Show washington LETTER from our oar regular correspondent washington dec 2nd and 1895 THE tax most noticeable thing about the opening of congress to a democrat was the absence of 0 so o many of the men whoa who have for years fought in the front rink rank of the democratic party among the alisen absentees tees in the senate are butler of south carolina I 1 who has been succeeded succeed edby by ex governor tillman hunton of virginia virgini whose successor is martin ai a good democrat mcpherson of new jersey succeeded by a He republican publican and ransom random of north carolina Ci rolina whose successor is a populist butikis bafit Bu tiVis is in in the house w where aird the in the democratic ranks inks is the ilie biggest bigg est Itse it seems cIlls strange to hear a roll called without witha ine names of such veterans vetera nW in congressional harness as hoi man and of indiana springer tot ot illinois hi adis kilgore of texas hatch und and heard of missouri outhwaite of ohio and a score of others who have won honors and ana scars for principles principle 3 ex speaker crisp will 0 of course be the leader of 0 the democrats of the house during the present session the man who will call down czar reed heed ayery every time he attempts to trample upon the rights of the minority rity there has been no at th thought g h t among amo ng democrats that this VOU would id be e otherwise as was shown by the votes of the democratic caucus all cut for mr crisp the stories about the administration demiri desiring mg another mau man for leader gadth had their belr origin angul with those who wished to add to the unfortunate differences al already reidy exia iiii in lb party par ty by ma malang U it W appear that president cleveland was d demanding din 9 that aa jill ver given s aay any democrat nat president s nt iiii aught af a t thing t 1 ing to or inte rienne b iii i any iri way y wite ali 6 denci he house has scheme injure n no 0 one ondi an giery j fit i Y x confederate soldiers boldie r s bikit ff iaia calibe ba craned jt f th f rought p ain ther 1 Treasury y there is an ley sequestered iberea d daring U and directly af f 64 ar ermint or p evidence to h to WO 30 inu V at 1 stone baij he 4 fiti f iti baah klam W W kiam ss ww T s A through congress providing ing that I 1 the interest tb on this money shall vi be i distributed among needy e ex x con federate soldiers and that when they no longer need such aid the principal shall revert to the government to be used as any other money provided by congress in order to avoid any charge of partisanship even by implication mr otey proposes propose 3 having the bill introduced by a republican if he can betone get one to do it the calm which now prevails among the republicans Republic aits of the house is as ominous ominous in its way way as that which precedes a storm at sea to the inexperienced onlooker speaker reed is a czar indeed but there is is a benim reason why everything seems tobe to be going mr reeds way among his party colleagues in the house he announced the committee assignments until he does the calm is likely tp to last all of the republicans want to get as good committee places as 23 they can but after the assignments assi are announced noun ced the disappointed ones will be numerous and mr reed cannot let the them i m down easy by saying that he was bound by promises made before his election to disappoint them I 1 as his friends have for weeks been making a special point of claiming that he would become speaker without having made a single ingle promise and that he was free to arrange the committees just as he wanted them therefore every disappointed man will know just who mho kohold xe responsible it is charged also that mr reed heed took a hand in naming the minor officers of 0 the house Rouse who were elected today which made hi him m some more enemies enemies in his own party on the whole the outlook for hm him can hardly be considered a pleasant Olea sant one president Clev elands message was ready to go in today but bat as has often been done at the assembling le I 1 aag of a new Co congress agress it was held beld bark back to give ilive the house a chance f to 0 dorgai ae and will go in tomorrow secretary hoke smith has gone to atlanta where he will by special invitation deliver a financial address before the georgia legislature he ele is expected to return to washington this week |