| Show washington LETTER washington D C july congressmen are beginning to arrive in considerable numbers but those who expected to obtain information from them as M to what ficano al le legisla gials aton would be adopted at the extra hesion are badly uie als appointed the congressmen do not know they can only guess like thereat the rest of us ue and the greater the number of congressional guesses obtained the more doubtful the question grows they differ so BO wid ily one thing only to la certain and that is in that no financial measure can be rail through congress the party will not control anybody ou 01 this question willie the of view widely differs the object of every member of both senate and house to Is the same the accomplishment of legislation that will give the country relief from the present financial stringency n and bring about a renewal of prosperity not prosperity to a single class clasp or section but prosperity to all classes and all sections owing owin to the existing diversity of opinions as to what is needed it would be fully folly to expect immediate action on the part of congress it is the opinion of the conservative element in congress that the country has already suffered quite enough on account of hasty financial legislation anil and as the conservative element la Is always in the majority it la Is certain that whatever action congress takes will be the result of calm deliberation and consultation there are advocates enough and to spare of radical financial legislation and nd at one time it looked as though the ministration administration might be classed in the catt category gory but there has recently been noted a very t satisfactory change and the indications are naw now that the influx the administration will be conservatively ively used and that no attempt will be made to obtain partisan poH political advantages through an nandlal legislation of course it Is possible that these indications may turn out to be misleading but at this writing they unquestionably exist and the belief of many of the closest observers is that if president cleveland Ue veland does dees not actually suggest some compromise legislation in his message to congress that he will be prepared to greet the silver men in congress halfway in any suggestion of compromise that may come from them the financial question may be additionally complicated if the silver men carry sut their present intention of calling the attention of congress to the action ot of S secretary carlisle in declining to purchase silver bullion at the new york market price sad and lo in slating sitting upon buying it at a lower price rhey charge that this action is taken for the deliberate purpose of not purchasing the amount of silver bullion which the sherman law says shall be bought each month and they claim that the secretary exceeds big authority in thus practically anticipating the repeal of the sherman law although only two more justness days remain of july the amount ot of silver bullion purchased by the treasury is away below the ounces which the chetman aberman law says shall be pur chased each month senator irby of south carolina is charged by the Wag washington hington correspondent of a 8 paper in that state with having practically illy committed forgery by having cent abent a dispatch to that paper which the correspondent had bad refused to send signed with the nom deplume de plume used by the cor correspondent ride nt before leaving for south carolina week the correspondent asked two of his friends to act as seconds for him in case the senator challenged him for having made the exposure as he be expected him to those who know senator irby expect trouble if not a formal duel due to grow out of the affair he is said to have killed a man in a personal difficulty some years ago it seems that the much talked of order of secretary hoke smith concerning the proving of disability under the pension law ot of 1890 is in accord with a decision wf of assistant secretary bussey rendered in an appeal case on january 7 1893 the discovery was made this week and the pension officials will give it the widest possible publicity on account of the criticisms of secretary smith smithy s order as a partisan parti ean political document the suspension of pensioners to is still going on at a rapid rate and it is now estimated that at lemat leat of those whose pensions were granted under the act of 1890 w will i JI be suspended As soon as a pensioner is suspended he be to is notified to produce additional proof of his right to the pension he be has been receiving within airty days or be permanently dropped from the rol it seems that every important subject that is in to come before congress is to be dragged into the silver aller question and to ro be shoveled until that question is disposed of it has just been secer bained that a sort of combination has been formed to prevent congressional action being taken on the admission of arizona now mew mexico oklahoma and utah as aa states until the silver legislation has been disposed ot of this combination origin originated atea so it is stated here in now new york city and according to those who are in it the reason for its existence is in the fear that the admission of these four territories as an states would add eight votes to the already str ng silver party in the senate it is said that president cleveland has approved of the idea and promised to help it along with his bis influence also that republicans biswell as well as democrats are iu ia it your correspondent never remembers seeing so little interest displayed by members of the house as to the election of the minor officials of that body several candidates are in the fludd for doorkeeper dour keeper sergeant st atar ar 8 and Oba chaplain plain the pother old officials have no contestants tor for their places but the congressmen who are here do not seem to care a snap about them ghis grows largely out of there being no contest for the speakers bip ip it 19 is the thet usual iqual light over that place which him generally added interest to chuse for the smaller places because the followers of each candidate for speaker have usually made up a slate of all the offices often merely setting up some poor fellows as candidates for no other purpose than to trade votes the can vass vase may grow livelier towards the end of the week but at this writing it to is as ae quiet as a private graveyard aveyard gi it if senator hill wishes an excuse to make war upon president cleveland the latter has certainly given him one in the three federal appointments just made for now new york the collector and appraiser at new york city and the collector at Patta burg all of whom are outspoken enemies of senator hill and the last named is said to be especially distasteful to senator murphy insomuch inasmuch as it to is in a section of the state in which he expected to be con suited about it if he be did not actually control the appointment the anti hill democrats in washington are delighted with these appointments and the hill men are laying low like brer rabbit babbit and saying little whether Bena senators tore hill and murphy could got get enough votes in the senate to defeat the confirmation of the nomination is a question just about as easy to answer as whether they will try shrewd politicians express the opinion that they will tave have to make the attempt or lose prestige at home senator stewart was in washington washingto n saturday and he said he be hart had been misrepresented in recent newspaper interviews purporting to give his opinion about the financial a tion of congress just before leaving for chicago to attend the silver convention he said there will be no filibustering in the senate on the part of the silver men but the proposal to repeal the sherman law cannot be acted on without discussions discussion and I 1 consider that it will be doing well if a vote is reached in four or five months 11 1 I the he senator also intimated that he would have something to say in the senate about the action of the treasury department in refusing to buy the full amount of 0 silver which the law says shall be purchased each month it Is amusing to watch the expression expresion of the average Congress mans face when he is asked aided how bow long congress will be in session before the inevitable answer 1 I dont know is returned the I 1 dont know follows fellows are in a big majority among the congressmen gressmen who have arrived and it is aident evident that they are waiting to got get a one cue from president Cleveland Clev elands 19 message I 1 do not mean that they are waiting because they desire to blindly follow whatever recommendation the message may make but they are waiting to see am what the message menage contains before declaring themselves for or against the president some cling to the belief that mr cleveland will suggest some sort of compromise that can tie accepted by men of all shades of opinion but the majority appear tu to believe that it is bound to be a light fight to the death between the advocates of a single gold standard and those of the free coinage of silver president cleveland speaker crisp and the other big guns will all be to in washington this week and then we shall see the clash of wits begin and lt it promises prom laes to repay being closely followed |
