The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1883-07-21
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. G., July II, 1885


The question of home government
for tho District OF Columbia is now
being agltatod, and eXeitos consid-
cradle interest. Under the present
government by commissioners ap-
pointed by Congress, taxpayers
complain that they have no repre-.
sentation. This is true but If the
homo government was again estab-
lished, all employees Of the general
Government would become voters,
though very few OF them would pay
more than nominal taxes. The
question involves much argument
and docs not promise a speedy or
satisfactory settlement Tho real
trouble is that all the fat district Of
fees are used as POLITICAL rewards
for outsiders, and all tho piekngs
and stoalings take the same direc-
ton. Hence these tears
THE OBJECTIONABLE DOLLAR.
Lively war is now being made on
the trade dollar. Those who have
it, want it off their banda, and those
who have it not, refuse to take it
except at from 10 to Is cents dis.
count. In the meantime reliable
Treasury officials advise all who pos
sess the Objectionable dollar to hold
on to it, because Mt an carly day
the Treasury Department will urge
Congress to provide for its rodemp-
ton at par. This will DO no more
than fair and honest, but in tho
meantime most of tho dollars will
have found their way into the hands
of the brokers who will be tho only
ones to profit by this tardy justios,
while the poor and the wage work
ers, who are compelled to receive it
at the taeo value will be the losers.
WEATHER.
The weather tho past woek has
beon hot to degree unprecedented
in the momory of the oldest resi-
dents. Sunstrokes and thunder
storms are plentiful, and the wall of
discomfort 10 heard in tho land.
"Society" has of course gone to the
haunts Of fashionable Precipitation.
POLITICAL BUzzING.
The POLITICAL teapot begins to
simmer mildly. Prominent parties
hore who have the opportunity to
keep posted argue that the working.
men are going to have very great
and decisive influence not only in
the Presidential election next year,
but in the nominations. THIS is y
strange doctrine to be enunoiated in
Washington, whore the working
man ia not recognized as a'faotor N
anything beyond the heWing Of
wood and the drawing Of water, but
it is asserted that they are better
organized now than at any period
in the history of the nation, and
that they feel their power. They
have been knocking at the doors Of
Congress for legislation. for years,
and now they are about roady TO de-
mand as right what they have
heretofore asked as favor. They
want among other things, m eight
hour law that will be general in its
operation, and they want moro pay.
These are the two pivotal ideas in
tho briefest way it can be- put.
How they are going to work on the
parties is not yet made manifest.
There is howovor a foreshadowing
that tho worklngmen may take up
Ben. Butlor, who seems now to be
making. himself very popular with
this class. 1t is also asserted that
they will not DO long IN declaring
their intentions.
GoBBLED A MILLIONAIRE.
Several weeks ago youth nam
cd Merritt, ran away from bis home
in Baltimore. By means OF Mrs.
Lavinia Dundore's agency in this
city he got work but soon left here
for Norfolk. Meantime his father
died leaving hun over Sl,50O,OOO.
Mrs. DundOro wrote and brought
HIM to her house where he mot the
news of his fortune, also a charming
brevet widow, Mrs. Clara Hendor.
son whose divorced husband is a
department clerk. Tho "mash" was
a complete one, and now that poor
little forlorn clerkess IN an inlelli.
gonce Office is the wife of million.
aire. He is about twenty and she