The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-02-26
Washington Letter.

Washington, February Goth, 1877
Secretary Morton may get another rep
rimand from congress to hIe away with
those he has al ready received, II 1t shall
be proven that two women we've dis
charged by his orders from the L. )
Bureau of Animal Industry st South
Omaha, Nebraska, for no other crime
than exhibiting pictures of Hon. W. J
BRYAN in their windows during the late
campaign. Senator Aliens resolution
calling upon the civil service commIs-
sion for a full explanation of the dis
missal of those two women WAS TINS
week adopted by the senate after Mr.
Allen had delivered few causuc re-
marks thereon, in which he said that
the treatment he received from the CIVIL
service commission while in search OF
information about the matter was vlo-
latiOn of all the decencies and proprIe-
ties of official life, and Incidentally de
nouuced the civil service commission
as a fraud, deIusion and snare. Sen
ator Allen said he thought the discharge
of these two women was aggravated by
the fact that six other women IN the
same establishment had exhibited Nc
this rimanded for it.
Congress is just beginning to realize
that some very lively hustllng has got
to be done to get the regular approprl-
alton bills through on time, and many
are predicting that all of them will not
get through. 1t Is quite certain that
not much else will get through, and for
some people are thankful.
If, as many suppose, the statement
that Chauncy NJ. Depew will be appoint
ed AMBASSADOR to England, which has
come from those close to Mr.. Mckinley,
was put out as feeler to ascertain how
the senate would regard the payment OF
the debts of the last campaign to
the millionaire element by giving
them honorable positions, 1t has served
| its purpose, even if the result isn't al
together satisfactory to either Mckin-
ley, Hanna, or the millionaire contrib
| utors to Hanna's election fund. Sena
tors have made it plain that they would
make a fight on the nomination of Mr..
| Depew, or any other man, whose rela-
| tions to the Nanderbilts, PierrepOnt
i Morgan and other corporation control
| lers make it apparent that the nomIna-
| ton is made IN payment for campaign
| contributions. This opposition might
not be strong enough to defeat man
whose personal friends are as numerou:
| as those of Mr. Depew, but it Will makS
! statements which will stir up public
| opinion 10 such an extent that Mr.
! Mckinley will be certain to regret hav
! ing made the nomination, if he does 1t
Republicans would gladly let the mon
! ey ques ion drop, that Is, the leaders o.
| the party would, but 1t continually crop!
| out in both house and senate, and eve
| ~ time it does the monetary chasm IN the
| Republican party, which was tempOrari
! Iy bIidged by the bimetallic plank of th'
| St. Louis platform, is seen to widen
Little Billee" Chandler stuck red flag
on top of that plank and shook it mean
ingly in McKinley;s face when he mad,
that bimetallic speech in the senate
while eastern members of the house, es
peciaIly Fowler, of New Jersey, and sew
eral New Workers, openly repudiatec
that plank while opposing before th'
house coinage committee the bill au
thOrizing a monetary conference.
Although the reported row between
Speaker Reed and Representative Bou
telle, Of Me, has been repeatedly doniet
by others, neither of the principals hav
said a word. They do not speak to eacI
other when they pass, and members O
the house are wondering how BOutell
Will fare when Reed makes up the com
mitteeS of the next house. He is nov
chairman of the naval committee.
1t is stated that senator Frye ha
abandoned his right to succeed Senate
Sherman as chairman of the cOmmitte
of foreign relations and that the plac
will go to Senator Davis, Of Mimi, VIII
Is now third member of the committee
if the Republicans are allowed to fill tn,
committee vacancies that will exist af
ter March 3. There Is some interestin
gossip in connection with Senator Frye
As second member of the committee h
is entitled by all the precedents of tn
senate to the Craftsmanship, but he
said to have abandoned his claim be
bause he was told that a fight would b
in caucus to keep him out of it on al
count of his Cuban sentiments Th
friends of Cuba will he glad to see Sena
: tor Davis at the head of the COMMITTEES
they have not forgotten the red he
? speech for free Cuba he made early /
the present session.
The receipts of the postofiices of tn
country are regarded as an indisputab
barometer of the condition of busines
A statement given out this week by Pos
master General Wilson shows the groi
receipts of 30 of the postofices in tn
largest cities for January 1896 and JaI
= uary 1897. Twenty of the offices sho
2 ! a decrease, the greatest in years. Al
other proof of the delay in the arrival
promised prosperity, and another pro,
that those who declared business bega
! to improve the day after the eectic
a / were mistaken. NJ,
, Cameron Nav po fo RuSSia