Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER



the universal verdict upon the speech
delivered by Representative Kelley, OF
Pennsylvania, on Tuesday IN th.
House, in reply to tire speech Of
Chairman Mills of the Ways and
Means committee. on the Mills tariff
bill. Mr. Kelley is the oldest member
of the House. and 1t was very fitting !
That he should have been put forward
as the special champion of the repub-
lican party. Had he been n new
member the speech he delivered
would have established his fame as a
statesman. These two speeches began
the great tariff fight that promises to |
last well into the summer
Hon e. j. Phelps, of Vermont, our
present minister TO England. will, it is
stated, be appointed to the vacant
Chief Justiceship of the United States.
This will be very pleasant surprise
to the republicans should it turn out
| to be true. Mr.. Phelps Is In every
way qualified for the position, and II
the place is to be filed by democrat
I know of no man who would do 1t
better than he.
Senator Stewart of Nevada, has In
troduced bill in the Senate granting
n pension of S., 600 a year to the
widow of Chief Justice Waite.
The administration has at last
awakened to the gravity of the finan-
ciai situation. The Secretary of the
Treasury has issued circular giving
notice that under the authority con-
tanned in the act of Mar. 3, 81, on
Monday, April 25. and daily thereaf-
ter at noon until further notice, pro-
posals will be received for the sale to
Government of United States bonds
of the acts of July IA. 1870 and Janu-
airy 90. 1871. This is complete sur
render to the republicans, who have
claimed right along tina. the Secretary
of the Treasury possessed this author
ity. The claim has been denied by
Cleveland, but now that he has car
ried the contraction of the currency
as far as he dares to. he has to official
lly acknowledged his errors. Fine
> statesmen are these democrats who
have accidentally got control of the
: gov eminent.
The death of ex-senator Conkling II
, deeply regretted here where he had
many personal friends, having served
: in the House or Senate continuousl!
with the exception of two years, from
= the time of his first election to th'
% House in 1858, until he resigned fron
the Senate in 1881.
. The Fisheries Treaty will be reject
" ed by the Senate. The committee OF
i Foreign Relations have already agree,
. to report it adversely and there is n
= doubt thar every republican and poss
bly, some of the democratic Senator
). will vote to reject it
" The House has passed the bill to e'
y tablish a Department of Labor, ais
the bill providing for arbitration bt
a. tween railroads and their employees.
The idea originated by Mr.. Blain
some years ago of holding n congres
of the American nations in this cit
o. has been finally adopted by congre'
of and the president has been requisite
q and authorized to invite the sever,
k governments of the republics of Mex
Ist co, Central and South America, Hayt
re- San Domingo and the Empire of Br
W iii to join the United States in col
iis ference to be held here in or near Il
nd month of April 1889. This conferen'
Ie; cannot fail of producing great good
Ms all the countries concerned, but pa
of ticularly to the United States.
cli In little tilt with Senator EdmunC
lily on Tuesday, Senator Vest, of M.sso
OH ri, asserted that the Electoral Cor
py mission bill by which Hayes ACQUIRE
Try the presidency was n republican mef
ut. ure. On the following day Senat
nd Sherman in his remarks on the bill
SO! admit South Dakota to the Unto
i'm took occasion to prove by the vo
wo in the Senate that it was a democrat
I 7" measure. Twenty-six democrats W
bp ed for it and only twenty-one reput
,od cans, while fourteen republicans Al
IN che democrat voted against it. n
les. Sherman stated that in view Of tn,
facts he thought democrats were p
cluding from assailed the bill as a p
tisan measure.
mo Ex-Gov Routt, of Colorado, W
-.ai has been spoken of as candidate
no, the United States Senate from II
ON state, is in the city. He eiBpbatica
nh. denies that he has any desire to co
roo TO the Senate. He says, "Colorl
nj does not favor the Mills tariff bill.
roc. wool interest Is too big. 1t does I
} ot favor the present administrat
ia at all; it wants free silver, to VIII
..s the present authorities are oppose
Ter
ray, An Explanation.
tent What Is this nervous trouble" "