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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. February 22nd.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Hon. William ]. Bryan
will visit Washington this week, but he
will not probably stay until Inauguration
day. He will be the guest of MIR. John Il.
Mclean. who will give IL dinner to about
one hundred guests in his honor. This
dinner will cot be Il political event. as the
guests will include a number of personal
friends of Mr.. Bryan in all the parties.
But during Mr. Bryan's stay there will be
a conference, perhaps several, to discuss
the immediate future of the democratic
party.
1t is unfortunate in more senses than
one that there should be an investigation
at this time into an act of the administra-
ton by which the step-father of the Presi-
dents wife will be largely benefited.
And everybody sincerely lshes that the
Senate Committee on Public Lands will
find everything ght about the Florida
land patent for 1000 acres. which was re-
Gently issued to Mr.. Perrine, the husband
of Mrs Clevelands mother, and which the
Committee is now investigating. Exon
gresham Brookshire, of Indiana, is coun-
sci for the settlers on this land who claim
that the grant was forfeited many years
ago.
The Civil Service Commission has made
answer to Senator Aliens resolution,
adopted by the Senate last week, as to the
alleged dismissal of two women from a
branch of the Agricultural Department,
at South Omaha, Neb., for displaying pic
lures of Mr. Bryan in the late campaign.
The answer says the Commission investi-
gated the complaint when first made and
that Secretary Morton denied that the dis
charges were ma lie for the cause specified,
or that he knew the politics Of those dis
charged. The most significant portion of
the answer, especially to those in office
who regard themselves as being protected
by the Civil Service Commission, Is the
following: The Commission is not an
appointing, or reinstating, or removing
body"
Representative McRae, of Ark ansas,
who was one of the democratic members
of the Coinage committee who voted for
the favorable report, with amendments, of
the Senate bill authorizing the President
to appoint delegates for any international
monetary conference called by any nation
or by himself took occasion to briefly
state the attitude of the democrats toward
the bill. He said the democrats bad no
faith whatever in such a method of bring
ing about the free coinage of silver. but
that they had no desire to place any OBJ
stacle in the way of the republicans trying
to carry out the promise made by their
national PLATFORM; on the contrary, that
they were anxious for the next admins
tration to demonstrate to the country what
could be done along that line.
Notwithstanding Senator Kyle's asser-
ton that he did not get the republican
votes which reelected him by making
promises, the republicans in Washington
are now counting upon his voting with
them to obtain control of the Senate Or
ganization and to fill Committee vacancies
that will exist March 4th. This confidence
of the republicans is not based upon any
vague expectation or hope; they do not
say Senator Kyle may vote with us, but
that Senator Kyle will vote with us. In
voting with the republicans in this par
ticular case, should his vote settle the
question. Senator Kyle will betray the
principles he has professed ever since he
entered the Senate. AS most people
know, the Senate Finance Committee, as
at present made up, is controlled by silver,
although seven of its thirteen members,
including the Chairman, are republicans.
There will be two vacancies in this COM
mittee on March 4th. Senator Sherman
will enter the Cabinet and Senator Voorhees,
will retire to private life. The republican
leaders consider it necessary, as this is the
Committee that will handle the new tariff
bill, that both of these vacancies shall be
filled by men who can be counted upon to
support the new tariff bill and to oppose
any silver legislation that may be proposed;
and they are saying that Senator Kyle.
whose advocacy of silver and of free trade
is widely known. will vote with them If
he does, what will be the natural inference?
Representative Walker, of Massachusetts
couldn't upset the Reed rules, but he could
and did express himself very vigorously
on the subject, saying in part: Under the
rules of this House, we get mighty few
rights. When you go to see about a bill,
you are referred to a subcommittee, and
then you may cool your heels there day
after day before you can get so much as
one member of the sub committee to hear
you. And when you do. he tells you he
knows all about it and intimates that you
are boring him Then when he reports
against you and you try to appeal to the
full committee, you get no satisfaction"
He called this "a system of tyranny" and
added much more to the same effect
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