Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-28

The rather acrimonious encounter which &C.
CURED In the House yesterday, between Mr.. BY
mum and Mr.. Cannon, called TO puolic attention
the anomalous relations Of the Congregational
Record and the Journal OF the House. Mr.. Can
non was beyond question, technically RI yht in
MS assertion that the Journal Is the inal author
NY on suen a matter as was In dispute yesterday;
but so was Mr.. Bynum right In his claim that the
Record Is the only report which every member
sees daily. and BY the light OF which he sets him
self right In history. Here Is a curious state OF
things The Journal is, by Father crude fiction,
supposed 70 be read aloud every morning In tue
House; IL point OF fact II Is read only In a skeIe-
ton form, with all the really essential matters
omitted IL would take hours OF time to read it
through, and every member would nave TO be In
his seat In order 70 make the reading
OF any effect As it Is in manuscript,
IL would take great while for members
to run it over Tor themselves, IT, instead OF being
read aloud, 1t were left IN some convenient place
Tor them 70 refer TO and correct IL l. not put In
type, often, for long time after The events
described In II have occurred All that remains Is
Tor members 10 fall back upon the Record
which Is, In effect, newspaper devoted exclusively
To the reports Of proceedings in Congress but Is In
no sense an authority, and learn whether they are
properly treated there. II they are not, they call
Tor correction Whether that correction is ever
made they know not TILL IL Is too late; and
clerks or competitors or proof-readers error
might at any time present a member 10 posterity
In the attitude OF saying or doing something the
precise opposite OF what he actually said or did.
The gold fever has struck Michigan with a force
which recalls. after fashion, the boom OF IS49 In
California IL must be said, however, in favor OF
the new 1elis, as compared with those IA which
an earlier generation laDored that Michi gan pre-
sents q much more hospIab.e and inviting face
than California did. The state Is well seltI d;
there raltrDllS
saWmiils and hardware shops abound, and ayri-
culture Is In so advanced a condition that every
body VINO comes will md enoug h u live on and
NJ prices which are not ruinOuS IL Is probable, In
spite Of all this, that there Is plenty OF suffering
and sappointmeat In store for Eastern people
who shoulder their picks and start for the mines
In the expectation OF getting rich IN a fortnight
Golc-mlning Is not now what IL was forty Years
ago. The employment OF improved mechanism
has driven practically out OF existence the s.dg-
gers VINO made so picturesque a nyure In tue
social landscape OF old The man who has no
capital but an employment paying enough 60
support himself and his family aud TO enable him
10 Lay by SometAing against a rainy day, Is liable
10 make great mistake when he gives up such a
certainty for the very precariO1S Chances OF life In
q mining camp. The latest dispatches from the
scene OF The gold discoveries say that a syndicate
OF wealthy CAPT alists are prep airing 70 WORK the
new mines Tnis Is as II shouII BE-. The rich have
sometaiGg TO loose. 1t Is the poor who sun -r when
Things 90 wrong, as often happens in al alleged
gold country.