Show TO HILL FOE CLEVELAND HE SAYS HE KETER HAS BEES A ASPIRANT the passage of the tariff bais increased correspondence of the all things como to him who waits has occurred to me very often this week as I 1 noted tho change in sentiment which followed tho reporting of the mills tariff bill to tho house by chairman mills who loft a sick bed to perform that duty A slight modification in tho bill has secured tho support of the louisiana delegation who were at first bitterly opposed to the bill another slight change in tho clause affecting worsted has won over the wool men from ohio and elsewhere so that the number of democrats who oppose the measure has been reduced to a very small number and it is hoped to reduce the number still further before the bill comes to a vote notice has been givan in the house that tho bill will bo called up for action on the dinst an effort will then be made to hold the house down to the consideration of the measure until a vote is taken of course the republicans are prepared to repeat on the door of the house everything which they did in the committee room to delay the bill hoping in this way to defeat it the democratic Dema cratic pro gramme is to get the tariff bill disposed of before the meeting of the st louis convention in june from the present outlook the chances are rather against a vote being reached by that time but the effort will be made all the same the chances of the final passage of the bill have largely increased recently and whilo it is by no moans certain now that tho bill will pass it is more than probable that it will at any rate the arguments over the bill will place this whole question in a plainer light before the country than heretofore people will in consequence look into tho question themselves people who have in tho past taken some political demagogues statement of it as true and the result cannot fail to bo a gain for tho revenue reformers the senate has spent more than a week wrangling over tho house bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to purchase united states bonds with the surplus tho senate is not divided on party lines as both parties have held caucuses to try to agree what should be done the silver senators of both parties insist on amending the bill in some manner to increase the purchases of silver by the government the house has had its wrangle too the cause was the bill to refund the direct taxes paid by the several states into the united states treasury A large majority of the house favor this bill but owing to the peculiar rules under which the body works a determined minority can by filibustering bu delay and sometimes even defeat legislation the opponents of the bill resorted to this method on wednesday and succeeded in keeping the house in session until a m thursday morning all day and all night were spent in dilatory motions such furious filibustering had scarcely ever been seen since the foundation of the house of representatives senta tives senator sherman says the report that he had or intended to retire from tho race for the presidential nomination is entirely untrue in a little over two months from now he will wish he had and next november he will hate himself for ever having even indulged in the hope of becoming president of the united states nor will the knowledge that he has lost some of the contents of his barrel add to the comfort of his thoughts it is understood the six justices of the court are in favor of the promotion of justice field of california to the vacant chief tice ship until the appointment of mr lamar to the supreme bench justice field was the only democrat of the supreme court governor hill of new york is shortly to announce publicly that ho is not and never has been a candidate for the presidential nomination he is a cleveland eveland Ul man mr cleveland expressed himself to a friend this week as being highly pleased with the prospects of the mills tariff bill in the bouso and also tho prospects of the democratic party in the coming campaign gen dark the clerk of the house of representatives pays he is tired of hearing the house denounced for doing nothing he can prove by figures that it has done more work than any of its predecessors ever did so early in the session it has passed up to date private and public bills the public lands committee of the house has reported a bill forfeiting about acres of th e northern pacific southern pacific land grants washington |