Show washington LETTER washington D C dec 80 A first class political sensation in the midst of the quiet enjoyments enjoy ments of the holidays is something that washington seldom gets but it hadit this week and notwithstanding the absence of many of those whose presence would have added to its intensity it was and ip is yet quite exciting enough cpr those thise woo who take pleasure in political flurries and most moat men do although it was generally known that mccleve i land was opposed to the el election potion of murphy the hill tammany aundt date for united states senator from new york it was waa supposed that his ht election was waa a sure aure thing thine and that mr cleveland would consider it 11 good policy to keep his hia handt hand oft tho the explosion of a dynamite bomb ou on A crowded Lied thoroughfare would not bot therefore have created more excite mont ment arnon the passersby pas than mr air Cleveland Clev elands lis newspaper interview did among the politicians bhea it was received here the flat footed eta n 1 mr cleveland takes in that interview against the tb election ejection of murphy to the senate is i regarded here aai a a direct challenge to senator hill and ramoa tammany any tor a tight to the loath death opinion differs as W whether it will elect or defeat Morph lS bome say toi tat atthe tha democratic nae members of the new nt w york legislature wilt accept it as a notice that a vote for murphy will chut them out frona from akis th federal flesh puts pots anu and that enough of them will desert murphy to bring abdad his defeat others that it will be re carded as an attempt on the part 09 os mr clev land to interfere aitu witt stated politics and will cause murphy to bw elected electea to a certainty the last clinch their arguments by citing the disastrous result of president arthur atte attempt mrk t to make folger gov governor e r or oft new york whatever its re result su it he be its promulgation at this ti time rn 0 a abo 0 that mr cleveland is not afraid of be ator hill hilj and tammany representative holman who 1 known to congressional fame as eath th great objector and as ag the watch d da of the treasury trea eury to la a firm believer the ultimate commercial union juniou of th t entire american continent whitt what h means by commercial union la is th tb the trade between every nation ft america should be as aa free as aa t tha which now exist between the state 0 our union and that a uni uniform forin tart t upon articles from other parts paita of h world should be adopted by all of tu american nations nation he predicts mhd the idea will be carried oui within t alfi next thirty years in its ito entire entirety lly am that one tariff will be in effect f frej alaska to cape horn mr holcum holah says aya he can see aee no good reason W wm canada and mexico should not xi no have such a commercial u union ulon w with ill alfi united states mr holmans opinion odillie are always entitled to respect and taw th usually got get it but in this case open en dorsers are few II 11 wise the open opponents in fact th question Is regarded as one that ma become of great political importance the he near future and the average j lit libician litlo ician ian to is not anxious to so express opinion until he has ascertained trend rend of popular sentiment the house ways way and means ca dittes favors the repeal of the sug buga bounty law and it to is probable t bluh the committee will make a javor tavor abU report on representative SOO scott scotts s mih providing for its ite repeal Re preson tive scott claims that a canvas he made of the house and sena e a that the bill will pass pam but others that it will be impossible to get aiu bill through the senate unless it ft fei amended so BO as to put a tax on fore foreia sugar there is an impression imp reulon hojar ever that it the bill gets ger to ti senate sanate a number of the pub publican Itcan ena to tora ri who sup hupf PO A the bounty clause of the mckinley tariff bill under compulsion will gla glai i ly lyvone vote for its ite repeal as a matter of principle the two louisiana benat re ra and senator peffer er are expected to vote aplist repeal unless leas sugar raising constituents are pro prote ote J by a tax on foreign sugar but no case la Is recalled of congress having restored rea the tax on an article after having once taken it off and precedent always plays playe an influential part in congressional legislation A majority of the senate camittee on OB interstate inter state commerce are sail tu to favor the amendment to the interstate commerce law which was recently rece asked for by representatives of a number of railroad companies permuting pooling of freights but before such an amen ment meat gets through congress there will be some very plain talk from those opposed to railroad pooling senator perkins is in earnest about pushing his idea of making a state ou ofIn of indian dlan territory he ele insists that it la Is the only equitable and businesslike business like go lation of the indian problem and says he believes there is a good chance for it to get through during this session P A gentleman who sel seldom clorn makes idle predictions remarked in my hear ng na this morning that if jerr y simpson did not get elected to the senate he would not be surprised to see