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Show V.'ashlngton Letter. With the firing of big guns and to the music of silver and golA trumpets the siner and the anti-silver army marched up the hill, and then marched down agaiu. Congress has this week been in one respect like the euide traveling show it failed to keep the glittering advance promises it had made on the bill-boards.'and in spite of the liberal use of threads, promises and persuasions nothing was done and the si ver law still occupies its place on the statute books. Senator-elect Martin was in Washington Wash-ington last week, but as he had some important business in New York which may keep him there ten days or longer he concluded, after consultation with Senator Peffer and other friends, not to present his credentials as tho successor of Senator Perkins, to fill out the term of .no late Senator Plumb. There are tivo reasons why his credentials may not be presented umil the closing hoar of this session and possibly not until the extra sesiion meets. First, there ere number of bills pending in which Kansas is interested, that for opening the Cherokee strip among them, and Senator Perkins can render more effective effect-ive servtce than a new man4 unfamiliar with Senate proceedings, and lastly there is a doubt as to whether the republican re-publican majority of the present senate ! would allow him to take his seat, while there ia none about the action of the j senate after the fourth of March. Representative Bryan, of Nebraska, says of Mr. V. W. Allen, the newly elected populists Sinator from that State "He is now upon the bench, having been elected a district judge by tho populists. He is regarded as a safe and able man. He was formerly a republican, re-publican, but as the democrats in the legislature joined with the populists in electing him, J take it for granted that ho.willact with the democrats in the organization of the Senate and upon ihs tariff." The opponents of the anti-option bill say that it is dead, and can never get through the bonse. It is just as well however, not to be too sure about this as these are the sitino people who said before the bill was passed by the senate that a vote would not be reached on it before the fourth of March. It is human nature to see future hnppeningi as yon wish them. Lack of time may prevent th.t houw committee that is investigating tho expenditures ex-penditures of the Panama canal company com-pany in the United States getting to the bottom of things. It is already clear that an enormous amount of money was spent in this couutry, some think as much as $25,000,000 and that much of it was spent for the purpose of influencing public opinion, which was atone time inclined to be very unfavorable to the canal but the receivers of the money are yet to be uncovered. Ko credence is given here to the rumor that members of the committee were pnrpoiely killing time so that nothing would be found out. The house appropriations committee has agreed to amendments to the pension appropriotion bill providing for a transfer trans-fer to the pension office t the war dt-i partment and the detail of army offiien ! to manage it; also for the suspension of all pensions paid to men having an annual an-nual income of $0C0 or more, to widows who married since April 1880, and except ex-cept for total disabilities, to non-resident aliens. Chairman Holman 7utd with the republicans against these amendments. No disputes of any kind occurred Wtdnesday when the senate and house held a joint session and connted the electoral votes. The official announcement announce-ment of the result was rather too chest-nutty chest-nutty to create anything .like a sensation. sensa-tion. The Quarantine bill is now in the hands ot President Harrison, and will probably be a law by the time this is printed. It passed the house without serious opposition just a.s it originally passed the senate, The country may now rest assured that, if the cholera gets into the United States this year it will not be for lack of legal authority to take the necessary precautious to prevent pre-vent it, This bill furnishes another: example of the fact sometimes forgotten that the will of the people, when expressed ex-pressed is always stronger than the will of politicians. If the democrats in congress wno are generally credited with enjoying Mr. Cleveland's coufldencft know what they are talking about an early extra sess-sion sess-sion of the fifty-third Congress is now a certainty. There are, however still eome doubters. Representative Abbott of Texas, is one of them. He says there is no danger of an extra stssion, for Mr. Cleveland has too much sagacity to call Congress together to try to accomplish the repeal of the silver law with all the chances against such a repeal. But Mr ' Abhott is in th minority. Negotiation for the annexation of Hawaii are going on but the result is not yet in sight. Which party represents free trade and which protection? The question seems to be pertinent when all of the republican republi-can members of the house committee on Ways and Means vote in favor of a bill-to put all works ef art on the free list and with two exceptions all ot the jvinoeratic members against it. |