take up the appoint
| ment of consuls, and yet they see the nominu-
Ons of cOnsuls sent to the Senate almost every
day. and some of them have been young fell
lows whose only claims for recognition were
the pocketbooks of their fathers, or the social
"pull" of their mothers. 1t is not strange that
this state of affairs should cause kicking.
Senator Pettigrew is apparently none the
worse because of his disagreeablc experience
in the Senate on saturday. His,physcian says
that his trouble was merely temporary par
ulysis of the vocal cords. His sudden cessation
in the midst of the sentence which formed
part of a vehement speech created Il sensation
on the floor.