Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-23
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Corr. Posi- -INTKLLIGEkCER
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1854.

Corr. POsT-lNTkLLIGEkCEk.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 1854.
-s The Session of Congress is now oveI
.bres months old, and has actually filled
ont the entire time of the short Con
.rs-sional session. This Congress- wal
M, in existence when Mark Twain said
of himself that there might he and
urobably were lsZIer people than he, bu,
tbey were dead. II it had been, the hu-
mor,st would certainly have favored i,
With a further exception to MS state
msnt. Out of total of i've Thousand
bills presented, 1t has succeeded Ill pass
ING about forty three IN the lower House
white ouIy five bills and nine JOINT reso,
tutions have passed both Houses and
become laws. Ia view Of this back ward
condition of Legislation, and with Con
press staggering under such load OF
work that, by their own confession
members cannot get through with more
than a small fraction of the public busi-
uoss, 1t IL AN especially understandable
waste of time To spend whole day IN
formal eulogles over every decesspd Con
pressman. The last Obsequiss have
called forth proposed new rule from
Representative Poland, which provides
for the passage Of a resolution Of ~
spect but rolegates the spesch- making
to the pages of the record.
The tariff question was successfully '
lodged last week by al adjournment
which cut OF vote upon the Converse
bill to restore the duty ON wool. After
the compromise upon the pension bill
for SURVIVORS Of the Mexican war, aud
its pa ,sape 10y the House. every eye xas
turned upon MIR. Converse, anu every
member on the floor was alive 10 tue
situation. Ii WAS to be the oOInnIenco-
hnont of the tariff hight. But 1t was
hardly Il good day, with the mercury 81
near zero and blowing blizzard, to pass
a bill u raise the price of blankets, and
u speedy ADJOURNMENT left Mr.. Converse
To deliver hls speech to empty benches.
But MIR. Converse Will shove the ugly
question at the House again, for he ID
not a free aRsut III the matter. Hls
constituents, az with one vOIce, are de-
manding that he shall LII AXE fight for
then. A fellow feeling tihakes one Won
drous kind, and this may explain Mr..
Converse's sympathy with the shOrn
lamb. The average Congressman must
w lamb like and mild, to the extent of
obedience To those upon whose vote he
depends. Under the rules the wool
trouble il now averted for month,
aud meanwhile the nodIfisd Morrison
tariff bill, wn'eh has been endorsed by
the Ways and Means Committee, will
be reported to the House today for Its
action, when wool Can be discussed
along with other articles tooched by the
bill.
The House did we'll to throw out all
the line aud staff" legislation from
the navy appropriation bIil .efore 1t WAS
passed. IL Is "a vi3ious practise To put
Legislative riders on appropriation
bills, and III the present Case the great
difficulties of the subject make 1t par
tlculariy untitled for the hurried treat
IneEt II must receive when included III
one of these bills. Moreover, the per-
sOnnsl Of the navy has beou tlnkered
quite enough for awhile, and Il ID hoped
that the RAIDS upon II will not again be-
renewed with the acrlDOny and force
that has characterized them for the past
few years. Al it IL, no officer knows
where he may be in six months. That
the navy IL top heavy Is we'll known, but
there ls general feeling that after the
sweeping reductions effected by recent
legislation, naval officers ought t. be lot
alone for awhile.
headed off Oh Saturday by the appro-
priatiOn bills, which Mr.. Randall has
held In pickle. Thv distillers aud their
,rad,tnvu ara lat.rnutnAA IN ,rat i..f
somehow. By dint of mingled threats
and persuasions and Il powerful lobby
they have obtained u strong following
ia the House. and they had their hopes
strung high. Their injured feelings,
when they found themselves ground be-
tween the runner and bed millstones of
Messrs Morrison and Randall. can
only be sOothed by their favorite bev-
eraRe.
found myself in the council of elo
quent -tOngued and elegantly dressed
women at Linoolr Hall, the other day.
All the ladies who want to vote come
here every year To plead for and cham
plon the rights of their sex. Miss Susan
p h. Anthony takes the helm, and she Is
surrounded by right worthy crew.
This rs the sixteenth time they have
Lille Devereaux Blake speak tor woman
AZ the unknown quantity in politics" "
She'was 'arrayed in black silk and Vol
vet, and wore u corsdge bouquet of red
roses. She settled the fate of Presi,lon-
tiat candidates iii style most foroible
for its brevity. Edmunds, she said, will
not do at all. Blaine Ia Not 81 open a
foe. but he has never espoused their
k..., rt, n III n,
iukewarm lover" Mr.. Co king won't
do, either. Nobody wants hun, aud
hc has no mors chance of being Presi
dent than u wolnan." Then she had
exhausted the Republican list. On the
them, but Mr.. Flower WAS an open ally
sweet for anything. and the man OF all
the candidates for the ladies'.
LUMBER TRAFFIC OF CHICA0o.-rhe
total receipts of forest products at Chr
cago during the year 1883, aggregated
1887 SIS, 900 feet of lumber, and 1856,
lUS,OO shingles, to which must be- added
6477,0OO lath, 5,137 cords Of wood,
2,4l6,la5 cedar posts. 1.7l4,SSs railroad
ties. 29,4l3 cords of slabs. 175, ,.s3 teie-
graph poles, 6,065 cords of tan bark,
$3.50 logs, 3l6 spars aud $50 piles. These
nRures, except in 0ass Of lumber and
shingles, embrace only the receipts by
lake, no available statistics being OBJ
taiaable as 10 au q .ditionai large quan
nty of the coarser products Of the fores,
arriving by rail. 1t il also to be under
stood that the custom house and rail
road reports, from which these figures
are collated. include all lumoer received
al South Chicago, Evanston. anu Other
points within the limits of this cOilec
sion district, and as we'll include the
hardwood, which forms no mean
factor III the business of Chicago
lhe total resources of CHICAGO for the