The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-06-13
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A Butler Boom.

set the democrats to looking over the list OF
counted on to keep in the democratic party
the large element that looks favorably upon
Blaine and his record on the Chinese ques-
ton. In casting about for snch a man the
name of Benjamin F. Butler looms up more
conspicuousIy than any other name men
toned in connection with the democratic
nomination. The telling against Blaine in
New York and Massachusetts strengthens
the Butler boom, and it is claimed, and
good reasons are given in support of the
claim, that Butler is the only democrat
who can carry Massachusetts,; that he. and
he alone of all the democratic candidates,
could retain in the democratic party that
large element among the working classes in
every state in the Union who admire the
dash and pluck of the Maine statesman,
and who look upon him as sure champion
of the working classes.
''What we want said a prominent dem
ocratic politician in conversation with your
correspondent to-day, sis a man possessed
VI IuetlitIGS W GuOSG WlllCu uldkc
Blaine the idol of the masses of the repub-
lican party. know of no man who COM
bines these qualities in greater degree
than Butler. Tilden is the idol of the dem
ocratic party, but Tilden is out of the race.
He will not he a candidate under any cir
cumstances, and if the party is wise it will
nominate Ben Butler, and he will be elected.
Butler is the only democrat who can carry
Massachusetts. He will get the support of
the masses of the people, and no man, is
better liked by the men whose votes the
republicans are counting upon to carry the
| the Pacific states for Blaine. Butler can
carry New York and he can carry Massa-
! chusetts, which no other democrat can
He can keep in the party democrats on the
Pacific coast who will vote for Blaine for
his record on the Chinese question. I tell
you if the democratic party has sense it
will nominate old Ben
Remarkably Fast Time.
| WASHINGTON, June 8.-A special news
paper train over the Baltimore and Ohio
road, conveying Washington correspondents
from the convention, left Chicago at 2:lO
P. NJ. Saturday (3:lO eastern time) and ar
rived here at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The
actual running time was but nineteen hours
and thirty minutes. The time OF the
special from Chicago to Chicago junction,
273 miles, was six hours and thirty minutes.
The actual running time was five hours and
thirty five minutes, aniaverage of upwards
of ffty-two miles per hour, an unprecedent-
ed run for the distance. At one time fifty.
seven miles were accomplished in fifty nine
minutes, and frequently a single mile was
run in from tifty-six to ffty-eight seconds
The final twenty-seven miles, from Barne-
vile to the Ohio river, was made in twenty
| eight minutes, over six miles in four min
utes, or at the rate of ninety miles an hour
run in eleven hours and twenty minutes,
including thirtY-eight stops. The actual
running time was nine hours and twenty
minutes or the unparalleled average of
fifty miles per hour.
The Independent Movement Dying.
| WASHINGTON, June S.-The general feel
ing here to-day is that the threatened in
dependent movement will soon die out
t'The independent movement doesn't
amount to anything" said u prominent
politician here to-day. 'There is always
more or less of this sort of talk after a con.
vention, but it never amounts to anything.
When the campaign begins IN earnest, you
will find every republican, from Maine to
California, shouting for Blaine.
The Exclusion Act Violated.
| WASHINGTON, June 9-The treasury de-
partment is informed that in some instances
certificates have been granted Chinese
laborers at ports other than exit laborers
from the United States, and that such GER
tifcates have been given to Chinese mer-
chants. Under this practice duplicate
certificates may sometimes be granted, one
at the first port and one at the port of exit
and that one at least of these has been
fraudulently used to obtain admission into
the United States of Chinese labore1s not
entitled to the privilege. Customs officers,
therefore, have been instructed to be care
full, and confine the issue of such docu-
ments to Chinese laborers who depart di
rectly for foreign ports, and to refrain from
issuing them to laborers who intend to pro.
ceed to China, or any other foreign place
via some other port in the United States,
or to Cinnamon who are not lahorers.
The Question of Adjournment
! WASHINGTON, June l0.-A resolution to
adjourn sine die on June so was reported
from the ways and means committee and
adopted by the house to-day. The resolu'
ton was adopted unanimously by the house,
but it is extremely doubtful if the same sue.
cess will attend it in the senate. Mr. Ran.
dali says the house will be ready to adjourn
on that date, and whether they will or not