St. Landry democrat., 1888-09-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

! WASHINGTON, Sept. 3d, 1888
! Speaker Carlisle has gone to Virginia
| to make several speeches. Mr.. biUunt,
of Georgia, has been elected Speaker
pro tem to act during Mr. CarlIsic's ab-
! senct.
REPRESENTATIVE McCreary, from the
Committee Oh Foreign Affairs, has le-
ported to the Honse the blIl comforting
| upon the President the authority toI
which he asked III his message on the
rejection of the fisheries treaty. The
| bIlt will be called up tomorrow, aud
will be passed this week, as The Rtpuu-
Leans are afraid to oppose 1t,
REPRESENTATIVE S. ). Cox, who has
yniue of victory tor Cleveland, Thurs
man and tariff reform. He SAID "Inele
will be 10 trouble about Cleveland>
carving New York. The outlying
! States-New Jersey and Connectlcut-
! must be looked after | do not know
how il is there. People have been talk
| ing about some antasonlsm to Mr.
! Cleveland among the New ok Demo
crats. Now, down in the lower part ui
| the city, with which am soIutN hat AS
/ sociated. they are all right Tor Cleye-
| land, and they are straight on tariff re-
| form. have not the least doubt about
| Cleveland carrying the State Mr..
| Cox also believes that MI Blalnt's
speeches have made many votes tol
MIR. Cleveland, and in tbs belief lie is
hy no means alone. Many Republicans
| share it.
The House Committee on Manufac-
lures are engaged III making an lnvts-
tigation into the cotton bagglng trust.
| They may decide in favor of the till
I,.,L IIfP mr. tI,
Senate to break down this trust by put
ing the bagging on the free list.
| Chairman Barnum, of the National
! Committee was here two days last
| week, He reports everything as NOV
| ing smoothly at the Committees head
quarters, and says: we are bound to
win this time"
| The Republican Senators have at last
reached an agreement, through the &C
| ton of SHINY attended caucus, Oh
their tariff bill They will leave til.
! lumber duty us it is, and also the wooi
| duty, except the addition Of one cen,
Der pound on fine grades Of wool; SUI
gar viii be cut fifty per cent. 1here
are rumors to the effect that no attempt
will be made to do more than 1cpor,
this substitute for the Mills bill, and
| then adjourn. The foundation for
| these rumurs seems to be the absence
of several Senators, who were i'll tle
| city, from the caucus. ClIet among the
absentees wele Senators Ingalls, and
| Plumb, both Of whom are known to be
| bitterly opposed to any cut i'll superior
| duty. and it is said that their iiepu bllcan
| colleagues know that these men will
never vote for bill reducing the duty
| on sugar One-haif, and therefore they
will not attempt to pass the bill for fea
of failure. However, lis the Till will he le
ported on the 10th Instant, IT the cancDs
prugraE,me is followed, We shall not
| have long to wait to find ont What the
Republicans propose to do.
unofficial news has reached here
of the rejection of the new
Chinese treaty by the Chinese Gov
eminent. Perhaps they expect a
| better one it HARRISON should be elect
ed, and have concluded TO wait and see.
| Senator Coke expressed the general
| opinion among the Democrats in Con
gress Vhen he said, speaking OF the
matter, Congress can regulate this
question OF Chinese immigration by leg
| lsation, which, will chop them right of
Short No regrets are expressed over
the rejection OF the treaty, because, ii
is believed; that legislation is after all
the best remedy.
Senator Vest jumped on Senator Gull
ium in a manner that fairly staggered
| him. while he was pratiDg about civil
service ieform, etc, by sending to the
Clerks desk and having read several
letters from Senator Culom to the late
COMMISSIONER Of pensions, Mr.. Dudley,
asking leave of absence, with pay, Tor "a
pension examiner who he wanted to
come to Illinois and go on the stump.
10 Mr.. CuilOm's credit, he it said, he
| did not attempt to deny the letters, but
owned right up.
Since the report got out that Mr..
Cleveland had contributed $4,000 to
| the Democratic campaign fund, 1t Is
said that the Government otticials-blg
and little-are sending checks by the
hundred to the national committee.
The Democrats in Congress propose
| making it warm for the various trusts,
even il Mr. Blaine does insist that Con-
gress has nothing Whatever Il, do with
these "prvate" concerns. Mr.. Blaine
has been out of this country SO long that
lie has probably forgotten some things.
Mr.. Cleveland returned Friday from
a three days fishing trip.
Judge Thurman will speak at the
monster ratification meeting, which is
to be held in this city on the 18th in
slant.
The reduction of the public debt dur
ing August was 1894 ,67626.
Secretary Villas has gone west for
vacation. He will speak at a Demo-
cratic meeting at Milwaukee Wednes
day nj ilt,