The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Most important Matter Yet Dis
cusscd by this Congrcss-Pcr'
sonnIs. The Coming Conflict
--Grant and TiIdcn,


WASHINGTON. March /, 1850.
II Is difficult for one not intensely CONVEX
SAINT with congressional modes Of pNrlia.
montary action TO understand tho absolutism
of congressional committees. With the
growth of the country in wealth and popu-
ation and with the hourly ABSORPTION of
unheard Of powers by the central govern
ment, tho insgniIlcance of the House itself
and the absolutsm of lis committees have
growa until the Speaker, having tho power
to organize committees, shapes as he plOascs
the whole financial and commercial legisa-
ton of the United States. Fernando Wood
is n Democrat, so-called; but adoros
tho tariff and custom-house system
Randall and Wood understand one another
Randall has given Wood majority Of hisown
class. When the whole newspap per press Of
the country asks that duties on printing ma
terias of all descriptions be reduced, petitions
and resolutions go down into the renorscless
nav of Fernando Woods manufacturers
committee, and there IL rots. The rules OF
the House, now undergoing painful processes
of emendation, make Fernando and his high
tariff associates supreme masters ofthe situa.
ton, and the amendment Of existing laws il
never even proposed in the House. When
the HERALD may ask the facie and
eloquent Mr.. Wellborn why the duty
on paper and type was not re-
scnded he can only answer that tho
proposition in behalf of right and honesty
was presented and referred under the rules Of
the House, and under the rules of the House
Fernando sat down on il end could never be
persuaded to get of. Instead, he gives
young Congressman and those whose constit-
uents he robs under the rules a mag
niicent dinner, and memories Of outrages
done distant constituencies are washed
away in torrents of delicious wines and dissi-
pated in the fumes of fragrant Habanas.
Hon. Casey Young, cooperating in this be-
half with Culberson and Wellborn, has un-
dertaken the task of remodeling
the rules, at least to the extent
that any bill sent down to
Fernando's or any othsr committee may
hear at last the trump of resurrection. 1t is
proposed that if Fernando does not report on
The bill in sixty days, its author may call 1t
up in the House and have il voted on. This
deprivation of Randall's chairmen of COM
mittees of supreme mastery over the outside
barbarans in Congress, representing remote
provinces of the empire, has caused great
terror even in Wall and State streets. A big
lobby is coming down and big dinners will
be given and Fernandos exchequer will be-
come fountain of champagne, and Randall
will remain the absolute despot of the House
and country.
GOOD FELLOW.
Murray, of the Denison News, is in Wash !
ington. He will bring home with him a
marble bust of Bob lngersoll.
ANOTHER GOOD FELLOW.
Page, late State Treasurer, of Alabama,
under Clayton, is also in Washington, hay
ing in charge bevy of sweet savages from
the far West Page is very handsome and
first.rate, clever gentleman--so esteemed by
everybody in Alabama Page went into the
Indian triumphal march business, in order
that by striking contrast, his own personal
charms might be set off to the best advantage.
lie sought all over the West for the ugliest
Digger, Shoshone, and other stirring savages
he could dig up, and here they are at the
fremont house. Mr.. SChurz goes over to
see them occasionally, and Page, when one
of his pets gees in the gutter, instructs the
Secretary in the difference between German
and Digger gutterals.
THE MEXICAN MISSION.
Judge p. Morgan, the new Minister to
Mexico, will land in New York to-day or to-
morrow He will come Immediately to
Washington, receive his commission, have
the usual state dinner and interview with
the learned Secretary of State and proceed
via New Orleans to the Mexican capital.
1t is commonly supposed that wholly
new and more rigorus commercial policy will
be established between the Republic. Mr..
Hayes is understood TO favor the immediate
establishment Of peace along the border and
throughout Mexico by railways u ross the
northern and southern states of that Repub-
lie. He is man of peace but of progress.
By the way, the President is eminentiy so.
cial. ndly, accessible and Thoroughly Rs
publican IN the original meaning of that 1,
sadly perverted term. |,
GRANT AND THE WEST.
Recent events 10 Pennsylvania and New York
make the nomination of GIaut almost abso.
lutely certain. 0runts managers have
wrought another change in public sentiment /
Ten days ago he was supposed TO b. out of 1
the contest, but Don Cameron has failed In ,
nothing. With Conkhnes powerful ard d