Show OUR washington LETTER formation of the rouse housa and ana senatorial matters from our regular correspondent representative dailey bailey of texas had the honor of receiving the democratic nomination for Speaker of the house and every democrat dem crat who was present at the meeting of the house today voted for him mr air reed heed I 1 nag as of course elected buethe but the dregent alonse ilonse his bas a republican majority of about less than the last house there v nas as more or less talk about an attempt being made at the republican caubu to curtail the power of speaker but when the lime came for action the nerve was lacking and mr air reed heed will die dictate tate the business ot of this house juet juat as he did that of the last the democratic nomination for speaker was equivalent to tin an election of the democratic leader in the house and mr air bailey will be so recognized dining the fifty filth fifth Con congress Congi giess eis he is i a comparatively man for so responsible a position but during his s service rice in the his bis natural ability aas has forced him to the front and no doubts are entertained of his making a good leader and adding to the deputa tion hy hi already has there ii much disappointment among the republicans over the a appointments pa ointments mckinley has made and no DO end carl of growling because he aint made mure more but lie he has shifted shifted most of the upon the state delegations in congress by requiring them to unite upon every ap applicant cant for office from their states before he be will even promise to consider them this way may be merely a bluff to save time if so 60 it is a good one as many of the republican senators and are known to have endorsed indorsed indor sed seel as many as five or six men inen for the same position anil and it will require time for them to settle upon one man and to fix up thin thins things s eo ea ili as to ave lave L themselves yes at home hom L many of the delegations are also split up among themselves and it will require time for them to unite upon men for the offices to their state me meanwhile mr mckinley gains time to devote to some of his other troubles trouble including the extra session of congress which which convened today representative mcmillan of tenn has been made chairman of the executive committee of the national association of democratic clubs and will direct the arrange ments odthe of the general celebration by all the clubs in the association of Jeffere jeffersons ons birthday april esth the event isto is to be celebrated in washington by a dinner at the same hotel in which the first celebration of jeffersons birthday was held in ISM 1830 which was attended by president andrew jackson vice president john C calhoun the entire cabinet and a large number ol of senators and representatives t ta hon william Jenn jennings ints 0 bryan has accepted an invitation to bo be present and to respond to the toast thomas jefferson the credentials of all three of the gentlemen appointed to the senate by the governors of kentucky oregon and florida are now in washington but that is about as near a i seat in the senate as any of those presenting enting t them hem will get tho the reasons for not seating sealing the republicans Republic ang fro from rn kentucky and oregon are 0 0 weighty that no serious attempt will be milde made to to upset them the democratic appointee of the governor of florida is thought to have a valid claim to I 1 the seat beat but before it could be e established the florida legislature will nill probably have elected n senator consequently it is not probable that the attempt will be made all allot of the nice things T said about mckinleyl McKinle chinley cK inley yi accas accessibility abil icv to callers daring his first few lays days in the white hou ilou houe e were rather too premature ile he has since adopted rules which excepting that they do not shut everybody out one dav dal in every week are practically all the e same as those made by sir air aleve cleveland and it is now just as hard for a private individual to get an interview with mr mckinley as it was with mr air cleveland if the now dew tariff bill is what its framers call a conservative measure it would be decidedly in tere eting etino to know what they would call radical although the country denounced and drove from power the republican party because of the high duties imposed by the mckinley tariff law the average rates of duty to be imposed by the new tariff bill rave lave beer been mado made higher than the mckinley bill and about the heaviest taxation carried by I 1 the he new bill is that imposed upon such necessities as sugar and clothing there may not be such buch plain saili bailine sa iline ahead of this measure as mr air mckinley and his personal worshippers wor shippers expect it will of course be ba railroaded through the houe hou e all right but that it will be materially amended before it gets through the senate is very cry probable two of the numerous candidates for assistant secretary of the navy both of whom served in the na navy vy and are strongly backed have presumably been thrown down by the exposure of ugly blots in their thair naval record they were both court m artial ed one wail wai sentenced to dismissal and the other suspended from the service for a time lime they both afterwards patched up galteri in some way and were allowed to resign march 15 1897 |