The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 6, 1888,

WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 3, 1888.
yirginia's retiring senator-Riddle.
berger-still persists in the Senate
having open Executive sessions. He has
declared his intention of bringing the
question up every day that he can get
the recognition of the Chair, until the
Senate by some positive declaratory
action, sets its stamp of disapproval on
the innovation. In tie last Executive
session the Senator occupied the whole
time in speaking upon his resolution, and
80 no Executive business was transacted.
The Senator openly charged that
speeches made in secret session by Sena-
tors, who have as Private Secretaries,
newspaper correspondents, are invariably
published in the New York dailies, and
ridiculed the idea of the sessions being
called secret. He declares his intention
of calling up his resolution again on
Monday.
Dennis Kearney, the Sand lot orator,
has been airing himself the past few
days before the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs. He is stumping in
favor of Representative Cummings bill
to totally restrict Chinese immigration.
His manner before the Committee was
exceedingly offensive, and when some of
his statements we're questioned by Rep
resentative Hit, of the Committee, he
made a personal attack on him, and
threatened to go into the Representatives.
district next Fall and get bis constitu.
ents 10 pelt him with dead cats and
baked snails, which his friends, the Chi
nese, eat. The Committee bore with the
demagogue, who injured the good cause
rather than benefited it.
The. large publishers of the country
have succeeded in getting o favorable
report from the Committee on Post Off.
ces, forbiding the sending through the
mails at newspaper rates, or as second
class matter, tri.weekly publications,
such as the Seaside Library. These
cheap publications have reached an
enormous circulation by reason of the
eagerness Of the mass of the people to get
popular and standard literature in q cheap
form. The sale of this low. priced litera.
ture has made such inroads on the busi-
ness of high priced publishers, that the
latter complained of the disadvantages at
which they were placed in postal rates,
and hence the amendment to tie postal
laws.
The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors is being besieged by delegations
from all parts of the country to assign
some of the Treasury surplus to them
for use on some one or more streams in
their State. So far the Committee has
not been able to formulate any bill, but
it is making notes from what is submit
ted by the various delegations, and will
endeavor to do something for all ofthem.
1t is thought that the bill will provide
for expendiug something like at least
$10,OOO,OOO. This sum is expected to
apply on account, and contemplates
further appropriations in the nextsession
for carrying on the same improvements.
To appropriate at this time for the
completion of these many projects, would
call for nearly $4O,0OO,OOO, and that t
would reduce the prospects of any tariff
reduction at this session.
There have already been introduced
about 300 bills relating to the tariff
reduction, and while no one is practica.
BILE, still many of them contain some good
provisions, which are being culled by the
Committee on Ways and Means, and
will be used in preparing the bill to be
submitted by that Committee as the
measure of the party. 1t is probable
that the bill may be ready for report BY
the Committee within the next three
woaka II.