The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-01-22
wase,ngtan Letter.

Iicau senators to enable their party I"
cnnrrrI the senate after tine 4th of
March. that Is as daring and audScIouS
as anything ever attempted IN TINS couu
try in the political line. the first step
in this scheme was taken this eek vine"
senator Chandler. who Is an adept IN
tricky politics, offered a petition IN the
Senlte from Henry 4 Du Pont and
eleven members of the Delaware legisla-
ture asking that the senate reconsider
the vote whereby IT declar- Il MI Dd
PnDt Il, entitled to a seat IN the senate
This scheme never would have been
sprung had it not become CERTAIN that
Democrats would elect a senator to nj
the Delaware vacancy. Those VINO are
behind it do not expect TO seat Du font,
but they hope 10y getting his claim be
fore the senate again TO prevent the
seating of the Democrat who viii oe
elected by the present Delaware leg's'a-
ture With one vacancy Ia the senate
10 will be a majority, but If that vacan-
cv is filed by a Democrat, the RepubE
cans must have 46 votes to control the
senate. See? Thu petition was referred
to the committee on privileges and cleo
tons, which consists of five Republicans
and four Democrats, but as nat1r
Palmer, of Illinois, is one OF the latter,
the Republicans may be said to have
two-thiTds of the committee.
Senator Vest, who has just returned
from a triumphant reelection, revived
the dropping spirits Of those who believe
that something ought to be done for Gu
ba before this session Of congress closes
by declaring his intention to devote his
time exclusive to getting something done
for Cuba, because he believes that to he
the most important question before this
congress When senator Vest devotes
his exclusive time 10 anything the
country is pretty certain TO hear about
it So look out Speeches were made
this week by Senator'S Mills and Bacon
in advocacy of the Mills Cuban resolu
ton, which provides for recognition of
Cuban indepenpence and the appoint
ment Of a u S Minister to Cuba
At last Speaker Reed has filed the
Democratic vacancies on the house com
mittees Representative Railey, Of Tex
a, got the place on the committee on
| rules, Representative Boatner, of La.
goes on the committee on WAYS and
| means, Representative Stokes of 5 G on
| the committee on agriculture, and Re-
preventative Crisp, of Ga, son of the
| late ex-Speaker. who is known as the
boy member" was given the vacancy
! on post office committee.
One episode occurred in connection
with the Pacific Railroad Funding bill,
that was this week defeated by the
! house, that in the old days would have
resulted in a duel, or perhaps two. Re
preventative Johnson, of Cal, the only
member from that state who supported
| the funding bill, made an unprintable
charges against W. r Hearst, whose
New York and San Francisco papers had
made hot fight against the bill For
| this he was called a coward by Represen-
tative Cooper, of Wis and in addition
| to being called coward by Representa-
| tive Maguire, of Cal, Johnson was re-
minded of his having been indicted in
| Syracuse, \. Y. some years ago, for
forgery. This last speech was too much
| for the house and it was ordered to be
| struck out of the record. Instead of
challenging one or both of the men who
had called him a coward as the old
timer would have done, johnson merely
dared them to do it again. outside, in
| these wordS:-''If either the gentleman
| from Wisconsin or the gentleman from
| California thinks | am cowardly, let
either repeat to Inc outside this cham
her what he has said inside, and his Gu
riOsity will be appeased
Representative Dockery, of Mo, who
| spent the congressional recess at home,
says: ''The samples of prosperity we
have out there are not satisfactory
The advance agent is too far ahead of
of his show"
There may be n great differences of
! opinion as to whether Secretary OIney is
a great statesman, Notwithstanding the
qualified endorsement of him as a
statesman and diplomat by ex-Presi-
dent Harrison, but no senator will deny
that he has a great gall. He has set
the whole country laughing at the SEN
ate, and the senate has no wav to gel
even with him, except to prevent ratifi-
cation of the arbitration treaty between
the L. 5. and Great Britain, which be
was instrumental in negotiating and
which this week went to the senate
The senate has for many years been
sore on the matter of treaties. because
OF the mysterious manner in which the
newspaper men have managed to ge,
mold of copies of them almost as soon as
the senate did. Secretary Olnev defied
the traditions of the senate by furnish.
ing a newspaper correspondent with a
copy of the new treaty as soon as it was
signed, and after the treaty had been
widely published in the newspapers the
members of the senate committee on
foreign relations made laughing stocks
OF themselves by wasting time in diccuss-
ing whether its publication should be
authorized.