Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-03-13
RN STANDARD McNNNVILLE TENNEscEE-sATURDAY MARf3
Washington Letter.

the question pending between ii and
the President, and good entertain
ment is expected by the galleries. A
most decided change has come over
the spirit of Senator Edmunds' dream
since the Forty-First Congress. A
speech delivered then has just been
unearthed, which shows that he did
not always think as he does now
about the Presidents prerogatives.
In it he said: at is cause enough
for me, sir, Constitutional cause, when
the President of the United States,
acting upon conscientious sense of
his responsibility to the people,
chooses to send in one man'sname fer
a place that another holds"
And then | remember a sentence of
his eulogy in the Senate over Senator
Morton, delivered some years ago.
1t made even the studiously unim-
questionable Conkling smile and look
guileless. 1t was when he hit the
Administration foul by saying Sen
ator Morton was not one of those Re
publicans that believed the best in
terests of a cause would be promoted
by appointing 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 oppo-
nents 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 independ-
ent judgment in the House, where
the bill now goes, and it is believed
in Washington that it will pass that
body and become a law.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, held
that the condition of the South war
ranted the legislation of this bill as
temporary eXpediency to meet great
public eXigency. The aid offered
should not beregarded as daily bread,
but as medicine for grave national
disorder. Said he: "The South of
today is not the South of twenty-five
years ago. The exhaustion of Prus-
STA under Frederick or of France UNI
der Napoleon was not more thorough
than had been the ruin of the South.
All her local Observation-Disclosures
financial, education and religious, had
been shattered and pulverized, their
very foundations turned up and de-
stroyed-and her political rehabilita-
ton had been committed to her for.
mer negro slaves, not only elevated
to be freeman, bnt enfranchised and
intrusted with political control.
Mr.. Stanford, California's million
aire Senator, is among the earnest
endOrsers of the proposed Permanent
Exhibition in Washington in connec
ton with the celebration of the cen
tennial anniversary, in 1899, of the
adoption of the constitution. A per
manent exhibition of the products
and attractions of the three Ameri
cas- at the National Capitol strikes
many Congressman as an admirable
idea because of its benefits to the bus
mess interests of the country.
Delegate Josephs, of New Mexico
who is the only Spanish-American in
Congress, is enthusiastically in favor
of the enterprise. He says the i'm
mense trade of the South American
Republics which we ought to have
England controls for the reason tina
there is lack of business acquaintance
between the United States and thu
southern countries.