The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-05-21
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(t'rom our regular correspondent
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| been quiet one. both Houses of Congress
have made fair progress in business The
| Senate invariably takes holiday ON Satur-
day, but the House of Representatives as
invariably works six days in the week, and
frequently holds Saturday night session
that is protracted to so late an hour as to
trench close upon Sunday morning.
Appropriation bills are taking precc-
dence of everything else, as the session is
drawing towards its close. One after an
other the House is Gisposng of them.
| The Army has been provided for, also our
consuls and diplomats, and now the gen
eral Pension bill is under discussion. The
number of persons added to the pension
roll under it is about 0,000, and the
amount of money involved will be about
s25, 600. 600.
And then they lave been trying to make
new Cabinet office. Representative Me
Creary, of Kentucky, came to the hearty
support of the measure for enlarging the
powers and duties of the department of
Agriculture He afgaed that the United
States, the great agricultural empire of
the world, should elevate the department
of Agriculture to the dignity of the other
executive departments of the Government
1t was time there was Secretary of Agri-
culture to look after the great questions
that might arise for the benefit of the farm
ers of the country Mr. Breckenridge,
Of Kentucky opposed the bill Coming
from an agricultural state, he would do
anything he could to aid the agricultural
interest, but the more he examined the
bill, the more it appeared to him that it
would do no good He protested against
any legislation that would place the farm
ers in class by themselves. When the
Secretary of Agriculture came to SIT at the
Cabinet table he would cease to be an ag-
riculturalist and would become poll
tcan. The Secretary of War was not Il
soldier, the Secretary of the Navy was not
Il sailor, the Secretary of the Interior was
not an inventor or Il penSioner nor a home
steader These gentlemen were politicians.
They represented states, they represented
influence, and when the Secretary of Agri-
culture sat at the Cabinet table he would
be Il gentleman who represented Il certain
section, and who had certain political in
f1uence and weight 1t was the heavy bur-
den of taxation which kept the agricul-
turai industry from moving ON. This was
the clog which kept it from advancing.
Agriculture did not need to be crowned
with Cabinet office Take off this burden.
remove this clog, and agriculture would be
crowned by her own eXertions, without
asking fayors from Presidents or Cabinet
officers. All agriculture wanted was a
free unrestricted. unburdcned chance in
the great battle OF life. Mr. Brccken-
ridges remarks were received with APP
plause, and then Representative Weaver
of Iowa, arose to favor the bill, holding
that it would give labor status it had not
vet enjoyed. Labor, he said, was organ
izing for great civic contest with monop-
oily, and It had a right to be heard in
every council that might pass upon itscou-
dition, and upon the need of power and re
spect that must be given to it.
During the week while large delega-
ton of New York editors were visiting
Washington, they called upon the Prcsi-
dent iii body, as is the custom of almost
every party and every body that comes to
the city Including the ladies there were
about two hundred in the delegation, some
of whom were the Presidents old neigh
borS and knew him we'll One OF them
tried to venture upon the matrimonial
event in which Mr. Cleveland is supposed
to be interested. The only answer elected
from the big, reserved bachelor, was that
! he regretted the President Of the United
States did not have the same rights ana
privileges as an ordinary citizen.
! Mrs. Stanford, the wife of the million
aire Senator from California, has just com
pletcd arrangements for the erection of an
aged womcn's home. which is to be located
| in Albany near her Old residence The
| structure is to cost about $50, 600 Il will
be generously endowed by Mrs. stanford
and is to be placed undcr the care of a re-
| ligous body Senator Stanford probably
receives more requests for pecHniary ass iSt-
ance than any man in Washington In
| deed, he has been SO much prosecuted by
| people calling on him in order to recitc to
and misfortune, that he has been compelled
to take some measures to guard his privacy
| There is now Il standing order at the stan