Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-12-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
AZ. peouIar Correspondent
Washington, Dec. %, 1879

.,,a,asd Nj. Cleveland for worshlpP'he
The golden calf and being the enen'! Oh
silver. completed the job Of jamm'"s ''e
Gold standard bill through the house last
week. The programme was carried ou'
,co,,;ns 10 the advance announcements
in every particular, except that mere
were fewer democratic woes tor 'he ON
,ho, head been claimed by the repuo'''
cans The bill has now gone to the SEN
ate. whore Mr.. Mckinley can d. no Jam
,nin,. and where this particular OIL VIII
~. allowed 70 SUM Der III committee. but
,h. fuarce committee will report as
substitute, a gold standard bill that Is
even more Objectionable than the mouse
liu II i WHISPERED in inside republican
c;r,l.. tina, the party leaders would not
De sorry ii this session OF congress adjourn
ui;hou, final action on gold standard leg
alton. because it would he easier TO
raise a bi, campaign fund from the money
kings. ii the matter is left hanging oy
promising to complete the JOB at next
winters session, than it will be II the bill
gees on the statute book before lie rresi-
Dental campaign.
Congress adjourned on Wednesday un-
til January 5. The senate committees
have been rearranged, under the re-
publican grab, and three new committees
on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, on
the Philippines. and on Cuba-have been
formed, and Mr. Henderson will announce
the house committees before adjourn
ment.
The Roberts com mitlee will this week
hear witnesses that have been summoned
from Utah and will then decide whether
il will be necessary for the committee to
20 to Utah 10 take further testimony. 1t
j. now certain that the committee VIII
not make its report until after the re-
assembling OF congress, in January.
There was lots OF behind the door 20.
litical work done by the committee which
succeeded in getting Philadelphia chosen
by the republican national committee.
for next Years national convention-June
10Th. Before the committee met, it
seemed practically certain that Chicago
would be chosen, and SO it would have
been had not the Philadelphans made
combination by which the southern mem.
bers OF the committee were promised help
to knock out the scheme to reduce the
representation Of the south in the nation
al convention, in return for votes for
Philadelphia. The combination won at
both ends. Philadelphia got the con.
vention by one vote, and Committeeman
Payne abandoned the scheme to cut down
the number OF "ngger" delegates TO the
convention, because Of opposition to it.
Representative Sims, Of Tenn, who is
just beginning his second term in con-
gress, fred number OF questions at the
republican speakers, during the debate
on the gold standard bill, in his efforts to
gain information as to what the individual
republicans believed would be the result
Of the operation Of the bill, II it became a
law, and their reasons for supporting the
bill. AS result of those questions and
the answers, Mr.. Sims expresses the
opnic that very few republicans voted
for the bill because they really favored it
as whole. He thinks they voted for it,
simply because it was a party measure,
and that the party unanimity should be
a lesson to the democrats to stand to-
gether upon all matters relating to party
precepts.
The attempt OF Nebraska republicans to
prevent the seating OF Senator Allen, APP
pointed BY the governor to succeed the
late Senator.elect Hayward, on the ground
that as Mr.. Hayward never qualified as
senator, his death caused no vacancy that
could be legally filed by the governor,
aroused nothing but amusement in Wash.
ington. There will be no opposition to
the seating Of Senator Allen, because
there is nothing whatever upon which it
could be based. The gold standard re-
publicans would like very much to find
some way to keep such stalwart friend
OF silver cut Of the senate, until the long
financial debate, which will begin as soon
after the Christmas recess as the finance
committee reports its gold standard bill,
is over, but they know too much to butt
their heads against brick walls. It is
unnecessary to say that Senator Allen
will be most cordially welcomed by the
silver senators who know his fine fighting
qualities from experience.
TIE senate committee on elections is
considering the Quay case, which is being
presented by able counsel on both sides,
ex-senator Edmunds heading the array
against Quay, and the attorney general Of
Pennsylvania appearing for him. Senator
Penrose didn't appear as counsel, and
when he attempted to participate in the
proceedings by asking one OF the lawyers
il he was not EN- plOved and maid nv John