| Show WASHING ON LETTER its journals correspondent tells us diets BON the scenes senate republicans want to claim everything within sight trouble ir in the family kins king marcus aurelius aurelins hadaa has a long reach mr mckinley is likely to be much wore more interested inter esteil in the senate than in the soft speeches the army of office seeke seekers rs are now pouring into his ears if certain plans now being strongly urged are carried out the majority of the senate is composed of silver men but they represent three separate parties democrats lists and silver republicans tile the greediness of tile tie republicans in claiman claiming the right to change ane financial complexion of tile the committee on finance by filling both vacancies with gold rep republicans blicaus has aroused the tha silver men and the proposition has bein been made tha they shall combine and reorganize the ser senate late by deposing the republicans from tho the chairmanships of all important committees and by giving the tile silver senators Seni Sent tors control of fill all committees in other words to put the legi dative machinery of th the 0 senate into the hands bands of the silver ton nin this proposition will not be to carry into be I 1 q x 4 A bublich s b senator tf ller W was as a speaking peal in g from personal experience having him elf been secretary of the interior from april 17 1882 1862 to march larch ath 1885 when he told the senate that mr MeKi mckinley tiley had made a serious mistake when he nominated cornelius cordelius N bliss to lo be Secret secretary arv of the interior he la eaid id that mr bliss was a barker banker arid and merchant with an eav experience fience which might have fitted him for the head of some ot of the department but that in his opinion the head of the interior department ought to bo be ii a lawyer mr taller did not speak in in a spirit of antagonism to mr bliss nor lid did he vote voie against his confirmation he merely called attention to what lie he believed to bo be a ll 11 mistake As might be imagined those sell senators and representatives who are opposed to czar reeds ideo idea of confining tile the legislate leg legislation islat ion of ibe eaf es tra session of congress which meets next monday to the tariff bill by not appointing the commit 1 tees of the house which would have to act upon other bills are not gnei grieving edg over the failure of four of the ibe regular appropriation bills the sundry civil agricultural indian idd and deficiency czar car reed already has another scheme to prevent general legi legia LUion it is to I 1 authorize by joint resolution continuance of oil nil the regular appropriations of tile alie current year i until next december there was a I 1 more or less inter esting republican rumpus iii in washington the day after tile the in aug augu ration n about which very little has been heird beard A me meeting eting of re 1 publican clubs hall hail been called for that hat day by col john bowles for the he announced purpose of adopting ic solutions i advising the new at ad min mint ration what it sli do 10 to 1 retain the support of these clubs gen woodmansee who is chair man of the executive committee odthe of the national organization afre of re 1 L 1 publican cluba antl anil who claimed 1 that the individual clubs depre rented at this conven convention tio n could not i ii r t properly act upon such euch resolutions as were to t be offered succeeded in having the convention adjourn as soon as aa it was called to order there was some very warm talk about this application of the gag but the scent of the pio pie counter made it mostly whispered amborg anion those interested ex senator blackburn will attend the extra bession of the kentucky legislature a that has been called to elect a senator and will make ft a strong g fight for his own reelection election re notwithstanding the republican majority in that body nobody expects the senate to seat scat Maj major orWood wood who has been appointed to tie vacancy by gov bradley and i hether the gentlemen appointed by the governors of pi florida orida and will fare any better remains io to bo be seen king hanna has got everything n lie ho has reached for up to date but certain cert senators who ilio think he is now anuw reaching after too much are preparing to give hini him a disappoint ment and there are big odds in favor faver of their succeeding king hanna is reaching for a place on the state finance Commit fp in which there are two vacancies caused by the retirement of sherman and voorhees bees in order that he be may be pronell pro v fixed to boss the theta tariff riff bill which will go to that committee as soon as a it gets through the house no new senator aas has been given a place on that committee in the n memory of the oldest senater si Se but that makenny make any difference to hanna he wants it and has made his want known it is certain that he be won t get et it tom foni platt also wants a place on oil this cooj CODI mitlee but as lie he has been in the senate bebe before his aspiration is not considered as audacious as that of king hanna but whether he will get the place is very very doubtful ex secretary carlisle has been offered the position of general counsel for the pullman car co now held by gen horace porter who expects to go abroad at a salary ol of a ye ve arand the expectation pec tation is that mr carlisle will accept the offer washington march 10 1897 1807 |
