St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-04-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

mast few days, while the Senate has
been taking a rest voted for by the ma
iority, so that the Republican Senators
could fight in caucus over the Eamnnds'
resolutions. When they passed these
resolutions last week, the supposed
they had gotten through with Il discus
sion which had been neither as interest
ing nor as profitable as had been antict-
pated.
Some Of the Republican Senators did
not consider it binding upon them to
follow the line of party action Indicated
in the resolutions, and held thai they
were free to vote upon the Presidents
nominations according to the merits OF
each case But Mr.. Edmunds angrily
demanded what was the use OF passing
his resolutions if they were to get no
good out of them.
Caucus after caucus was held, but no
agreement was reached, and it is as
serted that the debate was sometimes
more acrimonious than the Senators
care to acknowledge. 4Hoar, Logan,
and Morrill, are among the refractory
Senators, and oddly enough, the latter.
who is Mr. Edmunds' most stubborn
eombatapt, represents the same State
rs he.es ar. Morrill, contended that an
attempt to reject the Democratic nomi-
nees would do the Republicans 10 good.
1t would be regarded by the people as
partisan obstruction, and would be pre-
sented as such. Mr.. Edmund's aud his
adherents tsied to secure the adoption
of dozen differently worded PROPOSE
tons, each practically committing the
caucus to carrying out the letter of the
Edhunds resolutions, but each was
beaten as soon as it was offered.
The esult will be that the Edmunds
resolutions will be virtually repudiated.
There is, and has been, no cohesion
among the Republican Senators.
There is no sir cerity in any course
they agree upon. One half of them
are jealous of the other half, and poll
cies are voted for which no one intends
shall be carried out. There are too
many Presidential aspirants among
them for any harmony of purpose.
They lave neither helped the party nor
individual members so far.
The continued illness of Secretary
Manning and the recent illness of other
Members Of the Cabinet and of Col.
Lamout, the Presidents efficient pri-
yate Secretary, have greatly increased
the labor Of Mr.. Cleveland during the
past week. Sickness in the Cabinet
has called attention to the very arauous
nature of the duties which Cabinet
officers are called upon to perform.
And it would be difficult to find condi-
tons that offer more liberal induce
ments to illness than may be found in
the present Cabinet. The labor exact
ed of it's members is unrelenting, seen-
slant, and severe.
There are few persons who know how
very much Secretary Manning was
overworked. He found it impossible to
conduct the affairs. Of the Treasury Be-
partment by giving the business only
a general supervision. Immense labor
was required of the Secretary persea-
ally.
The continuous strain of weighty
responsibilities, added to the everlast-
ing worry of petty detail, makes a
havoc with the nerve forces that only
regular seasons of repose can repair.
And recuperation is not to be thought
of in Washington official life. Society
makes larger demands upon public men
every year. To entertain and to be en-
tertained is to perform the duties at
tached to the position. To close the
doors of house that custom has rented
to.society for the season, as it were, is
toAoe inhospitable and eccentric. 1t is
true Mr.. Manning went very little into
society, and left social duties usually to
but for all that he has had no
rest.
It.is to be hoped that the seRate's |
vote to employ halt million dollars in
lie erection of another monument here
20 Lincoln viii receive an emphatic
protest irr the Lower House. There is
lot even the poor argument for the
,enate bns that Lincoln has no memo
ial, as is the case for instance with
.afayette. There is statue of him in
ront of the City Hall reared by the
olored race, another called the Eman-
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