Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-01-27
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent

w ASHlNGTON, January III, 1871
Senator Cameron, who has only few
weeks more of public life and who con-
siders 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 vocabulary
about the fipfop certain Republican
senators have turned on his Cuban
resolution. He is especially bitter
against John Sherman, who he SAYS
assured him before he accepted the
position OF secretary of state in Nc
Kinley's cabinet that he was for his
resolution and who has since then used
his influence among senators who wish
to be solid with Mckinley against the
resolution so industriously that if the
resolution was now brought to vote
it would probably be defeated.
Speaker Reed is nearer to having
an open revolt on his hands than at
any period since he became the auto
GRAFT of the house. A respectful petit
ton signed by 208 members of the
house has been presented to him ask
ing him to suspend his arbitrary rule
against public building bills and to
allow time to be set for the cOnsid-
GRAFTON of twenty-five of those bills
now on the calendar. He intimated
quite plainly to the committee which
presented the petition that he didn't
wish TO grant the request, although
he took it under advisement If he
grants this request, 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.
The members o 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 oppor-
tunity to vote on the senate amend
ments, just as it might have done when
the bill first came back from the SEN
ate had not Speaker Reed ordered the
bill referred to the committee The
committee refused even to accept an
amendment, exempting from the oper-
alton of the bill the lands which the
government is selling as trustee for
the Indians.
Representative Swanson, of Virgin
la, 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 buoyant than any defeat
ed party ever was before. Without
intimidation, coercion or corruption
a vast majority of the voters of this
country to-day are in accord with it.
Having divorced itself from the pres
ent administration, it is building near
the affections and the interests of the
masses. The Democratic party viii
continue its aggressive fight for both
gold and silver as legal tender money
and against special privileges to trusts,
combines and corporations. Those
who failed to act with us in the last
election will most of them return to
the party. Many have already done
so. No concessions in principles or
policies will be made, though, to gain
the support of these. Shorn of their
power of patronage and discredite6
as loyal Democrats, those who do not
return will not be potential for evil
in the future. The Democracy pro-
poses to beat no retreat from the adj
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