The aegis & intelligencer., 1897-01-15

| From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE last plays in
the little game arranged by Mckinley and
Hanna to freeze John Sherman out of the Sen
ate and ont of Ohio politics by compelling him
to becomes member of Mckinley's Cabinet
| will be made this week ut Canton, whittier
sherman has been summoned. 1t is believed
| in Washington that Mckinley and Hanna hold
all the trunps, and that sherman will bow 10
TIC inevitable and go into the Cabinet, al
| though he makes no secret of preferring to
main i'll the Senate, because he would rather
do that than to retire to private life at the end
| OF his term in the Senate Should he enter the
| Cabinet, HarEa will succeed him in the Senate.
| by gubernatoriul appointment, and be candi-
date for full term at the expiration of this
| one, if the Republicans retain control of the
! Ohio Legislature. The attempts to put the Nc
| Kinley collar upon other Senators have been
| dismal failures. Allison and Aldrich nave both
| refused the Treasury portfolio, which had filst
| been refused by Representative Dingley. Its
difficult to get men of self respect who are will
| ing TO blindIy pledge themselves to support
Mckinley for reelection in return for Cabi-
net portfolio.
| 1t seems that a bIackguard speech has to be
made at every session of Congress. Represen-
tative Johnson, of California, who was working
with the Huntington lobby for the Pacific
| Railroad Funding bill, which was disposed of
| by the House today after four days discussion,
| l. entitled to the belt for having made one of
the dirtiest and most indecent personal attacks
| ever made on the floor of the House-the
! speech was so dirty that no newspaper would
print it all. The man attacked was William X.
Hearst, who has fought the bill in his New
| " Snv Fro
johnson thinks, was instrumental in getting
| HIM defeated when he was IL candidate for
| election last November.
| A Senator, who is close friend of Justice
| Field of the Supreme Court, sail of the revival
| of the rumor that Justice Field. who has long
| been eligible for retirement, would retire on
| the promise of President Cleveland to nominate
Secretary Carlisle to the vacancy: There
| isn't word OF truth in the story. Justice
| Field has said that he would not give Mr.. ClcVe
/ land an opportunity TO name his successor, and
| the old gentleman has IL long and unbroke1
record for living mp TO his word. But even il
| he should retire or there should be another va
cancy in the Court, it would not be filled by
Secretary Carlisle; he might be nominated by
the President. but there would be no possibil-
itv of the nomination being confirmed by the
Senate"
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, has gone home
to be present ut the election of his successor by
the Arkansas Legislature. As he has no oPpo
stion, there isn't the slightest doubt of his be-
ing his own successor, and the Democrats OF
Arkansas will make no mistake in sending
Senator Jones back, as no man in the Senate
has more rapidly come to the front in power
and influence than he has since he became
prominent in the Wilson tariff bill fight in the
Senate The work he did in the last campaign
is Chairman of the Democrat National Com
mittcc, is known to ali.
Whether the speech of Senator Mills today,
on his resolution declaring that the eNpediency
of recognizing the independence of ii foreign
state belongs to Congress, and that the Presi
dent shall act in harmony with Congress; and
further declaring that the independence OF
Cuba ought TO be and is hereby recognized, and
appropriating $4,000 for the salary and ex-
penses of Il Minister to Cuba, will open the food
gates of Cuban Oratory remains to be seen.
II was plain and to the point. Mr.. Mills thinks
the matter should not be longer postponed,
AMI a short time ago majority of the Senate
Thought with him, but influences have been
ut work, which. if they have not ci anged opin
ions have at least brought about All apparent
willingness to leave the whole business for the
next Congress and administration to deal with.
Representative Moacy, of Mississippi has re-
turned from his investigating trip to Cuba but
SAYS he isn't ready yet TO talk for publication
of what he found out, or at least of all he found
out.
r,re House passed the Loud bill and it is now
in the hands of the Senate COmmittee, with
chances of action il doubt.
there is IL disposition on the part of Demo
Gratis in the House TO criticize the tardiness of
Sneaker Reed in filling the two Democratic va
cancies on the Ways and Means Committee.
TEcy should unquestionably have been filled
before the tariff he hCarings, but although the
hearings are now over, they are still untitled.
1t looks like bit of pure cussedness on Reeds
part. The places are merely honorary now, as
the Democratic members will not be allowed
to have any hand in making the tariff bill.