The Press., 1886-07-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Nothing can be plainer than the lack of cordiality, might almost say lack of re- spect, which exists between the members of the houses. Ten years ago nothing was more common than to see twenty or, twenty-five senators on the floor of the house engaged either in business or social conversation with members of that body. ] And similar visits of members of the house to the other end of the capitol were just as frequent. Ever since then such inter- course has been growing less and less each year, and now member of the senate on the floor of the house, or 8 member of the house on the floor of the senate, is a rarity The most frequent visitors to the house from the other end of the capitol are the Texas and Kentucky senators, but even they are seldom seen there.
 I asked democratic congressman the cause of these strained relations. '"There are many" said he, (and laughingly) "one probably ought not to be told. But you recollect that the senate used to make rather free of its contingent fund. It had coolers of lemonade and tubs of apollinaris water always on hand during warm wealth CT. Well, we on this side were more eco- nomical. We did not have coolers of lem onade or tubs of iced apollinaris, and we acquired a habit of dropping over to the senate and partaking of what was there. | We were rather regular in that habit. Finally the senate shut down on us and that made some of us mad. But of course < that was a little thing. Another little but yet larger cause of coolness between the members of the two bodies was the refusal of the senate to admit ex-members of the house to it's floor We followed by refus- ing to admit ex-senators to the privileges of our floor. As I said, those are small things in themselves, but they showed a growing exclusiveness on the part of the senate, which was very irritating to the house, which is certainly a very demo- cratic body.
 But he held that the main cause of the breach between the two houses rested in the fact that while the house is directly chosen by the people, but by the states. ''The senators, he said, "have become the representatives of the interests not of the people and" " added he, "they have become the representatives of corporations tOo."
 1 There Is deep mutiny ill congress over the presidents wholesale bombardment of pension bills. A lively time is expected today, when an effort will be made to override his vetoes. While the presi- dents course was being criticised in the house a few days since, Representative Conger of Iowa, resented the language used by the president in his veto messages as throwing slurs upon the motives of congress, and as insulting to the union soldier MT. Bayne of Pennsylvania took the same view, and suggested that the democrats who stood by the vetoes would have their manhood very severely taxed
 MT. Cannon, of Illinois, read in the ve- toes the story that, while Cleveland was president. there would be no further pen sion legislation. There were great ques- tions in this country calling for the atten- tion of the executive, yet the president brushed them all aside and appeared anx- ious to cater to nobody except that little solid knot that came from the solid south. He wanted to get their applause they cast solid votes ill nominating conventions. There he stood looking through gimlet hole with @ magnifying glass hunting for excuses ..and heaping derision upon the heads of the poor men who lost their health in the service of the country. That was statesmanship "Oh, yes," .contin- ued MT. Cannon, ''and I tell you that you will have to defend it before November. The gentlemen who are clapping their hands can defend it. They have the kind l of constituents who believe in it. These men who are entitled to their pensions, with their friends and with public opinion and sense of justice in this country, will send congress here which will pass these I bills and other proper pension legislation over the presidents veto."
 | The president has sent in twenty-one more vetoes this week, making in all one hundred. There will be number of dip lomatic appointments as soon as congress adjourns. About seventy-fve consulates are yet to be filled, while there are thirty or more that will not be changed. Several hundred of the faithful are looking with longing eyes at the golden apple of the Parisian consulate. General Walker is the incumbent, and since he has large law practice in Paris, may locate there.
 The consul generals at Florence and mer is held by MT. Lowber Welsh, of Philadelphia, son of the late James Welsh, who was minister to England under Hayes. His family supported Cleveland in the last campaign, and this saves him. The post at Munich is held by younger brother of the Harpers, of New York and he will not be disturbed with the great weekly at his back. The Parisian mission is still an aching void. Among the many applicants is Col. Challai Long of Mary land, who served on Gen. Gordon's staff in the Soudan. . .
 A conference of active members of the republican party from all parts of Massa- chusetts was held on Monday in Boston to discuss the attitude of the party with ref erence to the temperance question, and to consider the propriety of sending delegates to the national conference of anti-saloon republicans called to meet in Chicago. There were about 200 gentlemen in attend ance. Colonel Haskell called the meeting to order, stating that the conference was purely and simply an informal one. Hon. R. R. Bishop presided, and made an ad- dress outlining the purpose of the meet ing, denouncing liquor saloons, and pre- dieting that "when the question is wheth- CT the state shall be subjected to rum sa- looms or rum saloons subject to the state,