The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1883-02-24
Correspondence.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II, I
[From our regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. II, 1881.
The reception of Pres. Arthur to the diplo.
matte corps, the weddings of Miss Blaine,
daughter Of ex-Secretarv Blaine, and OF
Miss Brewster, the daughter Of the AT.
torney General, and the complimentary
dinner given by Col. George b. Corkhill,
u. S. District Attorney, to Gen. Sherman
ON the 63d anniversary OF his birth and the
last before his retirement from the COM
mand OF the army, made. Washington quite
brilliant and lively for the society people
tor one week.
Now it is Lent and there are onlr stag
parties for the naughty men, and PRAYER,
shell-ti>h and stupid old tel, fights for the
comely DANES and beautiful damsels who
are SO suddenly converted from bellies Of
the ballroom to meek penitents OF the
church.
The Senatorial tariff mill has placed
books on the free list, but paper pulp tri.
umphed in having duty impose! on the
imported article. Long live Pulp! Pulp
is King! lie is not many, but three pull
| mills have more to say about debating
tariff legislation than all the tongues il,
America that can read a print and all the
rich editors who can buy pulp paper to pub.
lish the news.
One OF the bitter struggles in both House
and Senate will be over the provision to
place lumber on the free list The prairie
States, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas want
free lumber. The timher-growing and
lumber. producing regions OF Minnesota
Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine want !;
high protective tariff.
A level headed old statesman, in discuss
ing the subject, said that the union of the
| several States was very much like a mar
rSosea ,,r1ior Thssrs Npotof,i1l
cessions; each mist bear and tori,ear i,
order to secure harmony and a reciprocit,
Of tavors. There should be a low, >mal
tariff as concession, not high US they de
mand. Timber is growing scarce in this
country, and il Canada wants to strip her
self Of her forests and send them here, IL
her do SO.
The Senate Committee ON Education
and Labor, Of which Senator Blair Is tn.
able anj efficient chairman, is engaged
every day before the meeting Of the Sen
ate in hearing witnesses on the condition o
the laboring classes Of this country. Mr.
Robert ID. Layton, who portrayed thu
manner in which workmen In iron mill
and coal mines are robbed by the "pluck
,ne'' stores owned by the employers, n,ad'
bread, and who is not a grain gambler vii
endorse. He said tnat the knights Of La
Dor Of America would like to see nation
al law passed prohibiting the gambling b.
speculation in the necessarie> of lite. par
ticularly in bread stutfs. Mr.. Frank X
Foster, Of Cambridge, Mass, gave dc
tailed statement Of the condition Of tn
operatives in the different manufacturing
districts of Massachusetts,; many develop
,nents in the methods Of employers and tn
wants and conditions OF the employed ar
coming ont in this examination which viii
enable the committee to frame some la>
which may hartnonize labor and capita
prevent the frequent and ruinous labo
strikes, and do more to elevate and protec
the laborer than high protective tariff.
Washington takes the leather medal tu
sensational stories. The latest is, that on
Of the big fish in the Star Route kettle i
going to flop out into the Government fire
In other words, that either Brady or Dor
sey, seeing the Ring in the tolls, intend t
turn States evidence, expose the Who'll
conspiracy, and escape punishment him
self The story is on many lips, but tn
Ring denounce it with inflated ba>phem,
and scorn, while others, even the creeu
lous boys in Newspaper Row, ar
like the King Of Siam over the story q
frozen livcrs, rather skertical. CoDEx.