Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our Regular COrrespondent.]

from our Regular COrrespondent.l
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Nov. 30. 1888.
The recent civil rights decision of the
here, and some of our cOlored population
are good deal exercised. Undoubtedly
1t is q back-set in some respects to his race,
but whatever our views OF ITS enect, IL Is
useless to berate th, court, for the decis-
ion is undoubtedly correct law. The Ian
guage of Matt. Carpenter in his speech
against this bill in the senate, was certain
ly prophetic. and confirms his position as
the greatest lawyer of bis time.
1t cannot be tho infatuatiOn OF Cnlce-
holding that tenlpts the ex-representstive
to be here now exalting his horns for
cIerkship or a doerkeepership OF the very
house whose wallis have rung with his elo-
quence as the peoples Representatives; but
it can be the inducement, pecuniary and
a man to be able to lap up something for
rainy day and at the Same time weld pat
ronage that one doorkeeper said made him
a "bigger man than old Grant, Legiti-
mately, the positions of clerk, sergeant at
arms, or doOrkeeper are worth from $4,000
to $40 900 per year, but there are those
whose judicious care for No. l has enabled
them to gather in sum INFINITELY greater
than that. Bill King, as the house post
master, SO managed its sfiairs that he not
only builtAlp q bank account OF a square
million in eight years OF service, but he
managed to swamp several congressman
portunities are now gone, and there are so
many watching the corners that these pO-
sitlOns do not average any more than a
good, honest sort OF fellow ought to have
for the responsibilities. There are no few
er than fifteen of the ex-members of past
Congresses who are here now besieging
the new members for help in reaching
these different poSitiOns-sOme for clerk,
others for doorkeeper, others for sergeant
alarms, and still others for postmaster. 1t
may be humiliating for these men to be
thus racing and scrambliDg for these sub
ordinate places, but we must charitably
assume that is :he humiliation of necessity.
1t is coming to be pretty generally under.
stood that neither OF the great parties will
put forward military man for the next
presidency. which counts out Grant and
Logan and hosts of others on the republi-
can side, who might or might not be avail
able, and Hancock and Butler on the dem
Ocratic side, either of whom would be dis
astrous. General Logan is probably satis-
fed with what he has got, if he only knew
that he could keep it, but Oglesby contin-
ues on his flank and will trouble him more
than ever in the next Illinois General AS
sembly. Yet Logan as political tighter is
Il holy terror, who knows no such word as
fail. who exhausts every resource earthly
aud unearthly before he gives up,and when
he does finally let 90. it is only to get a bet
ter hold next time. 50 that Logan's sena-
total future may be reg ,rded As assured,
even il he should happen to lapse two
wears of it, The prospect OF the presiden-
upon General Logan's usual equanimity.
if it ever did disturb hiIn, and Sherman did
him n positive injustice when he charged
him With having Presidential bee III his
bonnet, the same bee, by the way that has
been buZZing in Sherman's bonnet ever
since he came out of the war.
Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania. the oldest
member in continual service in the house,
has returned from Europe cured OF il most
aggravated cancerous trouble. caused, 1t
has been said, by holding tobacc" III HI,
mouth, the quid resting at spot in the
cheek from which the cancer formed and
grew. InVcterate or moderate tobacco
chewers will please be admOnished iIftime.
for it took only forty years or more for
Judge kellcys quids to work UP the mi'-
CHIEF that has caused HIM 50 much of in
tense suffering. 1t will be the duty ";
Judge Kelley to administer the oaih of OF
flee to the new democratic speaker, an act
that was performed by Thadeus Stevens.
also from Pennsylvania, rs the oldest nle
ber of the house in continuous svrNi,c.
twelve times.
The river and harbor bill. which lried
many Congressman two years ago re-
yond earthly hope of resurrection. "nl,
called for a little more than fifteen IN lion,
of dollars, all told: but here comes the chief
engineer of the war department with h,
estim ates tor the he xt fiscal year amounting
to more than thirty-twO millions, and ih's
for u re form democratic congress t: swai-
low. OF course they will all be ready to
cut into this bill calling for thirty odd mil
ties, and therefore the trainers of the bill
cunningly entrap every member by insert
ing IN appropriation for the improvement
of u trout-stream crab-pond near the
home of those members who have not tac
good fortune to reside near the rivers and
harbors and tn lakes of the country. II
was ascertained by investigation that no
less than four and Il half millions OF the
fifteen millions two years ago was apprO-
priated for these creeks, brooks and ponds.
and that was why those who voted for it
never got back::to w Washington.
An opinion on the value OF our oitisiai
crop statistics, which may be of interest to
American farmers and dealers in the pro-
duce OF their farms. has recently been ex-
pressed by the Field, first class ayricill
turaI weekly published in London. That
Journal edtoriaiIy asserts that the division
of the statistics of the Department of Ag-
riculture supplies "fully ten times as much
information" in regard to our various ag-
ricultural crops as furnished to the British
public in the rep Drts published by the gov
ernment and in the harvest statistics col
lected by the agricultural papers "when
both are dubbed together"
JUNIUS.