The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-17
Washington Letter.
Regular Correspondence.

NhShlNoloNi May ~ 1901
Since the great event of the past week,
| the defeat of the Horizontal Tariff bill in
the House of Representatives, Congress
has taken action on number of questions,
which were not of universal interest The
| Virginia election case of O'Farrall against
Paul was taken up and the former seated,
The bill loaning 81 100000 to the New Or
leans exposition was passed, and private
and pension bills were disposed Of. The
Senate passed the Frye shipping bill, and
free bridge for this city across the
Potomac.
The Democratic members of the Ways
and Means committee met at the apart
ments of Hon Abram :. Hewitt on Satur
day night, and discussed the revenue situa-
ton. Mr., Hewitt expects to present new
Tariff measure which he has not yet form.
ulated, but which will contain Horizontal
reductions similar to the Morrison bill
The general opinion of the revenue reform.
ers IL, however, that neither this nor any
other tariff reduction bill will pass this SEES
sion but il is thought measure repeating
tobacco and fruit spirit taxes can be passed,
if the high protectionists can secure most
of the Republican votes for It,
Looking to an early adjournment Mr.
Randall is in great hurry with the appro.
priation bills, now that the Tariff bill is
out of the way These will follow one an
other for the next few weeks to the exclu.
sion of other questions
simultaneously with the announcement
of Gen Grants financial failure Senator
Edmunds introduced n bill to place him on
the retired list, accompanied with the re.
quest that the committee on Military Affairs
take action on II without delay. A Demo
cratic statesman thought If Gen. Grant was
to be reimbursed for the failure of his
Wall street firm II would be in good form
to put the unfortunate depositors on the
pension roll.
The present week promises to be very
quiet one In Administrative circles. The
President is in New York, and 50 are sev.
eral OF his cabinet officers The Secretary
of War expects TO go on a fishing eXcur.
sion. The Attorney General and Secretary
of State do not expect to do anything in
particular, and the Secretary of the Navy
has gone down the Potomac for recreation
with party of congressman.
On last Saturday both houses attended
the unwilling of the statue of Chief Justice
John Marshall which stands in the capitol
grounds, in front of the west entrance to
the capitol. Chief Justice Waite presided,
prayer was offered by Doctor Armstrong,
pastor of the Richmond church, which
Marshall attended, the Marine band dis
coursed music composed for the occasion,
and Mr.. Rawle, of Philadelphia, delivered
the dedicatory Grafton. Besides many dis
tnguished spectators who had been inv.
ted, were the Justices of the Supreme
Court in their official robes, and about thir
" Of the descendants and relatives of the
illustricus fifth Chief Justice whose mem
DRY was being honored.
Doctors from all parts of the United
States visited the city during the week to
the number of two thousand, and one of
the notable features of their convention
was the presence Of female members of
the association. These would have passed
for the wives Of delegates had II not beeu
that now and then voice with an unmis-
taxable feminine tone would be heard ris-
ing above the deeper voices In viva voce