Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-01-26


WASHINGTON, JAN IS, 49,
The big speech of the session thus
far was made by Senator Hale, OF
Maine, on Wednesday He took up
the history Of this administration on
the Civil Service Reform Issue. While
the Senator was dispassionate and
candid. he presented most wonder
full com bination of facts that reflected
anything but credit upon the claims Of |
this administration. / will not under
take a synopsis of his wonderful speech.
but advise the reader to get copy OF
it,
Mr.. Mills, of Texas, the new chair |
man of the Ways and Means commit
tee, said today that he would have his
tariff bill fully perfected and ready to
report to the House within two weeks
Scores of members are preparing
speeches for the occasion, and the
country will have an abundance of
| literature on the subject this session.
Very little has been done in the
House this week, although the House
committees have been very busy. The
main purpose was to get the various
committees into working order. Even
the presidents message that was sent
to the House FIVE weeks ago, was not
referred to its appropriate committee
until yesterday, when 1t went to the
committee on Ways and Means by "A
motion of its own chairman. 1t is said
that like incident never occurred be-
fore in the history OF this government.
The urgent" deficiency bill has been
favorably reported, and of course will
be speedily passed, which will enable
the government to pay up n portion
of the indebtedness contracted beyond
appropriations by this reform and
economical administration. The boom
erang is on the home stretch, now, and
will hit severely the sham pretenses Of
economy so prominent in the fore
ground of the last congress. Demo
cratic foresight don't reach very far
into the future. The great object OF
the party seems to be to serve tenn
porary purpose, and patch up the neg
lect or evil effects of their legislation
when necessity compeIs them to action.
Thousands of honest and needy claim
ants, whose accounts have been fully
; adjudicated, have thus far been kept
out of their just dues for a whole year
: to bolster up the nefarious democratic
claim of economy.
In the Senate on Monday, Gov,
Brown of Georgia read speech tive
hours in length, advocating the repea
of all internal revenue taxation i
o took his democratic friends rather by
s surprise, for his position seriously an
= tagonizes that taken b. the president il
i his message on the tariff question, anC
e which is generally sustained by hi
h party. Senator Brown made strong
!. points in his argument, to show tina
the democratic party to keep up tn
internal taxation ON distillation O
g liquors. and that they were gathering
immense wealth by this discrimination
in their favor, and characterized tin
"ring" as the most gigantic monopol
the country ever encountered. Thi
brought Sen. Beck, of Kentucky, T.
his feet, who said the Gov. was apollo
:, giving for the Georgia moonshiner
'e and stabbine the administration. AL
|, this shows that from an unexpecte,
l. quarter comes looming up an opposi
'e ton to the presidents program, an,
u some who claim powers akin to divina
ton, see an entering wedge that vii
split the solid SOUTH" If the issue
a. pressed too closely.
Lal Sen. Blair's Educational bill ha
n precedence by good management o
ts his part, and has called forth this zee
n. deliberately prepared speeches fror
n. Senators Regain, Vest, Wilson an
v Coke, all in opposition to the bill
The debate undoubtedly will co.sum
more or less :ime for several day.
The southern men are nearly upan
~ nous in its opposition, though til
"a chances are that it will pass the Senat,
III have a close rub in the House, and
y the event of IFS passage, will receive
as death blow from the presidents vet
ne club.
If The bill to refund to the variOr
states and territories tile amount co
lected by direct taxation in 1856
amountiDg to about $50, 000,O CAV
RS rise to Il good deal of discussion o
:. Tuesday, and was finally laid asid
~ without definite action. Nearly a
ct of this was collected from the loyi
is states, aud IL the bill passes, will r,
IT, vert to them. which don't exactly su
some of our southern brethren VIII
: want to reduce the surplus in anoths
IL way.
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