The times., 1899-04-11
GENERAL WA ASHfNGTON
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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| Currency Reform.-The announcement
is made. apparently by authority, that tie
| Republican caucus committee on currency
| reform which will convene at Atlantic
City next Monday, will sst night and day
| in the preparation of a PRACTICAL. scheme
of currency reform This is certainly i'm
| portant if true and if the members OF the
committee carry cut this laudable pro-
gramme they will certainly establish a
record for Congressional enterprise, and.
of course, accomplish a great deal for
genuine currency reform. Sitting night
and day, or day and night, as the case
may be, is likely TO prove to be more of
| an undertaking than General HendS rson
| or any of his associates on the committee
| bargained for After 4 week or two of
| continuous performance night and day
| they will probably see the .oropriety of an
adjournment of a few minutes for rest and
| refreshments. 1t is feared that if the
committee attempts to ignore the laws of
| health in the reckless manner proposed
| that they will all be in serious danger of
| collapse before they have half COM
| pleted their work. which would naturally
| be an everlasting misfortune attaining al
most the proportions OF a public calamity.
Atlantic City, particularly at this sea-
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and day sessions said a resident of New
Jersey yesterday. Most people who have
visited Atlantic City will cheerfully cor
roborate this statement, l am sure. But
! all the same, l would not advise an aggre-
cation of statesmen charged with this
| grave responsibility of preparing a prac-
| ticable scheme of currency reform to un-
dertake anything of the kind. They will
need at least one hours rest out of every
l
pear at the best advantage and to sue
cessfully carry out their great and mo-
mentous mission. If the members of the
| committee fail to heed this suggestion l
am afraid that it will result in seriously
| delaying the bringing about OF the much
desired and highly overrated currency re-
| form
A Senatorial NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. VIII
liam B. Bate. of Tennessee, is said to have
been one of the Senators who voted to pass
the recent strict Sunday law for Washing
/, ton, which is said to- If literally construed,
| forbid the serving of anything of an in
| toxicating character in barroom hotel. res
| taurant, club, or private house on Sunday.
| Senator Bate has been stopping at one of
the leading hotels of the city, where he, it
| Is said, always kept two or three cases OF
| very choice champagne in the wine cellar
subject to his order. 1t happened that the
| first Sunday after the new law went into
operation Senator Bate invited a few
| friends to dine with him at his hotel. As
the Senator and his guests took their
| places at the table an order was given 10
| the waiter to bring up two of the coldest
and largest bottles from his stock, Senator
| Bate remarking in the mean time that
this wine was some OF very choice vint-
| age that he had secured through a friend
| who was a great wine expert" The SEN
ator's guests were getting ready to enjoy
a great treat, when the waiter reappeared
tor, but the manager directs me to say
that no wine can be served today. 1t is
Sunday and against the law.
| What" was the response of the Sena-
| tor, DO you mean to tell me that l cannot
| have my own wine served whenever
please? Send the manager here instantly
| The manager came forward but he only
confirmed the statement of the waiter that
no wine or liquors of any kind could be
| served to any one in the hotel on Sunday.
He was very polite but emphatic. Senator
| Bate, it is said, was certainly emphatic
| on his part if he was not polite. But he
and his guests had to eat their dinner with
out the wine. Hotel men think that it is
| only poetic justice that one of the law
makers responsible for the obnoxious regu-
lation should be among the first 10 fall a
victim TO its strict enforcement.
MIR. Mnhany Not PIensed-Former
Representative Rowland Blennerhasset Ma
hany, of Buffalo, who was in Washington
yesterday, expressed the opinion that Mr..
Mckinley would not be worth cents po-
litcally next year.
81 am willing to concede." he said, that
Mr.. Mckinley will be renominated; the
office holders and time servers will attend
10 that but It will be impossible to re-elect
| him. Make no mistake about that. His Ad-
ministration is already discredited be-
yond hope of redemption in the
estimation of the public by rea-
son of Algerism, Eaganism, Car
terism, and all of the other nasty scandals
| that have disgraced 1t. If you do not be-
lieve what am saying and think that am
talking through my hat, just go few miles
away from Washington and listen to what
| the people are saying"
| Mr.. Mahany was elected to Congress as
Republican, but he fell out with Senator
Platt's machine and was slaughtered at the
polls last fall.
The Maxet InvestiEntion.-Sensa
al developments are promised by the coun-
sci of the Mazet Committee, which is en-
gagged in the work of investigating Mr.
| Croker and Tammany Hall, in the near
future. Mr.. Croker himself is scheduled
| to appear before the committee on Friday
or Saturday of this week. He very
| shrewdly did not wait to be subpoenaed,
but through his counsel volunteered to
come forward and let the committee ex-
anime him.
Il think that Mr. Croker viii have an
uncomfortable quarter of an hour when he
| gets before the MaZet Committee" said a
| member Of Tammany yesterday. He has
made good many enemies in the organi-
| zation by his hgh-hande course during
the past two years. particularly among the
| followers of Sheehan and Martin, and quite
a number of them are apparently giving
| the Mazet committee points and directing
the line of the investigation. Some things
| have already been brought out that could
| not have been obtained except from men
who are perfectly familiar with the inside
workings in the Tammany organization"
INDICTED FOR BRIBERY.