To Reform Finances

Washington, Nov. 20- The creauon i of a monetary oommission to consider I the question of flnancial legislation ñnds favor with arriving statesmen. ín I a. general wáy the proposition is for congress to authorize the president to appoint a commission representativa i of the principal interests and not so I large as to be unwieldy, which shall go over the whole question as a jury oí experts and report its conclusions to congress. The aim of those who are taking an active part in the commission m-oiect seems to be to make it as nearly non-partisan as possible and to I urge that no higher proof of its J partisan character can be offered than I tor a republican congress to conferí upon President Cleveland the duty of j appointing the commission. This plan will probably meet with opposition from the silver element In i the senate, which may muster sufficient strength to defeat the proposition, for they have a convictlon that President Cleveland cannot be fair to silver, and that if given power he would compose a monetary commission that would be I arrayed squarely against even conservative bimetallism. The grand 'bodies of the state wil! also be received. They are formed of men who have pushed their way on and up and are ready to show I selves in all tmt restraint of manner I utter courtiers. Original portraits and busts of Peter tos Great, the Catharines and Paul and Alexander I have been brought down from the attic gallery and placed on easels in the south wing, ■where their imperia', majesties can see them -without climbing lofty stairs. An imperial levee will be held in the Gallery of Mirrors, whioh tas been furnished as in the time of Louis XIV. But physiognomies and the costumes will be so different and, alas! the manners, too. Ambassadors in the eighteenth century were never professional diplomats, affectedly reserved, but men burn to great stations and chosen for their social gifts as well as for their clear heads, bright wits and insight and readiness. They dressert magnificently and had a grand air.