Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-29
WASHINCTONTOPlCS. Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
W ASHINGToN. Feb. 24 .lSSS
[From our Special Correspondent,

during the past few days. Here the i first steps were taken toward the | great victory which is 10 be won this ! year again by the party. The Dem i cratic National Committee which ! met in this city to select the time and place for holding the National Nomination Convention. held a three days meeting of intense interest and every rival city worded its hardest for the prize.
 The only other business of import. ance transacted hy the committee was the election of MT. Wm. Stein way, the piano manufacturer. of New ! ork City. to fill the vacancy on the committee caused by the death of Hubert 0. Thomson. This selection was disappointment to the rcpubIi- cans. who confidently expected a great TOW in the committee over it.
 Representative Scott. of PensYlva- na. was in favor of holding the con vention before the republicans held
 theirs believing that having possess sion of the Government. it was the
 proper thing for the democrats to take
 the initiatory steps in opening the
 Presidential campaign. Senator Cor
 man, of Maryland. opposed an early
 convention, maint ntaining that there
 was no reason why the democrats
 should change their policy of follow
 ing the republicans that with a late
 convention they could take advant-
 age of any mistakes oftheir opponents
 whereas. by preceding the republicans 1 it would enable them to make capi- l tai out of and hlunders that might 1 be committed bv the democrats. l Senator German S views were shared l by nearly two thirds of the commit l tee. hence the selection. at first oi
 July 3rd. The next day q reconoid- eration of this vote was secured and l Mir. Scots views accepted bv ad-
 opting June the 9th. as the date for ! I,l. l,
 near noon oil Thursday, that St. l Louis was fixed upon as the place
 up to that hour it was believed that
 that san Francisco was sure to win.
 MT. Mills, Chairman of the House
 committee on Ways and Means. has
 just returned from living trip to i Providence. k. l. He says he is de i lighted with the spirit of the New
 England people ill regard to the rev cnuc question: Throughout the man ufacturing districts the tariff for rev
 enue theory k popular and they are
 pleased with the Presidents tariff 1 message.
 IL is now said that little Phil Shcr- 1 idan'S dccination of the nomination for President was a case of "oonr grapes. He is not eligible. Even granting that he was born ae his mother says. several months after the arrival of his parents in this country. said a naturalized citizen of this city. that would make him an alien under the law. as his father was not naturalized, and no more eligible to the Presidency than if he was born in Ireland. know because had son born several months after my arrival in this coun- try. and he was obligicd before he was allowed to vote. on reaching the age of twenty one. to take sthc oath of allegiance. as he was held to be alieu born. The same law would ap- ply to Shcridans case
 Charge, having been repeatedly made in a number of Republican pa pers. that the Commissioner of Pen Sions had given the soldiers democrat ic states and advantage over those or republican states in the amount of pensions allowed them. table has been prepared at the Pension office. which effccturally disproves the silly charge.
 Another bad break k to he charg- cd up lo the republican leaders of the House. They see 1t now. but il iS too late to stop the dclugc. They and passed resolution to the Government Printing or rather to investigate MT. Benedict the first democratic Public Printer, promising to show up many startling things. The proposition was rcadi- Iv agreed to by the democrats, after an amendment was added providing that the investigation should include the four years term of Mir, Benedict <, ! republican predecessor The com ' mittec appointed under this resom- | ton. has already begun work, and . has been done to make the | very sorry they started | [. and the indications are that their .nrrnM will continue To imcrensn.