Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-31
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WASHINGT0 LETTER.
From our Regular Coyrespondontl
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% s-aEtl eaCFa02er Ott-s ASLAs 1880.
Members of Congress and retired
statesmen who eslds ia Washington
are coming back slowly, as the lime
for the COugI s5ei Omssl session approach
Is. 10 WIll be- six weeks before Con-
gress a. Sembles. bat " bere WI more
interesting or attractive place Tor
spending the interim be l0uud than in
Wash.ust un
Ih1re never was such a dcnand as
at pUee nJ Tor fashionable boarding
places, and furnished houses rChtiuV at
Sl5U 4" $3.50 a month. Every one OF
the apartment houses are full, aud IN
.Ae fuItlaud there Aas not been room
40 rent since the first Of september.
Al the amiltun House, with It's two
large anneXes. temp 1rary accommoda-
tiOns can be obtained but every room
IS airt adv engaged from the first If 9e-
center AT the realeState agencies the
only furnished houses TO be had are the
very expensive ones Or those which are
held AZ eXOrbitant rentals. In the
agents advertisements still appear
houses that We're leased elOng ago, and
their cards still hang in the windows of
some that are alreadys disposed of, but
people who are hunting quarters find il
very dIscOuragIng work,
The matter of the REORGANIZATION OF
The House Of Representatives Is being
much talked Of just now. The cOnVic-
lion that unnecessary delay.i in legisla-
ton must bo prevented is finding ex-
ole sion In various plans for advancing
business this coming session, so as not
to have repetition of the last Most
OF the plans have in view the cuUtai-
ment Of the powers of the apprOpria-
ton cOmGittees The proposition To de
vide the appropriation bills among tho
various committee interested IN them is
not likely 10 be adopted. Beside the
tendency towards extravaganza such o
plan would be likely to have, it is be-
lieyed that it would tend still further To
retard business. II is urged that as the
reconstruction of the American navy is
to be Oue Of the most important works
of this administration, the naval affairs
committee, of which Mr.. Cox was the
head, will be one of the most important
-esSiOn, and that Mr.. Randall's friends
would have no cause TO complain if he
were put atthe head of.that committee.
To make the position still more COM
Portable for him, ;hey would be willing
20 give him the naval appropriation
bill also, so as to place the whole thing
in his hands. There is a desire on the
part of sumo 10 get Mr.. Holman, the
great objectOr, off sthe appropriations
committee, too. The place selected for
him Is the chairman hip of the Indian
affairs committee This was. last ses-
sion one of the most insignificant Of all
the committees Of the House it is
sid, however, that during the coming
winter the Indian problem will demand
the serious attention of Congress, and
that Mr.. Holman, having travelled
thrp4Tnh tho rasaF va tfaffo ne hr, baaH
o the Indian investigating committee.
and} being possessed Of wonderful
amount of Information on the subject,
should be assigned the task of solving
the question. Il is proposed. too, 10
2ire hlm the Indian appropriation bill
ia connection with the committee. AnO-
Their plan is to allow the appropriations
committee To remain as il was a. the
close Of the last session, as near as may
be, with Mr. Randall at its head, but
to change the rules of the House so as
provide that the appropriation bills be-
repOr'ed within certain stated intervals,
one bill, for instance, to be reported
" thin two weeks after the meeting Of
Congress, the rest t. follow with a GER
tain reg ularity, so that the last ball will
be disposed of at lest ten days before
adjourn ment. This plan, it is thought.
one that would be most approved Of by
Mr.. Carlisle. Some of the working
and thinking Numbers believe that
null more could be accomplished If
he majority of the members would be
willing to give to their public duties at
least as much time as they devote to
vacation. The vacation period is al
ways much longer than the session, and
there are very few members who devote
any Of this time TO public business.
Nest Of them go off in pursuit of pleas
ure, and many OF them withhold their
address from the House postmaster, so
a not To be bothered with their CORES
pOndence. The majority of the mem
bers have spent Tins summer at Yellow
Stone Park, Long Branch, COney Is
land, Virginia Beach and in the noun
tains about White Sulpher Springs.
Only one or two have gone TO Europe.
There are very few who remainod for
any length Of time al the capital 30 81
tend 10 public business.
Resolution 5.h of the u. S. 3. Associ-
alton held al Grand Center. Osborne