Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-03-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Written and compiled fer the HERALD.

the lCcalclUaui, love CIdAcu pou"-
tor from Florida, is that he can
manage his own affairs. The Dem
ocratic Senators have been con-
sidelably annoyed by the conduct
of their infatuated brother and by
their Intellectual attempts to bring
him back to his senses and to
Washington. They need the as
sistance of MIR. Jones vote in these
troubl0us times OF resolutions and
counter resolutions in the Senate,
messages, War.liko reports and
demonstrations. They have used
every ordinary effort to induce him
TO return to his Senatorial duties,
but he is incorrigibls and refuses
to give up the hopeless pursuit OF
( the Detroit heireSs. As dernlere
resort, his friends have been con-
cocting a plan for getting Miss
Palms to come to Washington in
order to lure the sanguine Senator
back to his post.
The political discussion which
was to have begun in the Senate
this week over the Presidents re-
fusal of information bearing on
Official changes, has been delayed
/ by the Presidents untimely and
unprecedented message. The Sen
ate was not prepared to discuss
this arbitrary document in an oil
| hand way. The message will be
considered first by the Judiciary
/ Committee, but it is not now
thought that any formal answer
will be made 10 1t. 1t will prob.
ably only be answered on the floor
of the Senate in the general dis
cussion upon the subject treated
| by the President.
The majority in the Senate re-
gard the message as entirely I'M
called for and as an almost foolish
Misrepresentation of their position.
/ Senator Frye predicts that the
Presidents action is one that he
will regret hereafter. Why, said
/ he. we have not asked Mr.. Cleye-
land for his reasons in making re-
movals. We have not asked him
foranything. We asked the heads
Of our Departments for certain
papers, our departments which
come to Congress for money for
their maintenance, and which can
not get a sheet of paper without
tue consent of Congress.
Another Republican Senator said
while discussing Mr.. Cleveland's
extraordinary message that the
true policy for the Senate to adopt
was TO reject as ruthleSsly as the
President has suspended. ale
suspends our friends without Civ
ing cause, and We have the right
to reject his friends in the same
arbitrary manner. He denies that
| the Senate is a coordinate power
with the Executive in the matter
Of Presidential appointments, and
restricts us to the exercise of legis-
/ latiye duties alone. This is usur-
patton Of such a glazing character,
such pain violation of the Con
stitution, that be ought to be i'm
peached for it,"
As Congressional proceedings,
the House Of Representatives has
given the week mostly to the sub
iect Of pensions, while the Senate
continues to disagree over the
I Educational bill. Senator Ingalls,
had heard no Democratic Senator
give any reason for this bill except
as being necessary to enable them
to take care of the cOlOred litter
ates IN the Southern States. Yet
when it was proposed to insert a
provision directing the money TO
be used for just thatpurposc, Dem
Ocratic Senators took it as an "af-
front" and "insult' and said it
evinced settled dstrust Of the
States. IT was disavowed that the
Southern States were "mendi-
cants,' or wanted "almS." They
were willing to take the money
only as a "gilt," but they wanted
/ it absolutely without conditions.
The eslimable and accomplished
wife Of Senator Hawley of Conn,
has Just died in this city. The
( heroic conduct Of this lady in the
late war illustrates some OF her
prominent characteristics. For a
wear and half after the firing on
Fort Sumter, she was in the South
! instructing the colored people and
working in the hospitals. When
General IIawley's command re-
moved to Virginia, she came to
Washington and took charge of a
ward in a hospital here. Later,
she rejOincd her husband at VIII
mington, y. C., and was there
when he received 10000 Union
prisoners Of whom 5000 required
hospital treatment. Afterwards
she accompanied the General to
Richmond where lie acted as chief
Of staff Of General Terry, for
several months. During this time
she made an active search for the
grave Of a cousin, a young cavalry
officer, who was killed at Five
Forks. Prom the upsetting of an
ambulance she suffered an accident
which necessitated her using
crutchcs the remainder Of her life,
The much talked of permanent