Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-12-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IWAsHINaroN. Dec 18th, is

NV ASHIE0TOE, Dec lin, 1888
Mckinley hired men, otherwise known
as the Republican majority OF the House,
are obeying orders like trained animals.
They began to-day the actual work OF
raiIroading through the House, in single
week, he gold standard bill that Mr.. Nc
Klnley had prepared last Summer. The
vote Is TO be taken week from to-day and,
OF course, the bill will be passed, as it will
be sure to get all the Republican votes, and
il ia being claimed that eight Democrats
from New York, and possibly others from
the Eastern States will also vote for it.
The Republicans are so fond OF wearing
their gsgs that they have offered to give
some OF the time allotted to them for
debate ON the bill to the Democrats.
Representative Lentz, of Ohio, has
offered resolution asking for an investi-
CATION, by g special committee of the
House, of the charges growing out OF the
interference OF U. S. troops in mining
troubles in Idaho, 10 defiance of and con,
trary to the Federal Constitution, at the
individual request of the Governor, when
no riot or insurrectlOn existed, and without
consulting the legislature or the local
Sheriff
Ii DI6SG1i tN NNRNHNNN
upon. the position of those Democrats who
voted against the dangerous method oil
refusing 10 allow man with proper Gre
dentials, to be sworn in as member OF the
House, is likely to be indicated by the
final disposition Of the Roberts case. Mem
bers of the Roberts committee may, OF
course, change their minds before then
report is made to the House, but it looks
now as though their report would recon-
mend that Roberts be sworn in and then
be expelled, because of his being polyga-
mist Members are beginning to realize
that the precedent of not allowing man
with regular credentials to be sworn in. is
too dangerous one to be set up. Ii ont
man can properly be denied, one hundred
men might be treated in the same way by
an inscriptions majority. 1t isn't the
Roberts case, but the principle at stake
that makes the action of the House i'm
portant.
That Mr.. Quay isn't as certain of getting
that seat in the Senate,a as his friends would
like eyeryb body to believe is shown by the
presence in Washington, working IN Qaay's
interest, of ex-senator Don Cameron. Mr.
QUAY will also be in Washington this
week. An adverse report is expected from
the Committee on Elections, which is one
of the few committees not included in the
Republican grab of increasing their repre-
sentation, but the real fight will be on the
floor of the Senate The chances still
seem to favor Quay, although several OF
the Senators who had been counted upon
as certain to vote to seat him, are said to
be in doubt as to how they would vote. Il
is on the personal friendship of those Sena-
tors that Cameron and Quay are now work
ing.
Senator Mason's speech in favor of his
resolution of sympathy for the Transvaal
Republic, now engaged in war fof
liberty with Great Britain, contains some
hard knocks for prominent Republicans,
including the President. Mason may not
rank high as a statesman, but his tongue
has a sting on the end of it when he wishes
1t to have, quite as nagging if not so
polished, as that welded by Ingalls,, and
other sting singers who have been in thu
Senate.
Boss Hanna appears to have emerged
from his wrestle with the rheumatism and
his check book, which is credited with
such prominent part in the Ohio campaign,
as cross as a crippled bear. He was hob
bling out of the White House, where he
had been holding a conference with Mr.
Mckinley and Mr.. Henry G. Payne, OF
Wisconsin, who has been mentioned as
HanDa's successor at the head of the Re
publican National Committee, when be
was asked if it were true that he intended
to retire from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee. He glared apgrily at the
newspaper men who asked the question
before answering, and then snapped out as
be turned away No one is authorized to
say what I will do"