The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-03-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
March 5. 1880

MaTCu y, lOO0.1
Protection wins the battle in this
Congress. The advocates of protec-
ton for it's own sake whipped into
the party Traces the low tariff repub
licans in the house and succeeded in
putting through the most extraordi-
nary rule ever known in a%legislatlve
or deliberative body-a rule by which
the house might vote to non-concur
in the senate bill, while it was not
allowed to vote the other way. IN
ldoubtedly a majority would have
Ivoted for the bill as it came from
the senate had the opportunity be.n
given, but by the rule cooked up for
that purpose it was sent to a packed
conference committee, and the result
is no revision of the tariff. ThEbi1l
reported from this so called Confer
ence is not O revision worth talking
about. Judge Kelly and. those act
ing with him preferred failure to the
passage of any bill that affected the
profits of certain interests they are
here to protect and favor.
The capitol has been exceedingly
lively all the week-the final week
of the dying Congress. The CALLER
les have been packed, and an air of
hustle and excitement has pervaded
the. whole building. The evening
sessions appeared to be especially
interesting to visitors, Judging from
their sagerness in swarming up the
hill. The house draws best. There
is more turmoil, slugging, repartee,
excitement, and spectacular oratory
in the lower house than in the sen
ate. The members enjoy the notice
they receive on such occasions, and
the audiences enter fully into athe
spirit of the proceedings. Aftogetls-
er the show is better thansa circus,
"You will see a regular parrot aud
monkey time from now On in the
house," was the information confid-
ed to your correspondent early in
the week by a veteran house door.
keeper; and then he added. "About
a hundred and fifty members are 60
ing out, perhaps never to return
again to Congress, and nine tenths
of them will have some pet life and
death scheme to run through in the
last three days. They will fight and
cathaul in an interesting manner,
you can depend on it, and the gal
l~eries will have fun enough to last q
lifetime" He was right. The sen
ate did not do as much as usual in
the way of laying out pleasure trips
during the vacation. The PROPOSE.
tion for a Yellowstone park trip APP.
pears to have fallen dead, there will
be no more Mississippi river inquir.
les to make, and Senator Ingalls,
railroad commission project was not
pressed. Mr.. Anderson, Of Kansas
proposed a similar board, but a par
agraph was engrafted in the agri.
cultural appropriation bill directing
the Commissioner of Agriculture to
c~ollate the facts suggested by bott
Senator ingalls, and Mr. Anderson
The star route defendants are
whistling loudly to keep their spirit:
up, and bully Ingersoll is pretending
to laugh at the evidence of co conspi
rator Rerdell, but a a matter Of fac
they are losing courage rapidly, il
spite of these efforts. On Monday
it was reported about town that Dor
sey had skipped" as they say ou'
west, but this proved to be incorrect
Mfr. Ingersoll is laboring to make il
appear that Rerdell is the only mar
on trial, but the latter has admitted
his guilt, and however bad the othe.
defendants succeed in making hin
appear it cannot help them. He wa9
their tool and trusted lieutenant, ant
of course he is O bad man, or b,
would not have answered their pur
pose; but he is now scared into tell
ing the truth about the whole affair
and it makes things look very squal
ly. He has described the books O
the firm, the entries in them, ant
the check stubs, etc, with minute
ness of detail that carries conviction
and the defense refuses to produc,
the hooks to refute this evidence
though three times served with no
tees by the government to do So
The denial of Judge Belford that hi
ever had any dealings with the crowd
or ever had such a check as Rerde1
described, is the first ray of conso!a
ton they have squeezed out of his
testimony. But, as q matter of fact
Judge Belford's denial, which every
body accepts as true, does not i'm
peach Rerdell in the least. The fac
that Belford's name was written into
a stub or eve into a check payable
to bearer, could easily have been ont
of the tricks of the gang. The re
fusal of the defense to produce the
books to discredit Rerdell is accept
ed as proof that, in the main, his
memory regarding them is accurate