Show our washington letter prom rubit our correspondent dec 3 1394 0 xo no message ever written by president cleveland was more attentively tent ively listened to than that sent in t today oday the general to topics C treated by the message including I 1 c the foreign relations of the government were nil all that any democrat could desire ind and the financial recommendations cannot bo be fully ulder understood stood until considered in connection aith with secretary carlisles annual report to be sent to tomorrow to morrow which contains the details of ortho the plan for a reform of the currency of thu the country which the president so strong strongly c I 1 y endorses endors cs in his mes message sago what will be tile alio result of these financial recommendations it will be impossible to say eay until the sentiment of the democrats harshad lias had time tobe to become apparent speaker crisp looked quite as good natured when lie rapped the house to order as ile he could possible have looked had a majority of the house been as fortunate as himself in getting reelected re elected and his own reelection election re to the been assured Ind indeed iced the alie most noticeable feature on the democratic bide odthe of the house aside from the entirely too numerous empty chairs was prevailing good nature of those who were defeated last month if the republicans expected to bee an array of long faces they were disappointed 1 there have been a number of informal conference of democratic senators and representatives for tile the purpose of discussing 0 the probability babi lity of rea dp an agreement on a pro I 1 gramme for the bession session and there is is some talk of holding a joint caucus and requiring 0 ev every ery man who attends to pledge himself to tand stand by whatever pro gramme the caucus adopts if pledges 0 could be secured from a sufficient ri number timber to control both house aud S senate that would be an excellent idea but it is certain that there are six or more democratic senators who would not pledge themselves like numerous other fake stori et orie ct that asserting that president cleveland was offended ded with admiral walker because of the report lie he made on affairs in hawaii has been disproved in a striking C manner by the official order placing admiral walker at the head bead of the light hoiten board a position that is is C considered onside red by naval officers one of tile the most desirable under the government ern ment the president seems to have a special liking for this method of knocking out silly stories it is much better and far more convincing than a stere stereotyped oty ped denial treasury officials take no stock in the stories that congress will nill refuse to appropriate the money needed to put the income tax into operation for the very simple reason that there are no more opponents of that tax in either senate or house than there when it was incorporated corp orated in the tariff bill this is the common sense view of the matter if the opponents of the he tax could not prevent its being included in the tariff bill they certainly cannot prevent an appropriation to put it into effect there is reason too for the belief that senator hill who led the fight against the income tax in the senate will not only refuse to aid in trying to defeat the appropriation but will himself vote for it as lie he is on record as opposing any and all attempts to embarrass embarras s officials by withholding appropriations for to be used in carrying out existing laws representative tentative enta tive cooper of fla thinks the proper way to fill the office of postmaster is i to have I 1 him arn elected by the voters of his town or township and lie he proposes to push a bill providing ile he it ii also aleo strongly in favor of the adoption of some system of currency reform that will give the needed elasticity to currency either that proposed by secretary carlisle or something tom ething else upon ulion which 1 a I majority can get 0 get together and of a bill providing 0 for the building 0 of the nicaragua canal ile he says that if lie he could have his way he be would make this session of COD congress gres as it could be memorable in the history of the democratic party although nothing can call be officially stated because no official action has yet vet been taken thercie there is little room for doubt that the sub com mittic which went to cleveland ohio to anve investigate char charges chares es against judge T ricks eicks of having appropriated fees properly belonging 0 to the government to his own use will ivill in its report to the full judiciary committee of the house take the ground that the charge was proven in bitet virtually admitted by judge ricks licks T himself it is thought that the flu question estion of whether i impeachment proceedings shall be instituted will ue left for the full fall committee to decide the committee will make its report to the house before the holidays unless some thing not now expected shall occur to prevent and it is expected to I 1 favor impeachment tho the sugar scandal lias has raised its ugly head again ind and the same anie democratic mo cratic senators whize atio e names were most conspicuously ly smirched smirch ed during the preparation of the su sugar suar ar schedule of clio tariff bill are a ain figuring 0 in the rumors in a manner that is decidedly unpleasant to democrats generally however the trio of Rena tois may look at tile matter many 1 any democrats ale aie in favor of settling this bu business einess for good and all by just putting sugar on the free lisi lis i |