The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-03-11
A SILVER MAJORITY.
ADMINISTRATION May NOT CON,
TR0l TIE SENATE.

Mark Hauna's Ambition; VIII he
Get His Desires7-CarlisIe Counsel
for PuIIman.-czar Reeds Great
Scheme.
Correspondence OF The News
WASHINGTON, March 8.-Mr. Nc
Kinley is likely to be much more
interested in the Senate than in the
soft speeches the army of Office seek.
ers are now pouring into his ears, il
certain plans now being strongly
urged are carried out. The ma.
jority of the Senate is composed Of
silver men, but they represent three
separate parties, Democrats, Popu.
lists and silver Republicans. The
greediness of the Republicans in
claiming the right to change the
financial complexion of the commit.
tee on finance by filing both vacan.
cies with gold Republicans has
aroused the silver men, and the
proposition has been made that they
shall combine and reorganize the
Senate by deposing the Republicans
from the chairmanship of all i'm
portant committees and by giving
the silver Senators control of all
committees. In other words, to put
the legislative machinery of the
Senate into the hands of the silver
men. This proposition will not be
easy to carry into effect because of
the difficulty of combining men who
agree on nothing but silver, but it
has frightened the Republicans
badly.
OBJECTIONS TO BLISS.
Senator Teller was speaking from
personal experience, having himself
been Secretary of the Interior from
April II, 1882, to March 4tb, 1885,
when he told the Senate that Mr..
Mckinley had made a serious mis-
take when he nominated Cornelius
N. Bliss to be Secretary of the Inte-
rior. He said that MIR. Bliss was a
banker and merchant, with an expe
rience which might have fitted him
for the head of some of the depart
ments, but that, in his opinion, the
head of the Interior Department
ought to be lawyer.
CZAR REEDS SCHEME.
As might be imagined these SEN
ators and Representatives who are
opposed 10 Gar Reeds idea of con-
fining the legislation of the extra
session of Congress, which meets
next Monday, to the tariff bill by
not appointing the Committees OF
the House which would have to act
upon other bills, are not grieving
over the failure of four of the regu.
lar appropriation bills, the Sun.
dry Civil, Agricultural, Indian and
Deficiency. Gar Reed already has
another scheme to prevent general
legislation. 1t is to authorize, by
joint resolution, continuance of
all of the regular appropriations OF
the current year until next Decem.
Der.
HANNA's AMBITION.
King Hanna has got everything
he has reached for up to date, but
certain Senators who think he is
now reaching after too much are
preparing to give him a disappoint-
ment, and there are big odds in fa-
vor of their succeeding. King Hanna
is reaching for place on she Sen
ate Finance Committee, in which
there are two vacancies caused by
the retirement of Sherman and
VOORHEES, in order that he may be
properly fixed to boss the tariff bill.
which will 60 to that committee as
soon as it gets through the house.
No new Senator has been given a
place on that committee in the mem.
ory of the oldest Senator, but that
doesn't make any difference to him.
He wants it and has made his want
known. 1t is practically certain
that he won't get it. Tom Plat
also wants place on this commit
tee, but as he has been in the Senate
before, his aspiration is not consid.
cred as audaciuus as that of King
Hanna. hut whether he will get the
place is very, very doubtful.
FIGHT FOR RE ELECTION
Ex-senator Black burn will att. nd
the exera session of the Kentucky J
legislature that has been called /,
elect a Senator and will make {
strong fight for his own reelection
Notwithstanding the Republican ma
jority in that body. Nobody ex.
poets the Senate to seat Maj. Wood
who has been appointed to the va
cancy by Gov. Bradley, and whether
the gentlemen appointed by the
Governors of Florida and Oregon
will fare any better, remains to b.
seen.
CARLIsLE's $4,000 PLACE.
Elk Secretary Carlisle has been of
fered the position of general counse
for the Pullman Car Co, now helt
by Gen. Horace Porter who expects
to go abroad, at a salary of $25, 900 ;
year, and the expectation is that Mr.