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Show he great question of the day as being son near that occupied by President Harri" son tliat I am certain that he will sign no bjll, excepting such as relates to federal election laws, that would not have been approved bv Mr. Harrison had he been re elected and the democrats only secured se-cured both brandies of congress, It is merely a change of figure heads; the same influences that have dominated Mr, Harrison will dominate Mr. Cleveland and the much talked about tariff reform will, in my opinion, turn out to be a very mild affair compared with w hat a majority major-ity ot democrats expect it to be." A hard fight is to be made at this session ses-sion of congress on the present silver law, which appears not to be particularly satisfactory to anybody It would not be difficult to repeal the law if an agreement agree-ment could be reached on a substitute for it. Several democratic members of the house say that a return to the Biand bill, which preceded the present law will be preferable to leaving the present law on the statute books, but it must not be forgotton that the senate is dominated by the silver man, as has on several occasions oc-casions been shown, 'and that they are likely to consent to any change that is less favorable to the white metal than the present law. The result ol the monetary conference may also be a factor in this silver business, although the general impression is that no definite defi-nite result will be reached by the con ference. Washington Letter. The foreign student of American political poli-tical economy would find Washington a very interesting place these day?. Among the large number of Senators and representatives of the present Congress Con-gress already in town are sprinkled a few representatives-elect of the fifty-third congress. Fully nine-tenths of the congressmen now here are democrats, and if there is a single one of theru who is not bubbling over willi. ideas ofjliow to do it" and "how not ti do it" he has not been found. A great majority of them favor holding an extra session as-early as-early as April, but it ts extremely doubtful doubt-ful whether a dozen of them agree upon what that extra session shall do when it is called. Some of them favor an im mediate repeal of the present tariff law, which if carried into effect would bring (lie tariff of 1SS3 into force again, which, while it would lower the duty on many other articles, would also restore the duties on many other articles now on the free list, among them sugar. Such a move would unquestionably result in largely increasing the revenues of the government, but would it not be a practical confession of inability to make tariff schedule all its owa by the dem ocratic congress, as the law 01 I883 was a republican measure, just as the pre sent law is There are-prominent.demo-crat who are earnestly advocating as the first thing that ought to be done at the extra session lhe enactment of a law authorizing an increase in the public debt by a new issue of bonds, but the more conservative men of the party will probably squelch this idea early, as it would certainly be unpopular. One of the queerest things about lhe situation is that some of those democrats demo-crats who have within the past six or eight years made some of the most radical low tarjfT speeches in congress are now the loudest shouters for going slow and not making the changes rn the Uiiil Hoo radical or to sudden. It demonstrates de-monstrates that the adage "give a man responsibility and you make him conservative" conser-vative" is not without wisdom. It is expected that an attempt will be made it the coming session of congress to take up and pass the bill providing for a tax upon all annual incomes in excess of $; ou o Those who ought to know ex-pre-s the opinion that this bill would pass ;he house if it could be brought to a vie The senate as at present made up would no;, it is believed, even report the bill. Still if the house passes it the ef feet upon the next congress and upon Mr. Cleveland, who is understood to be oppos-dto it, will not hurt its chances 111 the next congress, when the necessity for raising money will be much greater than during this congress. Speaking of Mr. Cleveland the democratic congress- men did not receive Ins recent remarks expressing d'.sgust lor office seekers with very '--ood grace, a nd a number of them did not hesitate to say that he might at !t-ast have waited until such episodes of Ins own office-seeking as that dinner with the Tammany bosses had been for got'en by the public before he berame disgusted with others who are ambitious ol becoming office-holders. "There are some big surprises in store," said i. gentleman who supported Gen. Weaver in the late campaign, "for a maioritv o' those who helped to make Cleveland President. I predict that if he fails to control his party in its congressional legislation that he will make free use ol Iris veto power. 1 regard his position o |