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Show , Washington- Loiter. 'r- - ; The Usual Budget of News from the Nations Capital. ' ; r r IKroin Our ltegular Correal onoeut. is Washington, Jnimnry -1, 189D. f Congress is again In session, although t j. Ihcro nto many empty scats In both ,y House and Senate, llie delmto on Hie 1ft currency bill has been resumed in the f llouef J but the majority do not seem to :.;. regard it with pily tnoro enthusiasm ', ( than they did boforo tho recess. All (' sorts of proposition!) for changes in the s bill mid for entirely new bills nro being I privately discussed, but nothing hns I been decided upon mid theiu ia little In Bight to Indicate when anything will be , decided upon ,' Tlio most important of tho proposed changes la ono for .1 now bill, which is R being engineered byafou administration j?' men nnd tacitly, If not openly, endorsed M by many rcimbliiitns. It providrs for ,1 tho issuo $500,000,000 in '1 per cent R bondq, lo bo used lor thu retirement of tho TriujUry notca and greenbacks j also U that these bonds may he used as n basis Sf" ' ,or currency to bo Issued by both S ', National and Statu hanks. It is claimed WL , by thoHc who are behind tlds Idou that l'tcaMcnl "Cle eland stands ready to H approve. It, if It'iun bo pawed. NeedleBs H to Bay that tho ultrjf Bjlvcr men will fight this idea, lo. the last ditch.' The regard ft as nsenfinn to glo the National banks n now lease of life. jr Tho rciiMemhliii,; of Congrcsi was nccouip.tnitd by two sensational ttorlcs. m One that I'KvMent Cleveland hadnbout 1 rondo up Ids mind to rend n special I tnesfago to Congress, apienllng to tho I patiiotism of mcmberflvind- ntking tliat I a non-partisan attempt be inado to I adopt iomo legislation that will telieve I tlio Treasury, and tho other that the I' lyndicato olbankcrawjdeh btuight tiint JjJt'riOTltiljillji'tfXlToofJli&lr Ft?flWibV"iVuro to aslJTruiWieftVi'jTiIcnt fl "T removo Becrctnry Caillsle, fcirlialiig - B broken faith wIlli jfio bnnkera nnd for demonstrated inc,ipaclty Tlic hict story "y ho heard froin In Congress, as there .fl are people who would like to know something about a bargain made be-V be-V tween tho Secretary of IhcTrcaaury and fl a tiyndlcato of lxjiid-djuying bankers. jH Tlio ncraga politician never lias any difllcultyjln figuring out just what he H vrants from any given situation. Tor H Instaneo, this is tho way that ex Senator H Leggitt, ofN Y. sums up tho I'rcei-H I'rcei-H dcntifll situation on tlio rcpuiilicaii aide H of the fenco: "Haven't you oftoniH.tired H how frequently 11 raeu horce that gets H ctrfar In ndvancoof tho ict tires out in H tho stretch and fails to conio in winner. H Tiiat, I think, is appropilitn to the H jncsent stago of tho rruriilenti.il Derby; H Tom Kcul Isaw.iy in the lead of nil H compel Itois. It Is dearly tlio field H against tho man from Maine. If tlio H convention wero held tomorrow, or next I week, Uced would gut tho uomiimtion easily. Hut these conditions won't IjMj Harrison is not to be ignored, neither Is McKinley. although tho latter will not walk oirwitli tho pilze Jty ueaia tlmt Senator Allison will be'the lucky man. Uo U looked on as a safe conservative statesman, big enough to bo l'lcslduiit, uiiil ho has not gouo about witli a club, hitting copl'u ' iivo'r the head, to that ho has not arousod anv nr'tagoiijtms. Tlio Uublieans Vrc almost Bino logo ln( tho wot for tin ir randldate, TiikI. Alllpdn is tho most cllglblo mini." Tor tweUo years Senator Allison hns had sliuillar pro- ulctlons nmiloof hini, bu ho lian inner been noiiiiifatcjl fo'r rrctldcnt. Kx-Corigrcssman Sidney Clink, now 11 1 citizen of Oklahoma, I in, joined (!ov 1 Kenfrow nlrtl Ids liey assistants and I will lend his aid t-j booming tho bill for I btntehood for Okluhonia Ths I fiUtehooil boomers w'uld prefer tlmt tho bill bo p.vwcd as it stands, Including part of Indian To.rilo'r in tho pro- poiod Stale, hut if Cougiwc prefers th. H nro willing to accept Stntuhoml for the H Territory as it now annuls "Slate-" "Slate-" hood or bust" Is their motto. Ilcpieseiitallvo llalley, of Texas, v.hu Is chairman of the suh-iommlttee w Inch BPJ investigated tho Lhiugca a&ninxl Judu H Itfcks, has been ill nnd is still unable to H work. Coiikeijucnlty tho report I ins M bonn delayed and it is ury uncertiilii when it will bu made, jflT Hon J. 0 Manning, of AU , who la jH In Washington us i member nf thu H special ciminltteo nppolntisl by tlio H National commltlee o thu people's H party, to submit eviiKnco to O'ongro In H eulMtniitliitloii affliction fruudd.in tli H Southern states, Suva ho has teciix w 1 many lettors hvurlng on thix suhj .-t 1 thut hu proposes to iwur . mil (or H representatives ot all tU Soutluru' B Southern stales to meet at New OiIchhf, I JBL LaatlHHNBBBBBBBBBVBBBaBBaBBBBBBBBBlBaaaBia .Iiinuary 18 and 10, for the pnrposo of considering the fraalbillty of organlilng ballot-right leagues throughout tlir aontlt Tho Nicaragna Canal lobby ia disconsolate discon-solate It had flgurod on rounding up enough votca during tho holiday recess to mako auro of tlio passage of tho c.inol bill bv the House, nnd,' although Its least count of noses shows n considerable gain, and there aro enough by considerable consider-able number to pass tho bill, nobody need grlcvo over this, except thoso who havo been spending inonoy with tho expectation of getting dollnrs for cents It is altogether probahlo that the U. 8. jvlll contually build tho canal, but not likely that it will pay millions of dollars to a bankrupt company for that privilcgo |