New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, May Z, 1885.

| The events OF the week at Lne Capl-
| 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
| ines to express sympathy with Glad.
stones Home rule bill. memorial serv.
ices to celebrate General Grants
birthday, a meeting in behalf of Indian
education, in which BED 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
flight 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 il
the Treasury surplus were inexhausti
BILE. There are some Representatives
who will never vote money for great
harbors and streams unless they car
vote money to be spent in their owr
districts upon little streams or inlet$
for the benefit of two or three Of thei1
constituents.
Civil Service Reform has been attack
ed bv Kentucky Congressman, Mr.
Taulbee, who said the law was con
ceived in sin and brought forth in mi
ouitv. He contended, that its founder
Senator Pendleton, had been made
cats paw, and that commissioner Eatol
had made money out of the system.
The senior senator from North Caro-
lima. Mr.. Vance. a disafected Demo
crat, called upon the Senate to pas
over the Presidents veto the bill tina
refuses to promote anatomical science
through the robbery Of graves. MIR
Vance was badly defeated, and wa
surprised and almost overwhelmed u
the eloquence which was called fort
by his proposition.
The Senators also discussed steam
ship subsidies. From this they drifte'
into tariff debate on the relative con
dition of labor in this country an
Europe, and they listened to prohibi
ton speech from Senator Blair, al
though there was no temperance bill
before that body. Since the Senate
from New Hampshire is always agitat
ing some moral question he is calle
one of the purists of the Senate. Blu
j. his speech was none the less good TO
: its being irrelevant. He said in con
}. clusion that he had spoken partly as
Republican. He believed in doing thi
that he spoke more as an America
and more rs a man. With all 1t
faults-with all it's failures to reach it
ideal, he thought the Republican part
was the great agency, which, unde
God, had saved the Republic. Ths
party would yet, from the law OF il
Il, superior being and unfinished mission
. concentrate its tremendous energie
d upon this gigantic national evil until
II was destroyed.
I. The energetic citizens Of Wash
ington, who are asking Compression
l. aid for the establishment of graz
International Exposition in this city
1889, hold weekly meetings to discu
+, the subject. They are enthusiastic ov
l. the prospects of success, which a
presented on every side, though tn
say they can do little more than
augurate the enterprise by 1889. lea
!, ing the grand commemoration for 1S9
the 400th anniversary of the discove
of America by Columbus.
They have printed diagram whi'
is interesting as proving the stateme
IT made in their address to Congress, t
public and the press, that within
: radius Of 200 miles there are 100000
people who could, if ample transpor
ton facilities were provided, rea