New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, March 26, 1888

Washington, March 26, 1886.
The third week of the contest be-
tween the President and the Senate in
regard to papers began Monday with
Senator Colquitt, the Baptist parson
from Georgia, in possession of the floor.
He sustained the President in a long
speech, and then Senator ingalls,, who
had prepared for one of his ablest
efforts, probably closed the argu-
ment on the Republican side.
In. one of the most notable speeches
of the past week, the new Senator from
Wisconsin, Mr.. Spooner, made appar-
ent some of the Presidents recent mes
sage, ''inocuous desuetude," he said
the term always provoked smile,
though there was nothing to smile at.
This was Government of law, and he
was sorry the Chief Executive should
have used such words of any law that
stood on the statute books. It was a
dangerous time when the President of
the United States, with an oath regist.
| cred in Heaven to stake care that the
laws should be faithfully executed"
should send a message TO the Senate
saying that statute had fallen into
harmless disuse. If ever there was a
time when respect for law was needed
it was now, when thoughtful men in
many States were turning blanched
faces to the future. How could the
people be expected to yield cheerful
obedience to the statutes when the first
citizen of the Republic, himself charg-
ed with their execution, asserted that a
statute could harmlessly fall into dis
useP But MIR. Spooner said that the
President did not believe his own state
ment-his acts had been better than his
words, for he had sent in q large num-
Der of nominations of men to take the
places of officers suspended by him,
under the authority Of the very act to
which references had been made.
Senator Spooner is not only the most
youthful looking and youngest man in
the Senate, but also the shortest in stat
ue. He is Familiarity called "coat tall
Spooner among his constituencies, the
soubriquet having arisen from remark
made on the opening day of the session
that Mr.. Spooner's coat tail came near
er to the floor than that of any other
Senator in the chamber.
It's now believed that the amorous
prociivities Of Senator Jones, of Florida,
have hopelessly ruined his political fu-
ture. His friends think that had he paid
any sort of attention to his Senatorial
duties this winter he would have had
no trouble in securing a reelection to
the Senate for the term beginning next
year. But on account of his unneces-
sary and persistent absence from his
post, it is thought that there is no hope
for him, and Florida is talking about
sending some one here to fill his empty
seat during the remainder of this ses-
sion
The Senator now ignores every effort
to induce him to give up the hopeless
prosecution of his Detroit suit and re-.
turn to Washington. He no longer
responds to any messages sent him on
the subjects and some of his best friends
say that there is no doubt about his
partial insanity and responsibility for
his actions.
Senator Jones is a heavy, course
Irishman, who, as q Naval officer re-
marked, through the confusion of poll
tics in Florida became United States
Senator. He has inordinate vanity, es-
pecially in regard to his destinations
for ladies. which exist, however, only
in his own imagination. His present
course in Detroit is not surprising to
the people in Washington, who know
him and have seen him in pursuit of q
rich wife several times before. His
course towards rich Massachusetts
widow, and next towards a wealthy
Baltimore lady were scarcely less pub
lie and absurd than his pursuit of the
Detroit heiress.
!. An interesting hearing has been Civ
en- this week by the House Committee
on Territories to the Woman's Suffrage
! Association. It was on their petition
for law giving women equal suffrage
in the Territories. Reverend Annie
Shaw made an address showing the i'm.
policy OF excluding one-half Of the citi-
zens. Mr.. Blackwell, Of Massachusetts,
! showed by seventeen years experience
in Wyoming, certified by five success.
sive governors, leading officials OF both
parties, and all the, newspapers tina
woman suffrage was successful and