The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-01-29
From our Regular Correspondent. /


From our Regular Correspondent
WAsnrserox, d. c., dan. %, 1880
This has been comparatively busy
week in both houses of the nationa
Congress, and, while it is believed ar
extra session cannot be avoided, its
work will be considerably lightcned if
Congress shall continue at this rate
during the few remaining days Of the
session. The House passed the three
per cent. refnnding bill, and the navy
appropriation bill. The Senate passed
a brace of appropriation bills; awarded
100000 to Ben. Holiday, who
claimed half a million; settled the KEEL
logg case made hasty adverse disposal
Of Senator McDonald's resolution to
appoint regular committee to con-
slider the rights of woman; debated the
Indian severalty bill and, in-executive
session, appointed a committee to in
vestigate the manner in which the
Chinese Treaty was made public. Since
the invention of wires and cables, the
enterprise of the press has left the cid
fashioned diplomatist in the lurch, and
now, when our grave, reverend, and
somewhat superanuated House of Lords
takes up for discussion, in secrecy, this
long longed for treaty, they are shocked
to know that it has been published in
the papers. Alas what an affront to
all the venerable traditions of diplo-
macy. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont,
was decidedly angry, and he moved
that committee be appointed to in
yestlgale the means by which the treaty
became public. There were only four
correspondents who obtained copies of |
the documents, and it is fair to pre-
sumo that they did not steal what could /
be obtained for the asking thereof. I
As, also, each of the correspondents
aforesaid az" gentlemen, it is hardly /
probable that they will reveal the
sources from which they derived their
information, even though, as Senator
Edmunds suggested to-day, they should
be locked mp "between four cold walls
for three, six, or nine months, or nine
years, until they told what they have
no business to tell. The last occasion
on which the Senate undertook to find (
out who ''gaye away" its secret pro-
seedlings was when the New York Tri-
oune published the Washington treaty. s
The investigation was, as might have d
,een expected, fruitless. If the Com c
nittec on Privileges and Elections has I
my disposition to inquire into ancient /,
history, it might summon Senator Ed i
nunds, and ask him if his copy of the Il
treaty bore any marks of il
laving passed through the telegraph Il
'liice, between the time that he first i.
'lseed il on his desk at home, and
ooked at it again several weeks later.
The unterrifed agitators in favor of
'oman's enfrancliisement, Mrs. Stan
on, Misses Anthony, Cousins, and
theirs, have been holding another con :
eution in Lincoln Hall, and, on yes 9
erday, they sat in the Senate gallery, :
nd saw disaster overwhelm the little "
esolution, offered by the freshly mar :
ed Senator Mcdonald, in their favor. :
10 ono can listen to Miss Anthony or :
lrs. Stanton without being impressed 9
18th the ability and capability of these E
dies; but the efforts of the younger
I'd freshcr champions are not edifying.
hey talk too much with their mouths. !,