Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-22
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wAsurxoroS. March IlH, 1884

4 WAsHIxoroN March IIH, 1881 Congress hes now been ir ion .-er three months; more than tie full tern ! ot its second session, and Tor some fea- son or other very Et.le lelis,at.or h..
 thus far been perfected. Out oi the i've
 thousand bIIls that havc been pres. ned.
 only sixty-three mclu ling ihil.y six
 pension bills lave passed the II us...
 while only five bills aad nme ioi,t r,-
 solutions have passed both houses, been
 signed ay ,le Presi5onc, and Ea. clae
 laws. Some think is .s owing Go Inc preoecUI atlon of the legislative miud
 with Presidential specuIa.iols. or to tho
 cautious nexperience of new menUeIs
 who are merely using the session to ac-
 quaint themselves Wlth parliamentary
 tactics. and learn the location of .he
 committee rooms. But tue mystery is
 not inscrutabie. Not counting .he deleF-
 ates from territories, there are four hun dred and one legislators ID 8 full Con
 gress. Each one of them has causI
 rights with the remaining four hundred.
 If every one took a day for salE.r. ou every important bill ass ma ase disposed j1 do, it would r.dmfe iOur hundred and one l..i.la- tive days for the Consideration aae measure. The difficulty has .rtm-a serious one. The silver and ...--..,.y questions, the land grants, the .ruut laws, tue Presidential sdcc.s-..f.. she copyright question, and Pacilc fli way r9guiaicn are all of Pr ssiuG H,c.-.i.v, out The country has tu vuIt wlii. Con GressiOLal SopnOUorls are maE.u- ora tOrIcgl displays As ru instance pf tl,e divergent tendency ct COnrra-suer a member broke into the debate oa ,be Naval biil with an infusion c. thc wool question. 4 little late. he Colle.-e,i Ie knew nothing sbout Naval aha-rs. and that be could hardly tel winch end o3s ship went foremost. He uex. attacked his opponents fer uarsimouy lu great matters, and accused t-su Cf Leeuipq tie surplus revenue IJla iu tle f-er.1rv while the people were beng taxed ih-ec ger ceUt per aluUu el rEr.- Eur- Cred millions of Ecu-s owned by tho people Ci New York. Another member and soothed the ya4.su orator by saying the latter Was iutere-tlul even when he was irrelevant. Al another point n thu debate on that day. 5rs. LanStry'5 charms furnished a theme
 Several prominent ugmucr- Ol the NCman's SUhgaSs Association. which teld four days convention here during the week, made atdrg- -cs Salg-I-v be fore inc House judiciary oumistge. tICIr objective Toiut UeiaE sixteenth amendment 0 tbe constitution. It i5 noticeable that tEe mOvenea, has passeG 10 great meas ure cU- ci tLc a1mau of rldicU.e aud i5 me. ser.lu-.y 1s those yGo nave s5 .4ll Eitu fes.s seu-. uf sq-- iei!. Llc 4cat-yfa SLOW -Il.l r..I-srs auce and discretion than iu t-r eariis- stages Ct tre agitation. The na-ar- lra jry ing to extend ihtir cl.all lzaaou cn a system t.at vil bring tc c..7s III @ uulvers notice. They r-.-sae 60 ntpr the political Eeid ma .0H body and use al their r5sCurcCs to .e.ta- cau- dI lgies not in sympathy with h m
 The whisky men got ths setback tley feared by tha altcr,ui.u rf ru {. a.rr.- prIation bill. Great int rest u.s mani tested m the a;temp, O. tEo friends os the b ndet whisky bul t3 get tlat meas ore before tbe House on S.turd.y. There was no surprise wLea Mir. M0rIi- tcn's move tc go into comm t-cs Of the whole on revenue bills vas faI0 wed by a motion from Alr. Townshena that tle House go in-o committee on aapTopria. ton bills. The voting was vat .rsd vith interest, for there was au impression that the result won d test thr sense of the House DO. aaly n tbe wtlsEy question, hut a. on the ability Of Chairman crall to 5all~ majority Iu case he should wish to pUt
 te appropriation bIlis.r 'LCv. .y ot the low tlrif tax reduction bi. The vote vas n favor of taking up Che postal appropriation ball. Y cannot. however. be cialmad that any issue WAS de-ie3 by tLe vote 4 large number a, Demo- rra'5 voted in thc negative with trs
 Republicans, and aI a'uI-. elg-lt.
 arge number Cf Republicans with i.e body o9 Democrats.
 Delegate Game of Utah msIa a1 argument on Saturday he.a-e Commit fee on Territories iU winch be criticised the EdmUuGs and Clssady bills in rsia- ton tO pnlygemy %, unconstitutional. He admitted tEe right of tho govern ment tO punish polyg.ny as g crime i1 desired Co d1 60, but nevertheless, ls said the MormCns be.isvcI it rss right He thought as they helped @ hold Cali fofnia during the Mexican var, they deserved consideration rom .he govern