The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-05-07

OF Big Rapids was appointed assistant
In the office of General A. w. Greedy,
librarian OF the war department.
Congressman Hamilton, Samuel
Smith and Crump are the only members
Of the Michigan delegation now in the
city. The others are expected to return
and place their names on record when
the Dingley bill goes back to the house.
Among the Michigan visitors in WASH
ington during the past week were Col
onel John j. Sumner of the Orchard
Lake Military academy; Colonel Frank
j. Hecker and James c.. Wheeler of De-
troit; f.. L. Walters of Ann Arbor; III.
G. Howard Of KALAMAZOO; M. L. Fitch
of Grand Rapids; Hon. Mark Brewer
of Pontiac; Hon. A. o. Wheeler of Man
istee; George w. Robinson. and f. H.
Harvey of Detroit, and Hon. Henry M.
Lour of Au Sable.
A new postofiice has been established
at Toxic, Calhoun county, and Miss
Carrie I. Otis is the first postmistress.
Ohio Colony To BE Increased.
There are two more Ohio men slated
for good positions here in Washington.
There are a good many candidates for
solicitor general, but the place has been
offered to eY-Attorney General Richards
of Ohio, who is an intimate friend of the
president.
The position Of solicitor for the state
department has also been promised to
an Ohio man. This lucky Buckeye is
Harry M. Daugherty Of Washington
Court House. Mr.. Daugherty is n Of
the Ohio Republicans who have man
aged to keep on excellent terms with
both factions in Ohio. He was an en-
thusiastic Mckinley man in the CAM
paign of 1891, when the major was first
elected governor, and was a member
Of the legislature elected that year.
In the contest between Sherman and
Foraker for the enate Mr.. Daugher-
tvs support was sought for by both
sides, n there was much speculation
as to which camp would enroll him.
On the test vote for speaker he voted
with the Foraker men, and was set
down as favorable to Foraker's election
to the senate. but in the senatorial au-
Gus he voted for Sherman.
He has since been looked upon as a
follower of Sherman and Hanna, and Is
to be solicitor for the state department
IL he cares to leave his law practice in
Ohio and join the Ohio colony in WASH
ington.
Delay on the Tariff Bill.
There is little prospect for the presen-
tation of the tariff bill in the senate for
some days yet. The members of the
finance committee held a lengthy ses-
sion and talked over the proposition of
the Republicans hat the bill be per-
mitted to go into the senate at once.
1t Is understood that they got very lit
tie encouragement from the Democratic
members of the committee.
1t is not surprising that this was the
fact, If the reports of what occurred in
side the committee room are accurate.
1t Is stated that the Republicans were
almost as reticent with the Democratic
members of the committee about the
work they had lone and the changes
made in the bill as they have been with
the other members of the senate, or with
the public generally.
In view of this the Democratic men,
bers quite naturally declined the propo-
sition to permit the bill to be reported
to the senate at once. They indicated.
on the contrary, that they desired to
pretty thoroughly examine it not only
themselves, but with the aid of experts,
and that they should insist upon all the
time that they might feel they ought
to have, whether this should be one
week or three.
This evidently means that the bill
will not get into the senat before the
end of the first week in May, or per-
haps the middle of the month.
II Senatorial Situation.
The present condition of the senate
adds greatly to the interest felt in the
coming election of a legislature in Ohio,
which legislature is to elect a senator
to fill the seat now held by appointment
by Mr.. Hanna.
Should the senate remain evenly di-
vided, as it now is, the result in Ohio
would determine whether or not the Re-
publican president, chosen from that
state, is to have a Republican or a
Democratic senate to uphold pr oppose
him..
This renders the situation there an
extremely interesting one.
In case of the election Of a Democrat |
ic legislature and a Democratic senator |
TO succeed Mr.. Hanna, nothing could
prevent the senate being Democratic, or |
at least anti-Republican, for the next
two years, while with a Republican in
that seat the members of that party
might expect to control that body.
The election of Senator Deboe and his |
prospective assignment to committee
duty will not make any change in the
made up by the caucus commit
tees on the assignment of committee
places.
They had calculated upon a Repub-
lican senator from Kentucky and re-
served certain of the committee posi-
lions to which he could be assigned IL
the result which has been attained
should be realized.
Nelson's Bankruptcy Bill.
The success of Senator Knute Nelson !
in substituting his bankruptcy bill for !
the one before the mate and then Sc
curing it's passage was a feature of the
of the present session. 1t
was a decided victory for the Scandi-
senator, and as unexpected as
It was thorough n complete. During |
the long discussion of the bankruptcy
measure Senator Nelson has grown Wis
IDLY in the estimation of his colleagues
as a sound lawyer Inc strong fighter.
The whole question of the bankruptcy
legislation has been ar apparently in
terminable and insoluble controversy