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Show Washington Letter. (Prom our. Kegultt Correipontltnt; Secretary Carlisle has sold those bonds although Jit was necessary for hln to Invoke In-voke the aid of Wall street before he was ablo to do so, but it remains to be seen whether he will be allowed to uso the money received for them to pay current expenses. Congress is very much devilled de-villed on the subject, and for thkt reason failed to agree upon anything previous to tho issue of the bonds, but its members mem-bers fieom determined to do something. Tho council of the Knights nt Labor, who had their applications for an injunction thrown out of court, say they ilo not propose to abandon the fight Senators Allen and Stewart, who advocated advo-cated the former's resolution declaring that the Secretary of the Treasury has no authority to Issue bonds, received a recruit from an unexpected quarter when Senator Hoar, ot Mass,, said at the cIobo of a few remarks on the subject: I feel bound by a sense of public duly to declare de-clare that In my opinion the bonds issued nnd sold by tho Treasury Department under existing circumstances will be illegal, il-legal, and will carry no constitutional or lawful obligation on tho government for their payment. There is some uneasiness among the friends of the statelets of Utah, Arizona) Now Mexico and Oklohoma bocausc of the statement that President Cleveland was uecing his influence to prevent the admission of any of them, and would if he failed in Congress, veto the bills. The statement has not been aulhorltively confirmed, but tliS result of the inquiries made shows that Mr. Cleveland is unquestionably un-questionably opposed personally to the present. 4 WlielTier lie will carry tils opposition to the extent ol trying to prevent Congressional action or ot vetoing veto-ing any or all of tho bills, that may pass is a question not yet authentically answered, There .va thrifty men In Congress as well us onto! It, and the tin lit of some of tho Congressman may soon develop a considerable scandal. The law provides for the payment of n clerk for each member mem-ber ot tlio House at the rate of $100 a month whlU Congress is in session, and some of thu ovcrthrifty members have bejn taking advantage of the hard times to employ clerks at much smaller salaries and pocket the difference. This lias Uakcd out and the result may bo an investigation. The Scnato has decided to end the unproductive un-productive debate on the bill for the repeal re-peal of the Federal election laws next Tuesday. Thero Is little doubt of the passage of the bill, although 1 1 may be slightly amended in which case it will have to go back to thu House. It Is not believed that there is any fuuudatlon for thu rumor that l'resideut Cleveland niuild velu the '-ill, in uidvr to clip the n lugs of Tammany. Tho most pleasing thing about the special ConKresslcual election in Mew York city to those who are opposed to tho lavish use of money in politics was the crushing dofeat if the candidate who openly boasted of his 'utentlon to spend 460,000 to secure his election. Tho other side may have spent as much, but they dlden't boast of doing so, thus openly Implying that rates aro purchasable. It is evident that tho Senate Finance committee does not expect to disposo of the tanlTblll in a few days or even a few weeks. The committee has sent out about 40.000 circular lcttsis containing a long list of questions concerning the tariff and its general effsrt upon all branches of commerce and industry and it is still tending out more. According to a census expert it all of these questions are answered and returned to tbe committee, com-mittee, it would take tho entire force of the U, S. Census Office threo months to so classify and arrange them as to uiako tho Information they contain available to members ot the committee. The committee com-mittee has no such force ot experts and ha j no wny of getting them if they wero wanted ; but tho Idea shows how big a program Senator Voorhecs has mapji-ed mapji-ed out for his committee, and does not promise well (or speedy action ou Ihn tnriu In the Senate. The House started in to-day ou a threodays hurrah on Hawaii, Those who don't like noieo would better got into in-to their bomb proofs until it's over. |