The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-22

| Congress?" your correspondent asked Of HF.
Calkins of Indiana, yesterday.
"Words," he answered, ITO suots Hanlst.
| "words."
"And is that alp"
eyes, think So" he answered. pretty
much all. think 1t probable that Mexican
pension bill may pass and perhaps few other
measures OF national interest bat only few"
Chow about the tariff"
sThe House will pass tariff BILL" he said.
but the Senate will not"
"what will the House tariff bill be; the
| Morrison bill?'
"Yes, with some slight changes"
"What will be the fate of the wool growers9"
"They will not get restoration of the old
tariff rs they waur and 1t IL more than prob
able that the bill which the House will pas
will out down the tariff still MORE"
"And the result OF that2"
"Wil be that we will get next year every
one OF the 1 100000 wool-Rrowers all Of WHOM
ara votars and will probably control AZ Aasv
more votes"
Where will the Democratic convention be
held, Mr.. ColkiDs?"
That's pretty hard to answer" he said.
though think the changes sesE 10 - II
favor of st. Louis"
sand who will 1t nominateY"
"Mr. Donald, 1 think, che replied, "at
least his chances seem to be the best now"
And as TO the Republican nomiuesf"
That's more difficult to predict" he ~
| piled, Though on the whole is sscMs 10 as
| that Arthur now stands the best chance.
There is quite Logan boom now Rs even.
body knows and good many people who vast
TO feel sure OF success are talking OF General
Sherman Nobody can successfully prsaist
yet what our party will do"
SIS not the Logan boom LARGELY nanlfas.
tured one. made by his own eifcrts aud these
of his immediats frisnds7"
II suppose the Senator's friends are not all
going idle and this perhaps might bs said ef ell
| those who have Presidential aspirations"
"Do you think President Arthur is working
for nomination."
In very quiet way. I do not believe he
Is making any very great effort bat presume
ne and bis friends are doiog some Suiss work
OF that nature"
''How would Edmunds do, do you thlskt"
"Edmunds" he said with q sudden look OF Ia
tarest''is my choice No man In the party woalA
be so satisfactory to mo as Geo. = hdnsnds
General Sherman would bs the naH 10 Gre
ate euthuslasm, would he not?"
"Yes;'' he replied "and IL may be that bs
will be the man. Nothing coald bekt 40 wish
General Sherman as our candidate: indeed l
do not think that anything can beat as, any
way, with any good man Al the lead, but shsF-
mans nomination would settls tins matter BE-
yond persdveBturs.
"How ab, vi the Gnbernatorial racs In Is-
diana2 Will Mr.. Calkins be the Rspuslicaa
candidate7"
al suspect so" he replied. "I do net hear Of
many people coming to the 'front.' aud askiAg
to lead in so desperate hght 50 that Mase
be-"
any man to bs the Republican standard bearer
in SO desperate fight, as this will bs espee-
tally if Mcdonald should bo the Democrats
nominee for Prssident7"
"Yes'' he replied sentsntously "it will"
coNaRRssHEN As PENSION AGENTS.
1t is FATHER amusing to see the diAgsss Wits
which the average Congressman discovers
that his first duty Is to become pension ciAim
agent, and that really he Is expected By his
constituents to do little else thAn tais. Go
through the department any morHius, or any
dav upon which there Is no session OF Con-
gress, and you fnd them full of Congressman
weary, sad eyed, and mad. Thsrs are No
street cars. herdics, or hanson cabs, or
coaches, in the Department. There every
man is on level with his fellows, be hs Con.
gresham or the humblsst citizen. and when 80
ia considered that to "do" the Departments
thoroughly one must walk probably ten railss,
it is not to be wondered at that our average
member OF Congress gets through his DAYS
duties in anything but an amia6ls mood.
a"l deCar0. SAID MT. Nee8o OF llilAoiA, Rho
1 succeeds Gen. Singleton in the House, SIS 70
astonishing, the amount OF running that IL rs-
quirsd of member of CongrAss. / never
would have supposed that 1t could be 10 great.
have about reached the conclusion shat mem
bers of CONGRESS- are elected to PFocure psn-
sions instead OF serving as law makers I
think it would be well for the people to elect
pension agents instead of electing Congress-
men. They could probably gst good xblo-
bodied pension agent for $1,000 year instead
.h..o o.xfN A.
do now, for doing pension sgents' work. 1t-is-
a constant demand from hume and constant
running through the Department" Probably
the busiest man in Congress Is the aslsgAts
from Dakota. He il the sole representative Of
course, of q Territory which dSs now q large
and very intelligent and active population. ne
state has less than three memOera, two SenA-
tors and representative and no other Territo-
~ has so large and active population. Tke re-
suit is that Mr.. Raymond is fairly ovsrrun with
york. He keep two private secretaries whs
are, with himself, constantly employed ARA
vet he is unable to keep up with the duties
which sre imposed upon him by his conssitx-
snts He is probably the most sstonished man
IN Washington.
ADMISSION OF DAKOTA.
Speaking OF Dakots, it is believed that sssA-
tor Harrison's bill providing for the admission
of Southern Dakota ss a State. II the psoHls
shall so vote at an election TO be held Eoysm-
is, may be accepted as q solution Of the disa-
sulty which has heretofore prevailed 10 keen
Dakota out. The Democrats have bees al
along determined not To admit =ay Territory
in time for it to take part in the coming Prssi-
Dental election. Yet there has been general
feeling that Dakota ought to be admitted and
it is probable that the method thus offsrsd for
providing for admission and at the same tirua
permitting 1t to take effect only after the Pres
idental election may be accepted all around.
WOOL AND POLITICS.
The advocates of the restoration OF the
wool tariff are very sure that the wool ques- :
tion is going to cut a prominent figure In the
coming Presidential election. az hardly
want to be quoted in this" sold a very proHl-
rent Democrat to yonr correspondent ysster-
day," but the fact is, il this Congress rsfsses
10 restore the wool tariff, We Democrats are
beaten next year. The Republicans are .
great deal smarter than We are In that sort Of
thing. They see already how much the party
eaa gain by supporting the wool interest and
its demands. There are 1,02000o wool grow
ers in the country and there are probably a.
10000 votes. The Republicans are oneo =
aging them to make this demand, to orxanizs
politically for the campaign, and to send nss
70 the next Congress who will restore tho tar
H. and the Republicans are always watching
ior those opportunities and reaching oat far
ahead, and they are making much Of this op-
portnnity to gain streneth which will enssrs
heir success this fall aud probably make the
next Congress Republican unless We do sone-
| thing for the e5n0i people ourselves
"And will your"
"rnat's very nArd to answer / am AfrsA
/ the majority will be against 1t and 90 large .
| majority that 1t cannot be brought about"
MEXICAN PENSIONS.
The long deadlock Of the House over the
| Mexican pension bill calls attention anew 10
that measure and its prospects. There is .
| general belief here that the bill will become
| law. 1t is not improboble that some changes
| may be made in 1t and perhaps those sections
| grshting pensions to the ssurVivors Of tho Is
| dian wars and the sixty-day men Ia the Next
l can war may be stricken out. II very prob
able however that the bill In some form will
pass.
Why Potatoes are Not Sent 10 Besten.
The Houlton, Me-, correspondent OF The
Journal writes:
Owing TO tho lsrge surplus OF potatoes In
Aroostook county, and the limited demand
for shipment, the starch factories are contract-
ing for large quantities at Go cents per barrel,
and will grind and manufacture into g, arck
thousands Of oushels during The spring. The
buyers OF Houlton are paying 65 oente per bar
| rel for the Boston market, but the fraight