Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1886-01-30
LETTER FROM

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wLicb BECAME , LAYS ,Lie week, when
tn. Preside - signature wn at
tachel tL-reiu.
Ii Pre.ldent Cleveland had been
removed" q III Gultrau, or other
wise, a week az, We would now be
Ils.Dg under a Republican aisuinis-
tratiou, With JOHN Sherman, clad III
his bloody shirt habit, in the execu-
tive char. Now, in the event OF a
vacancy the peerless Bayard would
be our ruIer-or servant, as you
please. by the provisions of the
new law lLe right OF succession TO
the highest office in the land has not
only been transferred from one po-
litical pa.!y to another, but it has
been shifted from the Legislative to
the executive branch of the govern
ment. A political revolution, l re-
peat, ln itself.
LEGISLATIVE LARE.
The most important measures
which will claim the attention of
Congress during the present session
are the tariff and silver questions
and the educational bill. No legis-
lation affecting the present laws on
The two former questions will be ef-
tected. A great deal Of ak will
doubtless be INDUCED in f; but it is
already apparent that the. altempt.of
the administration men 10 suspend
silver coinage Will prove aborlive.
Ii is no les certain, however desira-
BILE it may be, that a low-tarif bill
cannot go through the. Senate and
possibly may not pass in the House.
The educational bill. ] think, will
become j law during the present
Congress-. Both of our Senators,
the Representative of our district,
Gen. Cox, and, 80 far a. l AN in
formed, all the Nor,h CsrollnAEon.
gressmen favor the measure.
CAROLINA CoNGREssMEN.a
Gen. Cox will figure promiDently
i'll the present Congress. AS Chair
lnau OF the Committee on Reform
in the Civil Service he IS brought in
direct contact with the President,
and is thus placed i'll 4 position TO
do much effective work tor his State
and constituents. AS the second
member of the Committee on For.
eign Affairs, and as chairman OF it's
leading sub committee, be has been
put above some OF the ablest men in
Congress. Albthls merely goes to
show that his. past record III Con-
gress as a legislator has been of an
unusually excellent character and
receives meri,ed recognition.
+ Hon. James w. Reid, OF the 5th
district, who SO ably succeeds Gov.
Scales, promises TO become one OF
the most brilliant and effective Con
gressmen North Carolina has sent
to the National Legislature Tor many
years. He is now the second mem-
Der of the Committee on Printing
and a prominent member OF the i'm.
portant Committee on War Claims.
Col. Wharton Green and Judge
Bennett are both chairmen of com.
mitlees. The former of Acoustics
and Ventilation and the latter Of
Expenditures in the State Depart.
ment. Col. Green is also the sec
ond member OF the Committee OIL
} Agriculture and chairman of it,
principal subcommittee. He Wi!
undoubtedly be made the chairman
OF this committee in the next Con
} gress.
Messrs. Skinner, Henderson, John
. ston and Cowles have all been as
signed to important committed
: work, where, as we'll as on the hoo
c OF the House, they vii! display thei
recognized abilities.
PENCIL PARINGS.
Judge Thomas Rufin OF you
town, was in Washington recently
Mr.. T. B. Womack, of Pittsboro
is the clerk to General Cox's com
mittee.
Both Senators and all the Mort
Carolina Congressman are Opposes
to a suspension of the silver coinage
The sudden death Of Miss Ia,
Bayard, the elder daughter Fot ,h
Secretary Of State, vas a grea
Is shock to her family aud friend:
was buried at Wilmington, Del
Hast Tuesday.
The present is the busiest week c
Congress so far this session. I
good deal of legislative grist ougt
, to be turned out this year.
Fred. Douglass, the notorious III
. gro, who has been register of deed
here for some years, and who ma
2 ried q white woman from Ne
York q year or SO ago, has been r
Of quested to resign his position by II
A. President, TO take effect March l.