New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1884.
So little progress was made dur
ing the last week, with the import
ant business of the session, that the
day for the final adjournment Of
Congress is necessarily some dis
lance off yet.
The House spent most Of the time
in disposing Of the River and Har-
Dor bill, which it passed, leaving
out the 'Hennipen Canal scheme.
The Senate, worried over the
Mexican Pension bill for five days,
and has not yet reached a vote on
the measure. Amendments have
been offered to it. involving ques-
tions affecting the presidential
campaign. Having this political
bearing in as much as all OF the Re
publican Senators did not support
the amendments, they held a caucus
in order to avoid complications, apd
reach some understanding. Sena-
tor Hawley was thoroughly
opposed to the doctrine of service
pensions, and stated, in open de-
bate, that he would be unable to
vote for the bill on that account.
He held that every man in this land
owes his labor, his property, and
his life to his country on demand,
and that they who offered this are
not beggars, nor do they desire to
bankrupt the country that they
were ready to die for. The money,
he insisted, would come, ultimately,
more from the poor than the rich,
''for disguise it as you please, said
he, the burden filters down until it
rests upon the labor Of the coun-
try He was willing to do what
ever was right, liberal, or even
oyergenerous 20 the suffering, the
wounded, the disabled, the widow
or the orphen, but to the able bod
led, he would give nothing. Sena-
tor Salisbury took nearly the same
ground, saying if the revenues of
the country fell down like the man
ma OF old, he would vote for this
bill, and for every amendment to it,
but he had some regard for the tax
payers OF the country as well as tor
The soldiers. He did not want the
toilers of the land to contribute
their hard earned savings for PEN
sioning Senators and Representa-
tiyes, some Of whom were included
in the provisions Of the bill.
There has been some talk Of the
Springer committee sitting during
the summer vacation in order to
continue it's post mortem on the de-
funct star route cases. If there is
anything with which the country
is Disguised it must be this inquiry,
which was begun, and is continued
for the purpose Of manufacturing
political capital. There has been
such a conflict Of testimony, that,
after six months Of diligent labor, it
is doubtful whether any material
fact has been proved or not.
The son Of our next President,
Mr.. Walker Blaine, came to this
city yesterday to close his work here
as assistant to Gen. Cressville in
the court Of Alabama CLAIMS. He
intends to be his fatber's principal
secretary during the Campaign.
Gen. Logan has gone to Augusta
to visit Mr.. Blaine. It is his in.
tention now to spend the summer
at Bar Harder, Mount desert, stop.
ping at the cottage rented by Nh.
Blaine for his family. Mrs. Logan
is one ofthe most genial ladies IN
Washington society, and it has been
general observation here, since the
nomination, that she will prove an
admirable assistant to Mrs. Blaine
in discharglng social duties at the
White House. Her husband is the
only soldier ofthe late war who
went in a private and came out a
Major General.