The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-24
THE COMING BREAK.
Will Edmunds be Defeated by
His Own Party?
He IS DIsLlKED By MANY
Bad Air for the Law Makers-De
ment's Position-Chances for His
Rejection-Reconsii Grafton


Although the national capital of this
couAtry is admittedly one of the great
est buildings of its kind in the world, We
it is pronounced by those who are com
PEELED to work in the basement of it, or
sit in the legislative chambers of it, or
visit the galleries Of it. to be one of the
worst ventilated buildings that can pos
sihly be conceived of. This is especially
noticeable when the galleries of either
| the Senate or the House are crowded, as
they were during the early portion OF
last week, when the debate upon the
presidential pferogative was under con-
! sideIation. The foul air that then
| accumulated, and had to be breathed by
! those who were determined to hear the
! debate in question, was something awful,
| something pestilential. A writer in the
Washington Critic, speaking Of this very
| subject, aptly says that when there is
big crowd IN the Senate galleries, tie
superabundance OF malordorous fra
GRANGE in the upper stratum of the cir
/ cumambient atmosphere is enough to
make last years Goldfish goand take a
bath in the sewer" The Critic man is
not far wrong, if wrong at all. Doubt
less, lkeother newspaper men, he Ira )
been compelled to inhale 1.-The fragrance
in the upper stratum Of the circumam-
bent atmosphere, many a time against
his will. This defective ventilation has
long been source of trouble to those in
charge of the building, and no end of
money has been spent upon machinery
which it was thought would remedy the
evil, and make the building somewhat
.bearable to those who are compelled, as
it happens this session, to spend por-
ton of every day for seven months
within its confines.
Last week, in Congress, like the four
teen weeks which have preceded it this
session, was remarkable only for the
small AMOUNT of work accomplished
| that is, work of any account-by the
nations representatives As soon as the
morning hour expired, the bulk of the
| time of the Senate was taken up,i in the
discussion of Mr.. Edmunds' resolutions
| expressing the sense of the Senate on
/ the refusal OF the Attorney General to
send to the Senate copies of certain
papers. The debate upon this subject,
/ after the first two days, began TO wane
/ in interest so far as the public are con
cerned, and. yesterday there were only
twenty people in the galleries when
Senator Cullom took the floor; but the
question under consideration is by no
means likely to be cut short. There
are great many Senators who
desire to speak upon the sub
/ ject, not because they have any
thing new to advance upon it, but
j because the present offers a grand op-
/ portunIty to many Democrats TO make
] laudatory speeches i'll maintenance of
| the Presidents position, and in that
way. curry favor with the Executive of
the nation. And thus the precious
/ time of the national legislature is being
; W sted. Personal quarrels take up q
vast portion of the time which should
: be devoted to the consideration and
passage of much needed legislation of
national character. Even Republicans
are getting disguised with this fight be-
tween the Senate and Executive Depart
ments 1.-The Republican majority in
the Senate" says the Washington
Rdtchet, twill not maintain the Ed
munds position. There will be no break
at present, because it is willing that Ed
munds should carry out his fight for a
while II he wants 10. But within
month there will be break. 1t will
come up on two or three test names,
concerning which papers have been re-
Z
made in spite OF caucus dictatioD.
That there will be any sensation about
the matter is not expected. The caucus
will not expose. any weakness in its
ranks, and the spurious issue which has
been raised will be quietly dropped.
Within five weeks Mr.. Edmunds will be
defeated by his own party, just as he
helped defeat his own party IN the Ma
tional campaign" Whether this some
what prophetic statement will be veri-
/ fed remains 10 be seen but this know,
/ that the Republican Senators are by no
means unanimous in the support OF
Mr.. EdmundS in the position he hiss as
sumed. He is trying TO N AXE ali the
I political capital he can out OF this ques-
| ton, with view to strengthe ming his
re nomination. Nobody doubts but he
will be renominated. Yet l find Ec-
munds, great lawyer and statesman a.
/ heis, has many enemies. His own
party have not forgotten the indifferent
spirit he displayed during the last ma
tional campaign. He is also personally
disliked by many Senators because OF
his dictaterial, overbearirg manner,
and | would not be surprised il Mr..
Rothacker. from whose pen the above
extract emanates, should prove true
T
Snubbed by his own party when II
comes to a vote upon the question now
under considerations
! One sensation of the past week was
+ the confirmation of the nomination OF
Mr.. Dement, TO be Suryeyor-General OF
Utah. 1t will be remembered that the
committee on public lands unanimously
reported against his confirmation. This
conclusion was arrived at for the req :
/ son that he was an ifaFt man, and be
cause faithful officer had been suspen-
ded TO make 6 place fer him. But there
was still another reason. MI Dement,,
it Will be remembered, came 10 Wash
/ ingtun some weeks ago. and by some
means or other fell into the bands OF
certain reputable newspaper nen.
These newspaper men published sensa-
/ tional interviews, the bssis Of which
was said to have been supplied
by Mr.. Dement,. They purported to
assert that there had teen great land
+ frauds in Utah; that the Mormon
church had an immense corruption
fund. and that one western Senator
( (Senator Teller had been paid s25: 600
Tor ms speech against the new Ed