him made secretary of aRrI cult um ac when I 1 attempted tose to ascertain certain hie reason for saying so BO he shut up like a clam and said he be was wa not talking tor toe publication jan 2 1893 never before has baa there been such a general interest intent in the outcome of senatorial enat orial contort contests as in those now DOW going goine on in a number dumber at ordinarily except agg those from the states abat in which the son ont eato testo boze pending such events evento a ripple of inter cal in 12 ono one reason for the general interest at this time la in that never before were so BO many senators in doul doubt find and the very senators too who waby will by their votes vote decide the political of the senate denote of the fifty third congress a congress which in some lva rn spots peets way may be one of the most loa ira our history it la is generally believed here by men of all parties that enough of the doubtful senator will be elected by the populists lists to give them the balance of power but there ls jaw just juet enough doubt not only abt abent their election but how the 1 layte will WID vote to keep all handa bands on the as it were another thing which him haa brought public interest inter ext up to fever heat beat is in mr cleveland a unexpected open fight upon senator hill hills s candidate for senator from now new york a fight which way may be an aa important to the democratic party at large and especially in new york fork state as aa was the memorable fight between senator conkling and president garfield which resulted bd in the dramatic double resignation of senatore Ben Sena atoru torm conkling Uon kling and platt andin and in mt mr Clev elands first election to the presidency pre sideney the politicians in washington even those closely allied to ml cleveland admit privately they an aia discreetly main in publio public that mr cleveland made a mistake in making ahls fight even it if he succeeded in defeating maraby which by the way few people here believe to be possible at this thia bae 1 te day they argue that it will give senator hill an excuse for embarrassing mr Clev elands administration which he would not have had it mr cleveland had kept his hands new york tammany men here ny any that Murp hya hyPs election has been em an assured thing for weeke the necessary votes having been pledged to him long before mr cleveland came out in thai interview against him tiey they admit that strong as senator hill la Is in new york mr Clevela bould have defeated his hie candidate if he be had announced his DIB opposition to him before the democratic members of the legislature bound up by pie jes A few people here express the belief that he will do it anyway rhe fhe politicians are all very much at al sea abut silver legislation at this thia session and unless they do some so no remarkable getting together in a very short time there is little probability that there will be any legislation there has been some shifting of positions on the silver question since the subject was last before congress but just how many members have changed their views appears to be a matter of 0 doubt it is suspected that representative dockery of missouri a prominent democratic member of the house committee on appropriations who has been a strong free coinage man is one of them and it is in believed that speaker crisp who has also been a 8 free coinage advocate has been converted to mr cleveland Clev elands a financial ideas the cleveland influence and the harrlson harrison influence ta in still being jointly exerted to bring about a sus pension of the present monthly purchases of silver bullion but the outward indications of the effect have not become sufficiently marked to say may whether success or failure will be the outcome president harrison Harri aon is preparing a special message to be sent bent to congress shortly after it convenes con dealing with the advantages advantage enjoyed by the canadian pacific railroad by reason of the consular seal bysted of freight shipments the message will be accompanied compa nied by documentary evidence on the subject which the heads of the executive departments depart mente of the government have been collecting for sime ame time the action of the canadian government in suspending certain sections abc of its tariff concerning the direct and indirect importation of sugar augar and mo molasses lasaw which have been regarded as an discriminations against the united states will not it to la thought cause any change in the tenor of the message me asage although it may have a conciliating effect upon congress the detailing of army officers as an indian agen been very aati satis afao fac tory to the government officials and it la is said also alao to the indians indiana but bat it now turns out that it la in not satisfactory to the army officers this fact was brought out by the powerful influence which captain porter of the eighth infantry and lieutenant lovering Li of the fourth infantry are bringing to bear on the authorities here in order to get the orders detailing them as indian agenten revoked of course if they cannot got get the orders revoked they will either have to accept the details or their commissions in the army I 1 but all the same lame it in not probable hat any officer who accepts a detail against