The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-01-24
WAsH1NGT TON LETTER.
CONGRATULATE ONS IN THE SEN
ATF-NEXICAN TREATY
GIANTS Pc WEIR.
WAsnNGroN january 90, 1888.

WASHINGTON, January 20, 1888.
To the Editor Of the MorristOwn Gazette:
The Senate has been busy this
week discussing the Post Office APP
preparation bill, the bill for relief of
Ben Holiday, and the Tariff bill.
Senator Edmunds, by request, intro
duced a bill to provide for the ap-
pointment of commission to inves-
tigate the subject of railway trans
portation. Senator Plumb moved
to postpone the Tariff bill, in order
to proceed with the Post Office Ap-
preparation bill. Mr.. Sherman OPP
posed the motion, insisting that the
Tariff bill must be pushed forward
if it was to pass at all, and said he
would stand by the senator from
Vermont Mr.. MorrilD in pressing
it as against all other business.
Upon a vote the motion to postpone
the Tariff bill was lost.
Tuesday was a da of hand-shak-
ing and congratulation in the Sen
ate chamber, as five members re-
eeived the news of reelection. Frye,
Harris, Ransen, Garland, and Sauls-
bury were returned without a strug-
Gle. But few senators are found In
their seats when the gavel falls these
mornings, the IL o clock rule being
Just a little too previous for our
much overworked G) statesmen. A
call session of the Forty eighth Con-
gress seems inevitable, unless 1t can
proceed more rapidly with the work
before it. But thirty-two more
working days are left before it's APP
pointed expiration, and but few OF
the appropriation bills have been
passed. The Cabinet meetings have
been we'll attended by its members
this week, most of its sessions being
given to considering the Civil Ser
vice bill, which has now received
tho Presidents signature. There Is
a great scramble for places on the
civil service board, which, are, IN
deed, very desirable. Among the
applicants is a colorcd ex-Congress-
man from South Carolina. Since
the passage of the Civil Service bill
the population of the adjoining
counties of Maryland and Virginia
has been much increased by govern
ment employees, who were hereto
fore credited TO the District OF Co.
lumbia, taking up 'their residence
therein, so that they may stand q
better chance of being retained in
Office when the apportionment &C
cording to States is made, as provld'
ed in the bill.
Several senators will fight the pro
posed reciprocity treaty with Mexi'
co. They say it is one OF Jay
: Gould's schemes to obtain valuable
grants and concessions from the
Mexican government at the expense
of American sugar growers and 9th
err American interests. Gould ant
his associates getting all the sub
| stance and leaving the United States
nothing but the shadow OF advan
tage.
General Grants presence II
Washington has been the occasion
of = social ovation. Much dining
and winning, at which he shows al
ability TO hold his own quite worthy
of his past reputation. His bushes
here ostensibly is to negotiate a nov
treaty of commerce with Mexico
but he has other and more impor
tant business. He says openly tina
he came to che assistance OF Fit
John Porter. But strange to say
with his military record, his otticia
and political prestige, he has no
succeeded in influencing a singh
vote in the Senate. The ball ha
been set in motion again for bring
ing Grant out next year as a candl
date for the presidency. The basi
of his eligibility is readily explains
by his special friends. The source
of his strength are many, and Will
some may be regarded as unpopu
lar, Others are thought to have ele
ments of strength for a political pur
pose.