Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-04-30
no USE OF KICKING.
GAR REED is IN THE SADDLE AND
WILL RIDE.

Mckinley Rewards Prominent Gold
'DemOcrats'' by Retention In
Office-The Old.Time Pie.Biters
cling TO the Mckinley
/ Urged TO Pardon AN willing
Witness Committed ior Contrmp l
of Court.
From Onr Regular Correspondent.
WA>HINGrON, April 93d, 1897.
Tine gentleman engaged in attempt.
ing to organize a revolt in the House
against Car Reeds gh-handed way
OF doing thing have zeal, will, brains,
audacity-in fact, everything but the
! one thing necessary to succeed, votes
enough to outvote Reeds supporters.
There is lots of talk about a large
number of Republicans being ready
to join the revolt, but if brought to an
issue it will he found that the large
number" will be about a dozen or
possibly as many as twenty at the
outside. This being the case it strikes
me that these gentlemen are, with the
best intentions, wasting time that
might be put to a better Use than
raising expectations that cannot be
realized among those who are not fully
acquainted with the situation in the
House. That there are enough Re-
publicans in the House who are at
heart opposed to Mr.. Reeds policy
and methods to make u majority of
the House when combined with the
Democrats and Populists is probably
true, but they all want the best com
mittee assignments they can get and
are not going to vote against the man
who makes those assignments; they
also want favors from the administra-
ton, and they know that Mr.. Mckin-
ley is in favor or the Reed policy.
Enough Republicans to make a ma
jority of the House will support Reed,
regardless Of what they think.
Billy" Mason, OF Illinois, this week
established his record in the Senate as
a "kicker," by making a speech in
favor of his resolution for q cloture
rule, in which he ridiculed the methods
of that august body and charged its
members with caring more for in
dividual power than for the public
welfare. Referring to the failure to
act on the Morgan Cuban resolution
he said that it was impossible to tear
down the golden god of the Senate
rules in order to act. and closed by
saying: a. would not scuttle the old
ship, but / would like to put her in
dry dock long enough to have her
bottom scrsped."
While no gold Democrat has been
appointed to prominent place by Mr..
Mckinley, he is indirectly showing his
gratitude to the gold Democrats by
allowing number of them to remain
in very desirable offices. Mr.. Conrad
N. Jordan, Assistant Treasurer of the
U. s. at New York, is a conspicuous
example, although Senator Plat and
the entire New York machine made
hot fight for his place for Ellis II.
Roberts, q Platt Republican. Mr..
Jordan was in Washington this week
to renew his 100000 bond that ex-
pired at midnight on the 22d inst.
His renewal of the bond makes il
certain that he has been assured of
his retention in office for an indefinite
period, as reward for being II gold
Democrat. And the same policy is be-
pursued towards Claude NJ. Johnson,
of Kentucky, Chief OF the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing; exRepre-
sentative Forman, of Illinois, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, and
others who fill places OF less i'm
portance.
The professional office holders
those who have been in office before
have secured about nine-tenths of the
pie distributed up to date by Mr.. Nc
kinley, which seems to show that ex-
perience is as necessary in office seek
ing as in any other business but that
doesn't lessen the disappointment of
the inexperienced reachers after official
pie.
Senator Morgan has given notice
that he would insist upon vote next
week upon his resolution for the
recognition of the belligerency of the
Cubans. The resolution can command
majority in the Senate all right, but
there it will stop, unless Car Reed
sees fit to allow the House to do some
business at this session outside of the
tariff bill and the leftover appropria-
ton bills.
The adverse decision by the u. S.
Supreme court in the case OF Chap
man, the New York broker who re-
fused to answer questions in the Senate
sugar scandal investigation, leaves
Chapman with only one hope of es
Gaping the thirly.day Jail sentence i'm.
posed upon him when he was guilty
of contempt in Washington court.
That is, in his being pardoned by Mr..
Mckinley. Strong pressure is being
brought upon Mr.. Mckinley to issue
a pardon to Chapman.
Democratic Senators have been
notified that if they would not force
Senator Vests resolution, declaring
the action OF Secretary Gray in issuing
orders for the enforcement of the
retroactive clause of the tariff to be
illegal, to vote, that clause would be
either made satisfactory or dropped
entirely before the bill is reported to
the Senate. This confession that the
clause in question was merely put
In the bill to bluff importers is not
surprising. 1t never had many ad-
vocates in the Senate. Dem
MUST HAVE THEM.-The following
interesting statement is made by Da-