Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-03-12
Washington Telegraphed Letter.

Tie week past
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs has completed its report to
accompany the bill providing FOR
the increase of the navy.
Blair's Educational bill got
through the Senate on Friday eve
ning.by a vote of 36 to IL. Only 4
Republicans opposed it. Its fate
in the Honse is doubtful.
The Lowell Bankruptcy bill will
be reported to the House in about
ten days.
The Committee on Public build
ings decided to report favorable on
the bill for the sale of the Bride
we'll lot at Chicago.
The reversal of Land Commits
sioner Sparks decision by the
Secretary of the Interior shows
that in most cases he has failed to
reflect the wishes of the admins
tration.
A large representation of the
Iron and Steel Interests had a
hearing ON Thursday before the
Committee ON Ways and Means,
aud gave many reason why the
tariff should not be tempered with
at present.
1t has just been discovered that
tina President had not read the q.
S. Statutes carefully when he said
i'll his message referred to below,
tina f he saw fit to destroy certain
papers on file no one could COM
plain" as the penalty is fine of
$4,000 and Imprisonment three
years.
Hon. Grover Cleveland, by the
grace of the people, President of
the United States, distinguished
himself last week by sending to
the Senate one message, and to
Congress one. The one addressed
to the Senate denying the right OF
the Senate to call for papers on
ile, is making ''heap big talk
among officials and newspapers. Il
is defiant in its character and Of
fensive in its tone. He tells the
Senate, in effect, that he is not re-
sponsible to it for his acts, but to
the people, and that he will not be
dictated to. He seems to have
forgotten that he is not sheriff now;
that the Constitution declares that
his appointments must be made by
and with the advice and consent of
the Senate; that if any charge were
preferred against him, he would
be compelled to appear before the
Senate for trial; and finally, that
he possesses no power of conse-
quence that is not limited by the
Senate. The Democracy in the
Senate do not say much, but they
are very sore over the Presidents
action. They felt that they had
faithfully looked after the inter
ests of the party, and are qualified
to defend the President without
having him step into the ring in
his own defence. Mr.. Pugh from
Alabama, in the minority report
from the Judiciary Committee, had
covered all the ground, but that
did not satisfy this political pugi-
list. Take it all, in all, this action
is the most remarkable in the his
tory of presidential appointments.
The Republicans regard it as
equal to some of Johnson's high
handed moves, before he was
brought to the bar of the Senate fol-
trial. The result of the matter
will be that a continual war will be
waged between the Senate and the
Executive, all of which might have
been avoided if the President had
furnished papers on file in regard
to suspended persons.
The message to Congress in re-
lation to the Chinese, sent in on
the next day, was wordy docu-
ment, but worthy of consideration.
1t looks as if John Chinaman must
60, law or no law.
The discussion of the Pension
Appropriation bill and the Educa-
tlonal bill occupied most of the
time In the House and Senate last
week. Ben Butterworth, of Gin
cinnati, alraigned the Democracy
very severely, and they were de-
tended by Mr.. Wilson with consid-
cradle ability.
The Interchangeable have been
before the Subcommittee on Ag-
riculture. The anti-butterine
folks want a bill passed taxing but
terine. or table fat" as the Ger
mans rightly name it, at ten cents
per pound, and to require it label
ed, and to be colored either yellow
or pink. There is decided pref
erence for pink. Nothing is likely
to come of it.
The Fitz John Porter bill will
come into the Senate pretty early
now, and the indications are that
it will pass, as Senators Cameron
and Sewell, both Republicans, and
other Republicans, will favor it.
1t is believed that the Democrats
In the House will not allow the
Dakota bill to become law this
session.