The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Feb. Ii, 1SS4.(

From Our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Feb. IL, 1884,
The little dispute between ex-
Speaker Keifer and correspondent
Boynton has not been settled yet,
and the more it is stirred up the
worse it gets for Keifer. Nobody
here accepts his statement that Boyn-
ton made a corrupt proposal to him,
as against the latter's good character
and reputation. Boynton has never
been known to have any interest in
jobs, and the money in this one lis on
the opposite side from the ore he is
said to have espoused. A committee
of the House will endeavor to find
out whether Keifer has not added a
contemplate false accusation to his
other meanness. Probably the most
Disguised man, though, is the un
fortunate McGarrahan, who owns
the immortal claim which started the
controversy, and who now see ii led
of, sidetracked, as it were, on one of
the innumerable branch issues that
have marked its course through the
departments, the courts and Congress
for the past twenty years. He has
no concern WITH the Keiter- Boynton
controversy, except in so far as MI.
Boynton tried to do him a slight
kindness, as almost any one would
who knows his story; and its agita-
tion will probably put him further
off than ever from getting a hearing
on the merits. "Mac" takes his long
rambles about the streets by night
and day, which seem his only method
of working off surplus activity. mort
dejectedly than is his won't. 1t looks
as though the rich New Idria Com
pany would keep him out of his own
for many years longer.
Mr.. Morrison's tariff bill has Eeen
on the whole rather favorably re.
ceived as an eminently conservative
and just measure, which aims to
make one step towards needed re
forms without crippling any protect
ed industry. Whether it will pass
both houses this session is a ques-
ton not easily answered at the pres
ent time. There is a tendency to
complain of the expenses of Repre-
sentative Haskelrs funeral last De
cember, which cost $500, largely
for meals, lunches cigars, carriages
and "sundries." A friend who went
along with one of these public funer
ais, that Of Senator Sumner, says be
found that the funeral baked meats
were not furnished forth 'coldly,'!
nor the funeral mixed drinks either,
1t was rather an irreverent thought
how the great Senator, who like 6thel
great men, vas q generous liver
would have enjoyed it all. Those
who complain do not do justice &c
the physiological effects o. grief, with
which they are, perhaps, not wei
acquainted. Sir John Falstaf ex.
plains how signing and grooming
may puff up a man like as bladder
and the result of public, organized
woe is always to breed IN inordinatt
hunger and thirst in the mourners
So, at least, it appears.
The bloody shirt scheme of Sena
tor Sherman and some fhis Repub
lican associates has fallen so fat a
to be hardly worth carrying on. Thu
committee appointed will pretend te
take testimony, which will be printed
and circulated for campaign pur
poses; but it is doubtful now whethe
this sort of thing will do more harm
than good to their own cause. Presi
dental booms are growing numerou
now, new n lei springing up ever.
} few days. The most astonishin.
, thing is the apparent inroades mad,
by Logan on the Administrator
strength. 1t looks now as though
there would be a nice fight betwee!
Logan and Arthur, which will proba
bly, defeat them both. Senator De
Cameron writes to a friend in Wash
ington that he will not take possess
! ion of his seat in the Senate unit
after the question of Presidential
candidacy has been settled lie. say
that he wants to be out of the way
because if he interested himself j
behalf of any candidate thu cry o
bossism would be raised in the con
r vention. 1t cannot be that Don i
quietly working for the nominatio
himself. Such political modesty
unparrelled. PHoNo.