Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-07-20
WASHINGTON.
Political and Personal Gossip from the
National Capital.

this year. The House has again
crushed the Senate amendment to
the Postoffice appropriation bill,
appropriating 100000 to increase the
mail facilities between this country
and, South America. The decisive
vote-141 to 57-by which the House
for the second time rejected this
amendment, will probably cause the
Senate to see the wisdom of with
drawing it. uo .+a.. lana.
Col. Lamont has gone to New York
to visit his family. He will return
this week. g, s.., ey.e,..s ,.f..-.
The House is now considering the
wool clause of the tariff bill, and
unless there is some unexpected delay
in disposing of it, the bill will be
passed this week. u,...
Senator Pugh today made a strong
speech in favor of the ratification of
the fisheries treaty. Friday Senator
George did likewise.
A delegation of the Patrons of
Industry of Pennsylvania called on
Mr.. Cleveland Friday, to invite him
to attend their exhibition and pic mic
on August q. The President said
that his duties are now such as to
require his strictest attention, but
when Congress adjOurns, he would
have more time.
The next trust to be investigated
by the House committee on manu-
features will be whiskey,
"Granny" Blair, who is one Of the
most blatant demagogues who ever
occupied seat in the United States
Senate, received dressing down on
Thursday last at the hands of Senator
Butler of South Carolina, which he
is not likely to forget for some time
to come. Thesubject under discussion
was the presidential vetoes ofprivate
pension bills. Blair said that taken
as a whole, the vetoed cases were
cases of absolute merit, and the
vetoes were outrages of the rights Of
American citizens. Mr.. Butler in
reply said that the greatest blessing
that could overtake the Senate and
the country, would be for the Senate
from New Hampshire to be less
faithful to the line of duty which he
had marked out for himself. Ifthere
has been any incumbrance, any
; incubus on the sensible, respectable,
orderly discharge of the duties of the
Senate, it had been in the person of
the Senator from New Hampshire,
and in the measures which he had
introduced. Mr.. Butler also truth
fully stated that Blair was, like a
demagogue, trying to appeal to the
soldier vote of the country. Referring
to a remark of Mr.. Blair, that the
language of some of the messages
was ungentlemanly, Mr.. Butler
said: "God save the mark What
terrible calamity it would be to
this country ifthe standard of gentle
men had to be established by the
F Senator from New Hampshire. 1t
would undermine and destroy every
rule on the subject, recognized among
civilized people"
Mr.. O'Neill, of Missouri, who is
chairman of the House committee on
Labor, says that the most important
bill in the House is that prohibiting
the carrying of convict made goods
from one state to another. 1t is eX-
,, pected that an evening session of the
+ House will be held for tho passage
, of this and other labor bills.
, The House has passed bill pro.
: viding for the taking of the eleventh
, and subsequent censuses.
, The campaign committee selected
, by Chairman Barnum of the national
committee is regarded here as a very
o strong one,
The President has accepted with
: deep regret the resignation Of Hon
G. V. N. Lathrop, U. S. minister to
Russia. Ill health is the cause.
L Representative S. J. Randall i.
) dangerously ill in this city, He ha.
D had several attacks of hemOrrhage
Attorney General Garland, whose
L health is somewhat undermined, ha
> gone to one of the Virginia springs
l. A petition to the Warren county
elaboration oSkinCr that half pf tbi