The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1881-12-24
Gorrespopdtrre.
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular Correspondent.
WASHIxf;TnN Dec 10Th 1881.

Under the rules of the House Of Repre-.
sentatives Monday Is tl,e day on which the
States are called. during the morning hour,
and Members from the States reached in
order before the time expires have an op
portunity to present any bills resolutions
or petitions they may have prepared.
Sometimes they come in SO thick and tast
that the hour is consumed before the States
have been halfcalled, and on the following
Monday the call is resumed where it left
off before To introduce matters of this
nature on any other day requires unani
nous consent or suspension Of the
rules by two. thirds vote. From this
practice, Monday has come to he called
| ''bill day." and it is the day ON which most
Of the sensations ard "tield exercises" oc.
cur; because, liza member has anything Of
a red.hot nature to offer, for which he has
| at al! other times been unable to catch that
treacheroms thing, the "Speaker's eve"
he can, ii his State is reached, shoot it of
on Monday in spite Of all opposition. This
much by way Of introd'l ion to "a few fee
BILE remarks" about bills and things
! Thousands Of bills are introduced in
every Congress WHICH ought not to be, and
which accomplish nothing except to take
up time, cumbe, the records, and clog tie
Committees. Over six thousand bills were
dumped into the hopper Of the last Com
gress, yet not one out OF a hundred Of them
were or ever will be heard Of again. A.
ready the sluicc gates have opened in the
present Congress, and the flood Of measures
will continue to flow in every Monday
down to the very last week Of the session.
In the Senate alone, $50 bills were intro
duccd In less than week after Congress
assembled One Senator alone Offered
thirty three bills. In the whole Latch there
are scarcely a score that can be said to have
anv public interest And so it always is.
A large majority ofthe bills offered IN every
Congress either relate TO some trit1ng, inn
practical matter, or to some small private
J grievance which the Court Of Claims was
especially created to consider. The vanity
, and Righteousness of all this might be over
looked If it were not for its injurious effect
first, in preventing the consideration o
necessary business, and second, III occas
sionally facilitating the passage OF highly
. Questionable measures. All the import
, ant measures demanding action by Con
gress at the present time can lie told off o,
1 the fingers OF one hand, and, as Senator
Edmunds recently said, adjournmen
\ might be reached by the middle of May
. but between idle measures and idle Con
; ; gress,nen we shall find that it will be near
= er August.
! None of the new members attract NOR
. attention in Washington than the preache
. Congressman from brooklyn, Rev. ]. Hy
!. att Smith In personal appearance he |
i not remarkable, the most striking featur
being the short, corkscrew curls in whic
his hair is wcrn. But he appears to be
very active man. Besides his Congression
al duties he has already been both lcctur
J. ing and preaching here, with plenty. {
| or ,1&,1
: pleased. That is more than some of hi
e constituents appear to be, for several OF tn
> labor organizations that contributed to hi
: election rs an Independent have been tele
graphing their Indignation at his course i
entering the Republican camp. The gooe
l. natured political divine however, eXpresse
the opinion that he knew on which side hi
h bread was 5uttered when he located hin
y self near the loaves and fishes. That
to did not mean to "get left" Is evidenced j
N the fact that Mr.. Randall held his pledg
,e to vote with the Democrats If his vol
,e would elect, and the Greenbackers say the
st had his agreement in writing to act wit
e. them; while, as matter of fact, he wei
le into the Republican caucus.
m The never.ending Indian question
in coming up in Congress shortly. The'
h. are reports of scandalous mis,nanagemcl
in Arizona and New Mexico resulting
n. wholesale murders Of settlers and miner
,e Though the President in his Mcssas
er speaks encouragingly Of the results of o'
II. present Indian policy, there are many pc
a pie, knowing from experience somethir
N about the subject, who expect to see peat
,e on the frontier only when we have dor
as with thieving traders and agents, and whe
&, Indians are made to take care of then
Ne selves like other citizens. The feeling
rh the people in the Western Territories vi
rs see Indian assassins cherished at the age
ss1 cies, when they come in red-handed to g
supplies for new raid on helpless farme
and their wives and children, can be a
" preciated when the facts are understoo
=. It is miserable white man in Arizol
who savs:-
"a, want to be an Injun,
nj a warrior Of the plains;
he want to WELD tomahawk
mr. And scoop out peoples brains.
)r. long to build a fire
Is On human beings breast,
H. And watch him writhe in agony
iii With gentle savage zest,
,at want to be an Iniun,
La A Modoc ora Ute:
M w., .;-ol x,f b..;p,r , uI;t,a man