The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-01-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, JAN. s, 1856.

WASHINGTON, JAN. s, 1856.
When Congress reassembled this
week after a fortnight of holiday max,
ing, the scene in both Houses was in
teresting. The Senators plunged in
to work with a spirit that betokened
they were refreshed by their rela1a,
ton and the Representatives were on
hand, eager to learn where fate and
Speaker Carlisle had cast them with
regard to the standing Committees.
The speaker looked weary and care
worn, having been up nearly the whole
night before working upon his CON-
mittee list and trying to make fifty
good places go around among three
hundred ambitious polititians- OF
course there was some disappointment,
as there always is, and some il-feeling
over the list when it was announced.
Still the less favored members are
disposed to acknowledge that Speaker
Carlisle desires to be just and fair t.
all Owing to the great diversity of
opinion on important questions, even
in his own party, the Speakers posi-
ton is a peculiarly difficult one.
The work of the session will row
begin in earnest. An immense
amount of new business will be pre-
sented for consideration, though the
country is more interested just now
in the quality than the quantity Of
measures passed Thus far seventeen
hundred house bills have been intro
duced, and several States are yet to
be heard from.
It is hoped the reorganization Of
the House committees, the changes
and promotions made among them,
will have salutary effect upon legis-
lation. The revisions Of the rules,
which attracted the attention of the
country, viii certainly have the effect
of expediting such measures as are
of urgent Importance. 1t will enable
committees to select their important
bills and consider them, if a majority
so wishes. There will be no wrang
ling over @points of order as to leg
islation on appropriation bills, and
there will be far less friction than be-
fore as to precedence ofbusiness.
Considerable interest has attached
to Senatorial proceedings during the
last few days. Senator Beck dis
claimed any attack upon the Admins
tration in his holiday speech, and
if: Senator Morrill, had not
miseenstrued his recent utterances
on the silver question. The Senator
from Vermont said he had misunder-
stood Mr. Beck's anusion's to the Pres
ident and his financial adviser, the
Of the Treasury, and took
pleasure in saying so. Both Senators
seemed to feel better after this explain
alton and Immediately was sprung
the question of Woman Suffrage in
Utah.
That clause of the Utah bill prohib-
;ting women from exercising the right
Of suffrage in the Territory came up.
Senators Hoar of Mass. and Blair Of
Ne@ Hampshire, two prominent
champions of woman's rights, combin-
ed in an attack upon this section of
the bill, and stirred Senator Edmunds
TO some OF his old-time spirit. Sena-
tor E6munds declared that the major
ity of the women of the United States
do not sigh for the right to vote. At
present he thinks society is better off
without such union of the home and
the field OF politics.
"Whenever our wives, sisters and
sweethearts," said he, "helieve that
they can serve society and themselves
better by going into politics than by
confnine themselves TO the snhere in