Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence Of the Standard.

Regular Correspondence Of the Standard.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 1883.
Senator Coke in opposing the bill
just passed by the Senate. TO pay the
widow of Chief Justice Waite $8,745
said that he believed in equality before
the law Of all the people of the United
States; that one good respectable
widow was exactly the same before the
law as another. There were hundreds
of thousands of good widows in the
United States, who were AS much en-
titled, in law, in equity of right, to a
donation from Congress as the
estimable lady for whose relief the
bill was pending. Senator Berry in
opposing the bill. argued that every
dollar due to the late Chief Justice
has been paid to himself or his widow,
and that the sum proposed to be paid
was simply donation or gift. If the
Chief Justice had not been able to
save money out of his salary of &c.,
500 year, he must have lived in a
very extravagant way.
Judge Thurman, who was here this
week to argue the Government side of
the Telephone Cases before the Su-
prsme Court, was the recipient OF
much attention. He was the gu st of
Mr.. Cleveland, at Oak View, for two
days, and was compelled to hold a
levee everywhere he went. The Old
Roman has warm spot i'll the hearts
of the people here, as well as elsewhere,
and when he is elected Vice-President,
as he surely will be on the 9th day of
November, nowhere will there be a
more sincere rejoicing than in Wash
ington.
Speaker Carlisle will address u Dem
ocratic meeting in Baltimore next
Tuesday.
The Republican members of Sena-
tor Hale's smelling Committee, which
have been nosing around for some
months trying to find some violations
of the Civil Service Law, have made
their report. It consists of rehash
of lot Of exploded newspaper charges.
The Democratic members of the COM
mittee have not yet submitted their
report.
The House, in response to u recon-
mendation from Acting Secretary
Thompson Of the Treasury, has passed
q bill appropriating $4,000 to carry
out the provisions of the Chinese ex-
clusion bill.
Representative Burns, speaking on
the General Deficiency bill, which has
at last become u law, stated rock
ribbed truth when he said that the
people had turned the Republican
party out of power, not on account of
extravagance in appropriations, but
because of the waste and the want OF
integrity in the expenditures of the
money.
The Republican Senators are re-
hashing the old worn out " chestnuts"
that did duty in the House during the
discussion of the Mills bill. That they
are only killing time in the hope of
making political capital, was fully
shown on the day that their tariff bill
was introduced. Senator Harris pro-
posed that the debate on the bill
should be limited to ten days but Sem
ator Allison, who is in charge OF the
Republican bill, declined most posi-
lively to agree to limit the debate.
Does that look like the Republicans
really want TO pass the tariff bill
which they have introduced 7 II
think not. And here is another
straw: Nearly every Republican SEN
ator has stated within the last three
days, that if the House would pass q
resolution to take . recess until after
the election, or for an adjournment,
they would vote for it in the Senate.
They are perfectly willing to adjourn
without passing their tariff bill, pro-
vided they can go upon the stump
and say that the House forced them
to adjourn. This, the House has 30
far refused to do. and if the advice Of
the longest-headed men in the party
is followed, they will continue to refuse
to the end Of the chapter.
The House adjourned from Wednes-
day until to-day, and it will not be
surprising if it continues to adjourn
over three days at time, the limit of
the law, until the Senate takes some
action looking towards recess or ad-
adjournment.
The House has passed the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to compen-
safe the Cherokee freedmen for lands
taken from them several years ago.
The bill changing the law as to the
date when electoral votes must be de-
livered at the capital, to the fourth
Monday in January, has been passed
by both Houses, and is now in the
hands of the President.
Chief Justice Fuller, who for the
first time presided over the Supreme
Court this week, has made n very
good impression.
Ex-Secretsry Mccullough, who had
charge of the Treasury Department
under Lincoln, johnson and Arthur,
has come out for Cleveland. He
cannot stand the position of the Re
publican party on the tariff.
FARMER Jones, the labor candidate
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