Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-07-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June 2S, 1897,

Senator McLaurin is one Of the few
Democrats who is willing to make pre-
diction as to the date of the passage of the
tariff bill by the Senate, which nearly every
body expects to occur sometime during the
latter part Of the present or the first oil
next week. Speaking on the subject, Mr.
McLaurin says: think a vote will be
reached on Friday, that is hangman's day
and, as the bill will bring ruin and misery
it would be appropriate to put il through
on hangman's day" Some of the Rcpubli.
can Senators expect the bill to be passed Of
early as Wednesday or Thursday of this
week, hut that is not very probable. Re-
publicans in the House are very confident
that in all important schedules, the bill as
it emerges from the conference Committee
will closely resemble the original Dingley
bill.
Secretary Sherman dosen't know what
Mr.. McKinley's Cuban policy is to be. He
so informed close personal friend. 1t has
leaked out since Gen. Woodford, the new
Minister to Spain, has been in Washington
that he isn't in any particular hurry about
getting to Madrid, and that he has no ides
that he will actually open negotiations with
Spain in the Ruiz case, which is to be
made the stepping stone to the introduction
of the Mckinley policy towards Cuba, be
fore the fall He will probably start late
in July. but it is not certain that be will
20 either by the most direct or the most
speedy route.
Car Reed has made out his list of com.
mittee assignments and unless some of his
kindergarten, otherwise known as the U. S.
House Of Representatives, do something ia
offend him between now and then, he will
announce them after the House has adopted
resolution setting the date for the ad
| iournment of the session.
The new Commissioner of Patents, Hon
Benz Butterworth, is plying the new broom
or pitchfork which has been long needed
Within two weeks he has disbarred eight
patent attorneys for fraudulent practices
and he has ordered John Wedderburn &
Co. to answer why they should not be dis
barred, charging them with making
fraudulent, deceptive, improper and in
complete searches with intent to defraud
and the result of defrauding clients, tt
their injury and wrong doing,to the scandal
and reproach of the Patent Office, and con
trary to equity and good morals"
Mr.. Mckinley and Boss Hanna have
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get Congress to authorize the appointment
of currency commission at this session.
Nearly everybody except the applicant
takes Ethe refusal of the Committee o.
Privileges and Elections to vote on the re-
port prepared by Senator Hoar, favoring the
seating of ex-senator Corbett, of Oregon
on the certificate of the Governor of that
State, to mean that Mr.. Corbett will never
get the coveted seat.
Senator Billy" Mason will be unmerci.
fully guyed by his associates when he re-
turns to Washington, for having made 8
big bluff by telegraphing the request tc
have the nominations for the southern dis
trict of Illinois held up by the Senate Com
mittee to which they we're referred one
day, and following it up the next day by
withdrawing his objection to their CON
| frmation. He will be cOmplimented or
his skill as lightning change artist.
Some of the applicants for consular ap
pointments are beginning to regard them
selves as being up against bunco game
that is being run by Mr.. Mckinley, and
they are kicking as much as they dare to al
long as they allow themselves to cherish
hopes of getting a government berth
These men say that every time they go tt
the White House to try to push along theil
application. they are told that Mr.. McKin
ley isn't ready to take up the appointment
of consuls, and yet they see the nomina
tions of consuls sent to the Senate almost
every day, and some of them have beer
young fellows whose only claims FOL
recognition were the pocket books of theil
fathers, or the social "pull" of theil
mothers. 1t is not strange that this stats
of affairs should cause kicking.
Senator Pettigrew is apparently none tht
worse because of his disagreeable experience
in the Senate on Saturday. His physician
says that his trouble was merely temper
airy paralysis of the vocal cords. His sud
den cessation in the midst of the sentence
which formed part of vehement speech
created sensation on the floor.