Nevada County picayune., 1888-11-28
WASHINCTONTOP!CS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
From our Special Correspondcut.1

WAsHiNGToN, D. C, Nov. 26, 1885.
 Mr. Cleveland has retired to Oaf, View in order to prepare his last an- nual message to Congress. There is little doubt that Mr. Cleveland will manfuHy stand by the position taken by him on the surplus and the tariff last December. He will make more emphatic his former declaration that it is q condition, and not q the ory. that coufronts us. He will still advocate the Democratic policy of reducing the tariff on the raw ma- terials and the necesSarles of life, but above all he shall insist that the in- come of the Government should at once be reduced in some manner. It is thought by some that so urgent does he consider the necessity for re- duction, that he will advise the Dem ocrats of the House to accept the Senate amendment to the Mills bill, rather than have no reduction until the next session of Congress. In fact. the signs are rapidly multiply | ing that the policy of the Democrat ic leaders at the coming session will be to secure, if possible, the passage of some sort of tariff bill that will reduce the surplus, and if they have to accept the Republican plan to do so under protest, as being better than no reduction at all. This policy will, if adopted and consistently carried out, block the Republican plan of letting the whole tariff question go over to the Fifty-first Congress, when they will have control in both Houses. Mir. Cleveland has already stated that he would sign any measure which should come to him, making q reduction in the revenue, whether in the tariff schedule or the internal revenue taxes, unless there was something very vicious about it. It is certain that he would sign the Senate substitute for the Mills bill just as it was reported to the Senate, but it is extremely probable that the Republicans will make many changes in that measure before it passes.
 The annual reports of the cabinet officers will make interesting reading for Democrats this year. They will present a concise history of the four years of Democratic administration, and will make a showing that every Democrat will have right to feel proud of. A cleaner and better ad- lninistration, taken as whole, the country has never had.
 The first meeting of the House committee on appropriations was held "Wednesday. They have buckled right down to work, and expect to have the District of Columbia appro- propriation bill ready to report | to the House the first day of ! the session. Mr Randall, the chair
 man of the committee, was not pres cnt, but his health has so greatly im- proved that he expects to resume hls jdptes at the opening of the session.
 The negroes of this city have it in 1 their heads that thG election of Har- rison has put them on top, and they gre already making all sorts of de- mands in relation to the local offices. Fred Douglass wants to be Recorder of Deeds, the n0torious Perry Carson
 wants to be District Commissioner,
 but is willing to compromise on the Chief of Police Several other ne groes are candidates for Commission CT and other prominent District of
 fees. l. is 0nly fair to say that the
 white Republicans are dead opposed 70 giving single one of the promi- ucnt offices to negro, but the ne croes here are a noisy gang, and if l Harrison fails to give them some of the plums they will make big fuss.
 The new Bureau of Correspondence of the Agricultural Department, au- , thorized by the last session of Con- gress. has begun work under the di- ! recton of Prof. W. 0. Atwater. For the present the work of the Bureau will be confined to furnishing the az ricultural experiment 8 tati ons throughout the country with informa- ton concerning the experiments they are engaged in.
 Will there be astreet fight between senator Blackburn and Judge Ruck- CT. the two fiery sons of Kentucky. Nho have been saying some very hard things about each other in the news papcrsf Neither of them are here, but both have engaged rooms at the same hotel, and are expected in a few days. Those who know both men are confidently predicting fight between them the first time they meet, Senator Blackburn having put f out of the power of Judge Fucker to demand satisfaction under the code.