Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-12-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Senator Beck was at the Capitol last
Saturday for the first time since he was |
taken sick last summer. Although he !
is very weak he does not look i'll owing |
perhaps to his peculiar resistive consti- |
tuition and Scottish energy. He leaves |
for Aiken, South Carolina, this week,
greatly to the regret Of the Democratic |
side of the Senate and TO the delight of
the Republicans. Senator Beck is an |
army within himself on the tariff ques- |
ton.
Senator Riddleberger has been at his |
old trick of turning the Senate Cham
Der rinto a circus ring. Cause too much |
whiskey.
Democrats here are greatly enjoying |
the bitter fight now raging between the |
Miller and Platt factions in New York |
and the Sherman and Foraker crowds |
i'm Ohio. Conservative Republicans |
here express the belief that neither |
New York nor Ohio will be represented |
in ..Harrison's Cabinet on account OF
these wrangles. Morton, who 1t Is sup |
posed wentto Indianapolis in the inter- |
est of Platt for Secretary of the Treasury |
has, it is said, telegraphed to New |
York member of Congress that Harri- |
son had positively refused to have Platt
in the Cabinet.
Capt. Cowdon's plan of making |
I,adue Borgue the outlet for the flood |
waters of the Mississippi river has been |
adversely reported upon by the Senate |
committee on the improvement ofthat |
river.
1t was reported that the United States
had demanded the appointment of O |
successor to Lord Sackville, and nOti-
fed the British Government that Mr.. |
Phelps (our minister) would be re-
called unless O British minister was
speedily appointed. Upon inquiry at
the State Department it was learned
that the rumor was without foundation,
and that the Department was perfectly
Indifferent about the matter, whether
a minister was or was not sent here.
Blaine still continues to be thorn in
the side of many Republicans. A rumor
that he had been offered the Secretary
shin of State by Harrison and that he
had accepted it, created CONSERVATION
among those Republican Congressman
who do not like him, and there are
quite large number of them, one GER
tainly, and many people say two, in the
delegation from his own State. These
men know that if Blaine goes into the
Cabinet they will get no favors from
the administration. No enemy is too
small for Blaine to wreak his vengeance
upon, hence they have been busy since
the election in bringing all the anti
Blaine influence of the entire country
to bear on Harrison to prevent Blaine's
getting into the Cabinet. If the rumor
we're true their work has not all been
for nothing. Hundreds of messages
were sent flying over the wires and the
anti-Blaineites were soon made happy ,
by discovering that Harrison had not
rendered position to Blaine. But the i
thought that he may do so hovers over {
the anti-Blaine men like cloud. All
this is fun for the Democrats, and it's
about the only kind of fun they have
had since the election.
The Democratic Senators are now
fighting the Republican tariff bill tooth
and nail, but as the Republicans vote
solidly on every amendment offered,
they have no hope of doing anything
better than showing the country the
injustice and absurdity of the measure
prepared by the Republicans: At the
present rate of progress the bill will not
pass the Senate before February.
The Democratic House has had bill
favorably reported to it, placing that
eminent Republican, Gen. John G.
Fremont, once the candidate of his
party for the Presidency, on the retired
list of the Army, with the rank of
Major General; and the Republican
Senate has had a bill reported to it;
placing that sterling old Democrat, I
Gen. w. s. Rosecrans, c"Old Rosy,") .
on the retired list of the Army with the
rank of Brigadier-General. This is as
it should be, there should be no poll.
tics in providing a comfortable old age .
for such men as these, who have given /
the best years of their lives to the coun-
try. I
The Direct tax bill, as was anticipa- /
ted, passed the House, and has now
gone to Mr.. Cleveland. Democrats
generally expect it will be vetoed.
Representative Holman, chairman of
the House committee on public lands,
does not think that either of the bills
passed last session, one by the House
and one by the Senate, forfeiting vari-
Gus sections of lands granted to rail-
road companies, will become law this
session, nor that any other legislation
upon the subject will be passed. Phe
two bills passed are now in the hands of I
conference committee, but there is
little hope of an agreement: |
The annexation of Canada has been
made live question by the introduct- |;
ion in the house by Mr.. Butterworth of
a concurrent resolution authorizing the
President to open negotiations for the
1t is a many sided ques-
ton, but no one seems to doubt that
eventually Canada will become a part
of the United States