Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The Fitz John Porter Bill.-Great Height OF IN,
Washington Monnment.-Its Dedication
and Cost.-tisn. Logan's Cores.
pondence.--MexIcan
Pensions.
From our regular correspondent.

! pondenee.-Mexican
Pensions.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 5, 1884.
Although the Democratic House has
PASSED the Fitz John Porter bill over
the Presidents veto, it hardly Jared
so well in the Senate, where there was q
sturdy minority strong enough to en-
phasize their belief that disloyalty (such
as was proved against Porter) should
not be rewarded with the honors and
emolument of public position. There is
no denying the fact that public senti-
ment throughout the country has been
and is against the proposition to restore
this man to position in the army
where he had once used it only to betrav
it, or at least to compass its defeat. The
President, knowing this sentiment,
could not do otherwise than throw the
responsibility of his restoration wholly
upon the shoulders of Congress, and let
that body get out of it the best way it
could. 1t is stated that but one member
of the Cabinet (Mr. Frelinghuyen) was
in favor of the bill, while all the others
commended that some Difference should
be paid to the vast number of remon-
strances that had been sent up from all
parts of the country, protesting against
the contamination of so great a public
wrong"
BY the first of September the Wash
ington Monument will have attained a
height of 500 feet, when the shape of
the structure will be changed to that of
q pyramid, to continue on for 55 feet to
the apex. which will be the completion
OF the monument proper. The dedica-
ton of this grand memorial will take
place on the 22d of February next. lust
thirty years from the date of the LAYING
of the cornerstone. One of the peculiar
and appropriate features of the dedica-
tory exercises will be the delivery of the
Grafton by Hon. Robert G.. Winthrop, of
Boston, the same orator who OBLIGATED
thirty years ago. The ceremonies at
tendant upon the dedication will be the
most elaborate that have ever taken
place upon q like occasion in this coun-
try, Congress having by joint resolution
appointed committee of both houses.
empowered to make such arrangements
as will be appropriate to so august an
occasion. The whole cost of the monu-
ment when completed will be not less
than 81, 100000, but to the everlasting
disgrace of some of those who had the
manipulation of the funds when the
original Monument Association under
took the work, about one-third of this
amount was stolen from the fund.
The cartoon business for the present
campaign starts out both lively and mas
ty. George William Curtis, who thought
with the aid of Tom Mast he would be
able to monopolize the best of the car
ricatures, has already sdccumbed to the
superior skill and imagery of half doz-
en- competitors in the metropolis. In
deed Mast was never so pointless and
feeble, possibly because his heart is not
in the kind of work laid out for him.
One of the felicities attendant upon
being particularly prominent as poll
teal candidate, is now being enjoyed
by Mr.. Logan, whose daily mail is about
as large as that received by some of
our first class post offices. And Gen.
Logan is man who invariably attends
to his correspondents, whoever they
are and wherever they hail from. Every
letter that requires an answer is prompt
ly and courteously responded to, and it
requires the time of four secretaries and
the aid of a type writer to accomplish
this part of the work. Whether Gen.
Logan will make any speeches during
the campaign is not yet definitely set
tied. If he does they will doubtless be
limited to the vicinity of his old home
in Southern Illinois, where the people
will insist upon giving their favorite
son the best send off he will have in
the campaign, for never were a people
more enthusiastic over a political NOM
nation than are the Egyptians over the
prospective elevation of their idolized
fellow-citizen to the second place in the
gift of this great people.
The prospect Of the Mexican Pensions
bill at this session is now looking dubi-
Gus enough. So long as the Govern
ment is pretending to go into the pen
sion business, it ought not to make
fish of one and flesh of another. The
simple fact that soldier enlisted and
served in the Mexican War, is sufficient
in the opinion of the Democratic House,
to entitle him to a pension, but when
the same rule is made to apply to SOL
diers who served in the war for the
preservation of the country, these fell
lows cry out against pillaging the
Treasury JUNIUs.
MIR Blaine Temperance Man.
Gen. Neal Dow is the author of the
Maine Law and the patriarch of prohi.
bition; put he is not crank. He is 8
practical man, and has done more fol-
the cause of temperance than any five
hundred of the self seeking, windy fell