Show i IN LONGRE THE COMING SESSION I One of the Most Important Meetings Meet-ings Ever Held SILVER IS NOT YET DEAD Removal of Presidential Postmasters to Commence at Once One Thousand Will Probnbly Feel theO the-O clal Axe Dunns the Next Six Short WeeksThe Tariff BilL Wellington Nov 25Speia1 The coming long session of Congress promises to be one of the most important import-ant and interesting ever held in times of peace Indeed the present indic tions are that legislation of the most I crucial character is to be pressed by the party in power and since the recent I re-cent elections gave new hope to the Re I I puoiicans they will do their utmost to resist the policy of the administration regarding the tariff and the proposi ijn to repeal the federal election laws To one who does not understand the slow methods of the Senate and the many opportunities for not only impeding imped-ing legislation but of actually preventing pre-venting action under the rules when the minority hang together solidly it would seem that the Democrats on account ac-count of having possession of all the branches of the government ought to I be able to pass any measure within a reasonable time on which they may be i united un Since Mr Cleveland was installed last March the party has not been united on all the leading questions This was notably true during the extra session of Congress when the administration of demanded the unconditional repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman law On the final vote in the Senate on that proposition the Democrats were evenly divided In the House when the Wilson bi providing for the n repeal but not looking to any future as implied in the Voorhees bill which was accepted by the House a a substitute sub-stitute for it own measure while the majority for unconditional repeal was a large one the states that are more reliably Democratic than any in the the Union and which furnish two thirds of the electoral votes tirds necessary for the election of a Democratic president were largely opposed op-posed to the repeal unless their representatives repre-sentatives were assured in advance that some provision would be made for continuing siher as one of the money metals of the country The states which are classed politically as southern including the old slave states which did not go out of the union during the civil war such as Delaware Maryland Missouri and Kentucky are the very backbone of the Democratic party This has been shown repeatedly in the elections and on the 7th of this month the party was t badly whipped in all of the northern I and eastern states but more than held its own in the south On the pro osition to repeal unconditionally thi sherman law the representatives of the Democratic persuasion from the southern states voted on the financial question a follows For repeal 34 against repeal 82 A very significant vote voteA telegraphed The Herd a few days ago the president and the post matrgenerl have informed a number num-ber of congressmen that they intend to congessmen a fat a it can be done all of the Republican postmasters of the presidential class Mr Bissell even went so far a to state t one after the annual of the members that anual reports are out of the way and he can get a few days rest he Intends to make things hum in his department intimating also that i it was necessary j neces-sary the force would be required to sr work night and day The understanding j understand-ing is that the decapitation will commence com-mence just a soon a Congress meets again This is very cheerful news to agn senators and representatives a I they have been unmercifully criticised because the Republicans have been allowed to hold on to most of the large postoffices all these months The partisan par-tisan feeling is such all over the country that the Democrats want t see their own people in possession of the offices and they will not be satis until the made ted unt changes are made I is understood that the president and the postmastergeneral have reached the conclusion that the patronage must be dealt out speedily and then they will expect the Democrats in Congress to stand by the administration administra-tion on the tariff and other leading policies Promises have been made before be-fore on this same line but one thing and another has happened to prevent the fulfillment of the same and the consequence is that many of the congressmen con-gressmen will not believe that the removals ovals are to be made until the I slaughter actually commences They are something like old Uncle Remus ias when the little boy promised to bring him a big supply of ginger gnger cakes He remarked to the child Seem dem cakes honey is better dan hearln tell uv emI em-I as Mr Bissell asserts not less than one thousand postmasters of the presidential class are to be changed within the next month or six weeks i Is fal to assume that Salt Lake Ogden Og-den and most of the more important offices in Utah will be reached From remarks dropped here and there by well known Republicans they not only expect the Democrats to be divided on the tariff bill which will soon be completed but the Republi cans are laying their plans to fight any radical reductions in the schedules sched-ules to the bitter end The Democratic Democrat-ic majority In the Senate Is very small and unless the ways and means committee com-mittee frame and present a well balanced bal-anced bill it is ajt to meet with con folderable opposition but in the long run i will doubtless be passed though not in the form in which it was originally orig-inally shaped by thfe committee ofl the House The sugar section has been the most difficult question for the committee com-mittee to handle The bounty is regarded re-garded by Democrats a an outrageous outrag-eous system and t put back the tariff tar-iff duty on raw sugar for the Lake of I i raising the revenue will undoubtedly increase the price of the article to the consumer unless the duty on the re e 5ned article were to be made extremely extreme-ly low To abolish the bounty and then place sugar on the free list would be a hardship on the planters and growers of both cane and beet sugar and would probably result in crippling if not wiping out the entire Industry II in the United States Utah and the other terr1tor1e are just beginning to produce profitably r beet sugar and the whole country j L is interested in this question in more ways than one There promises to be a big fight over the sugar section of the bill unless the committee arrange this matter to the satisfaction of the Louisiana Texas Nebraska California and some other delegations |