The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-12-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent

President Mckinley has completed
che first draft of his annual message to
Congress, and today it was read at the
Cabinet meeting and every recommen.
<ation was unanimously approved, as
1t will be by the Republican party at
large when it is made public. Some ef.
fort has been made by the Democrats to
give the public the impression that diff.
erences existed between the President
and Secretary Gage as to the financial
legislation that should be recommended
70 Congress, but 1t can be stated on the
higest authority that all such stories are
purely imaginary. The President and
his Secretary of the Treasury, and in
TACT his entire Cainet, are of one mind
ON this subject and President Mckinley
believes in the possibility of securing
financial legislation at this session Of
Congress, perhaps not all that will be
asked for, but something in the line of
strengthening acknowledged defects in
our present financial system.
Such veterans in the Congressional
arena as Senator Burrows, of Mich, and
Representative Dalzell, of Pa, are not
carried away by the prophecies Of this
being short session of Congress made
by men of less experience They recog
hize that number of subjects certain to
be taken up, especially finance, will con.
sumo much time, in debate, whether
anything is accomplished or not, and
consequently they expect the session to
be we'll up to the average in length of
the long sessions of Congress. Senator
Burrows places the date OF adjournment
in the neighborhood of Aug. l.
1t has been taken for granted that any
bill carrying out President McKinley's
financial recommendations would receive
the support of the gold Democratic Sen
ators, and possibly of several other Dem.
ocratic Senators who supported Bryan
and the Chicago platform last year be-
cause they were party men and not be.
cause of any sympathy they had with
either, and who are believed to be favor
able to legislation that would result in
removing the silver question as nation
al issue. The latter class of Democrats,
If there really be such, could not be ex
pected to announce any such intention !;
with four fiths of their party shouting
for free silver it would be political sui
eide for them to do 80. With the gold
Democratic Senators it is different, as
they are already asking Senator Lindsay,
of KY, the first one of them to arrive
in Washington, what, if any, policy
they would have as to financial legisla
ton at the coming session of Congress
He replied: "We :have had no confer
ence among ourselves, and therefore
have not agreed upon any policy. If
the Republicans have any policy as to a
line of action, have not been informed
what it is Hence, am not in a posi-
ton to give the information desired
may say, however, that I think the
country still wants currency reform and
believe that if the Republicans would
agree among themselves, it would be
possible for them to accomplish that end.
State Senator Voorhees, of New Jersey,
is visiting Washington. He said: "The
Republicans of New Jersey feel very
good over the situation in the state. We
have the state safely in the Republican
fold, though it was once considered
nominally to be Democratic, and we feel
confident that We will send a Republi.
can in Senator Smiths place when his
term expires. Senator Smith will be a
candidate to succeed himself, and al.
though he is wealthy and a smooth
politician, We have no fear of his win
ming out"
Senator Foraker was in Washington
this week, but he decline to discuss the
political situation in Ohio, as he had
nothing to add to what he said several
weeks ago, that with him the campaign
ended on election day. He doesn't
seem bit worried over the misrepresen.
tations concerning his position which
have been such conspicuous feature of
The Democratic newspapers for some
weeks past.
Unless some Senators are badly mis-
informed, about the first business in the
Senate when Congress meets will be an
attempt to adopt report of the Com
mittee on Elections and Privileges de-
claring Hon. W. Corbett, of Oregon,
who was appointed by the Governor, to
be entitled to the vacant seat left by the
failure OF the Legislature to elect sue
cessor to Senator Mitchell whose term
expired on the third Of last March. No
report has yet been made in this case,
and the members of the committee nat
urally decline to discuss it. The talk
so ho1 -, +,