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Our Washington Letter
Special Correapoadence Of the OBSERVE
WASHINGTON, DC, Aprill9, q
About one-half the regula
appropriation bills are through
the House, and now either be
fore Conference Committees o
awaiting action by the Senate
The others will be pushed
through the House, after speedy
reports from the House Com
mittees, and then will COM
mence in earnest the work of
attempting to reconcile the ideas
of the House, which in the
main look to an economical aG-
ministration Of the Govern
ment, with those of the Senate,
which are favorable, amidst the
general stagnation of business
and falling off of revenue, TO
the continuance of the old ex-
travagance in expenditures.
The proceedings of yester-
days Democratic House caucus
seem to indicate that Represen-
tatives understand that some
thing more than mere money
saving, important as that Is,
depends ON harmony of action
in support of the bills as they
left the House. Tbo Senate
should yield on every item of
difference in the appropriation
bills. l hope it will be COM
PEELED to do so. After these
bills will come up for consider
alton Senator Beck's PROPOSE
tion, now popular i'll both Hous-
es, to suspend payments to the
sinking fund until the amount
so set apart for the extinction
of the public debt shall be no
greater than is demanded by ex-
listing law. Many millions of
dollars have been wrung from
impoverished people in the last
ten years, for the fund, which
there was neither a moral or q
legal obligation to raise.
The repeal Of the Bankrupt
Law, already through the Senate
by nearly unanimous vote, will
receive early attention In the
House. So will the bill to COM
pei the Pacific r. r. Companies
to devote a portion Of their earn
ngs to a provision for meeting
their Indebtedness to the United
States, which passed the Senate
asst week, and which will uln-
luestionably pass the House.
Besides there is the tariff bill
IF Mr.. Woods, which is gaining
friends daily. The collection OF
1uties is much less expensive un-
Ter this bill, trade is not burdened
IS before in IFS most vital parts,
duties are placed where they can
most easily and surely be collected.
None Of the three measures
asst mentioned are strictly party
measures and the vote will not,
IN any Of them, be a party vote.
The main party division Of the
emainder Of the session will be
IN the appropriation bills, the
Democrats favoring reduction
f expenditures and the Rppubli-
ans an increase.
The UTorld, Of New York, on
esterday, gave US six columns of
Interviews of Senator Conkling
;i,h some man not named. The
cain points were that the Sena-.
Dr said there was q bargain be-
ween Governor Nicholls, Of LOU
,iana, and "that man Hayes,
I'D that Sherman and Stanley
Iatthews were privy to it; that
bere,had been more corruption III
he civil service in the frat year
Hayes administration than in
ny pre- ceding four year.; that
e (Conkline) was the originator
the idea of an Electoral Com
lission, SC. The whole tone of
le report showed bitter contempt
If Hayes and the administration;
nd every part of it, though show
ng many indications of having
cen inspired by Conkling, was so
ighlyspersonal and indecorous in
s language that much. doubt as
its authenticity prevailed. The
enator said yesterday that the
,port was made up Of paris Of
conversations with u
ian who was his guest. and that