The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-03-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 4, 1888
Protection wins the battle in this
Congress. The advocates Of pro.
lection for it's own sake whipped
! into the party traces the low.tarifl
republicans in the house and sue.
ceeded in putting through the most
extraordinary rule ever known in q
legislative or deliberative body-a
rule by which the house might vote
to non.concur in the senate bill,
while it was not allowedto vote the
other way. Undoubtedly a major
ity would have voted for the bill as
it came from the Senate had the op-
portunity been given, but by the
rule cooked up for that purpose it
was sent to a packed conference
committee, and the result is not
a revision worth talking about.
Judge Kelley and those acting 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 gal
leries 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 eagerness in
swarming up the hill. The house
draws best. There is more tur.
moil, tinging repartee, excitement,
and spectacular oratory in the
lower house than in the Senate.
The members enjoy the notice they
receive on such occasions, and the
audiences enter fully into the spirit
Of the proceedings. Altogether
the show is better than a circus.
"You will see a regular parrot and
monkey time from now on in the
house," was the information con-
fded to your correspondent early
in the week by a veteran house
doorkeeper; and then he added,
'About a hundred and fifty mem
bers are going 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 galleries will have
fun enough to last a lifetime He
was right. The Senate did not do
as much as usual in the way of
laying out pleasure trips during the
vacation. The proposition for a
Yellowstone park trip appears to
have fallen dead, there will be no
more Mississippi river inquiries to
make, and Senator Ingalls, railroad
commission project was notpressed.
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, proposed
a similar board, but a paragraph
was engrafted in the agricultural
appropriation bill directing the Com
missioner of Agriculture to collate
the facts suggested by both Sen
ator ingalls, and Mr.. Anderson.
The star.route defendants are
whistling loudly to keep their
spirits up, and bully Ingersoll is
pretending to laugh at the evi-
dence Of co-conspirator Rerdell,
but as matter of fact they are
losing courage rapidly, in spite of
these vigorous efforts. On Monday
was reported about town that
Dorsey had skipped" as they
say out west, but this proved to be
incorrect. Mr.. Ingersol is laboring
to make it appear that Rerdeu is
the only man on trial, but the latter
has admitted his guilt, and however
bad the other defendants succeed
in making him appear it cannot
help them. He was their tool and
trusted lieutenant, and of course he
is bad man, or he would not have
answered their purpose; but he is
now scared into telling the truth
about the whole affair, and it makes
things look very squally. He has
described the books of the firm, the
entries in them, and the check stubs,
ETC., with minuteness of detail that
carries convection, and the defense
refuses to produce the books to re.
flute this evidence, though three
times served with notices by the
government to do so. The denial
of Judge Belford that he ever had
any dealings with the crowd, or
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