The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-07
Our Washington Letter.
tFrom our Regular Correspondence

| Republican congressman are departing
/ Tor Chicago to attend their party conven.
ton. BY the beginning ofnext week more
than half the seats on their side of the
House will be vacant. Many who are not
delegates will go some in the interests of
candidates, others in their own interest. for
the notion is as prevalent this year ms ever
that 1t Is necessary for a politician to be in
some way connected with the great quad
RENAL convocations of his party. The bus
mess of the House will not be retarded
however, by this exodus There will be
forty or fifty Republicans and nearly all
the Democratic Members in attendance.
and good deal of work will be done ON
the calendar. BY an amicable arrange
ment between the two parties, many bills
involving no political questions, can be
disposed of during convention week.
At the Capitol, the blankest uncertainty
prevails as to the head of the ticket. A few
southern delegates both black and white
may be seen in the corridors in conference
with republican members; but no redublican
leader ventures a positive prediction now.
Even that class Of men who are wiser in
their own conceit than those who can rem.
der reason have ceased to pose as pro-
phets.
In the Senate this week the Utah bill.
which has been so often postponed was
the first to come up, and Senator Hoar
opened the debate. He said that the
American people did not mean to have.
in the heart of their continent and grow
ing up under the constitution of the United
States, iii territory subject to the exclu-
sive Legislation Of Congress, State found.
ed upon a denial of purity and integrity of
the family relation. He reviewed the forces
Of church, state and society which the
Mormons bring to bear for recruiting their
numbers and perpetuatng their power.
The Massachusetts Senator concluded by
saying: at is in no spirit Of religious in
tolerance: ii is with no desire to intefcre,
by the least title with conscientious belief:
however erroneous we may deem il; but it
is simply that the responsible law making
power for that territory as for all territ0r-
les. shall see that the great influences OF
Government and Iegisl tion are no longer
used for this illegal an un-christian pur-
pose that this bill is drawn"
Here the Mormon question was put aside
for the Mexi IAN ensi IN bill and on the !
following day when the former again came
up in the regular order, Senator Brown of
Georgia made long speech on the ques
ton of divorce, in which he hit New Eng /
land some hard raps, to which Senator
Hoar replied. Here another effort was
made to drop the Mormon problem. Sena-
tor Voorhees, said he favored the Utah bill, 7
but it could not b .co me law this session /
since there were two hundred bills that had I
been passed by the Senate now lying on
the Speakers table in the House Of Repre- /
sentatiyes. He urged action first Oh the /
pension bill, which could become lax, |
and which was urgent in character. So /
ii is likely Senator Hoar's favorite meas .
ure will not be voted GU daring the pres /
cnt session. The Senate also discussed /
without coming to vote The bill granting .
the Cincinna bar railroad company right, .
of.way through a portion Of the Yellow
stone Park. In opposing it, Senator Logan
said he had been lobbied more on this bill .
than on any other during the past winter.
He did not blame lis principle besieger,
but located him in the Interior Depart
nent on a salary of $j.e2", a year.
Among the new bills introduced This
week, all Of which will 80 over to the next
session of Congress, was one by Represent
alive Morey Of Ohio, granting pensions to
all honorably discharged soldiers Of the re-
bellion when they reach the age of forty
FIVE years.
The House spent two days Of this week
over an Ohio contested election case, and
decided by a large majority to seat Mr..
Wallace, a Democrat, and to dismiss the
sitting aember Mr.. Mckinley. When
hree other contested election cases are
disposed Of, the record of the election com
nttce will be complete.