Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-07-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent
WARRINGTON, July 90. 1883.

Senator Chase's bill providing that
matter of the third class
shall consist Of all matter now en-
braced by law in the third and fourth
classes, and shall pay postage Of l
cent for each two ounces, has been
favorably reported from the Senate
committee on post offices.
The purchase Of the craftsmanship
of the national democratic campaign.
committee by Calvin Brice, the rail
road millionaire, has been much dis
cussed here during the past day or
two. He is to pay for it with big
contribution to the corruption fund
of the democratic party. Some say
that he promised 100000. It will
be his first political experience and
the old wheel horses Of the party are
much disguised at his being selected.
The discussion on the Mills tariff
bill this week, brought out the Sec
tional points of that hodge podge in
a stronger light than ever. It pro-
tects the interests of the South, with
the exception of her newly devel.
oped iron industries, and lets the in
terests of all other sections sufferer.
1t goes in for free wool, but refuses
to give the country free sugar; it ad-
mits free of duty iron ties for baling
cotton, but refuses to admit free hoop
iron for baling hay. These are fair
specimens Of the injustice that runs
through the entire measure, which
probably before this paragraph is in
print will have received, by it's pas
sage of the House,t the official endorse
ment of the democratic patty.
Cleveland has evidently got the
whip hand of the democratic House.
Of the large number of democrats
who loudly swore they would never
vote for free wool, only three had the
courage to vote against the dictation
of Cleveland when that clause of the
tariff bill was reached. Those three
were Foran and Wilkerson, of Ohio,
and Sowden Of Pennsylvania.
In spite of the opposition of the
democrats, the Senate has passed the
bill placing John G. Fremont on the
retired list of the Army, with the
rank of Major General. This is an
honor that General Fremont has we'll
earned by great services to his coun-
try.
Senator Stewart has been working
hard to have Washington territory
made state.
The bill introduced by Senator
Spooner some time ago, to put the
Interstate telegraph business under
the control of the inter state COM
merce commission, has been favor
ably reported upon.
The House conferees have so far
refused to agree TO all the canal ap-
preparations put into the river and
harbor bill by the Senate.
The Senate has passed the bill
known as the eightrhour claim bill.
It provides that all laborers, workmen
and mechanics, employed by the
Government since June S, 1888, shall
be paid for each eight hours he has
been employed, without any reduc-
ton of pay on account of the reduc-
ton of the hours of labor.
The select committee to investi-
gate contract pauper immigration,
consists of Representatives Ford,
Spinola, Oates, Morrow, Guenther.
They will take testimony at New
York, Boston, San Francisco, and
possibly other places.
Senator Chandler has made a red
hot speech against the ratification of
the fisheries treaty. He said the
treaty was national dishonor, that
the vanity and decrepitude of that
aged statesman, Mr.. Bayard, made it
easy for Mr.. Chamberlain, the ex-
perienced English diplomat to secure
a great victory. He said further that
the great object Of the democratic
British alliance, was to pass the Mills
bill, to keep the democratic party in
power, and to destroy the American
tariff system. These injurious as
saults on American interests, by the
combined forces of English free trade
and Southern democrats, ought to be
met on the threshold by the rejection
of this miserable treaty. In conclud-
ing Mr.. Chandler pointed out the
fact that this administration had de-
liberately abandoned the Monroe
doctrine. To the South the Panama
canal was being constructed, and
within five years the Isthmus of
Panama was likely to become a
French colony, while the admins
tration was opposing and defeating
the Nicaragua Canal scheme. TO
the North, the Dominion of Canada
was growing stronger and more
powerful than had ever been dreamed
of. She was boldly Selling the trans
portation interests of the United
States, was forcing her way into
American markets, was perpetrating
outrages on American fishing vessels,
and was forcing the United States to