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Show ! Viiiftlnaton Latter. W'ii: the ::ei Feeietary of Agiiculture he i 1 oa!'-. : So. ne people may sup-po-.j i .. s ,i w :ki t( ies..n, bm it isn't all i..o a. I;:a:e aie good ieasons for the ; .-:.t.t I.:;', i: snch ueniocratie ieadeis ..er..:.-i t',...M,sii. I'.i'ce and Carlis'e can oveic.nne Pi os:. it in-elect Ue elands well known piejndice ajamst the popu' lirOs, ike successor to "Uncle Jeny" Rusk w.ii i e chosen from that party, or rather, will 1 e a in n who while supporting the S:. Lcui- pinih.im and being fully recognise;1, recog-nise;1, as a p puhsl is. aside from subjects coveied bv that pla'foim, a democrat, dhie ib-sbe on in:: part of these Senators tv hiiur the populism is purely political; they know that the democrats are likely (o need the v. lies of die populist Seaaiois ijiiite i .fit it, and sometimes very badly Um.ng t!ie next session ot (..ongress. and ihey wish to make sure of getting them The popubst Senators and Repiesenta-tives Repiesenta-tives have given no sign showing what they think about being represented in die Cleveland cabinet, and one of them tu wh im the su'. ject was broached said " hen an efler is aulhoi Itivlv mad ; will he time enough to talk about it." With lobbyists from the whiskey men w ho objccl to any increase in the tax on w iiiskev. lobbysts from the ocean steamship steam-ship companies w ho object to any suspension suspen-sion of imniigraiion, lobbiisl.-, from the gieat gram and cotton exchanges who object to the p.issage of the anti-option bill, and lobbyists representing all soits of private schemes all extending invita- tioi.s to Senators and Members to become t.h.dr guests ('uriug the whole or a part of the Christmas recess, Congressmen w ho had not made their plans in advance ad-vance had some difficulty in deciding iust how and where they should spend thei: two weeks holiday. Very few remained here. Before the recess this week an attempt was made to side track the anti-option hill, and the vote which is regarded as an e?.act indication ol how the Senators siand on the anti-option measure, was t to 13, and 12 Senators were reported as paired, Notwithstanding Ibis overwhelming over-whelming sentiment in favor of the bil iisfiiendsseem unable to lo'ce it through ihe Senate and some of I hem admit their fears of not being able to compel a vote upon it. Senator Washburn isn't one of die doiihleis. lie says the bill will cer Louiy go through at tins session f'ne subcommittee of th&Jtldijiary com nn. lee of ihe House, wi.,cii iuvesiigatf d .ihe Homestead Double and tiiS connection connec-tion of the Finkerton's therewith, has never been aide to agree upon the nature of the report which must be made to the full committee. There are live members of the sub committee, and unless some o1 hem change there w ill have to be five eports in order to cover their opinions The opposition to the Nicaragua canaj bill has reached such Iari e proportions in the House that it is believed by many that unless some ol the heavy-hitters in the opposition ranks can be won over during the recess the canal people will have the bill withdrawn lor the present sehsion, to escape Ihe black eye wdiich defeat in the House would gave the scheme in the financial world. This opposition did not, however, prevent the bill being favorably reported to the Se" nale before the '.cess. Senator Sherman Sher-man has given notice of his intention to call it up and press it to a vote at the earliest oppoitiiiniy after the re-assem bling of the Senate. The democratic and republican Sena torial caucus "sieeiing committees'' are getting themselves laughed atonaccount of ihe eiy thinly disguised game cf blull I'ney aie pla;. ing against each other 011 ihe queslion of electing U. S. Senators from the northwestern stales in which neither paity has a clear majority in the legislatures. Neither committee can really do any more than 10 throw its mo ral influence in favor of i's patty, and it must be conlessed that moral inlluence is not a very powerful cr dangerous factor fac-tor in modern politics. All day and al! night ever since last Sunday when Mr. lilaiue came so near dying the sireet in front of his residence resi-dence has been crowded, mostly with newspaper men, by those anxious to get die latest information from the sick-roonn lie has held ins own for the last two or three days, but his physicians plainly in-timale in-timale that bis chance for surviving another attack like that of last Sunday is hardly one out of one hundred, and theie is little hope of his ever getting up again. Jeny Simpson left for Kans is early this week, and his friends say that lie wil "liter the light for the Senatoiship if his party can upset the lottery arrangement bv ulncii tne republicans obtained control con-trol ol ihe lower branch of the legislature whicn thev are impend of doing. |
