The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-02-10
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 3. 1888.

the tariff bill. Both the House aud
the Senate have separate bills un-
der consideration. The House is
getting on slowly with its tariff bill,
but the Senate is taking its meas.
nre in heroic doses, having sat up
with it for nearly week until mid.
night. It seems almost impossible
that anything can be accomplished
in the few remaining days 81 the
session, the work is 30 great, so in.
tricato, and so important; it is
fraught with such great political, IN
dnstFial and commercial possibih.
ties that Congress can hardly DO
blamed for hesitation and tim dlty.
The stimulant of protection has
given until it has become neees.
sity, and TO deprive our economi
cal system of it now will produce
temporary debility and may bring
on delirium.
The probability that no substan.
tlal changes will be made in the
tariff schedule has given to increased
speculation as to the probability OF
an extra session.. Democrats seem
to think that there will be no extra
session. but it IS believed in some
quarters that q called session immo-
diately after tho fourth OF March ia
by no means improbable.
The bill recently presented by
Mr.. Blanchard, of Louisiana, to
change the time of the assembling
OF Congress has received more ia
vorable comment, perhaps, than
any bill that has been recently pre-.
scented, and every one is asking.
"why was not this made law long
ago." According to the present ar
rangement Congress does not
come into power until thirteen
months after its election. This il
ample time TO enable professions
and platforms to be forgotten, and
for the Congress elected thirteen
months previously to become "a po
litcal anachronlsm. The country
has now only the illuslve remedy o
choosing a new Congress-, which
likewise grows stale before it car
leqlslate. Thus it has gone on fol
session after session, no Congress
performing the behests of its tint
because it had been chosen, as i
were, for a previous ago, and 81
long before its day of action tina
its VOWS forgotten, Mr.. Blanchard
bill enacts that the first session o
Congress shall assemble on the 5tl
of March, Immediately after the ad
journment Of the previous Congress
and again on the LIST of January
BY this arrangement the first SEES
sion of each Congress would contin
ue from the 4th of March until abou
the middle of June or perhaps lon
ger, and the second session wouIC
begin with the beginning of The
new year. This would do away
with the holiday adjournment, and
1t is agreed on all hands, would Ia
cllitate legislation in many ways
but, chiefly, in that the new Con
gress, coming in on the 4tb o!
March, would be enabled to take up
legislative work where 1t had been
left off, and the necessity of doing
the same work over and over again
in Committee would be avoided.
This is the week previous to Lent,
and society in preparation for that
season OF abstinence, reflection, and
pious resolutions, is dlabolical
gay Banquots, balls, receptions, sol.
rees dansante, and balls mdSque sue
coed ono another, or rather overlap
one another in confusing tangle,
and one wonders at the stamina OF
the American woman who, not I'M
frequently, makes a dozen calls in
the afternoon, goes 10 the theatre
in the evening, and is seen in the
mazes OF the german from midnight
until two the following morning.
But, It must be confessed, she shows
the effect of this torture IN a faded
sallow face, early wrinkles, and a
peculiar detection OF gait and style
for which the English have coined
the word "Americanitis." "Amer-
icanltis" is epidemic here it spares
neither age nor sex, and can b. cur.
ed only by the substitution of fresh