Show washington NEVIS MEWS tho the venezuelan Commis commission tion jana senator jones jews silver speech from our rambo im responds ut id 1 jan 13 democrats are naturally disposed to look complacently upon the deadlock which has followed the first attempt of the republican senators to make uze ue of the power they acquit acquitted acquited ed 11 in taking posses possession gion of th cani committees es through a deal with the populists lists it is in a republican funeral and the demo brats while willing to be spectators have no idea of taking the part of mourners secretary olney took part in the second ine meeting Eting of the venezuelan boundary commission As matters pertaining to the plans to be fol lowed in the work of the commission were discussed the meeting wai not a public one secretary olney s relation to the commission com is in merely that of an adviser the comm commission sion will of course make csc aze of the knowledge secretary olney has acquired by a long raudy of the casp case but its action will be entirely independent of either mr olney oi 01 th president representative hepburn of iowa is a republican but he does not wear the collar of speaker reed as do most of the republican members of the house he has spasmodic at attacks of de denap 0 one of these caused hirn him to propose an amendment to the ree feeal rules compelling the speaker of the house to recognize the member who was the first to attract his attention while the attack attach lasted mr hepburn charged that speaker reed had abused the right of recognition by gradually evolving from the long established practice a rule of his ow own it to overlook all such as he be chooses cb ocies not to recognize on the floor and to recognize only those whom be thinks ought to be allowed to address the house I 1 and very truly trula said eid that business in the house should be done by the peoples representatives and not by the speaker sneaker alone but after representative senta tive bell of colo who said the speaker had not licit recognized a single populist up to this time had bad strongly seconded his amendment mr Hep hepburne burns independence suddenly de desetter desei ted him bim he stand the pressure and he showed the white feather by withdrawing his amendment thus closing the inc incident ident I 1 as the diplomats is gay ay jones of ark is credited with having made one of the best speeches in favor of the free coinage of silver ever heard in the senate while as ag strong in his belief in silver as any man in congress mr jones i is free from the radical opinions lie ile spoke for about two hours and made a very conservative statement calling esp especial ecial attention to the unfavorable attitude of great britain germany and france towards silver and the certainty certainly that this attitude is not likely to be changed for a long time to come while admitting the great responsibility of the US in attempting the reestablish establish re ment of bimetallism alone lice he advocated i it as a duty autv which should not inot be shunned the impression appears to be growing among the intelligent democrats that the custom of the party in power holding the first national convention will net be held this year and that the democratic convention will not be held until after the republican publican Ke convention has made its platforms and nominations the national committee will this week decide both the time and place for the conven bention ven tion to be held the house and senate foreign committees have referred all the resolutions which w aich tuve have been offered concerning cuba to subcommittees which indicates that no hasty basty action will be taken notwithstanding the clamor in and about congress for the reporting of a resolution for the tha recognition or of cuban belligerency lige rency the only thing that would bring about hasty action on the part of congress would be the capture of havana by the ansur gents the monroe doctrine is ia to be upheld by a strong resolution solution rt that has been formally decided upon by the senate committee on foreign relations and a subcommittee a appointed p to draft the resolution |