Show washington LETTER washington feb loleat lO greater reat america ia said a member of the senate committee on foreign relations will grow into a popular shibboleth in the near future and the party that goes in for the most wholesale annexation Is ie going goin to be the party that will control this country little hawaii to la but the entering wedge and unless I 1 am a false prophet the time la is almost ripe for or the annexation annex atlan of canada cuba mexico and even hayti mud and ban domingo it ie one of the ent cat traits of human nature to wish to add to what one already has and th the only wonder la Is that the united states has not long before thle this gone extensive ly into annexation PP the hawaiian annexation idea 1 is just now to in the diplomatic stage tage and the attempt to in being made tour found it with the mystery antl and secrecy so BO door dear to th ahr hearts of the hanger on of the department of state the commis bienen from the new government of hawaii have had sever several conferences conferee aee with the secretary of state who has given up the idea of resigning and going to europe as united states counsel before the bering sea arbitration tribunal in order to give his attention to this hawaiian matter but the conferences have hava been secret and about all the public knows about them is that the idea of a protectorate has bas had bad to be abandoned because the commission in 10 only authorized to negotiate for annexation A protectorate might have been established by a treaty which would only have had to be agreed to by the senate to go ino effect and could have been put through in a week or ten days it ii necessary but annexation is quite different and will make legislation by both how house and senate necessary be fore it can go into effect and before that could be secured it to is believed that such authentic information not at hand band and not likely to be before this administration retires would be asked tor fur president harrison may recommend annexation legislation hut but the chances are he will huegely put himself on record recard as favoring it und and leave the rest to his successor he to is now considering the matter according to those oluse cluse to mr cleveland the question of an extra session of congress will las be determined by the success or failure of the neg negotiation otla now in progress to agree upon some sort soft of a compromise bill relating to silver that can pass both house and senate among the prominent geu bemen outside of congress who are taking part in these negotiations are col dan lamont and hon don the repeal of the purchasing clause of the he present silver law I 1 is the one thing demanded by mr cleveland Clev elands s repress representatives nta tives and they say f that an extra session is a certainty it if it is not secured strange as it may appear to some people senator hill is making himself conspicuous as a champion of mr cleveland in this matter although he voted last year for the stewart free coinage bill which was paa ed by the senate congress has given oo no indication of being interested in carrying tut out the recommendations of president har rison s message concerning the canadian pacific railway although portions of ha message have been referred to the several senate committees having jurisdiction over the mutters matters treated of 01 and there are so BO many other things in which the members are more directly and personally per equally concerned that remain to be acted upon in the short time remal remaining ning of the session that action in ia not regarded as probable the nomination of judge howell E jackson of tennessee see for the supreme court vacancy to is nut not liked by some of the senators but his bis manifest fitness for the position wll wil doubtless secure h la confirmation although the much talked ol of senatorial courtesy h has already been violated by sending his nomination to a committee in which rumor says ibis to be hung bung up 21 instead confirming of it when first sent in IB the opposition to judge jackson to liot not confined to either party some republicans oppose him because he is ig a democrat having been appointed to his present position by president Clev cleveland elaud and some democrats oppose him because became they had put them selves on record as believing that the vacancy should have been left for mr cleveland to fill all this nomination was a precedent as no other president ever nominated a political opponent to the supreme su prem e court gou rt bench judge J ud ge jackson was in the senate with president harrison and that probably had something to do with his getting this honor it la is also probable that mr harrlson harrison took this method of getting evan with the ten tea or twelve senators of his hie own party who lot lei him know that they would not make a fight for the confirmation of a republican the suggestion of the chairman of the com committee mUtee engaged in investigating the payments of the panama canal anal company in this country that the evidence be not published has not been well received and if the investigation to is conducted in secret the members of the committee will probably be skim ed by the press of the country WASHING washington TOx feb IO 10 with tile the firing of big