his wishes will enter very cheerfully upon his bis work or will sit up nights thinking how bow he may improve things at the agency washington NOTON NUTON JAV jan 6 1893 since the reassembling of Con congram Congre grem aa the ail ver men who have kept very quiet luring during all the talk about silver legisla tion at the present sek action sion are showing their teeth and weir their humor haw bag oot not been improved by the ramom charging that the cleveland influence had bad caused desertions from their ranks rho fhe pressure for the repeal of the present silver law is daily becoming more power i powerful fu and one of the latest argiz m ants is that mr cleveland has said that it if it was nut not repealed repe alel by this con gres he would call an immediate extra session of the fifty third congress another is that the american delegates to the international monetary confer ence told their foreign colleagues who wilted pointed to this law as an obstacle to any agreement being reached that it would be repealed before the conference came together again in may notwithstanding all this talk and that which is certain soon to be heard on the floor of both house and senate the present silver law will neither be repealed nor will that portion of it 11 compelling monthly purchases of silver bullion be suspended unless the members of the house who have banded themselves together under the leadership of representative pierce of tennessee who was mr band bands Is lieutenant in the hot silver fight during the last as session shall change their minds they now say that they will prevent the passage of such legislation by filibustering no matter what the effect maybe may be upon other legislation including ino luding the regular appropriation bills the apparently easy victory over mr cleveland which the hill murphy combination has haa won io in the new york legislature to ie exciting the liveli live list it interest in congress although the demo oras craze areas are as a rule non commit the general moral impression here la in that 5 urphy murphy la Is just as good as nominated and elected to the united states senate senator hill is here but he ion ionis Is saying say ing a word cotton la in no longer king either in the commercial world or in congress Con greeB but the long deposed monarch has sub ejects eota who are still dreaming of a restoration st to power A movement is i on toot foot for the democratic senators and representatives from the cotton grow tug ing states to demand one or more mate in mr Clovel cleveland andla cabinet one of the originators and leaders of this thia movement to ie representative crain of texas who speaks keaka his mind about this business in his hi usual free and easy style desaye he say inthe in the various conjectures jec tures about probable members of the cabinet southern men are almost entirely ignored and yet the defection of a few southern states at the last election would have been fatal to mr Clev elands ambition are the cotton growing states so certain for democracy that they are only to be considered during presidential forgotten afterwards are they to pay the penalty for giving large democratic majorities we have men capable of filling any office and we have a right to expect recognition it if mr carlisle the of 91 the treasury kentucky ajl be honored but kentucky to ie not a southern or a cotton caton growing state 1 I considerable amusement was created when the members of the house and senate immigration committee returned from their little christmas J junket to cuba at uncle sams sama expense and reported that there was little or no danger of our getting cholera choler from that quarter every scrap crap of information upon which this thin report was based might easily have hava been obtained from government offic als right here in washington but nothing short abort of al personal visit would satisfy these solons of course the pleasure leasure of the trip did not carry them M no indeed perish pariah such a sordid thought though tl the cholera scare was taken advantage of to deprive the anti option bill for two days of its right of way in the senate and to take up two bills now on the calendar relating to precautions against the cholera flour has been included among the articles with which the a 0 bill deals senator chandler has introduced ft a bill ostensibly aimed at the Pinker tous and the semi military anarchist organizations but it to is believed that his real target is the new military organization that to is being org organize anizel 1 by populists lists the bill provides that th at it if shall ahall be unlawful for ten or more men any of whom are subject to enrollment as a part of the militia of any state to assemble or drill or bear arms asa as a military company squad battalion or other military organization unless they are called forth by some civil or military officer lawfully authorized to make such call it also alao provides pen altieci forthe for abe violation ot of the law of a tine fine not exceeding 1000 1000 or imprison on anent not exceed gone K one bearor year or both 1 a the discretion of the president if this bill were a law it would break up very organization in m the united states which bears arms arm of any lou and is not 4 part of the abe 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