Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-24
Washington Letter.
tFrom our Regular CorrespODdent.)
 WAsHISGToS, March 16.

WASHINGTON, March 16.
 Senator Brown, of Georgia, refuses tc
 march to the administrative musIc. He
 made strong speech in the senate on
 Wednesday in favor of hIs resolution,
 offered early in January. declaring it to
 be the imperative duty of Congress to
 repeal the internal revenue laws at the
 earliest day practicable. He believes that day has now arrived and these laws should be wiped from the statute book at once. He believes that the money needed for the support of the govern ment should be raised by tariff so ad- lusted ss to give American capita! and labor all possible incidental protection. and so that the heaviest burdens shall be put upon Injuries.
 He IS opposed to the government run ning two tax systems, especially when one of them IS as obnoxIons to the peo- pie ss the internal revenue system r. The senator's views are directly opposed to those of Mir. Cleveland and the ma iority of the Democratic party. Mir, Colqultt, the iuniOr senator from Geor- gis, had on the Monday previous made & speech fully indorsIng the Presidents tarif message, bat Senator Brown is in the habit of making two internal reve- nue speeches for every tariff speech de- llvered by his colleague.
 The senate has produced still another ssplrant for presidential hoDors. Sens tor Hale. of Maine, IS the latest candi- date for boom according to the gossips of the Capital.
 The scoring thai Senator Incalls gave Senator Yes, has completely taken away the little fellows courage, it would seem, Rumor says that at the end of She present term In the senate he will retire from public life. It is always more or less dangerous to monkey with buzz-saw
 The Government Printing Office in vestigstioB is dragging slowly along. l The ID st noticeable feature this week I was BeDeiict's admission that hIs Re publican predecessor had always snown | a disposition tJ adopt new methods and | machinery in that office as fast as they were approved by the trade at large.
 Here's chance for the poor lobbyist to make some money. A sub committee of the house committee on public lands ore preparing bIll 70 de Hare 8 forfeit ure of all unearned railroad land grants. If course :he railroads will fight this bill and that means good deal to the seedy lobbyist.
 The republican minority of the ways and means committee are leaving no stone unturned 10 their efforts to get hearing for the industries effected by the Mills tariff bIl, but SD fsr. they have been fought at every turn by the demo- crsts, both 10 the committee room and on the floor of the house. However, IheIr effJrts will place th- responsibility Tor refusing a hearing, where It belongs,
 An international council ot women will be held ID this city. beginning ou the 2jth inst. and lasting eight days. to commemorate the furJieth aauiyersaTy of the Womsn's Suffrage movement Many distinguished women from foreign will be In attendance. The council will bs followed on the 3rd of April by the snndal cnuvsntion of the WOmau's SlfTrage Association.
 The presidential outlook from a re- publican standpoint. remains unchanged. No one candidate Is going tO the front very fast, although Senator Sherman is said to be making rapid strides Tn the South. She same thing WAS said of Mir. sherman n 1880, however, and he was not nominated, and unless be shall de- velop some strength elsewhere than in the South. and ID Ohio, u Is thought he is DO; likely tO fare any better this year. One resul: of hIs present prominence is that he Is being made the target for democrsti1 attack iu End out Of congress all Of which is not Co his dIscredit. John Sherman may never bs president, but be will live in history as one ot the greatest statesmen that the republican party has produced.
 Senator Chandler. cbairmsn o' the senate committee on Indian sfflirs, has attacked the interior department for allowing the Chippewa Indians to be swindled out of the timber on their res ervstion, by white speculatOrs. He has written B letter on the subject tO Score tary Villas which IS likely to waken up the Indian bureau thoroughly. Little Bill" Chandler is a perfect terror when be gets started. He has s way of forii- 'ying himself with facts that is usually 'stsl to his opponents.
 HOWELL.