| Show washington LETTER LEITER NOTON feb 17 1893 the annexation of hawaii may now bi be considered an accomplished fact the president having sent to the senate a message menage and a treaty providing ther eror and a large majority of the senate being known to favor its ratification the treaty in very short abort and very simple merely providing for annexation leaving the details to be completed after the treaty is ia ratified by both governments this shuts the house out as no congressional legislation will be required until the treaty has been ratified b by the provisional government ot of hawaii which is allowed two months after the receipt to members of the house are disposed to resent this disposition of the matter but it the senate ratifies the treaty and it will their resentment will not count now HOW although it may when the legislation made necess necessary ary by the treaty comes up in the next congress he to is a wise politician who does not occasionally ask himself where ato ain I 1 at ai these days with President elect cleveland selecting a republican populist for his secretary of state and the president nominating democrats democrat to high bh offices it would seem that the part party fences are in a dilapidated condition mr cleveland was in many respects rather independent of 1110 party when he was wan president before and present indications are that hen be tj mapping ping out a still more independent course for his second term his selection of judge gresham to be ba his bis adorni secretary of state without consulting the congressional leaders ol of his p party arav while pleasing to the populists lists and republicans was not pleasing to a big 9 majority oathie of hie Democrat sIn congress although policy will keep down any thing like open opposition until after the distri distribution btitton ot the choicest bits of presidential pi patronage but there are lively times ahead the fact is much commented on t fat at the members of the senate committee commIt toe on foreign relations who are re actively working for the nicaragua canal bill now the unfinished busi business neWl of the senate are quick to resent any questioning of the intentions of the bill senators efterman ft nerman and morgan are the special champions of the bill the former usually the most courteous of men in debate so far lost his temper this week as to pass pan the lie with a colleague he was making a statement concerning the private stockholders of the canal company when he be WIN was inter erupted by senator teller several timos times and when he objected mr teller retorted that his bis interruptions were more solely for the durose of correcting misrepresentations the senator trim ohio was making that to ie falser balses 1 said mr boorman bluntly and then proceeded with his statement three important amendments to the bill all looking towards an actual control of the work by this government have been offered respectively by senators higgins stewart and quay the public has been misinformed by careless writers as aeto to the bill introduced by senator sherman bherman and favorably reported to the senate by the finance committee the bill does not make a now new issue of bonds certain it only authorize 98 the secretary of the treasury in the event of its becoming necessary to buy gold to keep up the treasury reserve to issue or so much thereof as may be necessary in bonds to run five years and to bear 8 3 per cent interest under the laws now existing no bonds could be issued bearing less than 4 per cent and running for a long period of years president hartson harlson positively stated within the lash las forty eight hours houra that no bonds would be issued under his hia administration unless it became necessary to prevent pro vent a financial panic and he says he be has no fears of that it may not be true but there is a growing belief in congressional circles that certain new york banks are aiding in creating an artificial demand for gold in order to force an issue of U 8 bonds some dome of these banks which voluntarily offered to furnish the government a considerable abou amou amoust 1 I t of gold withdrew the off offer or as soon as it was ascertained that it had been determined ter mined to issue no bonds the house this week passed the general pension appropriation bill the radical amendments to the pension law concerning the transfer of the pension bureau to the war department and the suspension of the payment of certain pensions were alter after some rather father sharp discussion voted down representative bynum chair chairman mn of the subcommittee committee sub charged with the investigation of the whisky trust says on that subject 11 ao 30 so far as the evidence before the 0 goes the trust seems to be in the same business that everybody else is in of taking advantage of every opportunity and device to make the most money this would soo seeli ii to indicate that mr bynum does not regard the actions ai of the trust 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