The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-22
Our Washington Letter,
From our Regular Correspondence

Was hoi uiohieihDcIcu ny auJoufiHeHt
last March like the House of Repre-
sentatives, but after an interval of
nine months, went quietly at work at
i the beginning of the session rs if it
had only adjourned from the day be-
fore. Its sessions each day haye been
short and mainly given to the intro
duction and reading of the titles of
bills, resolutions and memorials. Thus
far, more than three hundred have
been introduced at the beginning of
each Congress for ten or fifteen wears,
while Others are new and of national
Importance. Among the latter was
one by Mr.. Blair of n. H. proposing
a national constitutional amendment
regarding alcoholic liquors. The pro-
posed amendment prohibits the man
1 utacture or sale of distilled alcoholic
liquors except for medicinal, chemical,
and scientific purpose, or for the use
OF the arts, in any of the states and
territories and the importation of such
liquors except for the purposes nam
ed, and the bill provides that should
/ the amendment not be ratified by
three fourths of the states on or be-
fore the last day of December 1890,
the prohibition it proposes shall take
effect as an act of Congress at the ex-
piration of ten years.
France and Germany exclude our
pork because, forsooth, the possible
/ peril of trichinae turks in the meat,
but we receive from them labeled clar-
ct, cognac and port-disease, death,
murder starvation and rags, for the
man, mother and child.
Activity in the temperance move
ment is a hopeful augury for the fu-
ture Of the cause. Among associations
that are seeking recognition in the
Presidential campaign of 1884 is the
Woman's National Christian Temper
ance Union. Miss Frances Willard
President of the Society, recently de-
livered in the Calvary church on Fl
street and eloquent address in which
she said she had visited, during the
1 year, every state and territory of the
/ Union in the interests OF temperance
and was confident the voice Of the
/ people would declare for prohibition.
when the time came for them to vote,
a direct vote on the question pure and
! simple. The next great movement
will be to secure petition of one mil
/ lion signatures from women and voters
IN all the states, requesting the nation
al political conventions that meet next
spring for the nomination of president
ial candidates to put plank in their
] platforms favoring prohibition
amendment to the constitution. Or
ganized Temperance agitation by
women is now just ten years old, and
the patient persistent enthusiasts cx-
/ pect before the year of 1900 to be vic
torious oyer the liquor traffic in Am
erica
The reorganization of the Senate has
been delayed partly by the illness
Senator Anthony of Rhode Island who,
on his return to his seat on Tuesday
was sworn in, and on Thursday was
nominated for President of the SEN
ate pro tempore, to succeed Mr.. Ed
munds. The latter resigned the pos
ition Monday, prefering to be on the
floor, and besides, he expects to ac-
company his family to the Bermudas
after the holidays. In point of SER
vice Senator Anthony is the senior
member of the body this being his fifth
consecutive term of office. In the APP
pointment of the officers and clerks of
the Senate, Senators have coqueted a
little with civil service reform, and
there were scarcel V 50 many spoils to
distribute as had been hoped by Sen
ators who had been itching for more
patronage. In a republican Senator
ial caucus, Senators Edmunds and
Plumb caused some surprise by say
ing they did not know why competent
faithful officers should be changed for
inexperienced ones simply because the
majority had shifted. The Senate
committees have been announced and
some feeling was displayed by junior
Senators on account of the method
prevailing of giving the Senators who
have served longest all the best places
Prominent among the events of the
week was the tenth annual reunion of
the veterans of the Mexican war. A
remnant of them met in this city, par
AIDED its streets, were received by the
President, and banqueted at Abner S
Hall. Old, feeble, MANNED, halt many
of them leaning on canes, they are but
lettering phantoms of the men who
went with Taylor from Palo Alto to
Buena Vista, or from Vera. Cruz to
the City of Mexico, and whose deeds
of valor, endurance and high soldier
ly qualities live in song and story. OF
the eighty thousand who participated
in those battles scarcely six thousand
survive, aud yet against bill to pen
sion them, il was said too many OF
them are still living.