Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent
WARRINGTON. u. C.. Feb. IL. 1870

| "NrHiNeifhs ~. C.s Tcu. 10. 1850
Senator Sherman worked hard to
get the senate to dispose of the arbi-
tration treaty last week, but so many
new amendments have been offered
and SO much opposition has been
manifested that he doesn't consider
the outlook for disposing of the treaty
at this session particularly good In
fact. it would not be surprising if he
should quietly abandon the effort
and let the treaty go over to the ex-
| ira session of the senate which will
convene on March ith. There is
| much that can be said in favor of
such action on his part. If the treaty
We're temporarily dropped it would
give the senate more time to devote
to a number of important measures
that ought to be disposed of at the
present session. The extra session Of
the senate would have more time to
give to the treaty, as it will have
nothing else to do except to act upon
! the nominations of President Nc
| Kinley. The attempt to keep the
proceedings of the senate in execu-
| tive sessions secret has resulted as
usual-in the publication Of the sub
stance of the proceedings daily.
| Senator Chandler has been show
| ing his friends IA letter he has re-
ceived asking him to endorse the
writer's application for Office under
the coming administration, from
which the following is an extract:
Il wish to be appointed to one of the
following positions: L. :. Consul,
Ambassador to Denmark or Sweden
and Norway, or Z. $. revenue collec-
tor, revenue agent, pension agent
superintendent of the coast and ge-
odetic survey, surveyor general of
the u. S. public lands, Immigrant in
spector, comptroller, register of the
L. 5. treasury or collector Of
customs
The house last week passed two
private pension bills for the benefit of
Rachel Patton and Caroline Mowatt,
widows of soldiers, who had remar-
ried and lost their second husbands,
over the presidents veto, and agreed
to the conference report on the
amended immigration bill. The SEN
ate also passed over the presidents
veto the bill establishing a new place
for holding court in the eastern jul
ducial district of Texas. This is now
a law, as the house passed it over
the veto sometime ago.
The senate committee on naval at
fairs have settled, so far as it lies in
the power of committee, the long
drawn out controversy over the price
plate for its fighting vessels, by de-
Gliding that S400 IL ton shall be the
price, and providing for the estab-
| lishment of a government plant to
make the armor, if the two compa-
MES having plants refuse to furnish
1T at the price stated.
The much amended immigration
bill has at last reached the White
House, and it is supposed tnat it will
in due time become a Law, although
Mr.. Cleveland threatened to veto it
before the last amendments We're
added.
Considerable surprise is felt by
senators and representatives at til
attempt of Senator Allen to make a
sensation out of the movement
among some of the wealthy friends
of Gen. Nielsen A. Miles, commander
of the Us. army, to raise Il fund for
the purpose of presenting him with
house in Washington, and more at
the action of Mr.. Allen in offering Il
resolution prohibiting the acceptance.
of any gift of value by any officer on
the active list of the army or navy.
When it is remembered that Gen.
Miles, like all of the commanders of
the army since the war, is poor, and
that Generals Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan We're each presented with
residences by their civilian admir-
ers, it is difficult to see any harm in
the same being done for Gen. Miles,
or any necessity for a law saying
that it shall not be done for any
other officer who is fortunate enough
to have admirers who have money
they wish to dispose Of in that man
ner.