Middletown transcript., 1886-03-12
our Washington Letter.


WASHINGTON, March. s, 1996.-The
Senate meets to-day to discuss the ques-
sion pending between 1t and the Presi-
dent, and good entertainment is ex-
pected by the galleries. A most decid-
ed change has come over the spirit OF |
Senator Edmund's dream since the
Forty-frst Congress. A speech deffV-
cred then has just been unearthed,
which shows that he did not always
think as he does now about the Presi-
dents prerogatives. In the said ut
is cause enough for me, sir. constitu-
tional cause, when the President of the
United States, acting upon conscien-
tious sense of his responsibility to the
people. chooses to send in one mans
name for place that another holds"
And then I remember sentence OF
his eulogy in the Senate over Senator
Morton, delivered some years ago.
It made even the studiously unim-
questionable Conkling smile and look
guileless. 1t was when he hit the
Administration foul by saying Senator
Morton was not one of those Republi-
cans that believed the best interests Of
a cause would be p romoted by appoint
ing its opponents to office.
To the surprise of many Senators,
the Educational bill was endorsed by
the votes Of three fourths Of their body.
In the debate which had been going on
for three weeks the opponents Of the
measure had decidedly the best of the
argument, but many Senators were
committed upon it by their votes in
the last Congress. There will be no
such obstacle to independent judgment
in the House, where the bill now goes,
and it is believed in Washington that
it will pass that body and become
law.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, held
that the condition of the South war
ranted the legislation of this bill as
temporary expediency to meet a great
public exigency. The aid offered
should not be regarded as daily bread,
but as medicine for grave national
disorder. Said he 1.-THE South of to-
day is not the South Of twenty-five
years ago. The exhaustion of Prussia
under Frederick or Of France under
Napoleon was not more thorough than
had been the ruin of the South. All
her local Observation-Disclosures,
financial, educational and religious,
had been shattered and pulverized,
their very foundations turned up and
destroyed land her political rehabili-
tation had been committed to her for
mer negro slaves, not only elevated to
be freemen, but enfranchised and in
trusted with political control.
Mr.. Stanford, California's million
aire Senator, is among the earnest
indorsers Of the proposed Permanent
Exhibition in Washington in connec-
tion with the celebration of the Gen.
tennial anniversary, in 1889, Of the
adoption of the constitution. A per-
manent exhibition of the products and
attractions of the three Americas at
the National Capital strikes many
Congressman as an admirable idea
because of its benefits to the business
interests of the country.
Delegate Josephs, of New Mexico, who
is the only Spanish American in Con-
gress is enthusiastically in favor of the
enterprise. He says the immense trade
of the South American Republics which
we ought to have, England controls
for the reason that there is lack Of bus
iness acqu aintance between the Uni
ted States and the Southern countries.
The recent adhesiveness of the dis
tinguished DR.. Newman to the rich
California Senator has caused the lat
ter some discomfort of late. Mr.. STAN
ford has shown some interest in the
Metropolitan church of this city, to
which DR.. Newman has been called, by
attending it occasionally. The Balti-
more Conference, which is sitting here
now, is ready to make appointments,
and Rev. Newman is anxious to se-
cure this pastorate. Among reports
about this matter is one to the effect
that Senator Stanford was exerting
himself to secure the position for DR..
Newman and it is certain that the
people of the Metropolitan church have
been led to believe that II DR.. New
man gets the appointment the church
will receive substantial aid from Sem
ator Stanford.
It would seem that the CrGsus Of
the Pacific Coast does not relish this
kind of popularity and gossip, for he
has recently taken a pew at st. Johns
Protestant Episcopal church and in
tends to occupy it. Senator Stanford
is by far the wealthiest man in Con-
gress
He is not considered an intellectual
force, but be probably gives the most
recherche dinners Of any millionaire in
Washington. He recently dined Sena-
tor Evarts, with twelve members of
the Pacific Coast delegation in Con-
gress. The guests sat down to a din
ner whose wines and fruits were all
from California. The tea and coffee
service were of solid gold from Cali
fornia mines on a massive gold tray.
The forks and spoons were of hammer
ed silver, wrought in rich designs, and
the china was hand painted Dresden,
Vienna, and Paris ware.
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