New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, May Z, 1886

Inc events O1 tuo "C0h az VIZ O"PA-
tai City have been sufficiently varied in
character to give people OF every taste
and tendency something to see or hear
or think about. OF meetings there has
been no end. There were mass meet
ings to express sympathy with Glad
stones Home rule bill. memorial serv-
ices to celebrate General Grants
birthday, meeting in behalf of Indian
education, in which Red and White
orators divided the time. There were
meetings of the American Historical
Association, meetings Of the American
Surgical Association, and lastly the
great charitable or calico meeting for
which society had been cutting and fit
ting all through Lent. Easter week re.
stored the social world to gayety. Re
leased from the restrictions Of the forty
days and forty nights of the penitential
season, it first met again at the Chinese
Legation and danced for .charity's sake
in calico frocks, waiscoats, and neck
ties. There is little inclination. how
ever, to return to large entertainments
and, late hours. Until the time for
fight to the mountains and seaside, the
afternoon and early evening receptions
will attract fashionable folks, and the
matinee will be the favorite form of fri
volity.
And then our lawmakers on Capitol
Hill have been versatile, irrelevant,
moral and extravagant. The River and
Harbor bill has been before the House
and members have been voting away
| the peoples money as recklessly as if
the Treasury surplus were inexhausti.
BILE. There are some Representatives
who will never vote money for great
harbors and streams unless they can
vote money to be spent in their own
districts upon little streams or inlets
for the benefit of two or three of their
constituents.
Civil Service Reform has been attack
ed by Kentucky Congressman, Mr..
Taulbee, who said the law was con-
ceived in sin and brought forth in mi
guilty. He contended, that its founder,
Senator Pendleton, had been made a
cats paw, and that commissioner Eaton
had made money out of the system.
The senior senator from North Caro-
lima, Mr.. Vance,. disaffected Demo
crat, called upon the Senate to pass
over the Presidents veto the bill that
refuses to promote anatomical science
through the robbery of graves. Mr.
Vance was badly defeated, and was
surprised and almost overwhelmed at
the eloquence which was called forth
by his proposition.
The Senators also discussed steam.
ship subsidies. From this they drifted
into tariff debate on the relative con.
dition of labor in this country and
Europe, and they listened to prohibit
ton speech from Senator Blair. al
though there was no temperance bill
before that body. Since the Senator
from New Hampshire is always agitat-
ing some moral question he is called
one of the purists of the Senate. But
his speech was none the less good for
its being irrelevant. He said in con-
clusion that he had spoken partly as a
Republican. He believed in doing this
that he spoke more as an American
and more as a man. With all its
faults-with all it's failures to reach its
ideal, he thought the Republican party
was the great agency, which, under
God, had saved the Republic. That
party would yet, from the law of its
superior being and unfinished mission,
concentrate its tremendous energies
upon this gigantic national evil until i
was destroyed.
The energetic citizens Of Wash
ington, who are asking Congressiona
aid for the establishment of a CRANE
International Exposition in this city il
1889, hold weekly meetings to discus
the subject. They are enthusiastic Owe
the prospects of success, which ar
presented on every side, though the.
say they can do little more than in
augurate the enterprise by 1889. leav
ing the grand commemorationfo for 1892
the 400th anniversary of the discover,
of America by Columbus.
They have printed a diagram whicl
is interesting as proving the statemen
!. made in their address to Congress, tn
public and the press, that within
radius Of 200 miles there are 10000, 90
people who could, if ample transport:
ton facilities were provided, reac