Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-04-20
SKIN DISEASE.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Corresp0ndent.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., April. 10, 1882.
The veto of the Chinese bill and its
probable effect upon the immediate fu-
ture of political parties has been the chef
topic of interest among the politicians
for some days. The Democrats were SOL
id for the bill, and there is among them
entire unanimity of opinion as to the re-
suit. There is hardly doubt that it
will give them clean sweep of the Pa
citic States, with possible Colorado
thrown in. The people of those States
are thoroughly in earnest about this mat.
ter, and all the Representatives from
that section agree with Gen. Rosecrans
that it will scarcely be worth while for
the Republicans to organize for cam
paign in that section, after defeating the
measure. Advises from other sections
indicate that workingmen are heartily
in sympathy with the people on the Pa
cific slope and are preparing to stand by
them in their efforts to keep out the Chi
nese. From source in the Administra-
tion ranks which your correspondent has
generally found correctly informed it is
learned that the members of the Cabinet
were divided upon the propriety of
veto, Attorney General Brewster ernest
ly advising that the bill be permitted to
become law by the lapse of ten days
after its passage without the Executive
approval; others advising that a message
be sent with the approved bill, protest.
| ing against its features, after the manner
OF several Presidents during the past
| twenty years. What with the veto an
| reports of success in the spring elections.
the Democrats are very much elated.
| 1t is new considered about two to
one that they will control the next Con-
gress
1t is probable that the Democrats in
Congress will oppose by every means in
their power the passage of the Tariff
Commission bill and the bill for the ad.
mission of Dakota as a State. 1t is their
| intention to compel the Republicans tc
be shown up before the country as afraid
to trust the questions of revising the
tariff to the representatives of the people
and this will be made an issue in the
approaching campaign. A numbe {
leading Democrats have pledged them
selves to stick together in this matter
and, if necessary to carry their point
filibustering will be restorted to on every
occasion. The opposition to the admiss.
ion of Dakota is very determined and
nothing will be left undone in the line
of parliamentary man8uvre, to prevent
it. The whole purpose ofthe proposed
admission at this time is political advan
tages. In view of these facts it is pro-
bable that beyond passing the regular
appropriation bills not much other busi
ness will be done, and that we shall have
some lively times before the end of the
session.
The Senate recently passed resolution
to pay Mr.. ingalls, So, 1876 for alleged ex
penses incurred by him in refuting the
charges of bribery of members of the
Kansas Legislature to secure his election
to the Senate. This is following the in.
excusable precedent recently set by the
Senate in allowing the alleged expenses
of Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina, and Mr.
Kellogg, of Louisiana, in defending theil
right to the seats occupied by them. Ths
Senate of the United States has long beef
known as the most expensive legislative
body in the world, and many of its item
OF expenditure are gross and outrageou,
frauds upon the public Treasury. 1t ha
in its employ three times as many clerk
as are necessary for the proper despatch
of public business, and the principa
occupation of many of its member
seems to be the divising of means ant
methods to increase their own comfor
and convenience and add to their owl
emoluments at the expense of the people
Useless committees are constantly Great
ed for the avowed purpose of giving som
Senator room for his private use, an,
a clerk to transact his private business
and to be paid out of the Treasury
There is not Senator and there is not {
clerk of the Senate who does not knoy
perfectly well that the expenses of tina
body are twice or three times as much a
they ought to be, and yet expenses ar
piled up year by year with coolnes
and an Indifference to public opinion
which is refreshing. For ten years tn
House of Representatives, whose eS
penses are ever so much less in porpoI
tion, has undertaken in the appropriation
bills to cut down the inordinate and ex
cessive expenses of the Senate, but il
vain. This new raid is about the mos
inexcusablel of all, and nobody can tel
where it will end, for as Senators ar,
simply no more and no less than averag
, politicians $8,0 900 in lump is enough te
tempt many of them to put up jobs t.
have their seats contested. There ar
! few with any knowledge of the case WIN
; do not believe to this day that John j
; Ingalls, did buy his last election, and it j
, not very pretty piece of business to pa
him back from the Treasury part o
, the money expended.
There is difference between civil ser
vice reformers. An amendment to MI
: Pendleton g civil service reform bill Pre-
vides that appointments shall be distrit
uted among the States on the basis o
their census population. This issubstar
italy what Gen. Washington once sug
gested on the subject. Mr.. Dudley, Com
missioner of Pensions, however, who
asking for several hundred additions
clerks, has just formu ated statemer
in which he holds that the distribute
should be based on the Republican vote
cast in the different States and the ar
] pointees should be Republican voters
following the Democrats vote as the bi
sis whenever the pendulum shall swim