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Show WASIII.Miro.N I.KTTEII. rem Our Ittgtar Corrttftfltuttnt, Wasiii.nuiui, Jail 21. Verily politics ilo nitke tlrange bedfellow. The Idea woendvancod a fow wicks ago of the iKHilbUlty ol a l'oUlUt becom. Ing a memberof thoClevuland cabinet, It was poopoohvd by thu know-It nils at belli); lo rldlculout for terlout conslJcrallou. Now thrro nru good reasons for the belief that Julgo Ore aham, whocamo vcr neartobiliiglho 1'opulltt candidate for 1'rrildent, hat beon atkod by Mr. Cleveland to accep: a place lu hit cabinet. Democrats of prominence, among thtm Soimton Ilrlce, Carlisle, Mcl'hereon, Palmer nndOrny, all aupiiosedly 111 Mr. Cle-vclaud'a Cle-vclaud'a confidence, admit thu proba. blllly of Judge Orcthatn being n member of the cabinet. Henator llrlco goea further, and auya he knowa that JudguUroaham haa beon tendered a I lace In thu cabinet. A Irleuit ol Judge Oreiham,whotawlilm when hu paid a secret aid mysterious visit to Washington n few dayiarfj, told your correspondent that bu coul i go Into thu Cabinet, but that bo Judged Irora what tho Judge said that he would prefer a place on the bench of thu U. H. Huprrrau Coul I. Judgu Uresham hat had aomi) uxpvrluuoa lit a member of the Ciblurt; hu was postmaster general gen-eral uuder President Arthur. Thoto who were at tho beginning ol the session coufldeut that oonsUtrable legislation oulsldn of thu rtgular appropriations ap-propriations would puis are getting Uesuonduut. and with guod tuasuu,fi,r, with thu Jlepublliiiii leaders of thu Bruateopi urenlly apathetlo an J the Democratic leailera of thu lloutu lu thu aamu elate ol mlLd, 111 prospects uf legislation caunol bu uonsljeruj eveu faulygood. Thiro Isuveu an utteni t to causu the falluru or iiuaruntluu legislation, legis-lation, auu thu null option bill, which waa to havo beiu voted on last Wednesday Wed-nesday Is still tinseled upon It ma) be voted oil this week, lut no one leela cotlalu about It, or Indeed about nuy-thlog nuy-thlog vlso concerning congressional legislation. Olio ol the molt interesting questions be'oro this Congrott Is thu admission of new states to the Uulou. Four territories Atliins, .New Moxluj, Oklahoma and Utah are claiming through their cltlieut, sent to Washington Wash-ington for tho lurpoje, that they possess pos-sess all of tho rt'iultltes lor statehood, aud Indeed, some that were not required re-quired of others earlier admitted to the family ol statu. The lloutu hat already jaased bills for thu admission of thu lint two, and tho bill admltllug the last baa beeu favorably reported and will lu all probability bu pained by tho House on thu first suijieuslon day. Individually tho aenators with few oxcojtlonsnipekr to favor tho admission admis-sion of new i pllcauU for aiatehoid: Htnator l'latt, who prevented action on any of thesu hills by thuHenate committee on territories, at thu last tension, now says that hu will do nothing noth-ing moru ugalust them than to cast his own vote, aud henator Perkins, whose Influence was actively agalntl thu ad-million ad-million of Utah nt tho last session, ses-sion, Is now earnestly working for Its adnilnslon. If parties and politic did not enter thu queatlon It Would bo tier-feotly tier-feotly eafu to prodlot that lour moro stales would bo added to lliu Union huloro tin--llh o( March. Itlanothlug but lolitlia that makes tho outoouu doubtful. A member of tho donate committee said: "I( any get lu ull will get In. My own Impresiloii Is that an omnibus bill Including them all will he ut through," 'Hie Jtepubllcau senators exieci toouueuson luu question ques-tion tbitvieok. The Canadian railroads aru apparently appar-ently moru interested In the bill Introduced In-troduced by Jlepresentsllve Johnson, of Ohio, rtqulrlug those roads which cross any portion of lliu United Hiatus lo secure llcemes from the lutor-state commercu commission, and lo file a bond agreeing to obey lliu orJors of thu commission and to producu any evidence that may at any limn be required, re-quired, Ihsn In Hit. Presidential message mes-sage on the subject now dally expected, lhu Uraud Trunk aud Canada 1'aolQo roads uru epp-alug thu bill, thruugh counsel, while competing American roada are advocating Itr pateage. Bsniitor titewart, who reiusud to go lutoaUepubllcau caucua hulil Halur-Uay Halur-Uay night to uouslder tbu tjhuruiau t 111 lo rejeal thu Jaw fur thu purthesu of silver, says he haa made a taruiul canvass of thu Heuatu and that It will Ui liuHMllle tu pus the bill. JIu says that eoeaoof thu JJcmocratlo senators who voted fur free colnagu last session iiiny be induced by Mr. Cleveland's lutlueucu tosuiorl the bill, but that hu haa positive useurauctn from ovury ltepubllcnn seustor who voted for freeoolnsge last year that they will vote against It, and also from Monsters Carey, Warren and lisnsbrough, who voted agair st free coinage last year, and that balfa doien othorltepubllcana who aro opposed to fnte coinage will Totnagalnti lhu bill, because thuy ntu opposed to any legislation on tho tub. led at this session. The fact that thu Hspubllouu caucus made no attempt to oompul lhu members of that pirtj to vote for the bill teams lo bear out the correctuesa ol Henator cjlcwari'a state-menu |