The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-07-01
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June q, Il

WASHINGTON. d. c., June %, 1886.
To the Editor Of the Herald:
This congress has passed a larger number
OF private pension bills so Tar than any con-
gress before, but the President is putting his
foot down firmly upon the policy Of voting
the peoples money away overwhelmingly
The House, too, is endeavoring 10 put
check Oh pension legislation. With that OBJ
ject ostensibly IN view Representative Nor
rson report cd from the com mittee a resolu-
ton amending the rules, so that in the pas.
sage ofgeneral pension bill may state from
what source the money shall be laIsed to
pay the pensions. 1t is said that Mr.. Morri-
son advocates a direct tax-such as in in
come tax for the payment Of pensions. In
that way, the people will lie made to feel the
onerous tax, and then demand Of congress a
more judicious dispensing OF pensions. Mr..
Morrison has also an Interior object in view
He knows that SO long as such immense
sums are appropriated Tor PENSIONS there
can be no reduction OF the tariff. Two days
were lost trying to get vote on the resolu-
ton. The Questi On came up on day at II
o'clock and the Republicans began at once
TO flllbuster. The point was raised that q
qu.,ru n of members was not present aud
| voting. ''call Of the House" was ordered
and 1t was foHnd that such was the fact.
The doors were then closed and locked so as
to keep in what members were there, and
the Sergeant. A ms and his assistants sent
out in search of absentees, with orders to ar
rest them wherever found and bring them
before the bar Of the House. The required
number was not found, ana SO the locked In
members were Ike pit in "durance vile' till
O'Clock, the fixed hour for adjournment
The same thing was repeated on the next
day and the s'eall" lasted from IL to again,
SO that for two days the faithful" were lock-
ed inside the House chamber. The days
were HOMOGENEOUS because no other business
could be transacted. The members "whiIed
away the hours in smoking in reading the
newspapers and in sending out the pages for
some lunch and little ''stropg tea" to wa h
IL down with. Others availed themselves of
the enforced opportunity to get up back COR
respondencc and to write friendly letters to
useful influential constituents at home.
Signs of relief and rounds Of applause were
heard when, at the opening On the third d ay,
It was stated that the consideration of the
civil appropriation bill set specia lly for that
day would be taken up. The Morrison reso-
luton will come up again at an early day
when both the Randall and Morrison men
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| be passed.
TIE Departments are all busy in receiving
| bids and awarding contracts for furnishing
necessaries to the Government during the
coming year Judging from the number OF
bids and the prices charged, the contractor
still have faith in the Governments ability
to meet its obligations. All the talk about
| depleted Treasury has no effect in soaring off
bidders. The money OF one party appears to
be just as good as that oil another and just as
much of 1t seems TO be spent. The money
appropriated for the past year must be spent
| or else turned back into the Treasury, and
rather than do the latter all the brussels ear
pets are being taken up and thousands OF
yards of mating laid I'm Its place. Uncle
Sam is COED hoAsekeeper, and believes in
having new mating every summer and new
body brussels and velvet cal pets in the fall.
The President. with his old law partner,
Mr.. Bissel, OF Buffalo, Col. Lamont and POST
master General Villas, took a three days trip
down Chesapeake Bay last week on the
Government Steam Yacht Corsair. brought
over from New York for the purpose. Mrs,
Cleveland staid at home.