Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.


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Ed. AvALArcuE:-Th week In
Congress has been an interesting one |
though not marked by any important
legislation. Among its salient features |
were debates in the Senate on the adj
mission of Dakota TO Statehood. obitu- |
ary eloauence In both houses. and a
wrangle in the lower branch over the
DETACHMENT of monuments in the Nor
folk Navy Yard.
The Hendricks obituaries developed
another orator In the Senate 1t was
the new republican Senator from Wis
consin, Mr.. Spooner. He is not at all
prepossessing In appearance, being ui'-
dersized and Insignificant looking, with
angular features. disheveled linir, and
sallow complexion. But he Is fluent,
easy, and natural, and possesses In
marked degree all that goes so make
up the modern orator. lie made his
maiden effort in the Senate with the
hardest of all subjects, a eulOgy. He
skiIlfully threaded his way past the pits
of platitude and exaggeration of eco
MUM, and he spoke without embarass-
ment, dealing with his commonplace
theme in q common-sense way thai
charmed the entire Senate.
Half dozen other Senators paid
tributes to the late vice-President.
several, of whom eulogized him for his
partisanship as If it were virtue. 1t
is quite entertaining TO hear U. s. Sen
ators read funeral orations. On politi-
cal questions one knows pretty much
what each Senator will say, and on the
floor of the Senate one hears repeated,
though often in bad English and with
| faulty education, the same arguments
that one has read again and again in
the papers. But funeral Grafton is
out of the usual line. 1t is no easy
transition from finance, or Internal
improvements, or the Electoral
count question, to elegiac oratory.
Some Senators, powerful In debate, and
1
ready in repartee, appear fiat and COM
monplace in this unfamiliar role.
The Pan Electric sensation contin-
ues to grow. No publication has been
l4cssrs,-..,. :, ~As. ~, - -
mpch attention or which has created
such WIDE spread comment. AND u Is
difficult to understand how the Ie'e-
phone scandal can pass away without
n reconstruction OF the
Cabinet, because Mr.. Garland, the Al
torney General, and Mr. Lamar, me
Secretary of the Interior, are impiicat-
ed in it. 1t is one of the greatest
scandals by which any member OF any
Presidents Cabinet has ever been az
| fected.
Since the President refuses the Sen
ate's late request for documents Dear
inc upon the official character OF GER
tain removed republicans, 1t Is thought
that for some time, at least, no action
} will be taken upon his nominations III
cases where persons succeed suspended
officials. Republican Senator'S eoneeie
tb. right nf the Pre- sident TO remove
whomsoever lie pleuses, but they hoid
that Mr.. Cleveland in his letter 10
Dorman b. Eaton, and in his inaugu-
raj address gave up that right. lie
stated that the public Office was pub
lie trust, and that no one should be re-
moved except for cause. Republican
Senator's who have had personal
friends removed on insufficient grounds
could not be expected to vote for the
confirmation of their successors.
Congress is disposed t. help the red
man along in the path towards sell
, support by liberal legislation. Nearly
all of the comprehensive Indian biii'
of the present session aim to assign
y land in severalty, and to empow
err the Government to buy the surriu
. lands of the Indians at generou
). price and to invest the proceeds s.
Il that the various tribes will have
annual income from this source
q Senator Teller Of Colorado. remarF
n ed to the Senate few days ago, th'
is If the Secretary of the Interior Ina
90 been empowered to take Indian DO!
3 and girls and put them into manu'
70 labor schools whether their paren
A. were willing or not, those chiidre
II would have constituted hostages. m
- would have prevented furth
ns Indian wars. He thought fif
he Apache children placed in such sehoo
,r would save the nation millions of dc
ed lars.
At Senator Logan took this occasion
20 recall proposition of his own M"
ON TO the Senate ten years ago, saying
20. the Senate had agreed to IL, the
;st would have been no Indian wars
ia ter that time. His proposition "
civ that it be made penal offense for a
tor one to sell gun or powder or built
the to an Indian.
Patents Granted.
' Patents gronted to citizens of Mic
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