guns and t to 0 the musin music of silver and gold trumpets trumpet the silver and the antl anti obber army marched up the hill bill and then marched down again congress has this week been in one respect like the snide traveling show it failed to keep the glittering advance promises it had bad made on the bill boards and in spite of the liberal use of threats promises and bersu persuasion a sion nothing was done and the silver law still occupies its place on the statute books senator elect martin was in wash ington this week but as he had some important bu business in new york which may keep him there ton ten days clays or lunger longer he concluded after consultation with senator peffer and other friends not to present his credentials as am the suc successor ceLsor of senator perkins to fill 1111 out the terria term of the late senator plumb there are two reasons why his credentials may not be presented until the closing hours of this see se ilon enlon and possibly not until the extra session meets first there are a number of bills pending in which kansas kaneas is interested that for opening the cherokee Ghe strip among them and Senator Perkina can render more effective service than a new man unfamiliar ar with senate proceedings and lastly there is a doubt as to whether thip the republican majority of the present pre seia senate would allow him to take his hia seat while there is none about the action of the senate after the ath of march representative bryan of nebraska says of mr W V allen alien the newly elected populist senator from that state he is now upon the bench having been elected a district judge by the populists Pop ulisis lists he to is regarded as a safe and able man he was formerly a Ro republican publican but as the ohe democrats in the legislature joined with the lists in electing him I 1 take it for granted that he will act with the democrats Demo orala in the organization of the senate and upon the tariff the opponents of the anti option bill say that thai it u Is dead and oan can never ket get through the house it is J use as well however po not to be too sure about this ae I 1 these thaw are ace the flame me people who said id before the bill was pawed passed by the senate that a vote adu would ld not be reached on it before the fourth of march it il to is human bulman nature to see future happenings ag 1118 you wish them lack of time may prevent the house committe that Is investigating the expenditures tures of the panama canal company pany in the united states getting to the thi bUtom bottom of things it to is already clear that an enormous enor moua amount of money was ape spent nt in this country some think as much as and that much of it was spent for the purpose of influencing inclined public bublic opinion which was at one time inclined to be very unfavorable to the canal but the receivers ivere of the money ate are yet to be uncovered no nd credence is given horn here to the rumor that members of the committee were purposely killing time so 90 that nothing would be found out the house appropriation committee has agreed to amendments to the pension appropriation bill providing for a transfer of the pension office to the war department and the detail ol of army officers to manage it also for the suspension of all pensions paid to men having an annual income of or more to widows who married since april 1870 and except tor for total disabilities to nonresident non resident aliens chairman holman voted with the republicans against these amendments no disputes of any kind occurred wednesday when the senate and house hold held a joint session and counted the electoral votes the official announcement no of the result was rather too to create anything like a Bonsa sensation tion the quarantine bill is LOW li il l i the hands of president harrlson harrison and will probably be a law by the time this is printed it passed the house without serious opposition just as it originally pawed passed the senate the country may now rest assured that if the cholera gets into the united states yea it will not be for lack jack of legal authority to take the nee necessary sary precautions to prevent it this bill furnishes almot ber example of the tact fact sometimes for gel gott tont enthat bat the will of the peoPle expressed is always stronger than the will of politicians I 1 if the democrats in congress who are we generally credited with enjoying mr cleveland rieveland ld confidence know what they are talking about an early extra session of the fifty third congress is now a certainty there are lip however wever still some doubters depre sent glive abbot of texas is one ol of them S em he desaye say saye a there is no danger of an extra session for mr cleveland has too much sagacity to call congress to together to try to accomplish the repeal of the silver law with all the chances against such a repeal but mr abbott Is lain in the be minority negotiations for the annexation of hawaii are going on but the result is not yet in sight which party represents free trade and which the republican met members tabors of too the house committee on ways and meang vote in favor of a bill to put u t s all j 1 works of art on the free list let tn and T W with I 1 t h tap exceptions all of the democratic members ag cinfo if 0 |