The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-25
WASHINGTON q
From Our Regular Correspondents
WASHINGTON, Del


The House last Wednesday un-
ceremoniouly hustled Mr.. Cullom's
Inter State bill to one side and sub
situated NJ. Reagan's bill on the
same subject, which had already been
repoi ted tavorably from the commit
tee. In order to kill this bill, how
ever, the Republicans after securing
pledges from enough Democrats to
support them, loaded the bill with
amendments which they knew that
the Senate could concur il, al
though the majority of that body
might be expected to ring in the
everlasting Senegambian wherever
there opportunity. One of the amend
ments provides that no distinction
shall be made by a railroad company
in the conveyance of passengers ly
reason of race or color, and the other
restricts all companies in passenger
rates to three cents per mile whether
the distance be long or short. The
idea of Cullom's bill is taken from
the Illinois railroad law. out of which
has arisen more litigation, and the
indefinite provisions of which have
called for more judicial determine
ton, than any statute that has been
enacted in mode II times. 1t was a
law passed by the Illinois Legisla
tnre at a time when a lot Of cranks
had control of that body, and the
whole power of the State had b en-
invoked ald found powerless to en-
force it.
The outlook for the conviction of
General Swain i5 not so encouraging
as it ought to be. l should think
that au ordinary court martial would
hardly need any stronger proof of
guilt than the miserable pettyfoggjng
that has characterized the defence
from the outset. When Swain was
first brought face TO face with these
charges, he declines the interference
of a military commission to investi
gate them, and when that commission
was ordered by the Secretary of War
and found a basis for the charges, he
resisted the court martial that the
President was compelled to order to
try him, and here he has interposed
every possible obstacle in the shape
of demurrers, rebuttals, surrebuttals,
and what not, until his counsel have
succeeded in getting the court into
confusion worse COMPOUNDED. Swain.
however, should be hustled out of
the army anyhow, on general princi
piles. a
The invasion of Washington by the
~expectant office holders has already
commenced, even after Mr.. Cleve-
land has taken twenty thousand Of
them by the hand at Albany. The
hotels are already more than full
and all the morning and evening
trains bring its additional population
to make up the half million people
who will be here on the twenty-sec
ond day of February to stay. until
the Inauguration and as much longer
as they can. Fifty representative
citizens of Washington, without re
gard to party affiliations, have been
selected as q committee to get up ar
appropriate as well as-an elaborate
programme of ceremonies for Mr.
Cleveland's inaugural. Aprcpos o.
the twenty dollar pair of boots tina
a Wytheville. Va, cobbler proposed
to present To the President elect, bui
which the latter insisted upon pay
ing for, reminds me Of The fact thar
Mr.. Perry Davis the originator o
the celebrated pain Killer" made
and presented tt Andrew jackson
the pair of boots that the Genera
stood in when he vas inaugurateC
on the fourth of March, 1923. Davi'
studied out his formula for the PaiI
Killer while at the cordwainer'i
bench in Fall River, Mass, and from
it left a fortune equal to the deserts
of a patent medicine a In Chi
case of boot presentation, the tho
never entered Davis head that Jack
son would give him an office, nordit
jackson entertain the least idea o
giving him one, and he didn't. How
ever, in these o degenerate day!
it were better that Mr.. CLEVELAND
should pay for his boots just as ever,
NAH does, only lie should insist upol
not being particularly marked for
victim of extortion. PHoNo.