Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-02-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL 'oRREsPoND ENcT OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, January goth.

At the capitol on Saturday, the
London explosion formed the chief
topic of comment. When the news
first reached the house of representa-
tives, members were disposed to
doubt its authenticity. When it was
confirmed they eagerly sought infor-
nation, and agreed that the matter
should have such attention and action
as it's seriousness deserved. The
Irish journalistic representative from
Chicago, Mr.. Finnerty, said, when
the announcement was made to him
'sOf course it will be laid to the Irish,
but there may be Nihilists in London
as we'll as in Russia" A timid
member said sswhat if an attempt be
made to blow up the house of repre-
senlatives, where should we be!'
Senators received the news while in
secret session and were also incredu-
lous at first. Senator Edmunds i'm
mediately introduced bill to prevent
and punish dynamite conspirators in
the United States. The effect of this
will be to turn aside the bitterness of
feeling against American, engendered
by the explosion.
During the week both houses of
congress gave some time to memorial
eulogies upon deceased associates,
and both discussed the Indian ques-
ton. sprung by the Oklohoma lands
invasion. The senate wasted time
again on the interstate commerce
bill, without being interesting even
to itself, and continued its talk about
the Nicaraguan treaty within barred
doors. The house passed some APP
preparation and fifty private pension
bills.
Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, made
a notable speech against the educa-
tional bill. He argued that bill
appropriatlng money was a bill for
raising revenue. That as the meas
ure originated in the senate, that
branch of congress which has no
authority to originate money bills, q
privilege of the house had been viola
ted. Therefore the bill was. uncon-
stitutional. A less courageous ,egis-
lator would not have identified the
abstract principle of the rights of the
house with the fortunes of a pending
bill in which so many members are
deeply interested. Instead of disas-
sociating the principle of senate ag-
gression from any particular meas
ure, he selected very important bill
recently passed by the senate and
now before the house as the text fol
his attack. Mr.. Willis thought q
less worthy bill might have been
) chosen than the one he has been adj
vocating so long. Mr.. Hurd asserted
that when the senate passes a bill
) which takes one hundred million dol
lars out of the treasury, it is time te
: enforce the principle that the power
of originating money bills belong L
: the house of representatives. 1t i:
: the habit of our constitutional con
2 gress to construe that elastic instru
ment, the constitutional congress Il
| square with their desires on any par
+ ticular bill that may be under consid
e Grafton, and Mr.. Hurd's policy Great
ed no little surprise. The bill barely
: escaped reference to the judiciar,
t committee, in other words, defeat
=. The house does not favor senate ag
e erosion, but it does favor the Blai
e educational bill
: During the week, the leading advo
: Gates of female suffrage came to til
e capitol, as usual, to talk about thei
y wrongs. This was their sixteent
S animal convention in Washington
They rehearsed the old story of op
II preston, and dwelt with indignation
e on the usurpation of sscruel, domi
n neering man." They are undaunte
# by Encouragement, and will come t
e try again next year, and the year al
|. ter that and then again the neX1
l. One of the orators was disguise
If with the wives of certain senators
who did not know how their husband
y were going to vote on SO vital ques
t. ton as the equal rights bill, which
IS approaching the top of the Genat
4 calendar. The meeting of the ASST
a. citation were we'll attended, and Mr.
~ Stanton and Mrs. Snsan Anthem
rs are always entertaining whatevs
ic may be said of other members {
the sisterhood.
q The celebrated journalist, Geors
81 Augustus Sala, who lectured he
d during the week, and was tendert
q all the social honors he could accep
y expressed himself as delighted wi
III tue glimpses he had of the social Ii
% of the capitol. He attended a rece
ne ton at Secretary Frelipghuysen'
ae called at the White House, went
VI an afternoon concert at the Britt
oh ministers, and attended two brea
dii fasts given in his honor. Noting t
improved appearance of Washigt
as since he was here five years ago,
ne said it would be the most beautif
k city in the world, because the
h. would be no manufactures, no bu
ness to disfgure and soil it.
no The man that succeeds nowadays is the live N
who is up to the times; and no better evidence
an of this needed than the fact that every goah
RI housekeeper is never without DR.. Bulls Coz
Syrup.